Amazon today slashed the price of its three-month-old Fire Phone to 99 cents, an obvious attempt to boost slow sales. The Fire Phone, which originally sold for $649 minus a contract commitment and for $199 with a two-year deal with AT&T, was marked down to $449 without a contract and …
Internet of Things devices that are too small to reach the Internet by themselves will get help from a vast network of nearby smartphone users if the latest plan from FireChat vendor Open Garden succeeds. read more
Chef, a popular open source software program for managing the configuration settings of servers, software and other IT components, now can reach deeper into the data center with the help of some intertwined services from Microsoft, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). read more
Google is planning a series of seven public meetings across Europe to discuss balancing people’s right to be forgotten with the public’s right to information. The Google Advisory Council announced the meetings and said the first one will be held in Madrid on Tuesday. Other public meetings will be held …
With Lenovo expected to close its IBM x86 server business acquisition by year end, a glimpse at the combined server product line has emerged. read more
Chasing data-center trends, top server makers have made storage and memory capacity a priority in their new servers. read more
A year ago, the narrative just before Apple launched the new iPhone 5S and 5C was all about cheaper prices. This year, that’s been flipped and the talk is now about higher iPhone prices. What happened in the last 12 months to change the iPhone plotline so dramatically? “Last year …
Tim Cook gets full allotment of vested shares after Apple places No. 44 in 'total shareholder return' read more
Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick has no qualms over wanting to succeed in every city in which the firm operates, even if it means getting rough and dirty. read more
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After living with the Moto X for the past year, it’s been hard not to wonder: What could Motorola do to meaningfully move the phone forward for its second generation? The first Moto X was by no means perfect, but boy, did it get a lot of things right. More …
Twitter is testing a way for its users to purchase digital music and other products through the social networking application, with the goal of making mobile shopping easier, the company said in a blog post. Screenshot Twitter users will begin to see tweets including a “buy” button from some of …
Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize "legacy data centers" by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. read more
Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips are the company’s fastest server chips to date, said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Victor J. Valdez has been named Chief Operating Officer and Managing Executive of the agency’s Enforcement Division, where he will oversee project management, information technology, human capital strategy, and risk management among other functions. Mr. Valdez comes to the SEC from the …
Everyone, from Amazon to Google to Martha Stewart, has been lauding the benefits we’ll all reap by the use of drones, and there’s a gold rush on to cash in on the technology. But beware: The trend has all the hallmarks of a bubble-in-the-making, the contemporary equivalent of that symbol …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Minneapolis-based hedge fund manager, his investment advisory firm, and an accomplice with bilking investors in two hedge funds out of more than $1 million under the guise of research expenses and fees. The SEC alleges that as the management fees earned by …
Certain Android apps are not protecting the privacy of their users. Plus: Ars Technica reviews the Moto 360 smartwatch, and John Carmack criticizes Android development. read more
After a month of embarrassing hacking attacks against government social media accounts and websites, the Kenya ICT Authority has taken about a hundred government sites offline for development and centralized hosting. read more
Microsoft has begun a months-long rollout of Delve, the first Office 365 application that taps into the suite's Office Graph machine learning capabilities and maps connections between co-workers, documents and information. read more
Big name apps like Uber and Venmo may be putting some users ill at ease by requiring payment card information in order to function, but experts say the risk is relatively low. read more
When the iPhone 6 gets rolled out tomorrow, some may be tempted to say that it will finally mean the end of Windows Phone. But will the iPhone 6 really harm Windows Phone, or is there a way for Microsoft to salvage its smartphone OS? As always, the hype machine …
Apparently affected by the strong blowback to its proposed settlement with Google over antitrust concerns, the European Commission is planning to seek more concessions than the company has granted to date. read more
Open source has come a long way from where it started. See the visual history of open source in an infographic. Plus: Is LibreOffice 4.0 better than Microsoft Office 2013? And check out a helpful systemd versus sysVinit cheatsheet. read more
It’s really a pity that no one warned the government that healthcare.gov was insecure and waiting to be hacked…oh wait…a pack of white hat hackers did. Dave Kennedy, Kevin Mitnick, Ed Skoudis, Chris Nickerson, Eric Smith, Chris Gates, John Strand, Kevin Johnson, and Scott White all testified before the House …
The hackers behind the Kelihos botnet are trying to capitalize on users' increased awareness about the security of Apple online accounts through a new phishing campaign. read more