Google’s mystery boats will reportedly be floating retail outlets
We might not know the true purpose of Google’s mystery barges until they finally open up to the public, but yet another report has called …
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Apple’s buying spree continues with $200 million Topsy acquisition
Apple is on a roll as 2013 winds down. Just one week after Apple confirmed that it acquired Israel-based Kinect inventor PrimeSense, the company has …
Big Cyber Monday sales jump shows how the world is going mobile
Cyber Monday has only existed for a the better part of a decade, but it is already beginning to rival Black Friday. Bloomberg reports that …
Why 2014 might be the beginning of the end for passwords
If there’s one legacy Internet protocol that really needs to go, it’s the password. Given how easy it’s become for hackers to decipher most passwords …
Cable companies are making too much money to bother with 1Gbps service
Whenever you see an industry with high profits and low customer satisfaction ratings, it’s a good bet that it doesn’t face the same kinds of …
Google hates patents… but collects 1,800 new patents this year alone
Despite publicly belittling software patents and lobbying for patent reform that would make it difficult for companies to use such patents in patent-based lawsuits, Google is …
BlackBerry tries to shoo off vultures in latest open letter
BlackBerry is tired of rival mobile device management (MDM) companies circling its body like a swarm of ravenous vultures. In an open letter to enterprise …
Email, Twitter and the always-on lifestyle: Today’s double-edged sword
Today, I made a choice. I made a choice to carve out a chunk of time to write this article, but I did so at …
Amazon Prime Air: Unmanned drones to ship packages in 30 minutes or less
Amazon on Sunday unveiled a bold new shipping initiative during CBS‘s popular TV show “60 Minutes:” Amazon Prime Air, which aims to ship packages to …
A chilling start for the shopping season
According to National Retail Federation, shoppers spent about $1.7 billion less during the Thanksgiving weekend than they did in 2012. The sluggish weekend was anticipated, because …
Researchers use NSA’s own tactics to see how invasive NSA spying is
Stanford researchers are trying to act like the NSA in order to learn about the NSA. Researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler created MetaPhone, an Android …
Google, Microsoft ordered to remove pirate sites from search results
A French court on Thursday ordered Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to remove from search results 16 websites that host pirated media, in a case started …
Walmart reports hot Black Friday tablet sales led by iPad mini
Walmart on Friday announced that its 2013 Black Friday campaign has been a smashing success, with the store delivering “the biggest shopping day of the …
No end in sight for HTC’s downward spiral
2012 was a bad year for HTC, 2013 has been even worse and 2014 may be the worst yet. Focus Taiwan points us to a …
Online retail sales growth slows sharply on Thanksgiving Day
IBM reports that Thanksgiving Day online retail sales increased by 11% over last year’s level. Despite the double-digit growth, this is actually a steep drop-off compared to years …
Google joins Black Friday fun with Cyber Weekend Deals
Google is joining in on the Black Friday festivities by announcing its Google Play store Cyber Weekend Deals on Friday. Android users can find great deals …
Apple heats up, closes at 2013 high heading into holidays
Apple’s weak Black Friday deals didn’t scare investors on Friday as shares climbed as much as 2% before closing up 1.85% at $556.07, the highest …
How the NSA could bail out BlackBerry
BlackBerry’s handset sales have been an absolute horror show this year but the company may get an unexpected boost going forward thanks to an unlikely …
Samsung follows Microsoft, stumbles into sexism allegations
A few days ago, Microsoft’s Xbox promotional campaign generated a fierce backlash when it drafted up fake letters for gamers to give to their girlfriends or …
Tesla’s ‘unrealistic expectations’
Tesla Motors has had a rough couple of months. Shares hit an all-time high of $194.50 in late September, then concerns about the fires on …
Best Buy rejects Apple’s Scrooge-like tactics, has big MacBook sale
Apple may have given a big “Bah, humbug!” to its American fans this year but that doesn’t mean every Apple retailer has been quite so …
The one deal every Apple device owner should take advantage of
There are thousands of deals on tech and gadgets this holiday season. Some are pretty awful, others are jaw-dropping, but there’s only one deal that …
Dutch regulator: ‘Google spins an invisible web of our personal data’
A Dutch regulator on Thursday said that Google’s privacy policy update in March 2012 that covers all the online services offered by the search giant …
A dark Black Friday for Apple fans
A report from earlier this week suggested that Apple’s Black Friday deals would be even worse this year than they are typically, which would be an …
Anti-Elop fever within Microsoft is astonishing
A new report has once again received highly detailed leaks about Microsoft’s internal deliberations about the next CEO. And once again, the leaks have a decidedly anti-Elop slant. …
The Internet has killed CDs and newspapers… but not books
Given what digital media options have done to CDs and newspapers, you probably assumed that the rise of eReaders such as Kindle and Nook would …
Apple gets off scot-free as judge dismisses privacy lawsuit
If there’s anyone who deserves a nice Christmas gift basket from Apple this year, it’s probably U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. The judge presided over Apple’s …
Google wants employees using Macs, not Windows or its own Chromebooks
In a presentation at the LISA ’13 conference earlier this month, Google explained that it’s managing a fleet of over 43,000 Macs its employees use, …
Five great free apps to make Black Friday less painful
To some, the idea of trekking out on Black Friday to claw past thousands of rabid shoppers for deep discounts on various wares is nausea …
Latest Microsoft CEO gossip has Mulally up, Elop down
We’ve had no shortage of gossip about Microsoft’s search for its next CEO and the latest comes to us from Bloomberg, which reports that Ford …
