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Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed Aereo to continue offering unauthorized streams of digital signals in New York, according to sources familiar with the case. A decision has been made to file a petition, or writ of certoriari, by a deadline of Oct. 15. In Continue Reading →

Twitter introduced breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot has garnered around 1,500 followers and promises to deliver ‘direct messages that help you keep up with what’s happening in the world’. I received my first message from the account this evening, Continue Reading →

In August, Apple launched an iPhone trade-in program for its United States-based retail stores. The promotion is part of Tim Cook’s grand plan to dramatically increase iPhone sales inside of his own stores. Interestingly, the iPhone “Reuse and Recycle” trade-in program has been absent from Apple Stores outside of the United States even though approximately Continue Reading →

BlackBerry is more open to a breakup of the company amid concerns that Fairfax Financial Holdings may be unable to line up funding or partners for a $4.7 billion buyout, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Companies such as SAP AG, Cisco Systems and Samsung Electronics, which were approached last week by BlackBerry Continue Reading →

Aereo announced on Thursday that it will be releasing an Android app on October 22. It’ll launch as a public beta in the Google Play store and will only be available to existing Aereo subscribers, where the controversial antenna and Internet-based television service is already available. Aereo is unique in that it uses a huge Continue Reading →

Microsoft is set to become the latest tech giant to develop its own tracking technology to replace the ubiquitous “cookie,” which has become the focus of regulators and privacy advocates. The company is internally developing the technology that would enable tracking across desktop computers, tablets and smartphones running Windows, as well as the company’s Xbox Continue Reading →

The Coca-Cola Company plans to erect 150 kiosks in 20 countries that will offer water, electricity and Internet connections; they may also sell Coke and other products. “We’re calling it a downtown in a box,” said Serena Levy, a company spokeswoman. The announcement was made by Coca-Cola’s chairman, Muhtar Kent, at the Clinton Global Initiative Continue Reading →

Releasing an overpriced iPhone 5c in China looked like a disaster waiting to happen, and a recent report seems to indicate just how much damage the misstep has caused. Insider C Technology reports that Apple has decreased average daily production of the iPhone 5c from 300,000 to 150,000 units — though those figures seem a Continue Reading →

The Google Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 KitKat are less than a week away, according to new rumours. Word on the street is that the new phone and next Android update explode onto the scene together on 15 October — next Tuesday. That date comes from whispers around the campfire at Google Launchpad, a fortnight-long Continue Reading →

Twitter announced on Thursday it is updating its Android app with optimizations for tablets. Unfortunately, the new version will first be available on Samsung tablets, starting Thursday with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1-2014 Edition, and it will only come to other Android tablets by the end of the year. In the new landscape view, a Continue Reading →