iPhone 7 Plus What Are you willing to see

While the iPhone 7 is likely to be Apple's best-selling smartphone this year, there's sure to be strong demand for the iPhone 7 Plus too.

Thieves are stealing money from people's credit cards, bank and PayPal accounts -- by first tapping into their Starbucks mobile app.

Starbucks (SBUX) on Wednesday acknowledged that criminals have been breaking into individual customer rewards accounts.

Grandmother Lives On Cruise Ship For $164,000 A Year, Sails Through Golden Years Beautifully

An 86-year-old grandmother is living the good life on the high seas.
Florida widow Lee Wachtstetter has lived the last seven years on the luxury cruise ship Crystal Serenity, shelling out $164,000 annually for her state room and all the perks, the Asbury Park Press reported.

EasyJet to squeeze six more seats on its aircraft

EasyJet’s cabins are about to get even more cramped after it became the latest airline to commit to squeezing more fliers on board its aircraft.

Google suspends Map Maker because of vandalism

Google is suspending a service that allowed members of the public to contribute to its maps, following vandalism.

Map Maker allowed users to draw features, adding roads, rivers, green spaces and local businesses.
But some edits, such as an image of its Android mascot urinating on an Apple logo, were not as welcome.
Google said that the shutdown is "temporary" but admitted that it will take

more than a few days to fix.

Apple appears to be on track for giant iPad

Apple is on track to bring out a giant iPad later this year that would rival, in size at least, Microsoft’s 12-inch Surface Pro 3, according to an analyst.
“We expect it to be part of the iPad refresh in October,” Rhoda Alexander, director of Tablet and Monitor Research at marketing research firm IHS Technology,

Floppy disk drives play 'Game of Thrones' theme song

One type of cover music you may not have heard of is called FDD, or floppy disk drive music.
Yes, floppy disks. Remember those? The hardware has been long tossed aside, but a legion of technophiles have resurrected the old PC components to produce music.
YouTube user Arganalth has an amazing version of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. Gigawipf uses 14 floppy disk drives and a hard drive to eek out Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love'. And for the past three years, Anand Jain, known on YouTube as MrSolidSnake745, has been using floppy disk drives to c

over everything from Bach, Beethoven and Disney, to Niki Minaj, video game music, and EDM.

His 2-minute long floppy disk drive version of 'The Game of Thrones' theme has gotten over 1.8 million views on YouTube since he first published it in 2012.

Is Windows 10 the 'last version' of Windows? It doesn't matter

As Microsoft made clear last year by skipping Windows 9 when going from Windows 8 to Windows 10, Windows version numbers are an arbitrary thing.
That's why all this talk about Windows 10, the upcoming version of Microsoft's operating system, being the "last version of Windows" is a "nothing to see here" moment.
Many of us Microsoft watchers had been saying that Threshold (Windows 10) would be the last major version of Windows for months, if not a year. (Windows 10 is due to start rolling out around the middle of the year.) Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jerry Nixon said the same thing last week at Ignite in a session titled "Tiles, Notifications and Action Center."

Verizon buys AOL for $4.4 billionVerizon is buying AOL for about $4.4 billion, or $50 a share, the companies announced Tuesday.

The deal is part of Verizon's (VZ, Tech30) new focus on digital and video platforms, as well as its connected device network, which it calls "Internet of Things," the telecommunications company said

Apple takes top spot as China's smartphone market sputters

Consumers in China -- the world's largest smartphone market -- hit the pause button during the first quarter, and that has implications for how companies like Apple and Samsung go about their business there.
Those two companies headed in opposite directions during the first quarter, with Apple's market share in China soaring after the arrival of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and Samsung's share sagging just as dramatically.