Microsoft CEO Selection Unlikely to Come in January, as Candidate List Contracts and Expands
The selection of a CEO to take over Microsoft is not expected to come before February, according to multiple sources, due to a range of issues, including the packed schedule of the software giant's ch...
T-Mobile will now pay $350 for you to leave AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon
Just as predicted, T-Mobile's latest hyped-up new plan to change the cellular industry is this: the company will pay your early termination fee if you agree to switch. While T-Mobile CEO John Legere ...
Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
Last month Dell launched a pair of UltraSharp monitors boasting 4K resolution, and dangled a sweet carrot in front of our early adopting paws: a forthcoming 28-inch Ultra HD monitor that would retail ...
Apple, Samsung CEOs agree to mediation in U.S. patent fight: court filing
(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have agreed to attend a mediation session to be held on or before February 19, as they prepare to clash in court in March over smartphone patents.
T-Mobile Ads Confirm UnCarrier 4 Plans: Pay ETFs for Families Who Transfer
This evening, hours before T-Mobile takes the stage at CES 2014 for UnCarrier part 4, an ad popping up on tech sites has essentially confirmed part of the program. According to the ad - which we have...
The evolution of memes on Facebook
A meme is an idea that is readily transmitted from person to person. But we humans are not perfect transmitters. While sometimes we repeat the idea exactly, often we change the meme, either unintent...
In interview with David Pogue, Nick D'Aloisio touts positive Yahoo News Digest reviews likely written by Yahoo employees
The Curious Case Of Yahoo's App Reviews — Summly founder Nick D'Aloisio, in an interview with Yahoo's David Pogue, touted his new app's positive reviews. But who's writing them?
Red Hat and CentOS become Voltron, build free operating system together
Team Voltron, defender of open source. — World Events Productions — Red Hat and the CentOS Project today said they will team up to build what they called “a new CentOS” in a bid to accelerate adop...
IBM Struggles to Turn Watson Computer Into Big Business
Revenue Is Far From Company's Ambitious Targets … Three years after International Business Machines Corp. began trying to turn its “Jeopardy"-winning computer into a big business, revenue from Watson ...
T-Mobile CEO: “This industry blows,” biggest carriers offer “horsesh**”
T-Mobile US CEO John Legere has had an eventful week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He was thrown out of AT&T's CES party Monday night after the company detected his presence.
Uber CEO: Surge Pricing Is Here to Stay
For now, though, he's still fighting in the trenches.
Nokia's Android phone UI revealed in leaked photos
Nokia has been building its own Android phone, codenamed Normandy, and the first examples of its user interface are now starting to emerge. Evleaks has posted an image of Nokia's custom Android imple...
Sony Doesn't Have the Deals It Needs for Web TV — But That's Not Its Real Problem
But That's Not Its Real Problem — Last year, Intel said it was going to deliver pay TV over the Web by the end of 2013. That didn't work out. — Now Sony says it will deliver pay TV over the Web so...
Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires
Scores of Workers are Deputized to Vet Job Candidates, Ensure Cultural Fit — In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better. — But when...
New York Times redesign points to future of online publishing
The last time The New York Times embarked on a wholesale redesign of its Web site, in 2006, the iPhone wasn't on the market. Tablets like the iPad were still years away. — So the new design that Th...
LinkedIn sues to stop bots that are stealing its user profiles
Professional network LinkedIn is fighting off shady competitors that are using bots to vacuum up hundreds of thousands of its user profiles in order to compete with LinkedIn's own recruiter products, ...
Barnes & Noble appoints Michael Huseby to CEO post
Barnes & Noble has appointed a new CEO to lead the bookseller's retail and digital businesses. — Michael Huseby is now CEO at Barnes & Noble, the company announced on Wednesday. In his new role, Hu...
1 PC, 2 operating systems: Intel introduces Dual OS, AMD adds Android apps to Windows
Summary: Intel and partners are going to be bringing us PCs that run both Android and Windows 8.1. Meanwhile, AMD and its partner BlueStacks will enable users to run Android and its apps on Windows.
