iPhone 6s to have ‘3D Touch’ three-level, next-gen Force Touch interface
One of the cornerstone features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, to be announced next Wednesday, is a screen based on the Force Touch technology from the latest MacBook trackpads and the Apple Wat...
Comcast tests letting Florida customers pay an extra $30 per month to avoid 300GB data cap
New Comcast innovation: A $30 charge to eliminate your data cap — Florida data cap trial limits users to 300GB unless they pay extra each month. — Comcast has unveiled a new $30 charge …
LG V10 leaks, said to have 5.7-inch display with auxiliary ‘ticker’ screen
The Samsung Continuum launched on Verizon in 2010 with a unique feature: a secondary ticker display beneath its main display. We never saw a second Continuum, but new leaks have suggested that LG may...
Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon
E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts — E-book revenue is falling, and some people in the publishing industry say it is partly …
Samsung looking to open Gear S2 to iOS after adding support for non-Samsung Android devices
Exclusive: Move over Android Wear, Samsung has confirmed it's looking at Gear S2 iPhone support — Run an iPhone 6 but covet the new Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch?
Snapchat now draws 4B daily video views, putting it on par with Facebook, and doubling its views in just 3 months
Snapchat's video push clicks with users — Snapchat's aggressive push into curated video appears to be paying off. — The social media app, popular with young users …
Announcing General Availability of Google Compute Engine Autoscaler and 32 core VMs
Our customers have a wide range of compute needs, from temporary batch processing to high-scale web workloads. Google Cloud Platform provides a resilient compute platform for workloads of all sizes e...
Facebook begins testing new, content-heavy, immersive mobile ad format
Facebook Is Testing Its Fancy New Mobile Ads — Facebook is testing a new, content-heavy mobile ad that wraps a lot of the company's existing ad formats like image carousels and autoplay video into o...
Latest Chrome for Android brings “custom tabs”, a faster alternative to WebView for apps
Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web — Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff when it comes to showing web content in their Android app.
ZTE nearly doubles its US smartphone marketshare to 8% in the past 15 months through low-cost offerings, ranking it as the fourth largest smartphone maker in US
The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S. — China's once-embattled ZTE almost doubled its share in 15 months
Man Behind Virus That Stole Millions, Infected NASA Computers Reaches Deal
Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter gets $125K in civil lawsuit
David Kravets / Ars Technica :
Human Rights Watch, Free Press and 15 other rights groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politwoops
P. Claire Dodson / Fast Company :
Twitter's network is its key strength, it should remove arbitrary 140 character limit and other legacy restrictions to appeal to mainstream users
The network's the thing — Last week Instagram announced it was supporting more than just square aspect ratios for photos and videos.
Microsoft phasing out support for Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Twitter adds “Who to follow” section in Android and iOS timelines that appears depending on how frequently you use the service
Roberto Baldwin / Engadget :
Bing Pushes Microsoft's Edge Browser When People Search For “Chrome” Or “Firefox”
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land :
Sources: Microsoft weighing multibillion-dollar revamp of Seattle campus to add more open work spaces
Bloomberg Business :
Amazon hiring staff for new restaurant division in Seattle, New York
Mari Saito / Reuters :
Pwn2Own loses HP as its sponsor amid concerns of compliance with the Wassenaar Arrangement, an international treaty that has rules governing software exploits
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Baidu's Student Q&A App Zuoyebang Lands Investment From Sequoia and Legend Capital
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Etsy's Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
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