Don't Expect to Use a Gadget During Takeoff and Landing Anytime Soon
Though the Federal Aviation Administrated is now looking into allowing gadgets during take-off and landing, flyers shouldn't get their hopes up.
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Every single one of Tumblr's 178 employees will get money from the $1.1 billion Yahoo deal, which means that if the site hadn't let go of its three editorial team members last month, they too would have received $371,00 — each.
Though the Federal Aviation Administrated is now looking into allowing gadgets during take-off and landing, flyers shouldn't get their hopes up.
If all the coolest people have left and the lamest people have joined, does that make Twitter officially over? Kaput? Done?
Foxconn has defended itself against charges that the company is forcing teenagers to assemble iPhones, saying it's okay to have underage workers put in 12-hour days because they can leave if they want.
It's not technically legal, but if the feds had it their way, they could have easy access to all the data on our phone even if it is password protected, The Wall Street Journal's Julia Angwin explains.
During his speech last night President Obama made an unplanned reference to Steve Jobs, which is weird because the two didn't have the best relationship, nor was Jobs that categorically great for America.
After taking Bing up on its "Bing It On Challenge," which asks Internet searchers to use Google and Bing in a side-by-side blind test, to our surprise we have discovered that Bing delivered just as often as Google.
Amazon's Kindle bonanza event has delivered, as expected, new Kindles, with so many options: Cheap ones, ones with bright screens, ones with big screens, ones with HD screens, and ones with HD screens with 4G LTE.
Equity swaps, in which cash strapped start-ups offer stock in their company instead of money for goods and services, was a popular financing method during the dot-com boom and now they're back, say The Wall Street Journal's Emily Maltby and Sarah Needleman.
To bring us that next-level television, hopefully cord-cutting gadget we all want, Apple needs to woo the cable companies to make some deals, which it is apparently having trouble doing, sources "familiar with the company's plans" tell Bloomberg's Adam Satariano and Alex Sherman.
This afternoon Amazon is holding a media event, where it is expected to introduce a line of new gadgetry, including an updated Kindle Fire.
Foxconn and Apple are the two names we usually hear in discussions of the poor working conditions involved in making our favorite gadgets. But a just released report from the labor rights group China Labor Watch brings Samsung's dirty practices to our attention.
The last Windows Nokia Lumia phone was supposed to save both Nokia and Microsoft's cell phone businesses. This is supposed to be a better version of that. The phone isn't available to the general public, but some techies got their hands on some -- mostly for very brief moments.
After the FBI denied that the hacker group AntiSec got yesterday's published Apple UDID data from them, Apple is also saying that they never gave any information up to the bureau, making an FBI hack look less likely.
Following recent legal snags in the Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, MA markets, Uber, the alternative-to-cabs car service app, is now facing the ire of New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission.
Last night's Bitcoin heist of $250,000 (or so) worth of the virtual currency shows that this world isn't quite ready for an online alternative to dollar bills because the promises of deregulation aren't worth the safety hazards.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ensured the world that he would not pull a Peter Theil and sell his shares within the next 12 months, as indicated in this form filed today with the SEC.
This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place?
For those keeping score at home, as of today both Netflix and Amazon have content deals with movie distributor Epix, meaning not much has changed for the state of movies on Netflix -- at least not yet.
Apple has sent out invitations confirming its rumored iPhone (and maybe iPad) event this month with two telling numbers on it: 12 and 5.
More than three months after Facebook's IPO, chief financial officer David Ebersman is getting the blame for the social network's failure on the stock market, at least that's how DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin sees it.
This is a mess you don't want to be a part of: Hacker group AntiSec claims it has gotten a hold of FBI data that contained over 12 million Apple ID numbers linked with other personal information.
A poster child for cord cutting has given up on the cause, moving into an abode with a "tricked-out TV set up." That man is Forbes' Jeff Bercovici, who has gone without paying for cable for 13 years.
In an effort to appease advertisers, Facebook is cleaning up its fake "like" problem, which actually doesn't sound like it will do much of anything to boost the credibility of a like.
