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Apple continues to clean house after it stumbled badly with its mobile mapping service, firing a manager who oversaw it. Eddy Cue, the senior vice president for Internet software and services at Apple, fired the manager, Richard Williamson, according to two people briefed on the matter. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Tuesday’s selection includes small merchants accusing Amazon of highhandedness, a look at how PRWeb works and President Obama’s anti-hacking moves. Read more…
Lacquerous lets members rent several bottles of high-end nail polishes for up to a month.Two young entrepreneurs in Manhattan are hoping to take advantage of the current fashion craze around high-fashion nail polish and nail art to develop a thriving mail-order business. Read more…
When two rich and powerful companies go head to head trying to attract talent, the weapon of choice is usually money. Yet even as Apple and Google strive for dominance in apps, neither seems to be doing much to woo developers. Read more…
The former head of Autonomy, the British software maker that Hewlett-Packard acquired last year, isn’t happy about the technology giant’s accusations of accounting fraud at his former company. So he’s calling on H.P. to defend its $8.8 billion write-down tied to the takeover. Read more »
Teens see joining Facebook as a passage into adulthood. Parents see it a little differently.For a child, getting their own Facebook is a sign that they are now officially a teenager, but they must be made aware of the consequences of their online actions. Here are some tips to help your child join the social network without regret. Read more…
Subpoenas for call records of stolen cellphones have allowed the Police Department to store the information of thousands of victims a year. Read more…
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times A new report finds that certain activities that people do on a cellphone, like taking a picture and sending an e-mail, have increased significantly in the last few years. Texting, in particular, has grown considerably — but not in the traditional sense. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Monday’s selection includes a debunking of a viral post about Facebook and copyright, a false report of an acquisition by Google and a company that benefited from the problems with Apple Maps. Read more…
Carlo Allegri/Reuters Nintendo's new video-game console, the Wii U, on sale Thursday at a Toys “R” Us store in Times Square.In its first week on the market, Nintendo’s new videogame console, the Wii U, sold about as well in the United States as the original Wii did at the same point in its life, according to Nintendo. The president of Nintendo of America estimated that the company sold more than 400,000 Wii U’s here. Read more…
Associated Press The Justice Department building in Washington.Federal law enforcement agencies affiliated with the Justice Department used more than 37,600 court orders in 2011 to gather cellphone data, a sharp increase from previous years. The total number has roughly doubled since 2007. Read more…
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects’ cellphones and the cornucopia of evidence they provide, Somini Sengupta reports in Monday’s New York Times. Read more…
Autonomy’s founder, Mike Lynch, says he was blindsided by a public relations onslaught from Hewlett-Packard, little of which had to do with the substance of H.P.’s fraud claims about his company. Read more »
Brian Lee, a Web entrepreneur, has been partnering with celebrities like Jessica Alba to create e-commerce sites to sell products in ways that were not possible just a few years ago. Read more »
Nick Wingfield of The New York Times goes behind the unassuming doors of the business built by Mario, the pudgy plumber, and Luigi, his lanky brother, as well as characters like Link, wielder of the mystical Master Sword, and Princess Zelda, of the royal family of Hyrule. This palace of play is quiet, but there’s trouble brewing for Nintendo, he writes: three decades after the mustachioed Mario burst into arcades via Donkey Kong, plucking countless quarters from people’s pockets, the kingdom is under siege. Read more »
