Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates...
NEW YORK (AP) — Security software maker Symantec is the latest company to announce plans to split itself into two. The maker of Norton antivirus...
NEW YORK (ZDNet) — One is never enough. Or two. Which is why Lenovo just unveiled three new tablets. The Chinese electronics giant on Thursday...
(Los Angeles Times) – Government spying on electronic communications has outraged Internet users and now threatens to harm technology firms’ ability to do business internationally, tech...
(ZD Net) – Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is making available a new free phone app that makes photo sharing easier. The new app, Xim (pronounced “Zim”),...
(ZDNet) – It has been almost exactly two years since I bought my last iOS device. That’s not to say I haven’t bought anything from Apple....
(Los Angeles Times) – Twitter Inc. is the latest tech giant to sue the U.S. government for the right to reveal the scope of government...
Taipei, Oct. 8 (CNA) – The anticipated 8.9-inch Nexus tablet computer, co-developed by U.S. search engine Google Inc. and Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp., is...
(Daily Mail) – From smart boxes to cable services, there are more ways than ever to watch television. Now, network operator EE has launched what it...
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has completed its acquisition of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for almost $22 billion, up from the original $19 billion...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just because you can talk to your car doesn’t mean you should. Two new studies have found that voice-activated...
Jason Keyser, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became...
Christina Farr and Alexei Oreskovic, REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Facebook Inc. (FB.O) already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention....
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s antitrust authority says it has approved Facebook’s proposed $19 billion takeover of the messaging service WhatsApp. The 28-nation bloc’s...
HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese government might be using smartphone apps to spy on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, a U.S. security firm said....
ANICK JESDANUN, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — PayPal, Apple and others are betting on billions in mobile payments. But so far, trying to use...
WASHINGTON (Times of India) – A new battle is brewing over privacy for mobile devices, after moves by Google and Apple to toughen the encryption...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is trying to soften an unpopular redesign of Windows by reviving features from older versions while...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple’s newest iPhones ran into some glitches Wednesday after users complained that a new software update blocked...
(Technology Tell) – With every new iPhone model, the camera receives improved hardware and software. Still, it’s hard to know just how much better the pictures you...
YOUKYUNG LEE, AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its latest Galaxy Note 4 smartphone will go on sale in...
(The Inquirer) – Apple reportedly is gearing up to imminently release iOS 8.0.1, to squash bugs plaguing devices running iOS 8. So says Macrumors, which heard that Apple had begun...
(International Business Times) – Apple’s attempt at the storied “phablet” — the iPhone 6 Plus — could outshine its smaller counterpart in the short term...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Longtime technology guru Ray Ozzie wants to bring back the emotions of the human voice to phones....
by C. Kelly Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Technology is fundamentally changing the world in which we live. Just as the 1880s...
