BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis considering bid to take company private  —  BlackBerry Co-Founder Is Said to Consider Bid for Company  —  Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2012, has reached out to private equity firms about a possible bid for the troubled company.

BlackBerry pulls BBM app from iOS App Store and delays Android release after Android app leaks  —  BBM for Android and iPhone Update  —  Prior to launching BBM for Android, an unreleased version of the BBM for Android app was posted online.  The interest and enthusiasm we have seen already …

Tim Cook: The Complete Interview  —  For this week's cover story on Apple and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said far more than was ever going to make it into the story.  Or even the outtakes from the story.  So for even more Tim Cook, here is the transcript of the entire interview, edited only for clarity.

Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix  —  Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared.  —  On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah …

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’  —  The National Security Agency sent out a letter to all of its employees and affiliates, including contractors, that could be printed and shared with family, friends and colleagues.

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses  —  LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses  —  LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …

Benchmark test shows iPhone 5's touchscreen responds more than 2X faster than Android devices  —  Apple's iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices  —  Apple's iPhone 5 is 2.5 times faster at responding to touches than Google Android devices, according to a benchmark test by game and app streaming firm Agawi.

Google's plan to replace browser cookies causes concern for the digital advertising industry  —  Advertisers Worry About Changes to ‘Cookies’  —  As Google Considers New System, Madison Ave.  Wrings Its Hands  —  The possibility that Google Inc. could stop using “cookies” …

Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time  —  Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet  —  For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …

Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets  —  Mozilla's long-delayed Firefox for Windows 8 tablets has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and unstable Nightly development channel.  As Mozilla announced today, the chrome-less tablet version …