MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Siri, meet Alexa. Amazon is introducing a voice-recognition service called Amazon Echo that comes with a speaker-like...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is releasing new, beefed-up versions of its popular Office software apps for iPhones and iPads, part...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight Ebola by adding a button designed to make it...
The Associated Press A proposal to expand the skin color options for emojis may get the thumbs up from those calling for more diversity in the...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — They may be competitors but Dropbox and Microsoft are syncing up. The two companies are making it easier for users...
MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alibaba’s financial results in its first quarter as a publicly traded company highlight its strategy of plowing...
Scott Mayerowitz, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Hotels don’t want guests to have to linger at the front desk — or even stop...
Claire Cain Miller, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—America’s slow and expensive Internet is more than just an annoyance for people trying to watch...
Williams Pelegrin, DIGITAL TRENDS (DigitalTrends.com)—When Sprint launched its smartphone leasing program last month, the only handsets customers could choose from were the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Eventually, Sprint threw...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton received 116 million shares of Facebook stock currently worth nearly $9 billion when they...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — In the tense days after an unarmed black teen was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., Justin...
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp launched a device called “Microsoft Band” that will allow users to monitor their fitness and exercise regime, marking the world’s largest software company’s debut into the...
(Reuters) – Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will develop a device to measure a user’s fatigue and map their sleep, Chief Executive Satoru...
(Reuters) – Suddenly it’s Apple versus Wal-Mart in the fight for shoppers’ digital wallets. With the development of a new mobile payment system, a group...
(The Washington Post) – When reporters asked the first U.S. man in space, Alan Shepard, what he thought about as he sat atop a Mercury...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook grew its advertising revenue by 64 percent in the third quarter, helped by a boost in...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — What would it take to get you to wear a fitness band? How about one that costs $12? Entrepreneur David...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter’s third-quarter revenue outpaced expectations, but investors concerned about user growth and holiday-quarter revenue clipped the company’s...
(Ars Technica) – State and local governments aren’t typically known for leading the way on technology. Remember that West Virginia library that uses a $20,000 router for a building the...
(Ars Technica) – A few weeks ago, Apple updated its iMac desktop line with “Retina” displays—an Apple marketing term used to denote LCDs with a pixel density high...
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert early Friday after taking...
Hayley Tsukamaya, WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Let’s be honest: it’s 2014, and the automotive industry has utterly disappointed a generation of science-fiction lovers and futurists....
Ravi Somaiya, THE NEW YORK TIMES MENLO PARK, Calif. (The New York Times)— Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg...
Josh Constine, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—Last month I reported that Apple would shut down Beats Music and likely add streaming music to iTunes. Apple denied, specifically, that Beats...
