Articles by Peter Suciu

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has reached an agreement to acquireXamarin, a platform provider for mobile app development Xamarin's platform will be used in conjunction with Microsoft's Visual Studio, enabling developers to build apps using C# to deliver fully native mobile app experiences across platforms, including Android and iOS, said...

Apple on Monday called for the creation of a government panel to help resolve a standoff between the company and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the issue of national security vs. data privacy. The proposal for a commission followed FBI Director James Comey's Sunday post on Lawfare -- an apparent effort to quell the controversy. Comey emp...

Google on Wednesday announced that it has chosen Kirkland, Washington, as the next location to test its self-driving cars It picked Kirkland as the third test city to give the cars more experience driving in new environments, traffic patterns and road conditions, the company said.

Microsoft on Monday unveiledProject Natick, a research initiative aimed at developing underwater data centers that could be built near coastal cities The project is still in its infancy, but Microsoft built one test facility last year....

Facebook on Wednesday reported earnings of 79 cents per share on US$5.84 billion in revenue for Q4 2015, and annual revenue of $17.93 billion, an increase of 44 percent year over year Net income for the full year ended Dec. 31 was $3.69 billion....

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday announced that four executives have exited the company Alex Roetter and Kevin Weil, who managed the engineering teams responsible for generating ads; Katie Stanton, who helped guide the international offices; and Skip Schipper, who oversaw HR and recruiting, all have departed. Roetter, Weil and Stanton each had bee...

Streaming media services, including Dish Network-owned Sling TV, could help make up for losses in traditional pay TV subscribers,ESPN President John Skipper said an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday However, he also expressed frustration with Apple's attempts to date in the streaming device market....

WhatsApp on Monday announced that it would drop the annual subscription fee and allow people to use the service for free Company founder Jan Koum announced the move at the DLD Conference in Munich....

Samsung Electronics on Thursday announced that it had struck a deal that will make it the sole manufacturer of Qualcomm's flagship mobile processor. Samsung last spring began mass production of a logic chip utilizing its 14-nanometer LPP (Low-Power Plus) process in its own Exynos 8 Octa processor. That process will be used for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip...

Ford on Monday announced that it has begun conducting the automobile industry's first autonomous vehicle tests in snow and icy conditions at Mcity The company is using Mcity -- a full-scale, 32-acre simulated real-world urban environment that was developed as part of the University of Michigan's Mobility Transformation Center -- to test vehicles in...

YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl on Thursday laid out the direction the service plans to take this year, including new partnerships withGoPro to support 360-degree video content and 4K HDR, or high dynamic range, video So-called cord cutters are having an impact on streaming video services, including those of competitors such as Amazon a...

Microsoft on Monday announced that its Windows 10 operating system is now active on more than 200 million devices Windows 10 adoption accelerated at the end of 2015, with more than 40 percent of new devices activated since Black Friday, said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the online audience business group at Microsoft....

Apple and Samsung last week announced separate mobile payment partnerships withChina UnionPay, the only domestic bank card network in the People's Republic of China China UnionPay cardholders will be able to utilize Apple Pay and Samsung Pay via a mobile device. Both services will begin early next year, pending approval and certification from regul...

Sales of video games via downloads may surpass physical copies for the first time this holiday season, The New York Times reported Sunday However, games in physical formats continue to dominate sales overall....

The idea of a "Cyber Geneva Convention" has gained steam in the last five years. Based on the original Geneva Convention, which dates back to 1864, it would ensure that certain types of attacks, as well as specific targets, would remain off-limits in a cyberwar The concept of rules dictating what shouldn't be allowed in war came about after Swiss n...

Amazon has pulled some of this holiday season's most popular gifts from its website amid safety concerns, according to reports that surfaced Monday. It apparently stopped selling several brands of electric self-balancing scooters -- aka "hoverboards" -- including the Swagway (pictured above) The move comes on the heels of last week's news that Delt...

T-Mobile last week introduced its latest promotion aimed at attracting subscribers from rival mobile phone carriers: 12 months of Hulu streaming service for Verizon customers who switch to T-Mobile The promotion, which the company called the fourth gift in its series of holiday surprises, follows previous attempts to lure customers. Last month it o...

Square Enix last week offered some tidbits about its upcoming Final Fantasy VII remake, which likely will be episodic in nature with the emphasis on action toned down The company revealed the first gameplay footage of the remake at the PlayStation Experience 2015 event in San Francisco....

Porsche on Friday revealed plans to produce its first 100 percent electrically powered sports car under its Mission E project by the end of the decade The Mission E concept car debuted at the Frankfurt International Motor Show earlier this year. The four-door vehicle utilizes a system power output that exceeds 440 kW and can accelerate from 0 to 10...

For individuals, social networking means sharing small moments and major events in life. For businesses, social media marketing can help build brands. For terrorist groups such as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, social networks increasingly are the tool of choice for delivering messages of hate and recruiting new members to their cause I...