After taking a little break from the classic Mac-vs- PC wars to punch a little lower (at Samsung), Microsoft has decided to return to its old rivalry, hoping to revive slow Surface tablet sales with a little anti-Apple advertising.
The U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations had some tough questions for Tim Cook, CEO of computer giant Apple which stands accused of tax avoidance to the tune of billions of dollars. Questions like: "Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?"
Apple used an impressively complex network subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of taxes in a scheme that will pit the company against congressional investigators on Tuesday.
The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
Al Gore will always be known for suffering one of the most gut-wrenching losses in Electoral College history, but at least he's found a very nice way to cushion the blow.
The latest design for Apple's mobile operating system might not be ready in time for the World Wide Developer's Conference this June, but when it comes it will look a lot different than the current iPhone software—the look of which hasn't much changed since its debut in 2007.
Long portrayed as technologically aloof, the end of the comeback week gives us a portrait of Bush fully in thrall to consumer technology, leveraging the iPad not to check and respond to email but to express himself in art. Yes, he learned how to paint on an app.
The Boston Globe managed to track down the carjacking victim from last Thursday's thrill ride that ended with one of the Boston bombing suspects dead and the other in custody.
Apple sent out invitations Wednesday morning to its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference, and, this being Apple and its fanboys, the invite signals a lot more than just an official notice of a nerdfest this June.
Of course Wall Street is happy with Apple's latest earnings report: it included the company's biggest dividends and biggest buyback program ever, which increases its capital return program from $10 to $60 billion—and its quarterly dividend 15 percent. So that's one way to calm everyone down.
Wall Street, analysts, and all those investors with Apple inside their 401(k)s are assuming the worst come Tuesday evening, and right when they would love to see signs of hope. It's best you get ready now.
Google's latest quarterly earnings report arrived on Thursday evening, and it reveals as much about broader shifts in the tech sector as it does about Google's relative success. And that success is relative.
Court documents show that Apple has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by countless iPhone and iPod Touch owners who claim that the company failed to honor its own warranty.
When Microsoft released Windows 8 last fall, a lot of people thought it could be the PC's savior, a hip-looking new thing that made those clunky IBM-compatibles cool again. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
Some $2 billion over budget and a year behind schedule, Steve Jobs's extravagant spaceship-shaped Apple headquarters dream, Campus 2, is turning into more of a nightmare than the office of the future — and investors don't like it.
Apple must really want us to know that something, anything great is on its way, because the leaks keep on coming, perhaps because of competition that is both looming (in the form of Facebook this week) and that's already arrived (hello, Samsung!).
Apple CEO Tim Cook's public apology and his company's consumer friendly change to its Chinese iPhone warranty policy Monday was met with approval by China's state run media today — along with what sounds like a warning to "other American companies."
After weeks of anti-Apple rhetoric from China's state run media outlets complaining about iPhone customer service standards, Apple CEO Tim Cook has not only written a formal apology but even gone so far as to change the Chinese iPhone warranty policy.
Apple is usually very protective of their intellectual property, so they're probably pretty pissed that a trademark officer rejected their application to own the phrase "iPad Mini."
Bust out the stars and stripes, crack open a Pabst and get patriotic because Google Glass, the augmented reality nerd accessory of the future, will be reportedly made in America — by Foxconn.
After three straight days of anti-Apple articles in the state run newspaper People's Daily, China's propaganda push is having unintended effects, making the government look like the enemy in a fight it keeps on picking.
Now that rumors suggest Google and LG are both planning on jumping into the smart watch war to compete with Samsung and Apple it's time to stop thinking of this thing as a time-telling piece.
Instead of going after its usual foe, Microsoft's attack-hungry marketing department has transformed Samsung and the uber-popular Galaxy S III into its latest tech enemy — just another indication that Apple's no longer king of the smartphone makers.
Right after China's state-run television station ran a damning documentary on Apple's customer-service practices, a bunch of Chinese celebrities took to China's version of Twitter, all at the same time, to paint a picture of Apple as bullying consumers. Is this a government conspiracy, coincidence, or some combination therein? Let's look at every theory.
Apple has good reason to get defensive about its iPhone just before Samsung's release of the Galaxy S IV tonight: It's very likely the S IV will steal away some of its most profitable fan-people and this time, for good.
