Big Cyber Monday Sales Jump Shows How The World Is Going Mobile
Cyber Monday has only existed for a the better part of a decade, but it is already beginning to rival Black Friday. Bloomberg reports that…
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Why 2014 Might Be The Beginning Of The End For Passwords
If there's one legacy Internet protocol that really needs to go, it's the password. Given how easy it's become for hackers to decipher most passwords…
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A Chilling Start For The Shopping Season
According to National Retail Federation, shoppers spent about $1.7 billion less during the Thanksgiving weekend than they did in 2012. The sluggish weekend was anticipated, because…
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Apple Heats Up, Closes At 2013 High Heading Into Holidays
Apple's weak Black Friday deals didn't scare investors on Friday as shares climbed as much as 2% before closing up 1.85% at $556.07, the highest…
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Samsung's Marketing Death Star Spent $14 Billion This Year
Why are Samsung's smartphones so dominant in the market when companies such as HTC, Nokia and LG have all released smartphones in the last year…
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Dutch Regulator: 'Google Spins An Invisible Web Of Our Personal Data'
A Dutch regulator on Thursday said that Google's privacy policy update in March 2012 that covers all the online services offered by the search giant…
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Google Wants Employees Using Macs, Not Windows Or Its Own Chromebooks
In a presentation at the LISA '13 conference earlier this month, Google explained that it's managing a fleet of over 43,000 Macs its employees use,…
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Zuckerberg's Big Headache: Messaging App Fans Don't Use Facebook
A new report by On Device Research hammers in the challenge Facebook is facing right now. Confirming other reports on the topic, ODR finds that Facebook usage is heaviest…
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Samsung Execs To Discuss 'Crisis Awareness' At Huge Company Meeting
Samsung's management team is meeting from December 17th through the 20th to discuss its plans for the next year, and one of the main topics…
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U.K. PM Cameron Wants To Block 'Extremist' Websites
David Cameron, the British prime minister, has recently said in parliament that the U.K. government wants to block Internet access to certain "extremist" Islamist sites, Business…
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Hollywood Looks To Raid Switzerland's Piracy Safe Haven
In Switzerland, it is completely legal for Internet users to download copyrighted content from illegal sources. As a result, file-sharing portals are very popular there,…
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The Seedy World Of Twitter Bots: Dealers, Buyers And Suppliers
Twitter has had a major spam problem ever since it started to gain popularity. Without any tangible restrictions on account creation, spambots run rampant by…
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Jury Explains Why It Clobbered Samsung With A $290 Million Verdict
After awarding Apple a $290 million win in a damages retrial part of the first Apple vs Samsung U.S. trial, jurors told Bloomberg that one…
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Apple May Not Be Behind The World Patent War Against Google After All
Apparently, Apple isn't try to sue the heart of Google's business. You see, last month, Rockstar — a consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry,…
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Jury Tells Samsung To Pay Up, Awards Apple $290 Million In Damages [Updated]
Samsung's judgement day is here and it looks like the company will be paying an additional $290 million in damages. A jury in California on…
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Why The iPhone Looks Poised To Start 2014 Off With A Bang
It appears the iPhone may finally be coming to China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator. It is launching a "new brand for mobile…
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Microsoft, IBM Lobbying Seen Killing Key Anti-Patent Troll Proposal
Remember how excited many in the tech world were when a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers unveiled new legislation that would curb the power of patent…
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Internet Co-Creator: 'Privacy May Be An Anomaly'
While having a right to privacy sounds nice, the Internet's co-creator thinks that it's also unrealistic to expect your behavior to stay private if you…
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Microsoft Reportedly Wants Mulally As 'Caretaker' CEO, May Pass Baton To Elop
It looks like Microsoft is a little bit closer to choosing its next CEO. According to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, the leading candidate to replace…
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Samsung: 'Apple Doesn't Own Beautiful And Sexy'
During the closing arguments at the latest hearing of the Apple-Samsung patent squabble, Samsung's counsel said that "Apple doesn't own beautiful and sexy," and told the…
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Ballmer Fights Back Against Bing, Xbox Doomsaying
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knows that a lot of investors have their knives out for Bing and Xbox, but he's not having any of…
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Nokia Shareholders Rip Elop As A 'triple-A Flop' On His Way Out
Microsoft probably shouldn't appoint Stephen Elop as its next CEO if it wants to keep a good business relationship with the people of Finland. Finnish…
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Google To Pay $17 Million For Putting Its Hand In Apple's Cookie Jar
Remember last year when Google had to pay $22.5 million to the Federal Trade Commission after bypassing security settings on the Safari browser in order…
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iPhone 5s Sales Far Better Than Expected, 5c Sales Far Worse
Apple investors who were worried about the iPhone 5c eating into the company's margins now have yet another report from the East that should help…
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Dropbox Out To Make Ballmer Regret Dismissing It As A 'Little Startup'
Earlier this year, we predicted that cloud storage company Dropbox would be guaranteed massive success after receiving the reverse-kiss-of-death from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who…
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Motorola's Desperation
According to Strategy Analytics, Motorola sold 500,000 Moto X handsets in the third quarter. If true, this would be nothing short of a disaster. Just a few…
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Making The Case For Keeping Bing
There's been a lot of chatter lately from former Microsoft insiders and even reportedly from prospective Microsoft CEO candidates about killing off both Xbox and Bing,…
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