Continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1  —  Before we launched Windows 7, we envisioned what the next version of Windows would need to deliver.  We made a bet that the PC landscape and industry would undergo a significant transformation driven by an increase in mobility.

Apple sells 100 million iPod touch units  —  In addition to launching a new model of its iPod touch on Thursday, Apple told me this morning that it has sold more than 100 million units of the iPod touch since its introduction.  —  The iPod touch was launched in 2007 and took the design of the iPhone, minus the calling ability.

Samsung Introduces the GALAXY S4 mini: A Powerful, Compact Smartphone  —  Samsung Electronics announced Samsung GALAXY S4 mini, a powerful yet compact version of Samsung's bestselling smartphone, GALAXY S4.  The GALAXY S4 mini delivers the superior performance, intuitive ease-of-use …

HTC One with stock Android announced, launching June 26th for $599  —  It was rumored, and now it's here: on stage at D, Sundar Pichai just revealed a new version of the HTC One that runs an untouched, stock version of the Android operating system.  It wil be available from the Google Play store, launching June 26th for $599.

Evernote Turns On Three New Security Features, Including 2-Factor Authentication, After Major Breach In February  —  After Evernote, the personal note-taking app with 60 million+ users, got slammed with a security breach in February 2013, today the company is turning on three new features …

Elon Musk Talks About His Falling Out With the ZuckerPAC  —  Tech stars may all be rooting for immigration reform, but not all are willing to go about it the same way.  —  That's what we saw last month when Tesla CEO Elon Musk left FWD.us, the political action group founded …

Telly Releases Android Tablet App As It Approaches 70K Likes Per Week On Google's Mobile OS  —  Video discovery service Telly is launching its social video app on Android tablets today, a key step for the company as Google's mobile OS becomes more important to its overall strategy and audience.

Google announces Google Play Music and ‘All Access’ streaming coming to iOS in next few weeks  —  After launching its new Google Play All Access music streaming service earlier this month at Google I/O, Google's head of Android Sundar Pichai just confirmed during his interview at the D11 conference …

Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron  —  TAIPEI—For years, nearly all of the world's iPhones and iPads rolled off the assembly lines of a single company: Foxconn.  —  It was a famous partnership between two outsize personalities— Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s intense …

Moto X Coming Out by October; It's All About Sensors and Will Be Built in Texas (Video)  —  Motorola's next “hero” phone, the first big product launch conceived and executed since Google bought the company, will be called the Moto X.  —  Speaking at D11 today, Motorola head Dennis Woodside said to expect a …

Google invests in big South African solar project  —  Google is taking its strategy of investing millions of dollars into clean power projects in the U.S. and focusing it on Africa for the first time.  On Thursday, the search engine giant announced that it's invested $12 million into a large …

Postmates Officially Launches Its On-Demand Delivery Service In New York City  —  Ok, so we kind of knew it was coming, but it's worth a post anyway: Postmates is launching its on-demand delivery service in New York City today, allowing certain users in the Big Apple to begin ordering food …

Neelie Kroes unveils Net Neutrality plan for Europe, aims to end mobile roaming fees in 2014  —  While travellers in Europe are enjoying lower roaming fees across the continent, the European Commission (EC) believes that isn't enough.  As part of new legislation, its vice president Neelie Kroes today unveiled …

Cord Cutters Lop Off Internet Service More Than TV  —  For all the fuss over Americans dropping their cable subscriptions in favor of Internet video, another type of cord cutting appears to be more common.  —  Hundreds of thousands of Americans canceled their home Internet service last year …

Waze Integrates Facebook Event Navigation, Shows Zuck What He Is Missing  —  Your friends are having a party.  You're not quite sure where it is, but all the details are in a Facebook Event invite.  To get there, you'll have to log into Facebook, find the invite and the address, load it into Google Maps and follow the directions.

Facebookers, beware: That silly update can cost you a job  —  Study shows that companies have rejected 1 in 10 people between ages 16 and 34 because of something the person shared on social media.  —  Little did Ashley Payne know that the festive photo of her holding both a pint of beer …

Server Sales Are Down As Cloud Apps Abound At The Expense Of IBM, Enterprise Giants  —  Gartner Research reports worldwide server sales are down 5 percent for the first quarter of the year, with IBM, HP and other members of the top five taking the biggest hit.  Server shipments declined 0.7 percent.

With August, Yves Behar Brings Fine Design to a “Smart” Door Lock  —  If the next big thing is the Internet of Things, Yves Behar wants in.  And he'll get there the most obvious way: Through your door.  —  The industrial designer, known for the look of One Laptop Per Child, Jawbone products …

Coursera partners with 10 new US universities not just for online courses, but to add MOOC to their classes too  —  Coursera today announced it has partnered with 10 US state university systems and public university flagships to bring their faculty and course content online, plus a little more.