It’s time to embrace the future of phone networks – and the death of telephone numbers
If you’ve been on pins and needles waiting for HD voice calls to become the norm, the wait is apparently almost over. The Washington Post …
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Video: Steve Jobs biographer takes back Apple criticism after calling Google more innovative
Walter Isaacson, who is best known for writing the authoritative biography of Steve Jobs, is walking back some of his criticisms of Apple. A couple …
Apple retail stores stink… literally
Apple is known for sweating the smallest details in its retail stores: the floors come from a family-owned quarry outside of Florence, Italy; the glass …
The 11 most hilariously bad autocorrect fails of 2014 so far (NSFW)
Smartphone software is constantly improving across the board with each new generation, but there’s one thing that we have always been able to rely on …
Now armed with a floundering phone company, Lenovo says it wants to crush Apple and Samsung
Motorola launched two Moto-branded phones last year that each received critical acclaim. The Moto G was a remarkably affordable entry-level smartphone with a design and …
Amazon plans to kill brick-and-mortar stores with kindness
Amazon has been not-so-secretly trying to put brick-and-mortar stores out of business but now it looks like the company is planning to launch a charm …
PayPal is itching to help Apple with its mobile payments platform
It really looks like Apple is getting into the mobile payments game. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was working on a …
Amazon Prime may soon cost $119
Amazon reported a disappointing holiday quarter on Thursday. Revenue was up 20% at $25.59 billion but analysts were expecting just over $26 billion in sales. Making …
Microsoft to reportedly name next CEO, may oust Gates as chairman
Big news broke late on Thursday as Bloomberg reports that Microsoft will name cloud and enterprise boss Satya Nadella as its next CEO and is considering ousting …
Google’s Q4 profit spikes 17%, but badly misses estimates
Google faced lofty expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings and the company missed by posting earnings of $12.01 per share on revenues of $16.86 billion. The …
Google smacked with yet another fine for illegal private data collection
Google has been fined yet again for illegally collecting people’s private data. This time around, the fine comes from South Korean regulatory body Korea Communications …
Here’s why the Sprint/T-Mobile merger is a terrible idea
Sprint and parent company SoftBank haven’t officially announced their intention to acquire T-Mobile yet, but about a dozen independently confirmed reports from various news organizations state …
This may be the most important reason Google bought Nest
When Google first announced that it was buying Nest, most of the chatter revolved around how Google’s software would affect Nest’s smart thermostats. However, one …
Microsoft’s epic CEO search might finally, for real, be almost over
Could we finally see white smoke billowing out of Redmond over the next few days to signal that Microsoft has at long last found its …
Here’s why Google was smart to dump Motorola for just $3 billion
On Wednesday night, Google announced it is selling off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for just $2.91 billion, a couple of years after acquiring the business …
Google and Samsung need each other more than ever
There’s a lot to digest in the shocking news that broke Wednesday that Google plans to unload Motorola onto Lenovo for $3 billion. But when …
Lenovo to reportedly take Motorola off Google’s hands for $3 billion [updated]
Google won’t have the Motorola albatross hanging around its neck for much longer. Unnamed sources tell Reuters that Chinese computer vendor Lenovo is close to …
Google close to settling EU antitrust investigation – may escape billion-dollar fine
Google may soon settle the three-year antitrust investigation into its Search business in Europe, Reuters has exclusively learned, as the company has made additional concessions …
Did you miss Obama’s State of the Union address? Watch the enhanced broadcast right here
Did you miss President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night? On one hand, you should be happy that you didn’t subject …
Meet the mapping tech that even Google Glass’s No. 1 fan calls ‘freaky’ and invasive
You can’t exactly accuse Robert Scoble of being a privacy alarmist, especially since he’s gone out of his way to assuage some of the privacy …
Watch 63 years of climate change in one horrifying GIF
Global warming is still the topic of much debate, but a short video posted recently by NASA is fairly convincing. The 15-second animation, which was …
Is Apple preparing a siege on Microsoft’s most important stronghold?
Apple has traditionally not overly concerned itself with marketing its products to businesses. Rather, it’s usually focused on getting its products into consumers’ hands and …
A simple explanation of why nothing Apple does is ever good enough
When a company like Apple announces record profit for a quarter and its share price immediately plummets by as much as 9%, it’s easy to …
Google ordered to pay hundreds of millions for stealing patented tech
Chalk up another win for the patent trolls — and this time is was a big one. A United States District Court judge for the …
Sprint-T-Mobile merger might be DOA
Regulators at the United States Department of Justice don’t sound very keen on the idea that America’s hottest wireless carrier should get bought up by …
Nintendo’s Q3 profit plummets as Wii U weighs heavy
What oh what is Nintendo to do with the Wii U? The storied video game company on Wednesday reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter. …
Intel’s voice recognition tech set to leave Siri in the dust
Siri, Apple’s voice-enabled personal assistant software, was very cool when it first came out but it hasn’t exactly aged gracefully. For one thing, it’s slow …
Nothing is safe: FBI reportedly bulk collects entire TorMail database
By now, the NSA is known for its bulk collection of personal data, including metadata from cellular carriers. However, it was not known that the …
Dutch court lifts ban on The Pirate Bay after it proves ‘innefective’
A Dutch court lifted a ban on The Pirate Bay, ruling that the ban had proven to be “innefective,” reports Tweakers. Dutch ISPs XS4ALL and …
AT&T rakes in $5.2 billion Q4 profit but ‘Uncarrier’ takes its toll
AT&T on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $0.53 per share on $33.2 billion in revenue, thus beating the consensus estimate of $0.50 per share in …
