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 …
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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 …
Yet another poll shows cable companies’ reputations are in the gutter
As we’ve observed before, cable companies are not popular in the United States. Various surveys have shown that cable companies have even lower customer satisfaction …
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 …
Sony turns off some PSN features in Europe on PS4 launch day
Sony on Thursday announced on its PlayStation blog that certain PSN features will be turned off during the European launch of the PlayStation 4 console …
PlayStation 4 beating Xbox One in early U.K. sales
It’s still very early in the new console wars but it looks like Sony’s PlayStation 4 seems to have a slight early edge over Microsoft’s …
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 …
Samsung is closer than ever to matching Apple’s online buzz
Samsung’s marketing Death Star can’t buy it the kind of hype that Apple’s iPhone generates with every new release… although it is coming close. A new …
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 …
Mozilla might be the latest recruit in Samsung’s anti-Android army
Samsung announced earlier this month that the Tizen Association had gained 36 powerful friends in the tech industry, but its latest partner might be the …
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 worst news yet for Wii U
All year long the bad news about Wii U sales has been offset to some extent by the hope that the next big Mario title would …
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 …
Xbox Video service launches on the web
Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Xbox Video service on the web at XboxVideo.com, allowing users to watch movies and TV shows in the browser, using …
CyanogenMod removed from Google Play after terms of service violation
The installer for CyanogenMod, a popular alternative to Google’s stock version of Android, has been pulled from Google Play after its creators were informed by Google …
YouTube’s upcoming streaming music service revealed in new app
Google has its own streaming music service now that “Google Play Music All Access” is available, but the company may soon look to double down …
Steam takes the fight to Xbox One, PS4 with big Black Friday discounts
Steam on Wednesday published its Black Friday and Cyber Monday game deals part of the Autumn Sale 2013 promotion that takes place from November 27th …
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, …
