United Airlines grounded its planes for about an hour on Wednesday, reportedly because of a router failure. That’s a wide path of destruction for one piece of equipment, but it’s the kind of hazard that comes with networking, where each piece is always linked to everything else. The grounding, which …
Quip released a desktop version of its word processing and spreadsheet software Wednesday, giving Mac and Windows users the ability to modify files on the service without having to open their web browser. Branching out to a native desktop app beyond Quip’s existing offerings on the web, iOS and Android …
Google Glass appears to be on its way back, and it’s heading straight for the workplace with a bigger, faster design. That’s the consensus from recent filings made to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and a news report Wednesday citing sources familiar with the project. The newly reborn device—dubbed GG1 …
The early reception for Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headgear has been cautiously optimistic, save for one persistent bugbear: the device’s field of view. Up until Wednesday, Microsoft hadn’t shown that limitation in its promotional videos, but new footage demonstrates what it’s like to look through a HoloLens. In addition to …
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will renew his appeal to businesses to work more closely with the military on Thursday when he speaks to an audience of top executives at the Sun Valley conference in Idaho. The event is put on by investment bank Allen & Co. and usually …
Roughly 40 percent of U.S. employees now work remotely at least part of the time, and the jobs site FlexJobs has launched a website dedicated to helping employers navigate the resulting challenges. Three main sections make up Remote.co. The first features Q&As with leaders of companies with remote workers focusing …
A few well-regarded flagship devices, a focused core experience, a vibrant app ecosystem, and a belief in the quality of its own products: Apple lives and breathes these things, and has achieved massive profitability in the phone space as a result. And it’s about the only strategy Microsoft has left …
If Tesla can produce half a million cars by 2020, then Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will buy them all for his service, according to venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson. Jurvetson, a Tesla board member and partner in the VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, was speaking at the recent Top 10 Tech …
Every iPhone Apple sells today ships with 32 native applications but few, if any, are considered best in class. It may seem like Apple has lost its edge on mobile apps and software design, but the company’s primary mission to sell hardware certainly hasn’t suffered as a result. Indeed, the …
The New York Stock Exchange suffered its biggest outage in more than 10 years on Wednesday when an unspecified technical glitch forced a 3.5-hour long suspension of trading. The cause of the problem was not immediately disclosed, but the exchange quickly ruled out a cyberattack. Problems began during the morning …
Microsoft has quietly revealed more information about how long it will provide updates for Windows 10, saying in a PowerPoint presentation that free refreshes will last between two and four years. The Redmond, Wash. company revealed the timeline in a slide deck (download here) it posted on its investors website …
The New York Stock Exchange suffered its biggest outage in more than 10 years on Wednesday when an unspecified technical glitch forced a 3.5-hour long suspension of trading. The cause of the problem was not immediately disclosed, but the exchange quickly ruled out a cyberattack. Problems began during the morning …
U.S. tech companies should retain access to the encrypted information of their customers, instead of providing end-to-end encryption, in order to give police the tools they need to investigate crimes and terrorist activity, two senior law enforcement officials said. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI aren’t seeking new …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just unveiled the latest of the “tough choices” Microsoft is making to streamline its business, and it’s a doozy: the company is significantly cutting back its smartphone ambitions almost two years after announcing it would acquire Nokia’s Devices and Services business in an attempt to play …
The hackers that targeted Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft developers two years ago have escalated their economic espionage efforts as they seek confidential business information and intellectual property they can use for financial gain. The group, which security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and Symantec call Wild Neutron or Morpho, has …
The five best Linux desktop environments One of the best things about Linux is the range of choices available in terms of desktop environments. But that same blessing can sometimes be a curse for new users who might not understand the differences between each desktop. Linux and Ubuntu has a …
Microsoft today wrote off billions of dollars related to its Nokia acquisition, saying it’s taking an “impairment charge” of $7.6 billion, or nearly the full amount it paid for the Finnish firm’s smartphone business and patents last year. The announcement slapped the failure sticker on the last major move made …
United Airlines resumed flights after a computer glitch forced the carrier to ground its planes Wednesday morning. In an emailed statement, the carrier said it was restoring flight operations and recovering from “network connectivity issues,” without providing further details on the problem. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ended a ground …
There is a growing chance your next vehicle will be a connected car, augmented with Internet-connected intelligent systems and services. By 2017, every new car sold in Europe will be required to have an embedded SIM and built-in emergency calling features. “By 2018, most new vehicles will come with integrated …
Sensitive data pertaining to millions of people was compromised in the data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. I suspect that millions of those people smiled when they heard about the filing of a class-action lawsuit filed against the OPM. They would like some recompense for the incredible …
In the ongoing battle for brick-and-mortar chains to hold on to and grow their relevance, there is no more promising tool than buy-online-pick-up-in-store, especially when it also leverages mobile. Although this is certainly a wonderful technological achievement, it’s a tactic that relies on, and can be done in by, store associates. …
There’s a gigantic difference between something being hackable and that something actually being hacked – especially when talking about hackers taking over weapon systems such as Patriot anti-aircraft missile defense batteries. Yet hackers allegedly hijacked a German Patriot anti-aircraft missile “defense system” located on the Syrian-Turkish border, according to the …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies will hold a public meeting by telephone conference on July 15. The advisory committee plans to continue its discussions regarding public company disclosure effectiveness and the regulatory treatment of so-called “finders” that assist companies …
The new API economy is changing the way businesses collaborate and compete. APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud and mobile applications. They give you the ability to unlock and break free from your legacy systems and transform your business into an open and agile platform. Recently, Forrester …
Microsoft is scaling down its mobile phone activities, writing off the entire value of the former Nokia smartphone business it bought last year and laying off almost one-third of that business’ staff. The company will no longer try to build a standalone phone business, but instead plans to build a …
Watching the new, easy-to-use, exploratory business intelligence products edge out the older, feature-bloated reporting platforms for systems of record is like watching evolution in action. Let’s face it: The first-generation BI products required their own IT priesthood to set up, and they incurred the same implementation delays as every other …