Some might wonder why Microsoft would pay $2.5 billion for a game with low-res graphics and no real plot-line — but the reality is that Minecraft is far more of an… Read more »
New Yorker magazine wonders who the “next great technology critic” might be now that Walt Mossberg and David Pogue have moved on — but the truth is there isn’t going to… Read more »
Foursquare is reportedly looking for investment from a large technology company, and the most obvious fit is Google — because features like its real-time recommendations would fit perfectly with Google Now. Read more »
Matt Yglesias tries to argue that if antitrust authorities hadn’t stepped in, Microsoft would have prevented both Google and Apple from becoming as successful as they did — but this stretches… Read more »
In the second half of an interview with the Guardian, former CIA contractor Edward Snowden repeats allegations that PRISM provides “direct access” to servers at Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others –… Read more »
Research In Motion — which has renamed itself BlackBerry — launched its new smartphones at a star-studded event in New York, but responses to the new devices ranged from sharply critical… Read more »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social network is already handling a billion search queries per day, and that it is interested in launching a social search engine powered by the… Read more »
Google is planning to make a significant push into both the consumer market and especially the enterprise market with its Chromebook cloud-based laptops, according to Sundar Pichai. The Chrome VP told… Read more »
Critics say that a bill called CISPA, which has been passed by the House of Representatives and is on its way to the Senate, is just as bad as SOPA –… Read more »
Neil Young put a lot of the media industry’s hysteria about file-sharing into perspective when he said in a recent interview that “piracy is the new radio — that’s how music… Read more »