One Big Reason For The Beats Deal: 'Apple Is Afraid'
Apple's $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats has been mostly panned by analysts so far and even high-profile Apple fans are having a hard time making…
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Apple Suddenly Looks A Lot Like Nokia
A mobile phone company became the leading brand in the world with shocking speed, electrified by the leadership of a charismatic, ruthless CEO. After that CEO…
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Amazon Expands Sunday Delivery Service To 15 More Cities
Amazon pleasantly surprised its customers late last year when the company announced it would begin delivering packages on Sundays. Partnering with the United States Postal Service, Amazon brought…
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AOL's Dialup Business Might Finally, Finally Die In 5 Years
Millions of Americans are still trapped in AOL dialup hell... but they might not be for much longer. Jackdaw Research chief Jan Dawson has put…
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It's On: Google, Facebook, Amazon And More Slam The FCC's Plan For Internet 'Fast Lanes'
The Federal Communications Commission's plan to allow for Internet "fast lanes" has just run into another major roadblock. In a letter sent to the FCC,…
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NASA Is Broadcasting Breathtaking HD Footage Of Earth Shot From The International Space Station
As of Wednesday morning, NASA has begun testing its most recent addition to the International Space Station: four HD cameras which will broadcast live from the…
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Sen. Franken Spearheads A Major Campaign To Save Net Neutrality
In addition to taking a leading role in trying to kill the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, Senator Al Franken is also now leading a campaign to…
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One Lucky College Student Accidentally Received A $350,000 Drone In The Mail
It has all the makings of a terrible early-'80s frat comedy: A college kid receives an expensive aerial drone in the mail and hilarity ensues…
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Watch This Ridiculous Speech That Would Make Even Mike Judge's Silicon Valley Characters Blush
Is parody even possible when it comes to the tech world? It's a question that needs to be asked in the wake of a speech…
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Scientists May Have Just Solved One Of Life's Biggest Mysteries: Why Yawning Is Contagious
Life is filled with little mysteries, one of which is why we're more likely to yawn when others around us . However, new research from…
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Level 3 Calls Out Comcast, TWC And Others For 'Deliberately Harming' Their Own Broadband Service
Level 3, a tier 1 Internet service provider based in Colorado, has called out Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable and other top U.S. ISPs for…
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Video: New Deal Lets You Add Products To Your Amazon Shopping Cart From Twitter
Amazon is ready to offer shoppers an interesting new way to purchase various goods by letting them connect their Amazon and Twitter accounts in order to…
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Apple Shares Surge Past $600 For The First Time Since 2012
It's amazing what a strong earnings report and a 7-for-1 stock split will do for your company's share price. Apple shares surged past the $600…
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This Is How Google Forces Its Core Product On Android Device Makers
Google was recently hit with an antitrust lawsuit (seeking class action status), which alleges that the company's mostly secret agreements with Android smartphone and tablet…
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Mozilla Tells The FCC To Grow A Spine, Reclassify ISPs As Common Carriers
Mozilla might not be as big as Google or Netflix in most consumers' minds but as the maker of the popular Firefox browser, it does…
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Why Mesh Networks Look Like The Wave Of The Future
If you want to connect to the Internet today, you need to connect to one of the major ISPs, such as Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T. These companies…
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New York Is Pushing Through A Brilliant Plan To Make Free Wi-Fi Available Across The City
It's taken a while but it looks like New York City will finally go through with a brilliant plan that will greatly expand the number…
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Yahoo Is Going To Track Your Web Use Whether You Like It Or Not
Yahoo this week announced that it won't be honoring "Do Not Track" requests from users anymore either, because it wants to offer them a personalized web…
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This Is How Far You Have To Go To Stop Facebook From Learning You're Pregnant
If you're pregnant and you don't want to be subjected to countless ads reminding you of your pregnancy, then you may want to avoid using…
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Here's How Likely You Are To Lose Your Job To A Robot
While increased automation will make our economy much more productive, it will also put a lot of people out of work. With this in mind,…
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AT&T Eying DirecTV Takeover In A Move That Could Make It America's Top Pay TV Provider
With Comcast and Time Warner Cable fighting to merge, AT&T has no intentions of sitting idle. The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday night reported that AT&T…
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T-Mobile Adds More Customers In Q1 Than All Other Carriers Combined, But Swings To Loss
T-Mobile on Thursday morning reported its results for the first quarter of the year, marking the first time the scrappy carrier added more than 2…
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Google And Netflix Are Considering An All-Out PR Blitz Against The FCC's Net Neutrality Plan
More bad news for the Federal Communications Commission: It looks like the coalition that came together to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might…
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Facebook Is Taking A Major Step To Give You Your Privacy Back
Facebook has been the centerpiece of the online privacy debate for years, but the biggest social network in the world just unveiled a new policy that…
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Why Apple's Decision To Cut The MacBook Air Price Was Genius
Apple is a company known for its great products, its past and current CEO, its great (and sometimes not so great commercials), and the way…
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FCC Chairman Wheeler Is Just As Bad As We Thought He'd Be
Let's assume for the sake of argument that former cable lobbyist and current Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler isn't a cynical shill for big…
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Microsoft Readies Huge OneDrive Cloud Storage Bump
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will offer OneDrive for Business users a lot more cloud storage than they have had in the past, increasing…
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