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Apple's tough negotiating stance has hobbled its efforts to bring entertainment industry companies on board with its planned streaming TV service, The Wall Street Journal recently reported Talks with Disney, 21st Century Fox and CBS have fallen through, according to the paper....
Samsung on Tuesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note7 It has an iris-scanning feature that combines with Samsung Knox for security, as well as a fingerprint scanner....
Apple earlier this week announced its decision to change the gun emoji in iOS 10, to be released this fall. It plans to substitute an image of a green-and-orange squirt gun for the existing image of a black pistol The new version of the gun is one of more than 100 new and redesigned emoji characters that will be available in iOS 10....
Facebook last week launched its Incubator on GitHub in order to distribute its own open source software projects Incubator serves as a testing ground for new open source projects from Facebook, which has open sourced almost 400 projects to date. New projects will be posted on Incubator pages to gauge community reaction and rate of adoption....
Salesforce has agreed to acquire Quip, Quip CEO Bret Taylor and Head of Product Kevin Gibbs announced Monday Quip lets users manage live documents throughout the collaboration process....
Microsoft is poised to roll out its Windows 10 Anniversary Update on Tuesday The free update includes two security innovations for individual customers: Windows Hello for apps and websites; and Windows Defender.
A vulnerability in inexpensive wireless keyboards lets hackers steal private data, Bastille reported this week The vulnerability lets hackers use a new attack the firm dubbed "KeySniffer" to eavesdrop on and capture every keystroke typed from up to 250 feet away....
Oracle has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NetSuite -- the company its former chief marketing officer, Zach Nelson, cofounded in 1998 -- for US$9.3 billion NetSuite offers various software packages as cloud-based services, including ERP, accounting, CRM and sales force automation....
Xiaomi on Wednesday unveiled the Mi Notebook Air, its challenger to the MacBook Air The 13.3-inch model is priced at US$750, compared to the MacBook Air's $1,050 price tag in China. The device is also available in a 12.5-inch version.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a slew of cloud-powered intelligent services in Office 365 apps that aim to assist research and writing efforts Researcher lets users access the Bing Knowledge Graph to find and incorporate sources and content for research papers without leaving Word....
Google on Tuesday released an updated version of its Phone app for Android with a new spam protection feature that warns users when an incoming call is likely to be spam. It also lets them block numbers and report spam The app is available on Google Play....
Facebook last week carried out the first full-scale test flight of Aquila, a high-altitude solar-powered unmanned aircraft designed to provide Internet access to remote regions The company had flown a one-fifth scale version of the airplane for several months....
Amazon has teamed up with Wells Fargo Educational Financial Services to offer Amazon Prime Students a 0.5 percent discount on private student loan interest rates, Wells Fargo announced last week. Wells Fargo is the largest private student lender in the United States among commercial banks The Amazon discount can be added to the 0.25 percent discoun...
LinkedIn this week announced three updates to Sales Navigator. One is deeper integration with Salesforce CRM data, allowing leads and accounts to be imported into Sales Navigator automatically. More than 20 LinkedIn customers already are using this feature The second is direct integration of Sales Navigator with Gmail, allowing users to access all ...
NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden and noted hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang on Thursday published a paper on their collaboration to design a smartphone case that will protect user privacy The pair developed a prototype compatible with the 4.7-inch iPhone 6, as it's "driven primarily by what we understand to be the current preferences and tastes of re...
Teal on Wednesday introduced what it billed as the world's fastest production drone. Aside from its drone's capabilities, the company is drawing attention because George Matus Jr., its founder and CEO, is an 18-year-old recent high school graduate The drone can fly at 70 mph in all weather conditions and has reached a top speed of 85 mph in favorab...
The number of government requests to Google for citizens' personal data rose in the second half of 2015, according to the company's latest Transparency Report, released Monday. The number has been trending upward for the past few years as the number of people connected to the Internet has increased....
Microsoft last week introduced a new Web-based Skype for Linux client in alpha Based on WebRTC, it uses Microsoft's next-generation calling architecture. It lets users share files, photos, videos and new emoticons....
Officials at the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits in U.S. banks, made false statements to Congress and failed to make timely notification of serious cybersecurity breaches, according to a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology's interim staff report FDIC CIO Lawrence Gros...
Microsoft on Thursday won its nearly four-year battle against a New York district court judge's warrant requiring it to turn over customer emails held on a server in Ireland Microsoft had complied with demands to turn over account information stored on its servers in the United States, but it had refused to give up the emails themselves, contending...
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