The next version of the App Store, that will come with Apple's next iOS update, includes a fix that could change the way we shop.
For its rumored upcoming Kindle Fire refresh, expected next week, Amazon will add maps functionality but it won't go with Google's popular offering, sources told Reuters' Alistair Barr.
HBO, the content provider that has said many times that it has no interest in offering HBO Go as a standalone service, will now offer its content through a standalone streaming service. Don't get too excited: This isn't happening here in the good ole U.S.A but rather in Norway, Finland and Denmark.
Today's New York Times Thursday Styles section features a story by Laura M. Holson all about the busy philanthropic life of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's wife, Wendy Schimdt, who spends a lot of her time (and money) making life better on the island of Nantucket.
Apple has for the third—and what looks like the final—time rejected an app that would send alerts every time a U.S. military drone made a kill.
In anticipation of next month's rumored iPhone 5 unveiling, Apple wants to give you money in exchange for your old phone. But the company's phone-recycling program, now in full effect with a new product on the way, is far from the best deal out there.
After Fox News' suggestion that Ronald Reagan himself might make an appearance at the Republican National Convention, Digital Domain -- the company that made the Tupac hologram earlier this year -- says that's not happening.
As mass hacks abound, it's hard to know the best way to handle our Internet security, so we went to a password expert to figure out how best to protect ourselves.
Yelp's stock was supposed to tank today, or at least experience a dip, but it's doing the opposite of that, up almost 20 percent, as of this writing.
Apple has finally put the Genius Bar online -- kind of, sort of, anyway.
There's this idea that young people, who have grown up in a streaming Internet world, aren't getting cable and they never will. We call these people cord nevers and wanted to put some statistics behind the theory.
Pinterest's promise lies in its apparently unique connection to online shopping, but so far the numbers don't conclusively prove that the social network drives incredible sales.
It was the "like" that made Facebook more valuable than the average website or social network, but today we get some disconcerting data about that little tag's real power, or lack thereof.
Apple's retail stores bring in a ton of people who buy a lot of things, least of all because of the "geniuses" who work at the tech help Genius Bars.
Twitter has now made it absolutely clear that developers should stop even trying to comply with its new API rules because the social media site wants to own everything that happens on it.
There was a time when Google said it would never sully its beautiful white homepage with ads, and today we get a very big one for its new tablet, the Nexus 7.
Following its patent lawsuit victory, Apple might want to take your Samsung device off the market, but Samsung has vowed to take "all necessary measures" to prevent that from happening.
The court has reached a verdict in the Apple Samsung patent trial after just one day of deliberation.
Playing around with the manufacturers version of the not-yet-widely released Windows 8, programmer (and hacker) Nadim Kobeissi discovered that the operating system "tells Microsoft about everything you install" and does that "not very securely."
There is a rumor going around that Apple will have not one, but two events for the release of the rumored upcoming iPhone and iPad based on the idea that these two products are too big to share a spotlight. We won't know it's true until Apple says so.
One year ago today Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple anointing Tim Cook king of the iKingdom and by many metrics he has done a good job as leader of the gadgeteers.
While talking up its mobile strategy world domination plans to the outside world, Facebook has been pushing its employees to shift focus from big to little screen.
Facebooks says its Facebook iOS app update makes the notoriously slow iPhone version of the social network "twice as fast as the previous version when launching the app, scrolling through News Feed and opening photos in feed," per an announcement on their website. But is it fast enough?
Microsoft has introduced a new logo that the company says is its first revision in 25 years, which isn't exactly true.
From the mouths of the investors themselves: The tech start-up world is worse at building successful companies than it used to be.
It might sound obvious to anyone who has had run a lemonade stand, but giving away products and services for free -- even on the Internet -- isn't a good business decision.
Online dating has gone "retro" with the latest "high-tech dating technology ... bringing people together the old-fashioned way, with singles parties where people can crowd together at bars while consuming alcohol and flirting," according to The New York Times' Jenna Wortham.
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