The Facebook IPO just keeps getting bigger and bigger.  The social network announced this morning via an amended S-1 filing that it will add about 84 million shares to its initial public offering, an increase of approximately 25 percent. By the time the company starts publicly trading on the NASDAQ (under the symbol “FB”), Facebook [...]

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Here are your top tech news headlines for Wednesday, April 11, 2012: – Facebook announced it will buy the photo-sharing app Instagram for 1 billion dollars – Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are teaming up with the U.S. FCC to combat phone theft – Sony expects its net loss to be more than double what [...]

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If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear over the last few months, it’s that the internet won’t be completely safe until the government runs out of acronyms. Having safely defeated SOPA and PIPA, and fatally wounded ACTA, along comes CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), also known as H.R. [...]

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Here are your top tech news headlines for Tuesday, March 27, 2012: – Homemade robots duke it out in Boston – Rutgers launches high performance computing center – 83-year-old woman suing Apple – AT&T to sell Lumia 900 for $100 Incoming search terms:how to sell homemade robotsuseful homemade robots

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It took 36 years, but Apple is finally about to start rewarding its shareholders directly by instituting a dividend and share buyback program. Apple currently has about $97.6 billion in cash and securities, so analysts had been expecting a dividend announcement for quite some time. In previous years, Steve Jobs resisted implementing a dividend, maintaining [...]

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Police say a man wielding a pair of knives stabbed four people at a downtown Ohio office building and was then shot and wounded by a police officer as he left the building this afternoon. Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner said three of the four victims are now in critical condition at a local [...]

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That’s the end of that. AT&T Inc. today announced that, after a thorough analysis of the company’s options, it has decided to end its bid to acquire T-Mobile USA, an effort which started in March of this year. The Justice Department sued AT&T in August to stop the planned merger, stating that such a merger [...]

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A handful of AT&T customers were apparently targeted yesterday by a well-organized hacking attack that was ultimately unsuccessful, according to a company spokesperson. “We recently detected what could have been an organized attempt to obtain information on a number of customer accounts,” AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel told FoxNews.com. “The people in question appear to have [...]

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iPhone Idiot Calls by kylenw Michael Allen Skopec is 48 years old. He apparently got himself good and drunk, then couldn’t figure out what was wrong with his iPhone. So he did what anyone else would do in this situation…he called 911…over and over. This guy is a riot. Listen as the dispatcher asks if [...]

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There’s an interesting rumor floating around claiming that Sprint has entered into an agreement with Apple to purchase over $20 billion in iPhones over the next four years. That’s equivalent to about 30 million iPhones. If that’s true, Sprint likely wouldn’t even break even on the deal until about 2014, which sounds like a huge [...]

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Here are your top stories for Thursday, September 1, 2011: – Hurricane Irene death toll climbs to 45; two million still without power – President Barack Obama to unveil jobs plan – Government hangs up on AT&T deal – Spanish town left seeing red

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After months of rumors and speculation, Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation Vita at E3 2011 today. The PlayStation Vita will cost $249 for the WiFi version, or $299 for the 3G model. Sony’s Kaz Hirai confirmed it would be available exclusively through AT&T, with both models shipping worldwide toward the end of 2011. The PS [...]

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