Apple has surprisingly confirmed reports that the battery life on its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus varies depending on the manufacturer of the A9 chip that runs the phone, but claims that the variance is only very slight. Dubbed “batterygate” by some sites, the allegations about the iPhone’s stemmed from a test of the ...

Despite the fact most of the media predicted that Facebook, Inc. was planning to launch a dislike button, the social networking goliath has instead started testing “Reactions,” an extension of the Facebook like button that allows (as the name may suggest) users to express a reaction about a post on Facebook. The new service, to ...

Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have celebrated the launch of their new Bitcoin exchange Gemini Trust Company LLC. this week by taking to Reddit to do an AMA (ask me anything). Despite the way they were perhaps portrayed in the movie The Social Network and perceptions around them since, one thing that stood out from ...

Amazon.com, Inc. may be looking to enter the live streaming television space with the company said to have been in talks to do exactly that. Dan Rayburn broke the news, writing on his Streaming Media blog that multiple content owners have told him that Amazon has been quietly asking them about licensing content for a ...

Computer maker Dell, Inc. may be about to expand its horizons with a report Wednesday that it was in talks to acquire part or all of rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. The Wall Street Journal quotes the proverbial “people familiar with the matter,” saying that the two companies are definitely talking, however was unable ...

Not without a sense of naming humor Amazon.com, Inc. has introduced something completely unexpected: a physical data transfer service. Called Snowball (as in a snowball’s chance in hell), the new service facilitates the transfer of data to the cloud through an appliance that can hold up to 50 terabytes of data with secure, end-to-end encrypted ...

Curated content is all the rage in 2015 and it makes sense that if you’re the main source for content on other people’s sites (OK, mostly Buzzfeed) you should get in on the action, and that’s likely Reddit’s thinking with the launch of a new site. Called Upvoted, the new site runs as a mix between Digg ...

Twitter, Inc. has entered the curated content market with the launch of a new feature called Moments. Previously known internally as Project Lightning, Twitter Moments presents the “best of what’s happening on Twitter in an instant” based on how popular the content is, and how much Twitter’s human curators think you might like to see ...

Fresh off announcing a range of new products in September, Apple looks set to launch its rumored new 4k 21.5-inch iMacs according to a report Tuesday. 9to5Mac claims that Apple will launch the new Mac desktops as soon as next week with the devices going immediately on sale, but in limited numbers until November. The ...

Pre-initial public offering (IPO), Australia’s largest tech startup Atlassian Pty. Ltd. is rejigging its enterprise offering by splitting up one of its more popular software as a service (SaaS) apps, project management tool JIRA. One of Atlassian’s earliest enterprise tools, JIRA has its roots as a simple bug-tracking tool for programmers that morphed over time ...