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While Apple shipped 26 million iPads in its latest quarter and Samsung shipped 14.5 million tablets, both up from last year, IDC is warning that the overall tablet market in the US appears to be reaching saturation. “It’s becoming increasingly clear that markets such as the US are reaching high levels of consumer saturation and Continue Reading →

Google is selling its Motorola Mobility smartphone unit to Lenovo for about $2.91 billion, the companies announced on Wednesday. Google’s Mobility unit includes handset technology that the search giant acquired when it bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2011. That acquisition was Google’s largest by far, and the biggest bet that Larry Page, its Continue Reading →

The latest U.S. Census data shows that more than 13 percent of the population, or 41.4 million people, is over 65 years old. By 2060, that percentage will climb to almost 20 percent. As the population ages, our technology to support seniors is also maturing. The gap between seniors and technology is affordability and education. Learn how Continue Reading →

LinkedIn on Wednesday launched a new “How You’re Connected” tool on profile pages that aims to help members introduce each other. This feature will begin rolling out to English members around the world beginning Wednesday, and the social media company says the types of insights it provides will be expanded “in the months to come.” Continue Reading →

Twitter’s new head of news, Vivian Schiller, announced her first project on Wednesday: a partnership with CNN and the New York startup Dataminr. The initiative will help journalists cover breaking news by making sense of the flood of public information on Twitter. Dataminr uses machine learning algorithms to analyze the Twitter firehose of data and Continue Reading →

In early January, while the rest of the consumer technology world at CES marveled at the sheer size of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy tablet, Google execs were dismayed by what they saw on the screen of the massive 12.1-inch slate — a fancy new user interface called Magazine UX. As Re/code’s Bonnie Cha wrote at the Continue Reading →

Payment company Ribbon, which to date has offered a merchant-facing tool that allows its users to set up a quick-and-easy checkout page on their own sites or share checkout links via social media, is getting into the business of peer-to-peer payments, too. We first spotted this service while in development last November, when the company Continue Reading →

Vringo is a tiny company that purchased some patents from Lycos, an old search engine, in 2011 and then used those patents to sue Google. In December 2012, Vringo won $30 million in a jury trial, but that was far less than the hundreds of millions it was seeking. On Wednesday, Vringo got the payout Continue Reading →

There’s a problem with today’s voice recognition systems: They’re just too slow. Anyone who has waited in frustration while Siri or Google’s Voice Search “thinks” about even the simplest commands knows what I’m talking about. The problem isn’t voice recognition software per se, which is more accurate than ever. The problem is that voice recognition Continue Reading →

Apple appears to be putting its ducks in a row ahead of major Apple TV changes. Alongside last night’s changes to the Apple Online Store to promote Valentine’s Day specials, Apple added an entire Apple TV section. The Apple TV is now promoted as a full product line alongside Macs, iPads, iPods, and iPhones. Previously, Continue Reading →