Apple’s iPhone is the hottest mobile device around — so hot in fact that the major mobile service providers are willing to sacrifice their own profit margins just to carry it. The big three providers, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and now Sprint, all pay hefty up-front prices to Apple for the privilege of stocking the iPhone, which they then turn around and sell at deep discounts to customers willing to sign two-year contracts. And the carriers have little choice: the name of the game in the mobile business is subscriber growth and none of the big providers wants to be cut out of the iPhone action.
The class of 2016 was challenged to do something creative with their acceptance packages. One student decided to launch hers 91,000 feet straight up.
On Tuesday, Obama hosted the second White House Science Fair, an exhibit of more than 30 student projects that ranged from a system to detect nuclear threats to a prosthetic hand to portable disaster shelters. For nearly an hour, Obama toured the displays and visited with students, pressing them for details and admiring their work.
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, fulfilling the wishes of many frustrated shareholders who believe the directors have been part of the problem that has dragged down the Internet company’s revenue and stock price.
Behold the future! Take a pile of smartphone parts and stuff them into a pair of somewhat bulky glasses. That’s the idea behind a project Google is reportedly working on right now.
As the idea of an Apple television becomes more certainty than fantasy, one major question has come up: Where is Apple going to get its content? A new rumor suggests that it’ll come from the same companies that supply your cable or satellite TV now.
Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you’re apt to find it in apps.
Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, Samsung’s Galaxy S III is rumored to be one of the world’s thinnest smartphones when it launches in May.
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.
BTjunkie.org, a popular site that indexed BitTorrent files for all kinds of legal and illegal content, is waving a white flag.
Your tweet near the end of Super Bowl XLVI may have very well been lost amid a sea of other tweets, as Twitter has revealed that 12,233 tweets per second churned through its system “at the end of the game” last night.
