Sales of the PlayStation 4 and smartphones helped Sony turn a net profit of ¥27 billion (US$266 million) in the October to December quarter of last year, up sharply from a loss of ¥10.8 billion a year earlier. read more
Twitter will give researchers access to its public and historical data to help them get insights on a wide variety of issues. read more
Apple on Wednesday removed Blockchain, the last remaining application in its mobile store for transmitting bitcoins, signaling the continuing uncertainty around the virtual currency. read more
Google's proposed acquisition of Nest Labs has been cleared by U.S. antitrust regulators, possibly paving the way for an early closure of the transaction. read more
One in three data breach victims in 2013 later experienced fraud, according to a survey released Wednesday, a sharp increase that doesn't bode well for millions of Target shoppers. read more
Google has named a top executive from its advertising business to become the new chief executive of its YouTube service. read more
New figures released by Twitter on Wednesday suggest the company may be struggling to keep its users engaged, but CEO Dick Costolo has outlined some ideas to make the service more inviting. read more
The OpenDaylight SDN project released its first code and drew a sellout crowd to a conference this week, but it will take more than that before the effort can be declared a success. read more
Google runs its services from some of the biggest, most sophisticated data centers on the planet, but it wasn't always that way. Some of its top engineers have been reminiscing this week about the early days, when Google operated from a tiny server room down the hall from Altavista, and …
Twitter reported its first earnings as a public company on Wednesday, revealing that sales more than doubled from a year ago, though it still hasn't managed to turn a profit. read more
Verizon is denying a charge leveled by a security expert – and seemingly acknowledged by its own customer service department – that it is "limiting bandwidth" to Amazon Web Services, and by extension Netflix, in response to a recent court decision. read more
Humorists stuck a minor gold mine yesterday when Microsoft anointed Satya Nadella, a veteran company insider, as its new CEO, proving that funny can be found in the most unlikely places. …
Starbucks was able to generate a staggering $1 billion in revenue from smartphone transactions used at sales terminals in its stores in 2013 largely due to the fanatical loyalty of its customers, according to a recent estimate. …
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is set to take a dangerous journey this week. …
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, took the unexpected step Tuesday of addressing customers and partners in a 16-minute interview, where he did not stray from the messaging Microsoft has used for 20 months. …
Recent data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus were sophisticated attacks not detected by robust cybersecurity measures, executives with the two companies told U.S. lawmakers. read more
Recent data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus were sophisticated attacks not detected by robust cybersecurity measures, executives with the two companies told U.S. lawmakers. …
A new exploit that prompted Adobe to release an emergency patch for Flash Player was used in targeted attacks that distributed malware designed to steal log-in credentials for email and other online services, according to Kaspersky researchers. …
Rounding out its set of software for connecting enterprise applications, Red Hat has released additional software for its JBoss Fuse enterprise service bus that provides the basis for building service-oriented architectures. …
Twitter is opening up access to company executives today during the firm’s first earnings calls as a public company. …
FileMaker Inc. announced today that its FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone apps have surpassed 1 million downloads from the iTunes App Store. FileMaker Go is a free app that allows users to remotely interact with FileMaker databases. “Businesses are using the FileMaker Platform to create solutions that manage everything …
On a recent visit to a middle school in Maryland, President Obama “wielded an iPad to help make a point about how he hopes to do more for schools without more funding from Congress,” according to a Reuters report. Obama plans to modernize classrooms with technology, and Apple and other …
A Newport Beach, Calif., high school expelled 11 students after uncovering a plot in which a private tutor allegedly directed them to change their grades on teachers' PCs by breaking into them using credential-stealing hardware keyloggers. …
Китайский производитель смартфонов Huawei сообщил о новом устройстве для европейского рынка, который получил название Huawei Ascend Y530. Смартфон пополнит ряды устройств начального уровня (low-end) и заменит существующие на рынке аппараты. Ascend Y530 имеет 4.5-дюймовый дисплей с разрешением 480 на 854 точек, 512 Мегабайта оперативной и 4 Гигабайта встроенной памяти, 1.2-Гигагерцовый процессор …
Компания Samsung объединилась вместе со “Сваровски” для выпуска уникального дизайнерского чехла для не так давно представленного гибридного смартфона Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Представление нового аксессуара пройдет на неделе моды Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Этот дизайнерский аксессуар выпущен в ограниченной серии и полностью весь украшен камнями “Сваровски” и комплектуется также браслетом, у …
Носимая электроника — об этой новой тенденции говорят, кажется, все технологические компании, но ещё ни одной не удалось представить по-настоящему популярный и массовый продукт. …