RIP iGoogle: Google's personalized Web portal service has now closed down
RIP another Google service: iGoogle, the company's personalized Web portal product, finally bit the dust today, some eight months after its shutdown was announced. — iGoogle has slipped into the dar...
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life
Shortly after general availability of the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft pushed out a firmware update that allowed the Marvell WiFi solution to drive down to even lower power states. I spoke with Microsoft...
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
The N.S.A.'s Evolution: The National Security Agency was founded in 1952, and its surveillance capabilities were limited by legislation in 1978. But with the attacks of September 2001 came a new sens...
Netflix starts testing 4K videos, wants to launch Ultra HD next year
Netflix quietly added a handful of 4K HD videos to its catalog this week to prepare itself for a wider launch of ultra high-definition video content in the coming months. So far, the titles added to ...
Bill Gates stands separate from peers with focus on disease over internet connectivity
An exclusive interview with Bill Gates — The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's tech billionaires believe.
iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot
A year ago during my review of the LTE iPad 3 I decided to find out how long the iPad would last as a personal hotspot. With the display off and a single notebook tethered wirelessly to the iPad down...
YouTube Live: a disastrous spectacle Google would like you to forget
On the eve of its next attempt, has the company learned from its mistakes? — This Sunday, November 3rd, the world will experience the first annual YouTube Music Awards, hosted by Jason Schwartzman a...
Android 4.4 KitKat and Google's quest to take over the world
Can a low-end Android phone be any good? For Mountain View, a billion users are at stake — “As we get on our journey to reach the next billion people, we want to do it on the latest version of Andr...