MyNotex Strikes an Almost Perfect Note

Note-taking applications in Linux are a dime a dozen. It can be difficult to sort through the feature sets to find the best solution. MyNo...

Russia Cites Surveillance Concerns in Apple, SAP Source Code Demands

Russia wants Apple and SAP to turn over their source code in yet another instance of fallout resulting from leaks about NSA surveillance a...

Internet.org Hands Out Free Samples in Zambia

The Internet.org collective's mission of bringing the entire planet online took a step forward Thursday with the release of an app aff...

Microsoft Sends Cortana to Far-Flung Corners of the Earth

Microsoft is preparing to debut an update to its Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, which includes expansion of its Cortana personal assi...

Hackers Back to Their Old Tricks

Old tricks that have helped hackers penetrate computers for months or longer worked again last week at Goodwill and Stubhub. Taking a page...

LittleBits Leaps to the Cloud

LittleBits, the maker of what might best be thought of as electronic Lego kits, last week launched cloudBit, a module that provides users ...

Leahy Bill Aims to Rein In Government Snooping

Government snooping on Americans would be curtailed under a bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate. The measure, sponsored by Senate J...

Microsoft Sends Cortana to Far-Flung Corners of the Earth

Microsoft is preparing to debut an update to its Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, which includes expansion of its Cortana personal assi...

Entrepreneurs Tackle Earthquake Safety, Urban Planning Tech In SF’s EIR Program

While heavily-funded companies like Airbnb, Lyft and Uber capture the spotlight as companies that controversially shape city life around tra...

Hackers Back to Their Old Tricks

Old tricks that have helped hackers penetrate computers for months or longer worked again last week at Goodwill and Stubhub. Taking a page...

Leahy Bill Aims to Rein In Government Snooping

Government snooping on Americans would be curtailed under a bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate. The measure, sponsored by Senate J...

Samsung Z Delay Prompts Tizzy Over Tizen

Samsung has delayed the launch of its Samsung Z smartphone running the Tizen OS, which was scheduled for Q3 release in Russia. The move, j...

Android's Fake ID Could Put Millions in Jeopardy

An Android vulnerability that exists in every version from v2.1 Eclair to v. 4.3 Jelly Bean could expose millions of users, Bluebox Securi...

Stanford Researchers Build a Better Battery

A new way to extend battery life would allow smartphones to last three to four times longer on a single charge, Stanford University resear...

Eastern Europe Gets A New Venture Fund In Fiedler Capital

Central and Eastern Europe has got a new venture fund in the shape of Fiedler Capital. Headed up by managing partners Robert Hegedüs and Jor...

OkCupid's Confessed Hijinks Get Thumbs-Down

OkCupid has admitted carrying out psychological experiments on its users. Because OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing, it ...

China Trumps Up Anti-Monopoly Charges Against Microsoft

China's State Administration for Industry & Commerce on Tuesday announced it has launched an investigation into Microsoft under th...

Bubblews Will Give You a Penny for Your Thoughts

Bubblews, a social media platform that offers to pay users for their posts, last week moved out of its testing phase, which began in 2012....

The Skully Augmented Motorcycle Helmet Would Make Iron Man Jealous

Skully had its coming-out party last week, and while the name unfortunately sounds like the nickname for any number of comic book villains...

European Startups Raise $2.8BN In 2nd Qtr, Highest Since 2001, UK Leads Pack

European startups are on a roll. According to data from Dow Jones VentureSource they have raised more than $2.8 billion (€2.1 billion) from ...

Stanford Researchers Build a Better Battery

A new way to extend battery life would allow smartphones to last three to four times longer on a single charge, Stanford University resear...

Fly Or Die: Tinder Moments

Last month, Tinder launched Moments. It’s a new feature that lets users send photo blasts to all of their matches. The photos don’t last for...

The Shocking Truth About Torvalds' Home Office

If the Linux world has anything akin to royalty, Linus Torvalds surely must be its monarch. So what could be more natural than for the Lin...

Google to Search for the Meaning of Health

Google is seeking 175 volunteers from whom it will collect bodily samples in an effort to create their biochemical fingerprints and establ...

The Skully Augmented Motorcycle Helmet Would Make Iron Man Jealous

Skully had its coming-out party last week, and while the name unfortunately sounds like the nickname for any number of comic book villains...

Microsoft Is Back To Bashing Apple In Latest Advertisment

In Microsoft’s latest TV spot, the company stacks its voice assistant against Apple’s. Spoiler: Microsoft’s wins. Read More

IBM Is a 'Kindred Spirit': Whoa, Tim Cook, Whoa

The Apple deal with IBM has shown us a whole new side of Tim Cook -- the gushing, hype-laden, excited-but-still-vague Tim Cook who says th...

Google to Search for the Meaning of Health

Google is seeking 175 volunteers from whom it will collect bodily samples in an effort to create their biochemical fingerprints and establ...

Linux Gaming: If You Build It, Will They Come?

For long-suffering Linux users who have endured the dearth of high-quality action games on their open source desktops, the wait for better...

