Bitcoin is a really bad idea. Promoting digital currency is like promoting digital food; it will leave you empty and you’ll wonder why you ever thought it was a good idea…….

Professional users of the Mac will have interesting choices around price and performance with the arrival of the forthcoming Mac Pro. It also shows that the market segmentation strategy that Steve Jobs enforced within Apple 15 years ago appears to be holding — and working…….

Prefacing he thinks Cook is “doing a very fine job,” Icahn still has plenty of suggestions for Apple…….

cold fjord writes “According to a report in the Miami Herald, ‘Chancellor Angela Merkel has called President Barack Obama after receiving information that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone. Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said Merkel made clear in Wednesday’s call that “she views such practices, if the indications are confirmed … as completely…

Under a new plan, non-employee directors will make up to $16 million for their first year of service on Twitter’s board…….

Special underwear shirts turn saggy man-chests into pec-tastic torsos with the artful placement of padding and stretch materials…….

Fusion-io stumbled with a disappointing outlook, but F5 Networks, ServiceNow and Akamai shined…….

Microsoft has removed the Desktop tile as one of the Metro-Style tiles it displays by default on its ARM-based Surface 2 devices. Here’s what’s changed…….

Science_afficionado writes “A news release from Vanderbilt University begins, ‘Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7, not just when the sun is shining. Mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges. These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists…

Apple wins scuffle with WiLAN, a company that targeted the iPhone and Mac maker for allegedly infringing on its wireless technology…….