Apple Watch has a steep learning curve but can be a life-changer after apps are streamlined and initial bugs are fixed
Apple Watch Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch.
Apple watch is the nicest smart watch but has performance issues with apps and locations services, is more expensive than rivals
Apple Watch: the definitive review — The Apple Watch is an extraordinarily small and personal device. It is designed to participate in nearly every moment of your day …
Apple Watch Review: You'll Want One, but You Don't Need One
Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business : … I'm in a meeting with 14 people, in mid-sentence, when I feel a tap-tap-tap on my wrist. I stop talking, tilt my head, and whip my arm aggressively into view...
Russian hackers accessed sensitive White House information, including real-time details of president's schedule, via compromised State Department system
How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion …
HTC One M9+ launches in China: 5.2" Quad HD screen, fingerprint sensor, MediaTek SoC
HTC's bigger and better One M9+ launches in China — HTC clearly gets China's obsession with large-screen phones. Following the plastic 5.5-inch One E9+, the company is back with the metallic M9+ wh...
US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls from US for nearly a decade before 9/11
U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls …
How Other Smartwatches Stack Up to Apple Watch
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Presidential candidate Rand Paul promises to end warrantless searches of phone, computer records; campaign site sells $15 “NSA spy cam blocker” sticker
Rand Paul sells “NSA spy cam blocker” as Presidential bid fundraiser — Bid announcement video taken off YouTube due to copyright claim over a song.
Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers
Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire : … Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The New York-based startup introduced its own e-book...
Popcorn Time launches on iOS, no jailbreak required, works brilliantly for watching streaming video
Popcorn Time's launched on iOS and that's a big problem for Apple and Netflix — Torrent-streaming platform Popcorn Time has been causing headaches for the movie and TV industries ever since it emerg...
Fortune hires six former Gigaom reporters to double down on its technology coverage
Fortune bulks up on technology coverage, hires 6 Gigaom veterans — When technology industry executives visit Fortune's New York City headquarters, one of the things I enjoy most is when they inevita...
TV on Xbox Gets More Versatile with Over-the-Air Tuner for the U.S. and Canada
At Xbox, we're committed to delivering amazing new gaming and entertainment experiences, and part of that commitment includes giving you the best TV-viewing options, in one place, never more than one ...
Google appears to be developing a teleconferencing tool called GMeet
First noticed by Florian Kiersch on Google+, Google appears to be testing a new meetings service. Google Meetings, also referred to as GMeet, appears to allow users to schedule and join teleconferenc...
Anonymous messaging app After School back in App Store with moderation to combat bullying
After School attempts a comeback with bans on bullying — Wherever there's an anonymous app, there are teens using it to bully each other. — After School, one of the newest applications …
Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, come in two variants, one with Bluetooth, one with 3G and calling support
Exclusive: Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, have 3G and calling support — A perfect smartwatch? There's no such thing, but Samsung …
Instagram Adds Post Notifications For Specific Accounts, Color And Fade Tools
Instagram has a couple of new photo editing tools available in its mobile applications, out today on Android and coming soon to iOS: Color and Fade. Color lets you adjust the tone of both the highlig...
Sprinklr Buys Get Satsifaction To Add Customer Feedback To Its Social Media Platform
Sprinklr, the social media management company that vaulted into the “unicorn club” last month after it raised $46m on a $1b+ valuation, is making an acquisition to expand into a new area, customer fee...
Twitter confirms it's experimenting with a new search interface with more filtering options
Twitter Confirms It's Messing With Its Search Experience — While covering Google's closure of Google Moderator earlier, I searched Twitter on the desktop to see what people were saying about it …
Kabam abandons Windows Phone development after releasing just one game
Windows Central has learned that Kabam, one of the biggest mobile game developers, has decided to stop making titles from the Windows Phone platform. This decision represents a complete reversal of K...
The rise and fall of OpenStack startups as venture capital investments in the space dries up
Investors were once tripping over themselves to get into a hot technology called OpenStack. What happened? — Once upon a time, venture capitalists were tripping over themselves to invest …
An inside look at HBO's strategy to compete with Netflix by launching HBO Now
HBO to Netflix: Bring it on — On a frigid winter Friday in Manhattan's MediaGulch, HBO CEO Richard Plepler glides through the doors of a power-lunch spot called the Lambs Club.
SingTel To Buy U.S. Cybersecurity Firm Trustwave for $810 Million
SingTel is buying 98% of the equity of Trustwave, with the balance remaining with CEO Robert J. McCullen — SINGAPORE—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Wednesday said it would buy Trustwave, a U.S. m...
Xiaomi throws parties for fans every few weeks across China, making customers feel part of an exclusive club
Xiaomi: The Secret to the World's Most Valuable Startup — Xiaomi reaches out to customers through parties and social media — HANGZHOU, China—Zhao Ruiping assembles mechanical valves …
iFixit teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is difficult to repair, gives it 3 out of 10 for repairability
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Bell Canada reverses its online tracking policy to opt-in after privacy commissioner report
Christine Dobby / Globe and Mail :
Rocket Internet Fashion Group GFG Raises $35M, Poaches Amazon Exec To Lead It
Rocket Internet — the Berlin-based startup incubator that went public in October 2014 — is today adding more muscle to the Global Fashion Group, a cluster of five of its emerging market fashion sites ...
Angela Ahrendts tells employees to encourage customers to order Watch and new MacBook through Apple Store app and online store as part of “change in mindset”
Here's Why That's A Bad Decision Clare O'Connor / Forbes : Apple Stores (And Workers) Get Makeover Ahead Of Apple Watch Launch Andy Weir / Neowin : Apple would rather you didn't queue at its stores fo...
Meld, creator of smart oven knobs with automatic temperature controls, launches Meld Knob and and Clip on Kickstarter
Nick Wingfield / New York Times :
Review: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC's electronic signatures are its killer app
Alan Stafford / PC World :
Uber accounted for 47% of all ground transportation business expenses of US companies using Certify software last month; Lyft accounts for 1%
Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business :
Former Uber CTO launches Ride, a carpool-organizing service for co-workers, backed by Uber investor TPG
‘Ride’ averages area gas prices + parking/tolls, riders pay 40% of cost http://blogs.wsj.com/... Doug MacMillan / @dmac1 : One of the 1st people to build Uber just launched Ride, a carpooling app for ...
Data integration company Informatica goes private after $5.3B acquisition by private equity firm Permira
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Sources: Google plans to announce a product connecting its search users with home-service providers this spring
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed :
Dropbox surpasses 10M Japanese users, inks biz cloud deal with SoftBank
J.T. Quigley / Tech in Asia :
Video sharing platform Vidme raises $3.2M from investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, launches iOS app
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety :
Anonabox Recalls 350 ‘Privacy’ Routers for Security Flaws
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
Google and Microsoft case could determine what constitutes a “reasonable royalty” when patents are used as part of a standard
Ina Fried / Re/code :
FTC to review complaint that YouTube Kids over-advertises to children
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post :
Groupon considering selling Breadcrumb checkout software and its Korean business Ticket Monster
Jason Del Rey / Re/code :
Google Moderator, a service that ranked user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas, is closing on July 31
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