Apple announces that the App Store has reached one million live apps
Apple has just kicked off its annual iPad event, and as usual Tim Cook is on stage talking numbers, just as he did at the start of last month's iPhone 5S...
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3rd party apps keep improving ahead of iOS mail
Apple makes some pretty good software for their devices but many third parties are doing even better. Case in point: email. Apple provides a pretty efficient mail app for iOS,...
Cheap data-free plan coming to T-Mobile
While most people use data services on their mobile devices, some just use them for the basics: talk and text. For those people T-Mobile has a plan coming out for...
You don’t need Jean Claude Van Damme to make B2B work
While viral videos get all of the attention, it isn't necessarily the best way to go about marketing for businesses servicing B2B. I received an email asking me what I...
Microsoft may revert to separate releases for consumer and business versions of Windows
Microsoft executives are hinted at separate release schedules for consumer and business versions of Windows. Tony Myerson has said that "The world has shown that these two different customers really have divergent needs,"....
3D printed pizza is coming sooner than you think
For some odd reason, pizza always seems to be at the forefront of emerging technology. It was the first food you could buy via online ordering, the first food to...
Samsung reportedly poised to blow up tablet market with $135 tablet
Samsung has seen Google and Amazon’s best efforts at selling super-cheap tablets and it’s apparently getting ready to do them one better. According to the latest rumors, Samsung is planning to release a new tablet next year...
Is Google building a Nexus TV box to push development for Android on TV?
Google is building a Nexus-branded TV set-top box that could launch in the first half of 2014, according to a report from the Information. The device is running Android, and is...
Facebook’s data centers are filled with thousands of Mac minis
While Facebook has made no secret of the fact that much of its backbone is Linux-based, ex-Apple engineer, and now Facebook employee, Christian Legnitto claims that Facebook's data centers are filled with thousands...
DARPA is definitely not building a giant death ray in space
DARPA recently released a statement detailing a project called MOIRE. Sounding a little bit like the kiss of death, DARPA assures us the project is just a simple telescope. It may or...
Flurry manages to raises another $12.5 million for mobile analytics and advertising
Flurry, a company that started out as an app developer before shifting its focus to analytics and then using its data for advertising, has raised $12.5 million in new funding for mobile...
Microsoft Windows 7 support and sales cutoff dates worth knowing
Don't worry, though, Windows 7 fans: There's still another year until PC makers won't be allowed to sell new machines with Windows 7 preloaded. The long, slow march toward end-of-life...
Yahoo snaps up live streaming event startup
Yahoo is stocking its online-video war chest. On Friday, the concert streaming startup Evntlive announced on its blog that it had been acquired by the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based tech giant. The startup will shut...
Western Union responds to Bitcoin buzz, sort of
Bitcoin watchers say the virtual currency could displace Western Union as a way to transfer money from place to place. Here’s what Western Union says about that. In the hoopla over Bitcoin, some...
Microsoft: US government is an ‘advanced persistent threat’
Microsoft's EVP of Legal and Corporate Affairs outlined the company's new data protection strategy on the basis that the US government is an "advanced persistent threat" — a label used...
Dick Costolo: “Twitter’s needs are rarely in conflict with users’ rights”
Twitter has, unlike Facebook and Google, managed to maintain a good reputation when it comes to respecting user privacy, but it's not easy. The company claims to work tirelessly to...
Apple is trying to squeeze even more money from Samsung in patent suit
Sorry, Samsung: It looks like that additional $290 million still isn’t enough for Apple. Apple filed a motion this week asking Samsung to pay an additional $15.7 million to help cover Apple’s legal expenses, which...
Nickelodeon creates a kid-friendly online network
Two Nickelodeon veterans, Greg Alkalay and Taso Mastorakis, have created a new kid-friendly online network called BatteryPOP. The network gives children a safe place to watch entertaining videos from over 30...
Apple still king of U.S. smartphone market with 40.6% Share
Apple is still the king of the U.S. smartphone market, according to the latest figures from comScore for the three month period ending in October. The company now has a...
IBM touts ‘InterCloud,’ cloud data migration tools
IBM on Friday said it has developed cloud storage software that's designed to allow customers move data across multiple clouds easily. The company said its techniques, dubbed InterCloud, is patent pending...