BlackBerry chief lays out survival plan and says iPhone is old news  —  BlackBerry chief exectutive officer Thorsten Heins has said the rapidly advancing global smartphone market has left Apple's iPhone in its wake, and predicted his company would have 100,000 native apps available …

Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for exploiting AT&T iPad security flaw  —  Following prison term, Auernheimer will be subject to three years of supervised release; ordered to split $73,000 restitution to AT&T  —  Security researcher Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was today sentenced …

Verizon Seeks to Shake Up Fees for TV Channels  —  FiOS Operator Presses Smaller Media Firms for Deals Based on Audience Size  —  Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing to shake up the pay-television business based on a simple premise: it wants to tie the fees it pays to carry TV channels to how many people actually watch them.

Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work  —  A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet.  And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected.  There were some who helped build the gear that runs the post-1999 Internet, and some who built the space ships.

Funny or Die Makes a Steve Jobs Movie  —  LOS ANGELES — Techies have been keeping a hot eye on dueling Steve Jobs biopics, one an indie starring Ashton Kutcher and the other, written by Aaron Sorkin, in the works at Sony, which made “The Social Network.”  —  But it turns out there was also a joker …

Messaging Service WhatsApp To Extend Subscription Model To iOS This Year, But Don't Hold Your Breath For A Desktop App  —  WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app that eschews advertising in favor of a paid model, is getting ready to bring its iOS app in line with the apps it makes …

Flattr now lets you make money from your Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes and more  —  Swedish startup Flattr has been running its ‘online tipjar’ service for a few years now, and yet it's failed to gain much traction.  However, it's now taking a new direction that may finally make it click with a mainstream audience.

T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II  —  AT&T's failed acquisition was the best thing to ever happen to T-Mobile.  As a consequence of the failed merger, the fourth place wireless carrier received AWS spectrum in over 100 markets …

Loren Brichter, a High Priest of App Design  —  PHILADELPHIA—More than 2,500 miles from Silicon Valley, in a small home office with a dog bed under the desk, sits a man on the cutting edge of the apps boom.  —  Loren Brichter isn't a household name.  Nor are the mobile apps he has built …

Google Keep note-taking app spotted in Drive before disappearing  —  Everyone might be focused on the services Google is scrapping as part of its spring cleaning, but it looks like there's at least one new (or rather, renewed) service on the way.  Android Police reports that a new note-taking …

Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf Among Inaugural Winners Of The £1M Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering  —  The Queen of England is not exactly known for being a digital-first champion of technology, but it looks like the British monarchy may be trying to change …

Analysis: Amazon's sellers unhappy about fee hikes, eye rivals  —  (Reuters) - A brewing conflict between Amazon.com Inc and its merchants over fee hikes could benefit rival eBay Inc, and provide an opening for Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Google Inc, which are just getting into the space.

Mainstream support for WP 8 ends July 2014, WP 7.8 September 2014  —  Plaffo.com reports on the life cycle support dates of Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8.  —  According to the table Windows Phone 7.8 will receive security updates until 9 September 2014, while Windows Phone 8 will sunset on the 8th July 2014.

Pinterest Shares Its New Look and Pin Discovery Features With All  —  Avid Pinterest users, prepare for some changes to your pinboards.  Today the content-sharing site, which allows users to “pin” photos, videos, articles, graphics and other objects to their own boards …

Ericsson and STMicro agree to carve up ST-Ericsson chipmaking venture, cutting 1,600 jobs  —  Ericsson and STMicroelectronics were unsuccessful with their efforts to sell chip making business ST-Ericsson to Samsung and other chip makers, and now they have agreed to carve up the joint venture, terminating 1,600 jobs.

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing  —  My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer.  You won't believe how little I got paid  —  In one more week I was going to be a millionaire.  —  At least, that was the rumor circulating around my wife's family.

Kaifu Lee: Check Out My Chart of How Often I Get Censored by Sina Weibo  —  Despite insisting that he's no activist and is just keen on debating with his 33.4 million followers on Sina Weibo, entrepreneur and former Google China country manager, Kaifu Lee, finds his Weibo posts get censored and deleted quite a lot.