The History of the iPhone, On Its 10th Anniversary
So... Three things: A widescreen iPod with touch controls. A revolutionary mobile phone. And a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod... a phone... and an internet communicator... An ...
Video shows early iPhone prototype with an iPod-like interface and a software click wheel
While it has always been known that Apple considered a variety of ideas when they were deciding to enter the mobile phone market (with ex employees discussing it behind closed doors …
Waymo says it is now producing all self-driving tech in house, with big cost savings, will deploy Chrysler minivans this month in Mountain View and Phoenix
Now with all-new tech produced in-house — Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year …
Atlassian acquires popular team productivity app Trello for $425M, with $360M in cash and remainder in stock, in its largest acquisition to date
Australian software maker Atlassian has taken one of the leading independent players in collaboration software off the board as it looks …
Uber launches Movement, a website to share its aggregated travel times data for cities, starting with Washington, Boston, Manila, and Sydney
SAN FRANCISCO — The combative ride-hailing giant Uber is extending an olive branch to cities — in the form of data that transit wonks have coveted for years.
Nielsen: US on-demand music streaming up 76% to 250B+ streams in 2016, becoming the dominant form of music consumption with 38% of the market
Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report — It's official: according …
Esports community ESEA hacked, as 1.5M records, including users' names, phone numbers, and PSN/Xbox/Steam IDs, leak after alleged attempt to extort $50K failed
More than a million players have been affected by this incident — E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) …
Sources: Facebook to start testing mid-roll video ad format, share 55% of the revenue with video publishers, same as YouTube
Mark Zuckerberg has been building a video empire. Time to turn it into a business. — Facebook wants to show more ads to people who watch its videos …
LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017
You can also use a camera to save you the trouble of opening your fridge. — In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how “dum...
SoundCloud's filing in UK: losses up 30.9% to $52M while revenues grew 21.6% to $22M in 2015; Universal, Sony, and Warner now own stakes in SoundCloud
SoundCloud's losses grew faster than its revenues in 2015 - with the company now admitting that, should its subscription service flop, its funding may run dry this year.
How the “safe harbor” provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed the modern internet to flourish, and why it's under attack
How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. — For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual.
10K+ poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted by attackers demanding hefty ransoms
STOP DOING THIS SO WRONG! http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... /via @destroytoday @ovidperl : “In a couple of weeks [probably] all MongoDB servers exposed to the Internet will lose their data.” http:/...
Fugue raises $41M Series D led by NEA to expand its cloud infrastructure management software beyond AWS
Cloud infrastructure startup Fugue (formerly known as Luminal), announced today a funding round of $41 million. — Founded in 2013, Fugue offers a software product that builds, operates, and maintain...
Samsung launches Gear S and Gear Fit apps on iOS, allowing Gear S3, Gear S2, and Gear Fit 2 wearables to work with iPhones
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Baidu and state-owned BAIC Motor Corp form strategic partnership, say their self-driving cars will hit roads in limited trials by end of 2017, more
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Alibaba files first lawsuit over counterfeit goods sold on its Taobao marketplace in China
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The best PCs, gadgets, and wearables of CES 2017
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Linksys Velop Wi-Fi mesh router review: performs better than Google Wifi, worse than Eero when used with 1 or 2 nodes, has strong feature set but is expensive
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Nissan is working on a teleoperation system for allowing human operators to remotely control self-driving cars in tricky situations
and that could be a good thing Tweets: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet : Nissan believes we'll always need humans. Solution: a call center with humans to take command via remote control http://www.wire...
Blockstack raises $4M round led by USV to build a Bitcoin-powered internet free of centralized servers
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A profile of Sigfox, the French startup building a global communications network for Internet of Things devices
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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.