Greats Brand Sneakers Are Off To The Races Following $1.5M Funding Round

Greats Brand, aspiring to be the Warby Parker of mens’ footwear, has revealed that the company broke $100,000 in sales in June, with a proje...

IBM Is a 'Kindred Spirit': Whoa, Tim Cook, Whoa

The Apple deal with IBM has shown us a whole new side of Tim Cook -- the gushing, hype-laden, excited-but-still-vague Tim Cook who says th...

Apple Trusts a Million Users to Check Out Yosemite

In a rare move, Apple on Thursday rolled out a beta version of its upcoming desktop operating system, OS X Yosemite, to a million "te...

Twitter's 'D' in Diversity Reflects Broader Industry Failure

Like many other tech companies, Twitter is largely made up of white, male employees, pointing to a lack of diversity in the industry. The ...

Microsoft Brings OneNote To Amazon’s Android App Store

When Microsoft said that it wanted to take its products and services to other platforms, it appears that the company meant it: Today the sof...

Facebook Saves the Day From Slipping Away

Facebook this week launched a feature that allows users to save content from their News Feed that they might want to read or watch later. ...

Patent Tips Apple's iWatch Hand

A patent awarded on Tuesday to Apple may be a tip-off of what the company is planning for the smartwatch it's widely expected to intro...

Skype for Linux Redesign Is Ugly but Functional

If you do not mind having a free non-open source Microsoft product on your Linux computer, the latest Skype for Linux release catches up t...

Amazon Fire Phone Wins Respect, if Not Raves

Early reviews for Amazon's first foray into the smartphone market are mixed, with a general sense that the device is a good phone over...

Failure to Communicate Hamstrings Cyberdefenders

A failure to communicate between security pros and company brass may be contributing to the inability of a significant number of organizat...

Black Hat Tor-Busting Talk Nixed

The Tor Project is working to remedy a vulnerability in its anonymity software following the sudden cancellation of a talk at next month...

Nvidia's Shield Tablet Earns Praise for Hardware, Shrugs for Games

Nvidia is expanding its Shield line of gaming products with the launch of a gaming tablet and accompanying wireless controller. Designed f...

iOS Insecurity - Designed by Apple?

The long-held belief that Android is the least secure of mobile OSes was shattered by security researcher and expert iOS hacker Jonathan Z...

Layoffs: There's a Right Way

Microsoft last week announced a large staff reduction tied to the acquisition of Nokia. There is actually a science to how to make layoffs...

GoTenna Makes Wireless 'Magic'

Startup GoTenna has launched its eponymously named device, which lets users communicate without the need for a cell tower. "This is a...

Judge Rules Police Can Stuff Entire Email Accounts Into Evidence Lockers

Concerns about overly broad searches of digital data by law enforcement once again have emerged after a federal judge ruled that officials...

Fly Or Die: LG G Watch

Like anything in this world, the LG G Watch has its pros and its cons. It’s LG’s first venture into smartwatch territory, meaning that the c...

Siri May Be Starting a Hope Chest

It may not be a marriage made in heaven, but the cloud is pretty close. Just hours after IBM and Apple announced their strategic partnersh...

Nokia X, We Hardly Knew Ye

"I told you so" is a refrain that's oft-heard here in the Linux blogosphere, and more often than not it refers to some fleet...

Layoffs: There's a Right Way

Microsoft last week announced a large staff reduction tied to the acquisition of Nokia. There is actually a science to how to make layoffs...

Down the EU's Right-to-Be-Forgotten Rabbit Hole

Telecom regulators from each EU member state, together with the Article 29 Working Party -- a group comprised of a data protection authori...

Siri May Be Starting a Hope Chest

It may not be a marriage made in heaven, but the cloud is pretty close. Just hours after IBM and Apple announced their strategic partnersh...

Social Robot Jibo Melts Crowdfunders' Hearts

A crowdfunding campaign for Jibo, a little robot designed to become one of the family, kicked off Wednesday on Indiegogo, and with 29 days...

Amazon Officially Announces Kindle Unlimited That Offers Endless Reading And Listening For $9.99 A Month

Amazon officially announced that Kindle Unlimited, an all-you-can eat reading and listening service, that we first mentioned two days ago. D...

Down the EU's Right-to-Be-Forgotten Rabbit Hole

Telecom regulators from each EU member state, together with the Article 29 Working Party -- a group comprised of a data protection authori...

Gameover Zombies on the March Again

The Gameover botnet is back, more or less, only six weeks or so after the Justice Department announced that an FBI-led multinational effor...

The Big Honking Business-as-Usual IBM-Apple Deal

The news that Apple and IBM have joined forces sent a shockwave through the Apple-focused world this week, and I admit it, I was surprised...

Android Sets iPhone Cloning Factory in Motion

Chinese company Wico has cloned the yet-to-be-released iPhone 6, if a pair of videos can be believed. "The similarities are eerily cl...

Google, Novartis Team on 'Invisible' Health Monitor

Novartis' Alcon eye care division has entered an in-license agreement governing all ocular medical uses for Google's smart contact...

Google's Project Zero Cybersecurity Watch: No Excuses

Google on Tuesday announced Project Zero, an effort to speed up the security bug-fixing process. A team of cybersecurity experts will go a...