The British are hacking! The British are hacking!
A Belgian telecom giant that was cyberattacked last week brought eyes to Europe in the latest round of virtual warfare. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the British spy...
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All Things Digital and Dow Jones to part ways
The intrepid tech journalism duo of Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg are moving out of the Dow Jones garage apartment. They're looking for something better, perhaps even a full-fledged partner...
WikiLeaks hates ‘Fifth Estate’ movie about founder Assange so they leaked the script
What happens when you make a movie about a man that founded the most powerful whistleblowing organization in the world? If they like what they see, they'll probably applaud. If...
Anger trumps joy on social networking “emotion meter”
Anyone on social networks like Facebook and Twitter get to see a wide array of emotions coming from friends and family. Happy moments, sad moments, angry moments - everything gets...
Piracy went down. Sales didn’t go up. Go figure.
The contention of the music industry is that piracy is what has been hurting sales the most. A recent report shows that piracy is down in some circles, but "oddly"...
Wireless groups to White House: unlocking all phones isn’t as easy as you think
The White House is making waves and calling for cheers as they push to mandate an open telecommunications system by forcing all carriers to keep their phones unlocked. According to...
StumbleUpon finds its profitable groove after 10 years
There was a popular meme on StumbleUpon that played on the addictive nature of the social content discovery service that pointed to two things: millions love it but the dollars...
The lockers you didn’t know Amazon had at RadioShack and Staples are being pulled
To some, it was a brilliant idea that would help Amazon reach even more people. To others, it was a quirky idea that was destined to fail. Early indications of...
Approaching Minority Report status: HP Envy uses hand motion controls
Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report was a decent movie, but the technological advancements it anticipated were amazing as well as achievable in most cases. One such advancement we're starting to see...
OUYA tries to fix their ‘unfixable’ Free the Games fund
Supporters have been fanatical. Detractors have been vehement. Indie game developing company OUYA is trying to pull in more supporters than detractors with recent revisions to the way they fund...
One man. One car. Three million miles.
The warranty may not be valid for Irv Gordon and his 1966 Volvo P1800, but he's still confident enough to keep the ancient ride going in his exploration of America....
Symantec points finger at China over major cyber attack group
The Cold War is over, but the increased prevalence of cyberterrorism, cyberespionage, and cyberwarfare in general have the major players pointing fingers at each other. Symantec is pointing their biggest...
BlackBerry fights to stay alive with rumored 40% cut in workforce
The end may be near for the smartphone pioneer. With reports coming in that BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) may be cutting nearly half of their global workforce, our assertion...
Netflix CEO says torrent piracy in Canada down 50 per cent
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dropped a surprising statistic during an interview with Dutch website Tweakers last week, as he made the rounds promoting the launch of Netflix Netherlands. When asked if Dutch viewers...
Occipital mobile 3D scanning tech blows past its $100K funding goal in just over three hours
The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold...
Pandora wins versus songwriters in court
Pandora Media Inc. (P), the biggest Internet radio service, won a judge’s order to stop a group representing songwriters and music publishers from narrowing the scope of licenses that allow...
White House petitions FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices
Several months after calling for legislation to unlock cellphones, the White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday asking that all wireless carriers be required to...
Valve’s Gabe Newell says Steam game hardware announcement coming next week
Are we finally about to learn more about the "Steam Box"? Mastermind Gabe Newell dropped hints that next week is the time when we'll finally get a taste of the...
Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a...
Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
Most business owners sued by patent trolls don't talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one's fingers and hope the problem goes...