Tech giants appeal settlement decision in Silicon Valley hiring case
Attorneys for Google, Apple, Adobe Systems and Intel have appealed a judge's decision to throw out a proposed settlement in Silicon Valley's employee hiring case. read more
Attorneys for Google, Apple, Adobe Systems and Intel have appealed a judge's decision to throw out a proposed settlement in Silicon Valley's employee hiring case. read more
Apple’s chief executive yesterday took the unusual step of publicly commenting on the theft of hundreds of intimate photographs from celebrities’ iPhones. An expert in crisis communication applauded Cook for speaking up. “This was clearly a good idea,” said Gene Grabowski, senior strategist at Levick, a Washington, D.C. firm that …
Several high-profile websites — including Kickstarter, Etsy, Reddit, Mozilla and Meetup — will display spinning-wheel icons next Wednesday in an attempt to show visitors the Internet slow lanes they say will appear if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission doesn't pass strong net neutrality regulations. read more
Intel may not have a reputation for being cool along the lines of, say, Apple, but its developer forum next week will showcase wearables, robots and other innovative electronics indicative of the markets it wants to break into. To help it make inroads into new markets, Intel is tapping into …
Intel may not have a reputation for being cool along the lines of, say, Apple, but its developer forum next week will showcase wearables, robots and other innovative electronics indicative of the markets it wants to break into. read more
Here’s one more piece of evidence that Windows Phone lags far iOS and Android in app availability: The FTC, which has gone after Google, Apple, and Amazon for unlawful app billing, hasn’t even bothered to target Microsoft. Yesterday Google paid $19 million to settle an FTC complaint which alleged that …
Microsoft wants to get into giant screens, even if Surface and PixelSense did tank. read more
Smartwatches powered by Google's Android Wear operating system will soon become a little more useful, with features like GPS support and offline music playback. read more
If you want to see where your old electronics go to die, take a trip to Guiyu. For two decades, PCs, phones and other electronics have been shipped to this town on the southeast coast of China, where locals in thousands of small workshops pull them apart with buzz saws …
NTT has successfully tested technology for optical Internet backbone connections that can transmit 400Gbps on a single wavelength. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Tracey L. McNeil has been selected as the first ombudsman for the agency. Ms. McNeil will begin her new post on September 22. She currently is a senior counsel in the SEC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI), an office created …
When you're competing for the attention of almost a quarter of a million visitors, it helps to have a gimmick or two. The big names of the consumer electronics industry know this and each year at Germany's IFA electronics show, they try to outdo each other with the latest and …
Box CEO and SVP of Engineering detailed how the cloud storage company is focused on getting its core platform to more places. read more
Professional networking site LinkedIn is rolling out new features that allow users to easily manage authenticated sessions across multiple devices and better understand what caused security-related changes on their accounts. The site has added a new page under account settings called “See where you are logged in” that lists the …
About a year ago, I tried out a new smartphone from Motorola Mobility (which was then owned by Google) called the Moto X. Now in the process of moving to Lenovo, Motorola has just released the update to that phone — which, despite all the rumors to the contrary, it …
One of the fastest growing cloud hosting services, DigitalOcean, now offers one of the hottest virtualization technologies, Docker. read more
Intel’s new Core M chips — which bring PC-like performance to paper-thin tablets — will initially be in many Windows 8.1 tablets, but no Android devices are yet on the radar. The chips will be in five to seven detachable tablets and hybrids by year end, and the number of …
Systemd is the controversy that just won't die. Plus: Gentoo Linux 20140826 LiveDVD is available for download, and WordPress 4.0 has been released. read more
The latest prototype of Sony’s SmartEyeglasses, a head-mounted display used with a smartphone, is on show at this week’s IFA electronics show in Berlin. The device has clear lenses and a thick plastic frame, built that way to hide the electronics, and can project green-colored text across a wide portion …
Plastic is out and metal, leather and wood are in as smartphone vendors hope luxurious-looking devices will inspire buyers to upgrade. This year has already seen an increased focus on design with the acclaimed HTC One M8 and the criticized Galaxy S5 from Samsung Electronics. At the IFA trade show …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Brent J. Fields has been appointed as the agency’s Secretary, who is responsible for overseeing the administrative aspects of Commission meetings, rulemakings, and procedures. Mr. Fields is an 18-year SEC veteran who has worked primarily in its Division of Investment Management. Over …
Adobe yesterday said it would issue security updates next week for its PDF viewer, Reader, and for its PDF creator, Acrobat, to fix critical flaws in the software on Windows and Apple’s OS X. But it won’t be updating Flash Player, its ultra-popular media playing program. If that holds through …
Apple next week will put momentum into the mobile payments industry and the industry can’t wait, Yoyo CEO Alain Falys tells Computerworld. ‘Good for the entire industry’ “Apple has always released enabling technologies which have allowed others to offer great apps and services,” he said. “We’ve been eagerly anticipating Apple’s …
Очередное продолжение знаменитой серии игр Angry Birds с лаконичным названием Stella уже доступно для скачивания в App Store и Google Play. Как обычно, все игры Rovio – бесплатны. Ключевым отличием этого выпуска от прочих стала возможность играть за птиц женского пола. Основная механика от такого редизайна, само собой, не получила никаких серьезных изменений. …
Motorola Mobility has upgraded its flagship Moto X smartphone with a metal frame, a more powerful processor and a bigger screen, so users who liked the size of the original are out of luck. Motorola has been turning its fortunes around thanks to various models of the Moto G and …
Consumer affairs groups in Japan are concerned over a rash of incidents involving smartphone chargers and cables. Nearly 100 cases of smoke, fire or overheating involving chargers have been recorded by the Consumer Affairs Agency over the past year. Some incidents have involved injuries. For instance, one person was slightly …