Introducing LinkedIn University Pages
A few years ago, my daughter and I took a road trip to visit schools before she made her final decision about college. I was hoping she'd stay in California, but it wasn't looking good. She'd fallen...
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the dangers reporters now face
As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letti...
Samsung, Sony Readying New Devices Ahead of Apple's Next IPhone
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and Sony Corp. (6758) are said to be unveiling new devices next month as two of Asia's biggest technology companies try to showcase their products before Apple Inc. (A...
Instagram Cracks Down On Connected Apps Using “Insta” And “Gram”
Instagram has updated its brand guidelines to ban apps that feature either the word ‘Insta’ or ‘Gram’ in their names, and it has begun sending emails to existing apps requesting that they change those...
Twitter Hires Jennifer Prince from Google: Entertainment Ad Sales
Jennifer Prince to head social media company's ad sales efforts in movie, TV biz — Looking to win more Hollywood followers, Twitter has hired Jennifer Prince, formerly Google's head of media and ent...
What's inside Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch? Here are some key details
It was about a week ago when Bloomberg reported that Samsung was getting ready to launch its smart watch called Galaxy Gear. Since then we have been calling around and our sources have come back with...
Most of U.S. Is Wired, but Millions Aren't Plugged In
The Obama administration has poured billions of dollars into expanding the reach of the Internet, and nearly 98 percent of American homes now have access to some form of high-speed broadband. But ten...
Key Nike FuelBand developer and fitness expert Jay Blahnik confirms new job at Apple, likely working on iWatch
Jay Blahnik, a globally recognized fitness expert and instrumental consultant in the development of several Nike fitness products, has confirmed his new role at Apple.
Here's what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour
Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process. For example, in 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a scan t...
Tech industry slips into a surprising slump
After a six-year boom ignited by the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, tech firms are in the unusual position of being laggards in the U.S. economy's recovery. — Microsoft is among the tech indust...
Nokia Bandit: a 6-inch giant Windows Phone coming soon
Nokia is planning a big-screen Windows Phone for release later this year. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is currently testing a 6-inch device with the...
Upcoming ‘Supervised User’ Feature of Google Chrome
As we have seen earlier, Chrome is set to get less-privileged accounts soon. These user accounts, now termed as “Supervised Accounts”, would have less privileges as compared to the standard users and...
You have no mail: Yahoo's email service is now closed in China
Yahoo's (NASDAQ:YHOO) email service in China is now shut, in line with an announcement of its closure that came in April. After that four-month warning, yesterday was the final day for Yahoo China em...
Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand
Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google's voice searches may be able to understand canned sentences like “What movies are showing near me at seven o'cloc...
Google: We are above UK privacy laws
Summary: After being accused of invading the privacy of iPhone users, Google claims that it cannot be held accountable under U.K. law. — Charlie Osborne — Google believes that U.K. privacy laws do...