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Following news that students at a Los Angeles high school had hacked district-issued iPads and were using them for personal use, district officials have halted home use of the Apple tablets until further notice. It took exactly one week for nearly 300 students at Theodore Roosevelt High School to hack through security so they could Continue Reading →

eBay has agreed to acquire Chicago-based Braintree for about $800 million, the companies announced on Thursday morning. In buying Braintree, eBay has taken one of the major competitors of its payments unit PayPal off the table. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that the two sides were closing in on a deal. Braintree Continue Reading →

As 4K TVs slowly make their way into the living room, streaming services like Netflix are gearing up to provide higher resolution streams to match the new format. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about the possibilities and the challenges of providing Ultra HD streams at the Copenhagen Future of TV Conference. The highest quality video Continue Reading →

Many feel privacy, at least online, may be going the way of the fax machine, the floppy disk and the eight-track player. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center revealed 59 percent of respondents believe it’s impossible to be totally anonymous online, as Mashable reports. Despite the obvious lack of faith in the ability to Continue Reading →

Amazon’s Cloud Player for PC is moving closer than ever to a full-fledged iTunes competitor on Wednesday; the app now features an integrated Amazon MP3 storefront where users can buy songs and albums directly without visiting Amazon.com. Until now, transactions had to be conducted over the web, though it has never taken long for freshly Continue Reading →

T-Mobile, the No. 4 U.S. wireless service provider, plans to stop carrying BlackBerry smartphones in its stores and instead ship the devices directly, according to an executive for the company. David Carey, executive vice president for corporate services told Reuters about the plan on Wednesday, a few days after BlackBerry said it would no longer Continue Reading →

Apple made a change to its AppleCare+ plans recently, around the time that the new iPhones were announced. It now allows you to get your iPhone, iPad, or iPods serviced in any country that offers AppleCare+, not just your home locale. This change means that if you’re traveling with your device, you’re able to get Continue Reading →

Yahoo will begin offering a new ‘Not My Email’ button this week that gives owners of newly claimed, previously dormant, user names the ability to ‘return’ messages that were not meant for them. This is part of Yahoo’s ongoing efforts to mitigate any potential harm that may come from its recent ‘user name recycle program‘. Continue Reading →

Amazon has been spending a lot of time and money trying to catch up to Netflix in the subscription-video race. So far, not much luck: Many more people seem to be watching video via Reed Hastings’s service. But now Jeff Bezos has something new: Offline viewing. Amazon’s new line of Kindle Fire HDX tablets will Continue Reading →

Target Ticket, the US retailer’s video-on-demand offering, has launched to the public on Wednesday. After months of beta testing, Target Ticket is now live with a catalog of over 30,000 movies and more than 50 episodes of “next-day TV.” There’s no signup fee or monthly subscription for Target’s instant video service; like iTunes and Amazon Continue Reading →