Nokia Lumia 2520 review: a good Windows tablet, not the best for typing  —  The Lumia 2520 is Nokia's first Windows tablet — and it may well be its last.  By the time Nokia is ready to design a follow-up product, the Finnish firm might officially be a part of Microsoft.

Introducing Place Pins, for the explorer in all of us  —  About a year ago, we noticed Pinners creating more and more boards around the vacations they're planning, special places near where they live and sites they want to see someday.  In fact, every day people Pin about 1.5 million places …

iPad Mini Retina is a no-show at carriers  —  Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina.  —  (Credit: Apple)  —  Carriers are still waiting on the iPad Mini Retina with 3G/4G capability, as back orders grow.  —  Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are all back-ordered on the cellular version …

Acer founder steps in to save company as CEO and president resign  —  Acer's been on a quest to reinvent itself pretty much since the sunset of the netbook era — which both fuelled the Taiwanese company's rapid growth and left it floundering when consumers moved on to other devices.

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Videos Show Snapchat CEO Saying Ousted Co-Founder ‘May Deserve Something’ For Role At Company  —  Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel attended Stanford University together and joined the same fraternity, Kappa Sigma.  —  Now the three are tangled in a lawsuit over equity in today's hottest startup, Snapchat.

Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship  —  Protecting Internet traffic with hard-to-crack code may prevent governments from censoring their populations' communications within a decade, Google Inc. (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt said.  —  Schmidt described the coming of a …

HBO GO now works with Chromecast  —  Grab your favorite snack and get cozy on your Iron Throne, because HBO GO has added Chromecast support to their Android, iOS and web app.  Now you can easily enjoy “Game of Thrones,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Girls” and your favorite movies on your TV by casting from the HBO GO app or website.

Southwest to Be First With Gate-to-Gate Wi-Fi Service  —  Frequent fliers have been quick to note which airlines are allowing passengers to use their electronics during takeoff and landing, but Southwest Airlines is upping the ante.  —  In addition to already allowing use of the gadgets themselves …

A university in Cyprus is the first in the world to accept tuition fees with Bitcoin  —  This university is the first in the world to accept Bitcoin for tuition  —  The Bitcoin craze has made its way to the educational system.  —  The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced today …

Apple's iBeacon Comes To Retailers Via Shopkick's ShopBeacon  —  When Apple, with much fanfare, announced iOS 7 in June, it also quietly confirmed a new feature called iBeacons, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy signalling to enable micro-location services and to trigger actions within apps.

US Working Overtime Behind The Scenes To Kill UN Plan To Protect Online Privacy From Snooping  —  The UN has apparently been considering a proposal pushed by Brazil and Germany, to clarify that basic offline rights to privacy should apply to online information and activities as well.

Windows Phone Now Sees 10M Transactions And 500 New Apps Daily, Has Served 3B Total Downloads  —  Today Instagram and Waze came to the Windows Phone platform, bringing two applications to Microsoft's smartphone venture that it has long lacked.  —  Microsoft also released a set of numbers …

What's He Really Like?  Check the Lulu App  —  Not long ago, after Alexandra Amin, an assistant at Warner Brothers, broke up with an agent she had been dating for a year, her friend told her about a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.

How Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Hit App QuizUp, Took Two Years To Create An Overnight Success  —  Stop me if you've heard this story before: A mobile game studio toils in obscurity for several years creating apps that no one seems to care about, and then one day it introduces its new project to the world …

Nokia's Finland HQ To Become A Microsoft Site Next Year, After Devices & Services Sale  —  The wheel of fortune symbolism is clear: as Apple prepares to break ground on a new UFO-esque HQ, the former kingpin of mobile, Nokia, is quietly preparing to move out of its own headquarters - to make way for Microsoft.

Inkjet Printing Could Be the Key to Next-Generation OLED Displays  —  Kateeva says its new manufacturing equipment can produce affordable OLED displays, rigid and flexible.  —  Color-rich, energy-efficient, and flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays could soon be churned out more economically on giant inkjet printers.

Zuckerberg, undocumented immigrants ‘hack’ for immigration reform  —  Facebook's CEO and 20 immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children take part in a 25-hour ‘hackathon’ to urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.  —  Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg calls immigration …

Self-driving vehicles still a decade away, experts tell Congress  —  Truly autonomous vehicles won't arrive until at least 2020 and likely later, according to a panel of car company executives and researchers that spoke to Congress this week.  Mike Robinson, vice president of sustainability …

Is the tide turning?  Women filled 60% of tech jobs created this year  —  Could America finally be making progress towards getting more women into the tech industry?  —  New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests we might be.  —  Of the 39,000 jobs created in tech this year, 60 percent of them were filled by women.

DirecTV to Stream 30 Live TV Channels Outside the Home  —  DirecTV is expanding its Internet video service to let subscribers watch more than 30 live TV channels outside the home — including HBO, Showtime, Starz and Food Network — and will deliver 100 live TV in-home streaming channels.

Google's Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 now available at T-Mobile locations in the US  —  Google today announced that both its Nexus 5 smartphone and its Nexus 7 tablet are available in T-Mobile locations across the US.  If you prefer to see them online before you head to a store, the links you're looking for are here: Nexus 5 and Nexus 7.

Android/ARM has become a new de facto platform for any piece of smart connected electronics  —  The meaning of really cheap Android  —  One of the big puzzles in trying to understand the tablet market is data.  Apple is pretty much the only large manufacturer giving unit sales …

Google's chief internet evangelist says ‘privacy may actually be an anomaly’  —  Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable.  “Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions.

Bitcasa's infinite cloud storage balloons to $999 a year  —  If you thought Bitcasa's infinite cloud storage was too sweet of a deal to exist on this mortal plane for $99 a year, that's because it was — or at least partly because the bulk of subscribers filled up far less of their digital lockers than expected.