Reporter's Notebook: Cracking Mark Zuckerberg's Code
When I first visited Mark Zuckerberg in September for our profile on the Facebook CEO, what initially struck me were all the parts of “Zuck” that seemed resistant to change. — There he sat in his gr...
This Clear, Flexible Electronic Circuit Can Fit on the Surface of a Contact Lens
A new, ultra thin circuit (shown embedded on a contact lens placed on a prosthetic eye) could someday be used in implantable medical devices or environmental sensors. Image via Salvatore et. al.
Digital movie sales up 47% in 2013 as studios allow digital purchases before rental, physical
Sales of Online Movies Jumps; DVDs Continue to Decline — Delaying Availability of DVDs, Rentals Nudged Consumers … After years of trying to convince consumers to buy movies online …
Seattle's fiber-network deal with Gigabit Squared is dead
Mayor Ed Murray has declared the city's deal with startup broadband company Gigabit Squared dead. In fact, the city's deal with the company may have been doomed before Murray was even elected. — “W...
File-sharing service Droplr now offers unlimited uploads starting from $4.99 per month
File-sharing service Droplr announced last week that it was putting an end to its free accounts, and today it is officially transitioning to a paid-only service with a 30-day free trial.
France fines Google over privacy violations and makes it put a notice on its site
The French data protection authority CNIL has fined Google €150,000 ($204,000) over its unified privacy policy, which regulators believe violates European privacy law.
Google Talks UK Government Into Allowing Drivers to Wear Google Glass [Report]
Following talks between Google and the UK's Department for Transport (DfT), it appears that drivers in the UK will be allowed to wear Google Glass if they want. — According to an article in the Sund...
Confide: an app for execs who want sensitive messages to vanish Snapchat-style
Many people associate “disappear” apps like Snapchat with young people who want to send each other bong or boob shots. But kids are hardly the only ones who want to relay sensitive or silly messages ...
A quarter of British and Canadian businesses want their data taken out of U.S., according to Peer1
The NSA's shenanigans are having a very real effect on businesses' data storage decisions, according to Canadian cloud and hosting provider Peer1. — The company surveyed 300 businesses …
At CES 2014, the hottest new gadget is your car
Audi's Ulrich Hackenberg shows off Internet-connected and self-driving cars at CES 2014. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg ) — LAS VEGAS — When it comes to CES, most people think of small portable devi...
Chinese E-Commerce Giant Alibaba to Ban Bitcoins on Its Sites
LONDON — The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Wednesday that its online marketplace Taobao would not accept the popular virtual currency Bitcoin as a form of payment or allow the sale of...
Apigee Acquires InsightsOne To Deepen API Analytics Offerings
Apigee, an API management company, has acquired InsightsOne for its predictive analytics technology. With InsightsOne, Apigee will have a platform that helps companies find patterns in multiple data ...
Zephyr Health brings data analytics to life sciences, picks up $15M
Zephyr Health's Voyager application for viewing physician profiles. — Zephyr Health, the latest in a string of companies offering big data analytics to shake-up what has been a technology-resistant ...
Nuance demos two cool new things: Voice recognition for everything and Swype for smartwatches
Omate's smartwatch will include Nuance's Dragon Mobile Assistant for voice-based controls — CES 2014 … If there's one company well positioned to benefit from the rise of wearable technology, it's Nu...
An API invasion in streaming music has Pandora hoping better data trumps bigger data
Life is probably going to get a lot harder for streaming music pioneer Pandora. — Already under fire from Spotify Radio, iTunes Radio and Google Play Music among myriad other smaller services …
Bitcoin Woos Washington to Ensure Lawmakers Don't Kill It
Bitcoin advocates entered Washington a year ago with the shadow of a federal criminal investigation cast over the virtual currency industry. — Their first mission: Win over, or at least not alarm, t...
Three Silicon Valley startups aim to best Google with real-time satellite imagery of Earth
Silicon Valley's New Spy Satellites — Three startups are launching services—and orbiters—to provide real-time, better-than-Google imagery of the Earth. — Imagine an energy company which manages a ...