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Dish Network continues to change the way we view recorded TV....

My friend and a partner atWildcat Venture Partners, Bruce Cleveland, along with his associates, has come up with an idea that helps explain why some early-stage companies thrive and thus raise more capital, while others die on the vine As a venture capitalist, he is always trying to figure this out, trying to determine who gets another round of fun...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to streamline its smartphone business by cutting 1,850 jobs. It will record an impairment charge of US$950 million, with severance payments accounting for $200 million of the charge The restructuring will entail up to 1,350 job losses at Microsoft Mobile Oy in Finland, and 500 more cuts around the world.

Twitter on Tuesday announced a number of changes to tweets, including what will be included in a message's 140-character count The changes, which will be rolled out in the coming months, were outlined by Twitter Senior Product Manager Todd Sherman:...

Microsoft on Monday made its Dynamics CRM Spring 2016 Wave generally available to customers The application focuses heavily on machine learning and the Internet of Things....

The 30,000 virtual reality headsetsOnePlus announced it would give away as part the unveiling of its OnePlus 3 smartphone were snapped up Monday, the day they became available OnePlus has set up a VR space called "The Loop" in which it will unveil the OnePlus 3. The Loop can be accessed only by users of the OnePlus Loop VR headsets, made byAntVR....

It took a hacker just a day to come up with a workaround for the platform update Oculus released last week, which blocked users from running the company's games on rival virtual reality systems Version 1.4 of the Oculus App blocked a hack from LibreVR called "Revive," which allowed users to play Oculus games on rival systems, including the HTC Vive...

By the end of the year, Android devs will be able to use a trust API from Google's Project Abacus in their apps, Google ATAP Director Dan Kaufman suggested at last week's I/O conference The API, which will run in the background continually, is aimed at doing away with passwords....

Toyota andDEKA Research and Development last week announced an agreement that will revive development of the iBot, a wheelchair that can climb stairs The companies revealed their pact to develop mobility solutions for the disabled community at the annual convention of the Paralyzed Veterans of America....

Bids for Yahoo's core assets were expected to come in at between US$2 billion and $3 billion, far below prior estimates that it could fetch $4 billion to $8 billion at auction, The Wall Street Journal reported last week Verizon, which remains the leading candidate for Yahoo's assets, and other contenders met with CEO Marissa Mayer at the company's...

Apple last week opened a flagship store in San Francisco's tony Union Square shopping district The store has a 42-foot-tall sliding glass door and a 50-foot tall green wall and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy, the company said....

Rebellin Linux is a smart-looking, fast distro that is both lightweight and secure. It is well worth checking out....

Tearing through open spaces and timing each turn to burst out of them, a seeming continuum of drones weaves through a set of obstacles lap after lap, until the stutter of a pilot's joystick breaks the cadence of this competitive concert and destroys the illusion It's the drama -- anticipating and reacting to those human moments -- that has propelle...

Microsoft last week announced plans to crack down on terrorist content, perhaps in response to the Obama administration's intense effort to get Silicon Valley's help in preventing organizations like ISIS from using social media as a recruiting and fundraising tool Microsoft has amended its terms of use to prohibit the posting of terrorist content o...

Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O Built for machine learning applications, TPU has been running in Google's data centers for more than a year....

Salesforce held its Connections 2016 user event in Atlanta earlier this month. About 7,000 people attended, but in the Georgia World Congress Center and airplane hangar, attendance seemed smallish Attendance might have been held down by Gov. Nathan Deal's slow response tovetoing a religious freedom law largely seen as discriminating against the LGB...

Selling information technology to the U.S. government is never easy, and it's even harder when a vendor cannot highlight the qualitative differences it believes separates its competencies from other providers competing for the same work Yet a major contracting tool federal agencies use in seeking IT products and services tends to smother those diff...

A hacker has offered to sell the account information of 117 million LinkedIn users, which was stolen in a 2012 hack, Motherboard reported last week The data includes users' email addresses and passwords....

The Hyperloop -- the high-speed transportation concept Elon Musk has promoted heavily -- is edging closer to becoming a reality Russia plans to develop a Hyperloop network for freight transportation, the country's transport minister announced Friday....

Eset on Wednesday announced that it has fashioned a free tool that victims of all variants of the TeslaCrypt ransomware can use to unlock affected files After the criminal gang behind TeslaCrypt recently abandoned support of the malicious software, an Eset analyst contacted the group anonymously, using the channel TeslaCrypt's operators offered to ...