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Sony on Tuesday announced plans to merge its PlayStation operations in a new company to be headquartered in the U.S. Sony Interactive Entertainment will open for business on April 1, starting with US$2 million in operating capital The new California-based firm will merge the operations of Japan-based Sony Network Entertainment International and Son...

To many, 3D printing is little more than a toy. A toy that mostly prints toys. To others, it's a prototyping tool good for a hands-on feel of a manifested idea but not much more Yet for a select few, 3D printing is the heart of innovation, and each new iteration is pumping the future's lifeblood....

Nelum OS is a light and fast live-installable Linux distribution family offering three separate releases....

In the runup to the release of Apple's Q1 2016 earnings report Tuesday, one of the big unanswered questions was whether the iPhone could maintain its sales momentum Q1 2015 iPhone sales hit a record 74.5 million units, and it's possible the latest quarter's shipments may not equal -- let alone exceed -- that mark....

AOL on Monday announced that it has agreed to purchaseAlephD as it ramps up efforts to boost its key assets: its global content brands, millennial-focused over-the-top content, original video content, and programmatic advertising platforms AlephD's algorithms focus on publisher analytics and price floor optimization. They let publishers control and...

An iPhone with a 4-inch display and some features found in Apple's latest models will launch in March or April, 9to5Mac reported last week The model reportedly will be called the "iPhone 5se" -- for "special edition" -- and will be offered at the same price point as the iPhone 5s....

Welcome, dear readers, to another edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, where we open the door to a world of possibility, with the latest gadget announcements prompting us over the threshold ...

The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, last week announced a new program that aims to build a connection between the human brain and the digital world To achieve the goals of the Neural Engineering System Design program, DARPA has invited proposals to design, build, demonstrate, and validate a human-computer interfac...

As the U.S. retail industry puts another long holiday shopping season behind it, a few changes appear to be taking place For one thing, it appears there's a new recipe for success. Growing a business requires more than setting up a fancy website, placing inventory into a warehouse, and engaging a service to make speedy deliveries....

The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2015, Part 1 Almost a decade ago, the first edition of this list was tough to compile. There simply weren't that many CRM blogs that were consistent (we set the annual minimum number of posts at a mere eight), vendor-agnostic and -- most important of all -- high quality....

Samsung on Monday began a global rollout of the latest versions of its Gear S2 Classic smartwatch, hitting China first There are two models in the Gear S2 Classic New Edition line -- one with 18K rose gold plating and the other with a platinum finish....

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday announced that four executives have exited the company Alex Roetter and Kevin Weil, who managed the engineering teams responsible for generating ads; Katie Stanton, who helped guide the international offices; and Skip Schipper, who oversaw HR and recruiting, all have departed. Roetter, Weil and Stanton each had bee...

The rise of autonomous war machines is outpacing policies and technological countermeasures, weapons and robotics experts warned last week at theWorld Economic Forum Autonomous weaponry potentially is a US$20 billion industry that has taken root in 40 countries, saidBAE Systems Chairman Roger Carr....

California State AssemblymanJim Cooper last week introduced a bill seeking to ban the sale of smartphones that include unbreakable encryption The bill would require smartphones made on or after Jan. 1, 2017, and sold in California to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by their manufacturers or OS providers....

Worldwide downloads of Android apps in 2015 were double those for iOS, but revenues from iOS apps were nearly twice those of Android, according to anApp Annie report released this week First-time device owners in emerging markets drove the huge increase in Android downloads, researchers found....

Foxconn Technology Group has offered as much as US$5.3 billion to purchaseSharp, according to media reports this week Foxconn, formally known as "Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.," is said to have offered between $5.1 billion, or 600 billion yen, and $5.3 billion, or 625 million yen....

Security researchers atDr.Web on Tuesday revealed details of the Trojan Linux.Ekoms.1, which takes screen shots and records audio to acquire sensitive and personal information, mostly from Linux servers Malware for Linux is becoming more diverse and includes spyware programs, ransomware and Trojans designed to carry out distributed denial-of-servic...

A coalition of 59 organizations on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calling on him to get cracking on privacy protection rules for consumers The groups include consumer advocates such asConsumer Watchdog and theChicago Consumer Coalition as well as theCenter for Democracy and Technology and theAm...

Facebook on Thursday announced its new Sports Stadium -- built with no taxpayer dollars or city leases required About 650 million sports fans already make Facebook the world's largest stadium, the company reasoned....

Apple this week released a diversity report showing that initiatives to broaden the makeup of its U.S. workforce haven't been as successful as CEO Tim Cook suggested last year The EEO-1 report filed with the federal government covers Apple's 2015 hires in the United States. Its numbers vary widely from the diversity numbers the company revealed in ...