Apple’s new iPad, with its high-resolution screen and option for 4G speeds, seems like the perfect device to stream high-definition movies on the go, right? Think again. The problem is not that the device, with its fast new processor and...

Mike Daisey, the monologist behind “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” created a “reality-distortion field” of his own. But it didn’t fool Rob Schmitz. The China bureau chief for American Public Media’s Marketplace publication uncovered that Daisey had...

Not too worried about your privacy? The folks at ESET LLC, a security software company in Slovakia, hope to change your mind. They just published an illustration of Google’s “Data Mining Bonanza” to show how deeply the company can probe...

Staying true to his promise, Kevin Rose, the Digg founder who now runs a mobile-app company called Milk, is shooting his young product in the head. Milk announced today that Oink will be shutting down less than five months after...

PayPal sent out some scary-looking e-mails this week to customers who the company believes are using their accounts for betting on the NCAA’s March Madness. The e-mails are legit, unlike the constant flow of paypal@service.com spam messages that hit our...

Determining how many Kindle Fires have been sold is starting to look like a bad game of pin the tail on the donkey. Research firm IDC  said today that fourth-quarter unit sales were 4.7 million, giving Amazon 16.8 percent of...

Former Yahoo board member Eric Hippeau didn’t exactly like the lawsuit the company brought against Facebook over patent infringement yesterday. Yahoo’s complaint in federal court asked for an order to bar Facebook from infringement on 10 patents — and for...

Can Microsoft’s Kinect make you a better parent? Maybe. But you’ll likely have to live with a house full of motion sensors to find out. The device was originally intended to freshen up the Xbox 360 and leapfrog Nintendo’s Wii...

Here’s one thing you probably don’t know about smartphone mania: iPhone users are bigger drinkers than Android users. That’s just one thing that 100Proof, a maker of mobile apps, learned from analyzing the drinking behavior of South by Southwest attendees over...