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Amazon, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, and HTC have been in talks since at least June to develop handsets for sale to users of the Amazon Prime service, according to two people familiar with the talks. A final decision hasn’t been made on whether to proceed with a product or when it would be delivered, Continue Reading →

Regardless of what transpires in the geo-political landscape regarding the civil war in Syria, it may well be looked upon as a pivot point for citizens of the United States. This could be the beginning of a necessary and critical conversation about the future of the country in the Shift Age and, in the longer Continue Reading →

Verizon Wireless leaped forward in the race for online allure Monday by launching same-day delivery of phones to customers in the Philadelphia area, a perk the company said it would extend to several other markets by the year’s end. No longer will customers in Philadelphia and some of its suburbs have to wait overnight for Continue Reading →

Yahoo’s plan to keep a larger-than-expected stake in e-commerce giant Alibaba after the Chinese company’s IPO prompted at least seven brokerages to raise their stock price targets on the U.S. company. Shares of Yahoo were set to open 3 percent higher after the company said it was selling less of its 24 percent stake in Continue Reading →

While Windows 8.1 adds a lot of features and improvements across the OS, the built-in apps include some of the biggest changes. Microsoft is detailing a few of the more creative ones ahead of the Windows 8.1 release on Thursday. The photos app in Windows 8 included Facebook and Flickr integration, but the Windows 8.1 Continue Reading →

Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the display division for Google’s notoriously secret hardware innovation lab, Google X–which is building the Google Glass head-worn computer–took the stage at EmTech Thursday to talk about innovation, creativity, and, naturally, wearable computing. While Jepsen apologized a few times for being unable to divulge what, specifically, she’s working on over Continue Reading →

The Wall Street Journal is reporting Wednesday morning that Apple has asked its iPhone suppliers in China to cut down on production of its newly introduced iPhone 5C model, ostensibly because of lower than expected consumer demand. The 5C represents Apple’s solution to trickling down the iPhone 5 to a lower price point — the Continue Reading →

Signifyd today launches tools for online merchants to fight fraud. It helps sellers make better choices about whether to accept or deny sales by piecing together online identities that match up with offline people. Signifyd CEO Rajesh Ramanand, who formerly led risk-management divisions at FedEx and PayPal, calls this “context detection,” but really what he Continue Reading →

Launched earlier this year as an invite-only service allowing users to send money via email and without charge, Square’s Square Cash on Tuesday opened to all, or at least to those aged 18 or over with a US bank account. Co-founded by Jim McKelvey and Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey 2010, Square first came to public Continue Reading →

I’ve been having computer issues this week, and I’m not sure what the problem is. During my iTunes debacle last week, one of the steps suggested by the Senior Apple Tech I was speaking to was to make sure my Windows Updates were, well, up-to-date. I updated video drivers for my NVIDIA card, functionality drivers Continue Reading →