Magazines' tablet editions might offer a promising future, but presently they're still struggling to gain traction. Through the first half of 2013, magazines reported 10.2 million subscribers to their digital replica editions, according to the Alliance for Audited Media,...
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, who has struggled to adapt to an era of declining personal-computer sales, will retire after more than a decade leading the world's largest software maker.
Mr. Ballmer, 57, plans to step down within...
Spotify is in talks with brands to beta-test a "follow" feature so that marketers can push content like branded playlists to the music-streaming service's users. The feature would be the Spotify equivalent of a Facebook page or Twitter account.
"We're...
Lego nerds rejoice, you have a new shrine at which to worship
A 112-foot 11.75-inch Lego tower, completed on Monday, just set a new Guinness World Record for the tallest structure built with interlocking plastic bricks. Students and staff at...
You won't need Rosetta Stone — or even the Google Translate tool — to navigate your Google+ account anymore
Google announced a new built-in translation feature on Monday that allows users to rephrase posts from another language into their preferred...
A hacker allegedly leaked the login information of 15,000 Twitter accounts Tuesday, but not by obtaining the passwords. Instead, the hacker reportedly accessed the tokens from third-party accounts.
Immediately, Twitter and media outlets encouraged users to head to their Twitter...
iTunes Radio, Apple's answer to Pandora, is set to debut next month with a handful of high-profile brand partners including McDonald's, Nissan, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and possibly one or two more brands, according to people familiar with the...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring Internet access to everyone. Late Tuesday he announced the launch of Internet.org, an initiative to bring Internet access to the two-thirds of the world's population that can't get online.
Only 2.7...
Great news if you’re addicted to pixels: LG has developed what it calls the world’s first Quad HD display for smartphones! The new 5.5-inch screen boasts a 2560 x 1440 resolution, which works out to a whopping 538 pixels...
Google Glass is still only adorning the faces of about 10,000 people, but that hasn't stopped a handful of brands from developing apps -- or "Glassware," in Google speak -- for the wearable computer.
Advertising is banned from Google Glass...
A military judge sentenced Private Bradley Manning, who famously leaked classified US documents to Wikileaks, to 35 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act. Manning also received a dishonorable discharge from the military. His lawyer is expected to make...
General Motors is including a wireless smartphone charging pad in some 2014 vehicle models, according to Bloomberg. There aren’t any specifics on the exact car models that will get the feature, but there is a key detail on the...
A Boston-based project is using predictive analysis technology to comb through social media posts in hopes of preventing suicide.
The opt-in Durkheim Project combines search technology with predictive analysis to estimate the suicide risk of an individual based on what...
Retail store owners might get a little disappointed when they see someone walk in wearing Google Glass. A new app for the wearable display lets shoppers get an immediate price comparison on the glasses. The software, found by VentureBeat,...
Google+ continues to enrich its offering with embedded SoundCloud widgets now enabled. Here at Econsultancy, and across the web, many predict that G+ will gradually become more and more prominent.
Google+ Sign-In integration was launched on SoundCloud in May, and...
If you could print every article on Wikipedia and bind them into books, how big would the collection be? Using a simple calculation, an article on the website (updated this month) shows that the English Wikipedia alone would have...
Twitter is great for breaking news or for grabbing a public comment from a celebrity. It's not always as thorough in providing context
The micro-blogging network is trying to change that with an update it rolled out on Monday. The...
Custom phone engraving, one of the key personalization features of Motorola’s Moto X smartphone, won’t be available on launch day. Customers can still choose the colors of their handset, as well as color matched accessories, the pre-installed wallpaper and...
Sync your Mailbox iOS app with your Dropbox account (to do this, go to “Settings” in the Mailbox app and tap “Dropbox”) and you’ll immediately get 1 free GB of extra storage space in your Dropbox account, The Next...
Drawing on the iPad is possible with a stylus, but Apple’s tablet doesn’t support pressure sensitivity. Wacom has a new $99 stylus to fix that problem: The new Intuos Creative Stylus measures the pressure you put on it and supports...