The relationship between record labels and Apple has always had an "offer you can't refuse" tension. So as Apple looks to expand more robustly into streaming music, it's not surprising that labels are bristling — even if the "too low" per-song economics might actually be an increase.
Just when Samsung had earned some respect for its advertising campaigns, the latest Galaxy S IV teaser disappoints by emphasizing secrets over product.
About that jury decision that found Samsung owed Apple over $1 billion for patent infringement, the judge on the case has decided to scrap nearly half of that—for now.
Remember that judge who made Apple rewrite its too-sassy public apology to Samsung? Well, Samsung has turned around and hired him as an expert in its patent battle with Ericsson, which seems totally unethical, but is actually quite legal.
Faced with sluggish Chromebook sales and challenged by surprisingly innovative Windows machines, Google will reportedly release a touchscreen laptop later this year.
Now that Hugh Hefner's empire is leaning out of the "smut" business, the real Playboy boss is betting you actually will read it for the articles — or at least buy an iPhone app with lingerie instead of naked ladies.
Greg Austin on China's hackers, Matthew Yglesias on an expensive airline merger, Jamelle Bouie on sequestration backfiring on the GOP, George Packer on Walmart and the payroll tax, and Hadley Freeman on Hilary Mantel and the media's royal-industrial complex.
From The New York Times and the Defense Department to Facebook and now even Apple, there's one increasingly sophisticated type of spam to watch out for — and here are some tips, just in case the Chinese hacker war hits your inbox next.
Following a string of disclosures from big companies that could point to a larger Chinese threat, Apple on Tuesday became the latest to admit that its internal computers had been hacked — and by the same malware malfeasance that got inside Facebook.
Now that Samsung has its own hype cycle, it seems only fair to keep track of what the tech rumormongers are saying about the upcoming Galaxy S IV.
Until today, when Ars Technica's Jacqui Chang handily debunked the legend, it was common knowledge in the tech blogger world that, in some sort of hazing ritual, Apple put new employees to work on fake products until they could be trusted.
The just-approved marriage between Penguin and Random House holds that beleaguered publishers will now be able to stand up to bookselling goliath Amazon. But a publishing consolidation might be exactly what Amazon wants.
The latest rumors make the smart-watch sound like an impending reality, with a report that Apple has a 100-person design team working on a Dick Tracy-style device. And there's plenty of evidence from growing niche markets that there might be iWatch fever after all.
With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
Google is expected to pay an estimated $1 billion to Apple in 2014 to keep its search engine as the default on iOS devices because, well, Google makes a huge portion of its mobile revenue from iPhones and iPads — enough to make rivalries disappear.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
While it's easy to dismiss the fanboy bloggers, people start paying attention when details about secret new Apple products start showing up at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
The last remaining publisher holdout in the e-book pricing antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, has decided to settle about ten months after the lawsuit was originally filed. Now Apple is the only remaining party fighting the DOJ lawsuit.
Based on this new picture, people, including a South Korean intelligence agency, have concluded that North Korea's supreme leader uses an HTC smartphone.
So, Apple's big plan to talk cable companies into making the iPod of the television industry thus far involves getting Time Warner to let it put HBO Go on its box (if you buy a cable subscription!), something other similar boxes already do. How very unexciting.
Samsung has won the latest round of its neverending patent war with Apple — and at just the right moment in its cultural ascendance, giving the Korean gadget giant another notch on its "better-than-Apple" belt.
Despite the rise of the phablet and its friends, the battle of the very expensive tablets is very much upon us as Apple announced an $800, 128GB version of its iPad on Tuesday morning — less than two weeks before its enemies at Microsoft will launch a $900, 128GB tablet, the Surface Pro.
Apple's terrible, horrible, no good, historically bad day on the markets Thursday has spilled over into Friday, with Apple ceding back to Exxon Mobil the title of the most valuable company in the world.
In a multi-layered, Foxconn-sprinkled update on its working conditions in Chinese factories, Apple has released a report that claims to have found no underage workers in "any of our final assembly suppliers." But Apple's supply chain goes much deeper.
Did you buy Apple stock recently? If yes, we're sorry. Because on Thursday, Apple stock plummeted a gut-wrenching 12 percent. That amounts to $52 billion of money that's just gone.
Apple's tanking stock doesn't just mean a lot of lost money for Apple employees and tech traders, but the rest of us, too. It is very likely that either you or your 401k has some Apple shares.
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