The biggest problem facing the idea of widespread Ultra-HD, or 4K, video is streaming. Google may now have fixed that problem, as YouTube plans on demonstrating a 4K video streaming codec that halves the amount of bandwidth used.
In an ironic nod to overblown technology news headlines, blogger and noted Google Glass-in-shower enthusiast Robert Scoble titled his latest Google+ post "Scoble says Google Glass is doomed." Scoble then lists the reasons why Google Glass will not take off when its consumer edition released (expected sometime in 2014).
This week, Facebook joined the S&P 500 while founder Mark Zuckerberg personally made more shares in the company available for purchase, Google and Facebook battle it out with different year-end roundup services for their users, Twitter will let Vine users get vanity URLs, and it turned out that Instagram's new ads are a success.
The National Security Agency essentially bribed an important industry computer and network security firm to put a secret backdoor in their encryption formulas, according to a new report.
Apple's latest tablet offerings proved to be popular with one major magazine and earned a distinction among top gadgets of 2013.
Eight of the world's giant tech companies have published a full-page letter and website against the U.S. government's surveillance program.
Nokia is set to launch a contest with prizes such as the Nokia Lumia 1020, Lumia 1520, and Lumia 2520 up for grabs as well as a trip overseas.
In late 2010, a group of Anonymous hacktivists fired the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (otherwise known as the hacker group's distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack) at PayPal as part of "Operation Payback." On Thursday, 13 defendants who had been charged with that PayPal attack pleaded guilty in a California federal court.
Since the late summer, we've known that the FBI had an elite hacker squad to develop surveillance on terrorism and organized crime suspects using malware. Now new details are emerging about the capabilities of that malware, and it reportedly includes using a suspect's laptop camera to spy on them.
Facebook announced changes to its News Feed on Monday, promising to increase the "quality" of news-related posts by tweaking the visibility of "relevant" posts. But Facebook's explanation of how it would accomplish this was rather nebulous, only giving an example of reducing the number of meme photos from third-party sites. Now, News Feed manager Lars Backstrom has revealed some details, and it sounds like Facebook's News Feed is taking a page from Google.
T-Mobile has begun upgrading its LTE service for faster speeds by using some of the spectrum it acquired in its MetroPCS purchase. The rollout just began in late Nov., but T-Mobile plans to offer the LTE expansion in its top markets soon.
Microsoft is looking to stir up interest in Windows 8.1 devices by offering ridiculous deals during the 12 business days before Christmas, judging by its first sale in the series. Starting Monday, the usually $299 Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet is on sale for $99. But the sale is quite limited.
Twitter, freshly off its IPO, is looking to expand into emerging markets - even places that don't have much by way of mobile internet yet. How is it planning on operating without the internet? It's teaming up with a service that converts content on social media networks to text-message based signals.
Wireless companies subsidizing smartphones has generally been how business is conducted ever since the first iPhone was released "locked" on AT&T's wireless network. It makes sense: without a subsidized price, smartphones are prohibitively expensive for most consumers, and wireless companies get to sell an incentive to get or keep customers on two-year contracts.
