Reuters: Anonymous has been hacking government computers for a year
Hackers linked to the Anonymous group have been hacking U.S. government computers since December 2012, Reuters has learned from a memo distributed on Thursday by …
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Google to pay $17 million for putting its hand in Apple’s cookie jar
Remember last year when Google had to pay $22.5 million to the Federal Trade Commission after bypassing security settings on the Safari browser in order …
Apple may get its ban on Samsung devices after all
Although Samsung still faces the prospect of paying Apple hundreds of millions more dollars to settle its patent dispute, the company has so far been …
Apple 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro review (late 2013)
It happened: the MacBook Air has officially been trumped as my recommended road warrior machine. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s another Apple product that’s doing the …
Apple’s rumored $345M PrimeSense acquisition could be iTV’s secret weapon
It looks like Apple fans can expect the company’s voice and gesture control technology to kick into high gear in the coming years. According to …
Nokia Lumia 1520 review: Nokia’s first phablet is full of surprises
Nokia, as we know it, is going away. The company itself will remain, of course. It might even be consistently profitable some day. But the …
Snapchat rumored to have turned down $4 billion from Google
Snapchat must be very, very confident in itself because it’s apparently been turning down multibillion-dollar buyout offers left and right. Unnamed sources tell Valleywag that …
Ballmer reflects on time with Microsoft: ‘I’m big, I’m bald and I’m loud’
Give outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer credit: He seems to be very in touch with who he really is. In a lengthy interview with The …
Apple’s Schiller: ‘Copied’ Samsung phones sully iPhone’s prestige
Apple marketing boss Phil Schiller isn’t done raking Samsung over the coals just yet. Per The Wall Street Journal, Schiller told the jury in the …
Why Apple wants to squeeze every last dime from Samsung
Why is Apple so insistent on squeezing every last dime it can out of Samsung over patent infringement? Well, apart from the obvious greed factor …
Pfizer ditching BlackBerry due to company’s ‘volatile state’
It’s become pretty obvious that BlackBerry’s fruitless search for “strategic alternatives” did the company no favors. AllThingsD reports that pharmaceutical company Pfizer has advised all …
Google Books wins major victory for fair use
Google has had plenty of run-ins with authors, publishers and distributors of books over the past several years, some more positive than others. But in …
U.S. government requests for Google user info have tripled since 2009
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have gotten more and more hungry for Google users’ data over the past four years. Google said on …
Why a $1 billion cash injection may not be enough to save BlackBerry
BlackBerry has certainly bought itself some time with the $1 billion cash injection it received from Fairfax Financial and its partners but there’s no guarantee …
Apple’s ‘star witness’ during patent trial is Samsung
On Wednesday, we learned that Apple had lowered its demands in the patent suit in an attempt to come to some kind of middle ground …
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) review
The top-down Zelda games started as console releases on the NES and SNES, but as 3D graphics took precedence, the flatter rendition of Hyrule was …
Video: Forget smartphones and NFC, ‘Coin’ is the future of payments
Companies are trying as hard as they can to convince us that smartphone-based payment systems are the future, but we have seen little thus far …
Microsoft rumored to have already picked next CEO
Anyone hoping Microsoft would pick an outsider to be its next CEO may be in for a big disappointment. Via CNET, an unnamed source tells …
iPhone 5s sales far better than expected, 5c sales far worse
Apple investors who were worried about the iPhone 5c eating into the company’s margins now have yet another report from the East that should help …
Dropbox out to make Ballmer regret dismissing it as a ‘little startup’
Earlier this year, we predicted that cloud storage company Dropbox would be guaranteed massive success after receiving the reverse-kiss-of-death from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who …
Apple’s additional Samsung patent demands down to ‘only’ $380 million
Apple must look longingly back at the days when a jury awarded it $1 billion in its patent suit against Samsung — ever since, the …
Italian officials investigate Apple for alleged tax fraud
Whenever his company is criticized for setting up elaborate overseas tax shelters, Apple CEO Tim Cook usually replies that his company is playing within the …
Trying to kill online piracy is all but pointless
You can start to see why copyright holders are getting so frustrated playing “whack-a-mole” with alleged piracy websites. TorrentFreak has compiled data from Google’s transparency …
New BlackBerry CEO writes brief open letter to fans
The BlackBerry saga took an unexpected turn recently when the company announced it is no longer interested in a full or partial sale. Instead, BlackBerry fired …
Google ad revenue trumps entire newspaper and magazine industries
Print might not be dead, but it’s definitely fighting for its life, as evidenced by the latest Google ad revenue numbers. According to Business Insider’s …
Microsoft kills morale-wrecking employee ranking system
With the Steve Ballmer era ending at Microsoft, the company has finally killed off stack ranking. ZDNet reports that Microsoft will no longer evaluate its employees’ …
Motorola’s desperation
According to Strategy Analytics, Motorola sold 500,000 Moto X handsets in the third quarter. If true, this would be nothing short of a disaster. Just a few …
Netflix and YouTube are the Internet’s bandwidth consumption kings
It’s not shocking that Netflix and YouTube generate a lot of web traffic but it is somewhat surprising to learn just how much bandwidth they …
Study finds Android users now switching to iPhones more than ever
A new study from market research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has good news and bad news for Apple regarding the recent launch of its …
Making the case for keeping Bing
There’s been a lot of chatter lately from former Microsoft insiders and even reportedly from prospective Microsoft CEO candidates about killing off both Xbox and Bing, …
