It’s official: Amazon Prime price will increase by 25% next week
Bad news, Amazon customers: the cost of Amazon Prime goes up next week. After batting around the idea of increasing the annual cost of its …
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Microsoft makes Windows Phone free for some smartphone makers
Microsoft is tired of seeing its global mobile market share sit in the low single digits each quarter, and it looks like the software giant …
ISPs won’t be laughing at Google Fiber for much longer
ISPs will ignore Google Fiber at their own peril. MarketWatch’s Nat Worden writes that many cable executives he talked with four years ago were openly dismissive …
Google decides it won’t ruin searches with annoying banner ads
Good news, everyone: You’ll be able to keep searching through Google without the specter of annoying banner ads hanging over you. Marketing Land brings us …
Cell phone bills continue to rise despite illusion of a price war
It seems like there’s a different headline every week covering new cell phone service plans that offer subscribers more value for less money. AT&T and …
Yes, the maker of Candy Crush Saga could really be worth $8 billion
There was much excited or dismissive chatter about British mobile game titan King on Wednesday after the Candy Crush Saga maker announced its initial public …
Can we please stop believing Steve Jobs was an infallible god?
Back when veteran Apple reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane first started unleashing tirades against Apple’s current management this year, I found myself very unpersuaded by her …
Here’s what the Internet might look like in 2025
The World Wide Web turned 25 on Wednesday, and what better way to commemorate the occasion than by envisioning the Internet of the future? The Pew …
Why our politicians won’t lift a finger to stop the Comcast-TWC merger
Lots of people hate the idea of letting Comcast and Time Warner Cable merge but don’t expect our esteemed elected officials to care. Politico documents …
Google might finally be readying its competition for the Apple Store
Looking for a one-stop shop for all your Nexus needs? According to Crain’s New York Business, retail experts believe that Google is close to signing a …
Apple’s end goal: Cripple Samsung’s ability to profit from smartphones
Florian Mueller, the leading phone patent maven, writes about a fascinating new twist in the handset industry patent wars. Mueller has in the past been …
Woman sues Google after her kid blows $66 on in-app purchases
In-app purchases are apparently becoming big problems for parents who let their children play free mobile games on their tablets. GigaOM brings us word that …
Apple wants to milk some serious cash from Samsung in new patent suit
New documents uncovered by FOSS Patents reveals that Apple may be asking for as much as $40 per Samsung device found to be infringing on Apple’s …
T-Mobile CFO: Like it or not, Sprint merger is inevitable
Even though T-Mobile openly bashes Sprint on a regular basis, it knows that it’s probably going to wind up merging with them anyway. Reuters reports …
Is Nokia about to become a giant unstoppable patent troll?
The Korea Electronics Association has submitted a petition to Fair Trade Commission opposing Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s phone unit. Koreans are restating the theory that many …
Netflix service speeds up after company agrees to pay Comcast ‘ransom’
Following news that Comcast and Netflix had reached a deal whereby Netflix would pay the Internet Service Provider a fee in order to ensure Netflix …
Sprint owner’s promise: Give me T-Mobile and I will deliver a price war
Japanese tech titan SoftBank bought Sprint last year and now it really wants to buy T-Mobile. So much so, in fact, that SoftBank’s President is …
Wikileaks founder Assange vows more damaging leaks on the way
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, criticized the NSA and hinted at future leaks in a Skype interview at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Assange, …
Two simple maps show us how Comcast is about to take over the country
As it stands today, Comcast is a massive service provider that controls home and business broadband offerings across a number of key markets. Following the …
‘Netflix for pirates’ brings streaming video to BitTorrent users
If Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus are any indication, torrenting isn’t quite the destructive force many groups have made it out to be. Torrenting …
New BlackBerry CEO lobs insults at iPhone owners
As BlackBerry looks to pull itself out of the fire and regain its former glory, new chief executive John Chen has so far done a …
Hackers call Mt. Gox CEO a liar, say he still controls ‘stolen’ bitcoin
Anonymous hackers on Sunday claimed to have published evidence that Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles lied about the theft of more than $500 million worth of …
$100 million worth of ads are headed to your Instagram feed
You may not notice a lot of ads in your Instagram feed on a regular basis but that might be about to change. Unnamed sources …
Yahoo has become the graveyard for once-promising startups
Yahoo’s growth appears to be in some way dependent on the widespread acquisition and subsequent annihilation of some of the Internet’s most promising startups, and …
How Facebook is grinding its mobile app rivals into dust
Yahoo keeps grimly churning through acquisitions; buying and shutting down small tech firms with mechanical fervor. Facebook is buying far bigger, far more expensive companies …
Samsung unveils an iTunes Radio rival that won’t annoy you with ads
Samsung announced on Friday that it has officially entered the music streaming market with a brand new app on Google Play called Milk Music. Milk …
The 5 worst kinds of tech fanboys
To steal from an old Chris Rock joke: “I love tech fans but I hate fanboys.” What I mean is that I think it’s great …
Preview: ‘MLB 14: The Show’ gets you to the action faster
It wasn’t until last year that I finally took a chance on baseball. It was the outcome of a single, crazy, stressful game early in …
Supposed Bitcoin founder denies any knowledge of Bitcoin
Did Newsweek pick the wrong guy for its big Bitcoin exposé? In an interview with The Associated Press, 64-year-old Temple City, Calif. resident Satoshi Nakamoto has …
Google’s Schmidt predicts benevolent, ‘omnipresent’ robot overlords
What will Google’s robots have in common with Google+? Apparently they’ll be everywhere and you won’t be able to escape them. Bloomberg reports that Google …
