Intel lost its appeal against a €1.06 billion (US$1.44 billion) antitrust fine on Thursday when the General Court of the European Union upheld a 2009 ruling by the European Commission that the company had abused its dominant market position. read more
After merging with China's Alibaba Group, local mobile browser developer UCWeb is seeking to accelerate its international expansion, and double its user base to 1 billion over the next three to five years. read more
In a marriage of low and high technology, a robot is using a mop to clean up Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. read more
Google has started an open-source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms. read more
SAP's former technology chief Vishal Sikka will head ailing Indian outsourcer Infosys, in a marked shift from his focus at his former company on technology and product development. read more
Hewlett-Packard has kicked off an ambitious project that aims at nothing less than reinventing the basic architecture of computers. It looks like servers are its initial target, but HP is also working on an Android version that it says could lead to smartphones with 100TB of storage. read more
Nimble Storage says flash, currently all the rage in enterprises, is best used in moderation. But just to be safe, the company's giving customers a way to use a lot more of it. read more
Microsoft said Wednesday that an updated privacy and services policy will go into effect by the end of July. Here's what you need to know. read more
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement officials need to have a warrant to access phone location data from cellular carriers. read more
Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader who lost a primary bid Tuesday for re-election, was a reliable “yes” vote for increasing the H-1B visa cap. The man who beat him, David Brat, won’t be. …
The American Medical Association today voted to approve a list of guiding principles for ensuring the appropriate coverage of and payment for telemedicine services. …
Days after Samsung introduced a Tizen OS-based smartphone, a UK-based analyst declared the operating system a non-starter, despite its backing by a consortium of heavyweights including Intel, Samsung and LG Electronics. …
The mobile OS is years behind Android and iOS with a fraction of the developers, says analyst. read more
Samsung has taken a clear and dominant lead in the smartwatch market, but it's still early days and big changes could be on the horizon. read more
There’s no good reason Microsoft can’t adopt Apple’s “Handoff” technology in its iOS and OS X Office apps, an analyst said today. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the founder of an investment advisory firm located in suburban Chicago with defrauding investors in connection with a real estate venture for which his firm offered securities. After an SEC examination of Kenilworth Asset Management LLC detected potential misconduct that was referred to …
This week robots with no human handler will be making their way through a field, searching for hockey pucks, blue rocks, wooden cubes and the like. …
Target has hired a chief information security officer, a move that’s noteworthy mainly because it is the first time the company has had anyone in this role — even though it is one of the largest retailers in the U.S. …
Google hopes to simplify how local businesses manage their information on its sites and apps by consolidating a variety of scattered tasks under a new online service. read more
Startup WibiData has launched a platform aimed at giving marketing teams and data scientists the means to create highly personalized retail shopping experiences. read more
Lowes plans to roll out augmented reality rooms in stores that allow customers to recreate areas of their homes so they can try out furniture, appliances, flooring and other products before buying them. …
As spring comes to a close, it's an ideal time to clear the clutter from your resume. It's key to make sure you present only relevant, current information in the most attractive way possible. Here, three experts weigh in on what to toss out and what to keep. …
Twitter took its browser-based TweetDeck service offline today for an hour as it wrestled with a vulnerability that criminals exploited to tweet script-filed messages to victims’ feeds. …
Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability — if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer. …
Вчера в Тайване был анонсирован аппарат Sony Xperia Z2a, который представляет собой региональную версию Xperia ZL2, анонсированного в Японии в начале мая. В целом, смартфоны схожи, однако Xperia Z2a получил 3 ГБ оперативной и 16 ГБ внутренней памяти, а также различается расположение логотипов на задней поверхности устройства. Цена не уточняется, хотя известно, что в …
Компания Samsung анонсировала на Тайване смартфон Galaxy Core Lite, слухи о котором уже не раз появлялись в Интернете. Новинка станет одним из самых доступных смартфонов Южнокорейского гиганта из числа аппаратов с поддержкой сетей четвертого поколения LTE. Стоимость Galaxy Core Lite на Тайване равна 7988 TWD ≈ $266. За эту сумму пользователь получает смартфон с 4.7-дюймовым дисплеем со …