Britain to increase maximum sentence for online bullying from six months to two years
Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases — Internet trolls who subject victims to vile abus...
IBM Agrees to Pay Globalfoundries $1.5 Billion to Take Chip Unit
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) agreed to pay Globalfoundries Inc. $1.5 billion to take an unprofitable chip-manufacturing unit off its hands, according to two people with knowledge of the...
2014 Mac mini: RAM is not user-replaceable, no dual-drive server version
A look at the 2014 Mac mini — We've been working extensively with Mac minis for nearly 10 years. (Yes, we're nearing the tenth anniversary for the more-popular-than-you-think Mac.)
Google's Nexus Player gets FCC approval, right on cue
Well, that didn't take long. Just a couple of days after Google stopped pre-orders of the Nexus Player while it waited for the FCC's all-clear, its Android TV puck has received approval. There aren'...
This is the Fitbit Surge, a $250 ‘superwatch’ with built-in GPS
GPS and heart rate monitoring headline Fitbit's next flagship wearable — Fitbit is preparing to launch three new fitness trackers in the coming weeks. Two of those will be the Charge and Charge HR.
Microsoft plans to launch a fitness-focused wearable in the next few weeks with more than two-day battery life, multi-platform support
Microsoft Plans To Launch A Wearable Device Within Weeks — Microsoft is gearing up to launch a wearable device within the next few weeks, Forbes has learned.
Inside the nearly decade-old Google Scholar, which is still led by its creator Anurag Acharya
The Gentleman Who Made Scholar — Ten years after a Google engineer empowered researchers with Scholar, he can't bear to leave it — Anurag Acharya is the key inventor of Google Scholar …
Study: cost of cybercrime to US organizations up 9.7% over previous year
Report: Cybercrime costs US $12.7M a year — Cyber attacks on large US companies result in an average of $12.7 million in annual damages, an increase of 9.7 percent from the previous year, according ...
Behind Microsoft's controversial takedown of No-IP and other legal battles to defeat botnets
How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet — It was 7 o'clock in the morning when the knocking on Dan Durrer's front door woke him up. His dog started barking, and Durrer thought he was...
Latest leak gives best look yet at Motorola's Droid Turbo
Motorola's next Verizon-exclusive Android phone hasn't been announced, but a number of leaks have left very little to the imagination. Now we're getting our best look yet at the device, called the Dr...
Amid pressure from activist investors, Marissa Mayer to detail Yahoo's cost-cutting plan and acquisitions strategy during Tuesday's earnings call
Yahoo CEO Set to Refresh Turnaround Plan — Firm to Release Quarterly Results Tuesday, Detail Its Current Efforts
Remembering Macworld Expo: Why we went to the greatest trade show on earth
This morning IDG announced that Macworld Expo (later known as Macworld/iWorld) is going on hiatus. How permanent this break is depends entirely on whether those running the show can find a financial ...
Pressing Fwd.us: How Silicon Valley's $50 Million Bet on Immigration Stalled
When President Barack Obama decided in early September to postpone immigration reform, it marked the beginning of the end of Joe Green's tenure as the head of one of Silicon Valley's most ambitious po...
Google's information processing and Amazon's transaction processing platforms are headed for a collision in the battle to dominate local retail
The Google—Amazon Retail Slugfest — Two competitors, seemingly in different businesses, now determine the future of shopping.