How tech firms responded to Paris attacks: Facebook's Safety Check used in first man-made disaster, emergency response tools activated by Airbnb, Uber, others
How Tech Learned From Past Crises And Reacted To The Paris Attacks — What Facebook, Airbnb, and Uber did when terrorists attacked Paris.
Tim Cook: Apple won't create ‘converged’ MacBook and iPad
ADRIAN WECKLER TWITTER — Apple will not create a “converged” MacBook and iPad, according to chief executive Tim Cook. — Google — Speaking to Independent.ie , Cook denied that the death of compute...
Behind #OpISIS and GhostSec, a group of hactivists fighting ISIS online, gathering and passing intelligence, which may have helped to disrupt a terror plot
Anonymous vs. the Islamic State — For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet.
Microsoft and Code.org will use Minecraft to teach kids the basics of computer programming
They've built a tutorial that students across …
SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows
Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware. — Since Valve started publicly talking about its own Linux-powered “Steam Boxes” about three years ago now …
Apple's quest for style and appearance comes at the cost of usability, particularly on iOS, according to former employees
How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name — For years, Apple followed user-centered principles. Then something went wrong. — Once upon a time …
Withings' third analog fitness tracker is the $170 Activite Steel
Last year, French hardware maker Withings debuted the Activité, a $450 Swiss-made watch that also functioned as a fitness tracker. It then followed that up with the Activité Pop, a much lower-end ver...
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Bold Plan For The Future Of Facebook
Facebook is firing on all cylinders. Now Mark Zuckerberg is looking to the decade ahead, from AI to VR to drones. — “Mark is fixing stuff.” — I'm killing time in the Frank Gehry-designed Building...
Storyful is testing Slack integrations that let clients subscribe to news alerts within channels
How Storyful is turning Slack into an extension of its newswire — Usage of the messaging app Slack has exploded. The company says it has 1.25 million daily users, tenfold growth in just a year …
Facebook Ups Its Sticker Game As The First Paid Packs Arrive For Messenger
In a move that may seem trivial, but could be indicative of the future, you can now buy paid-for stickers for Facebook Messenger. Facebook itself isn't offering stickers directly, but it is working c...
Lenovo Yoga 900 review: significantly improved performance and battery life over last year's Yoga 3 Pro thanks to higher-end components
Lenovo Yoga 900 review: A hybrid laptop with some serious muscle — What a difference a year makes. Just about 12 months ago, Lenovo released the Yoga 3 Pro …
Facebook allows Google to crawl and index public profiles, Pages, Groups, and Events from its mobile app
Google Gets Surprise Ally in Mobile-App Search Push: Facebook — Google's effort to keep its search engine relevant in a world of mobile apps just got a boost from a big rival.
OnePlus X review: good build quality, performance, and display for the price, but poor camera and limited LTE band support even when compared to cheaper phones
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Vizio is selling your viewing data, collected via its smart TVs with tracking on by default, and possibly connected to your IP
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Costly Wizard of Oz party seen as indicative of Marissa Mayer's convoluted Yahoo strategy
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Profile of REVOLVE, an online apparel startup whose sales is set to reach $400M this year
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Alienware Steam Machine review: delivers on promise to bring PC games to the living room, but game library is limited, controller has a steep learning curve
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Vevo revamps iOS app for US users with personalized recommendations, favorites feed, and new design
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.