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Sports Fans and Social Media, Part 1: It's a Brand New Ball Game This fall will see a 10-game pilot of professional football streamed on social media -- Twitter, to be specific. It's a continuation of the National Football League's search for gold in the veins of digital broadcasting and an opportunity for sports brands to forge new and deeper rela...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday filed suit against the Department of Justice seeking to learn whether the federal government secretly ordered technology companies to decrypt the private communications of their customers Such orders could place millions of customers in harm's way, the complaint says.

Hello, and welcome to the latest installment of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that sifts tirelessly through the silt of the latest gadget announcements to find those nuggets of gold In our pan this week are a 360-degree camera from Facebook, the latest Kindle, a robot phone and a smart fitness kit....

Fusion this week launched Contact360, an enterprise cloud contact center solution developed in collaboration with Technology for Business, the long-time partner it acquired earlier this month "Fusion will be offering a clear migration path to the cloud for TFB's Fortune 500 enterprise and government customers, and will sell into our own base of 13,...

If the rash of data breaches in recent months has done anything for businesses, it's raised their awareness of cyber liability insurance The market for cyber liability insurance is expected to increase dramatically as businesses become more aware that their current policies don't adequately cover cyber-risks, according to theNational Association of...

Google will begin listing live air times for TV shows in its search results, Danial Alegre, president of global partnerships announced Wednesday in his keynote address at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas This new feature will allow users to search for movies and TV shows. Results will show availability on broadcast a...

Crafting an Online Strategy, Part 2: Where to Sell What You Make If you're just starting to sell your crafts or other handmade items online, one of the first decisions you'll need to make is how to accept payments from your customers....

Viber on Tuesday announced that it has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption across all devices for the 711 million users of its messaging app Users have to download Viber version 6.0 or higher....

Apple's top legal official on Tuesday appeared before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and reiterated the company's willingness to help law enforcement on active cases and cooperate on long-term solutions, despite its contentious legal battle with the FBI over the encrypted iPhone used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Apple "wor...

Apple has been developing a glass casing for a new iPhone with an AMOLED display to be unveiled in 2017, Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at KGI Securities, reportedly said this week in a note to investors That would mark a return to the design of the iPhone 4 and 4s, both of which had glass casings....

Canonical on Thursday launched Ubuntu 16.04, aka "Xenial Xerus," an upgrade that will be supported for the next five years The latest version for all desktop, server and cloud editions will be available for download starting Thursday....

Apple has hired Chris Porritt, Tesla Motors' former vice president of vehicle engineering, to work on special projects, according to news reports published Tuesday Porritt, who left Tesla last year, will take charge of Apple's electric car initiative, Project Titan, according to Electrek, which first reported the hire....

Zuora, the company that made its bones in subscription billing and payments, held its annual Subscribed user meeting in San Francisco last week and staked out some new turf It always has been focused on the back office, but its latest messaging included elements of the front office. Perhaps it's no surprise given CEO Tien Tzuo's history as an early...

The European Commission on Wednesday charged that Google breached EU antitrust rules by seeking to maintain and expand the dominance of its Android operating system "A competitive mobile Internet sector is increasingly important for consumers and businesses in Europe," said the EC's antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager....

The Obama administration last week called on the Federal Communications Commission to open the cable TV set-top box market to competition Doing so would let companies create innovative, higher-quality and lower-cost products, the White House said....

MIT researchers have developed a fast, accurate system for identifying security flaws in Web apps written in Ruby on Rails, according to news reports published last week In tests the researchers -- MIT Professor Daniel Jackson and Joseph Near, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley -- performed on 50 popular RoR apps,...

Apple on Tuesday announced a refreshed MacBook with some incremental improvements but nothing likely to dazzle even the staunchest Mac fans What's new:...

YouTube on Monday announced the rollout of live-streaming 360-degree video and spatial audio, part of the company's push to boost its reach in the growing market for immersive video and virtual reality The company has provided support for 360-degree video for more than a year, but it has been working with content creators to push the technology eve...

Twitter and the National Football League are betting that a partnership announced this month could help refine the roughly defined relationship between social media and the world of sports The NFL set out to reclaim fans who chewed through their cable TV cords and have strayed from the flock of football faithful, while Twitter's motive in agreeing ...

A U.S. District Court judge last week sentenced Matthew Keys to two years in prison after he was found guilty of conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times' website and modify a news story Keys had been site administrator forKTXL Fox 40, which was owned by Tribune, the same company that owned the Times....