Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping
Reporters at Bloomberg News were trained to use a function on the company's financial data terminals that allowed them to view subscribers' contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activi...
Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together
We've seen plenty of Bill Gates on television, but we'd never seen him get emotional before. It was a striking, yet subtle moment in Gates' 60 Minutes interview this week when Charlie Rose asked him ...
New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference. Pichai, a Googler since 2004, would present on behalf of Google's Chrome ...
Samsung ready for 5G rollout in 2020, has reportedly pulled down 1Gbps in tests
LTE might be all the rage right now, but next generation mobile technology is already in the works. According to Korea's Yonhap News Agency, Samsung has successfully tested its 5G platform, pulling d...
With Windows Blue, Microsoft may (finally) do the right thing
Summary: Call it capitulation. Call it listening to customers. But whatever you call it, making Windows 8 more usable with expected coming Blue tweaks is a positive, not a negative. — Mary Jo Fole...
iTunes users spending at the rate of $40/yr.
In the latest quarter the iTunes top line grew by 32%. Additional newly reported items: — Quarterly revenues topped $4 billion (a new high) and the company suggests that this rate is maintainable by...
The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink
The Web browser you're probably using to read this article is a small marvel of engineering. It can be broken down into many discrete parts—a URL bar, a set of bookmarks, perhaps a built-in video pla...
No Nexus Q News at Google's I/O This Year
Nearly one year ago, at its I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its Android-powered Nexus Q media player product to much fanfare. Little more than a month after the big reveal, Google suspended...
Facebook, Waze at odds over liquidation
Social network giant insists on relocating some of Israeli navigation company's employees to its San Francisco headquarters, while Waze executives are adamant about leaving development center in Israe...
Twitter Boss Quits UK Role Post TweetDeck
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned as director of its UK arm — The American boss of Twitter has resigned as director of its UK arm, two days after the business regulator struck off its other Brit...
ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration
ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service, part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter...
Verizon Wireless to pay parents surprise $7 billion dividend
(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Monday it would pay its parents Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc a dividend of $7 billion in June, surprisi...