HP plans to split into two businesses, one for PCs and printers and the other for corporate hardware and services
Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two — H-P will separate its PC and printer operation from its corporate hardware and other units, sources say.
Founding “queen” of pirate streaming site NinjaVideo is unrepentant after 16 months in prison
The Unrepentant Bootlegger — The Deposed Queen of NinjaVideo The Deposed Queen of NinjaVideo — Hana Beshara, a founder of NinjaVideo, once a popular illegal video downloading site, was known as Qu...
Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer...
Beats headphones banned from appearing on camera as part of Bose sponsorship deal with the NFL
NFL Bans Beats Headphones On Camera (Updated) — Remember the television commercial that opens with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick arriving at an opposing team's stadium …
Square closes its latest round, raising $150M at a $6B valuation, led by Singapore Investment Corporation
Square Raises $150 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation — It takes money to make money, or so the saying goes. And Square, the e-commerce start-up, wants to make a lot more money.
Walter Isaacon's “The Innovators” is the most accessible, comprehensive history of the digital age
Book review: ‘The Innovators,’ on the digital revolution, by Walter Isaacson — In the Industrial Revolution's wake, aspiring entrepreneurs combed through a landmark biography of inventors for the se...
T-Mobile CEO John Legere on consolidation, acquisition rumors, and improving customer service
Full Video: T-Mobile CEO John Legere unleashed on the GeekWire stage (F-bombs, Bendgate and the ‘porn guy’ who runs Iliad) — T-Mobile CEO John Legere rocked the house at the GeekWire Summit yesterda...
Behind the Dropbox team working to deeply integrate the company's services in phones like the Galaxy Note 4 and Xperia Z3
Meet The Team Putting Dropbox On Your Phone — Dropbox's strategic partnerships team, filled with a batch of former Googlers and other policy experts, is tasked with embedding Dropbox into new mobile...
A Year After Death of Silk Road, Darknet Markets Are Booming
It's been one year since the FBI shut down Silk Road, the granddaddy of darknet marketplaces, and arrested main Silk Road admin Ross William Ulbricht (or, as he was known online, Dread Pirate Roberts)...
A technical analysis of the barriers preventing Apple from decrypting iPhones
Why can't Apple decrypt your iPhone? — Last week I wrote about Apple's new default encryption policy for iOS 8. Since that piece was intended for general audiences, I mostly avoided technical detai...
As 911 systems suffer outages and glitches, carriers resist location tracking improvements
This is what happens when 911 fails — Our most important lifeline isn't always there when you need it — On a June morning in Washington, William Leneweaver, the state's E911 IT projects and operat...