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Robots from Korea and the United States staggered off with the top three prizes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge, held in Pomona, California, over the weekend In all, robots from 23 teams participated in the challenge, which consisted of an obstacle course simulating conditions similar to those following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster....
T-Mobile, which has tried unsuccessfully several times over the years to get acquired, is now in talks with Dish, according to press reports. The purchase price and possible cash-stock mix that could pay for the deal remain to be thrashed out The two companies reportedly are planning a merger with Dish CEO Charlie Ergen to chair the new company and...
Huawei on Wednesday launched the P8 Lite, a US$250 unlocked smartphone running Android 4.4 The company has positioned the device as offering consumers in the United States premium design and features at an accessible price....
AT&T has just revealed what it would take for it to change its stance on Net neutrality: regulators' approval of its purchase of DirecTV The company has offered to accept the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission early this year, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday....
AT&T has just revealed what it would take for it to change its stance on Net neutrality: regulators' approval of its purchase of DirecTV The company has offered to accept the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission early this year, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday....
AT&T has just revealed what it would take for it to change its stance on Net neutrality: regulators' approval of its purchase of DirecTV The company has offered to accept the rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission early this year, according to reports that surfaced Wednesday....
"Customer first" is the motto businesses live by -- or should -- but that doesn't seem to resonate with companies providing pay-TV or Internet-access services, based on American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) data gathered in the first quarter of 2015 Customer satisfaction with information services -- including subscription TV, Internet, wirele...
Google on Monday rolled out "My Account," a hub that lets users manage their Google settings, along with a new site that answers questions about its privacy and security practices In addition to letting users manage their password and account-access settings, My Account allows them to review their security settings and activity. Users can take Priv...
Microsoft on Monday confirmed that Windows 10 will be released July 29 as a free upgrade for PCs and tablets running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, and on new Windows 10 devices The OS will be available for other devices later this year. However, Microsoft hasn't indicated which of the at least seven Windows 10 builds will be released....
Some of those annoying ads that pop up when you visit a site on the Web or do a search may be served up by, for want of a better word, "hijackers." They use binaries, extensions, or network ISPs to modify a page's content to insert or replace ads with or without the user's consent....
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a hack of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that led to personal data being stolen from at least 100,000 taxpayers' accounts of the 200,000 that were hit The hackers got the data by accessing the Get Transcript application, which lets taxpayers download data they filed with the servi...
Salesforce on Thursday launched Wave for Big Data, a tool that will help marketers and salespeople leverage customer data in the Salesforce Analytics Cloud Google, Cloudera, Hortonworks, New Relic, Informatica and Trifacta have signed on to the Salesforce Analytics Cloud Partner ecosystem....
A substantial number of Europeans shop online, but few make purchases outside their own country. The European Commission aims to change that through a broad initiative to create a Digital Single Market for the European Union, announced earlier this month One of the 16 steps the EC has taken toward achieving that goal is undertaking an antitrust inv...
Americans have been spied on by their own government for far longer than most realized, it turns out, and the United States National Security Agency's surveillance activities are just the tip of the iceberg The FBI, which repeatedly has expressed dismay at Google and Apple securing their mobile OSes -- on the grounds that it will hamper the fight a...
The mobile advertising race is on. Google has to scramble to stay ahead in the volatile mobile ads market, because it has been losing ground to Facebook, suggested Pace University marketing professor Larry Chiagouris Google is "valued at a high multiple, based on its current market share, and cannot afford to give away any market share," he told C...
Hackers have been infiltrating Microsoft services by sending emails to targets saying their Live IDs have been used to distribute unsolicited email, and their accounts will be blocked unless they click on an embedded link and fulfill new security requirements, Kaspersky researcher Andrey Kostin reported last week Clicking on the link takes victims ...
The United States and its leading Western allies, known as the "Five Eyes," planned to hack into smartphones through their links to Google and Samsung's app stores, CBC News and The Intercept reported They wanted to infect apps with spyware and find ways to send misinformation to targets, according to documents released to the media by National Sec...
Americans are deeply troubled by surveillance, data collection and the security of their data that's held by government agencies and private companies, Pew Research has found The combined results of two surveys -- one of 500 adults between August and September last year and one of 460 adults between January and February this year -- suggest that th...
Popcorn Time, known as the "Netflix for Pirates," has introduced a browser-based service that lets users play streaming videos without having to download anything. The videos play on the company's servers However, the browser-based service does not include a built-in virtual private network, a feature of the downloadable Popcorn Time app....
Cellphone videos have become a widely used tool to document everything from kids' antics to police brutality. They are shaking up the TV news industry, and they soon may revolutionize customer relationship management Take, for instance, LogMeIn's video-aided support tool,Rescue Lens, or Support.com's remote video support service,Nexus SuppportCam....
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