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President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and other senior White House officials on Monday met with a group of executives who pledged their companies' support for the administration's efforts to reach a strong climate change agreement in Paris this December Thirteen major companies -- Alcoa, Apple, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway E...

I still find wry joy in all the "Apple Watch Tanks" headlines from early July. There are some great gems, like "Apple Watch is a FLOP: Sales of the gadget have fallen by 90 percent since April, report claims" or "Analyst: Apple Watch selling worse than thought." Trouble is, the reports and estimates were based on a tiny slice of reality -- the wri...

Best Buy on Monday said it would begin selling the Apple Watch in 100 of its stores on Aug. 7, as well as on BestBuy.com. As the holiday season rolls in, it expects to expand that number to 200 Sixteen models will be available at the Best Buy outlets, including the Apple Sport and Apple Watch models in 38- and 42-millimeter sizes. Best Buy also wil...

Amazon's market capitalization on Friday reached US$270 billion, surging past Walmart, following a surprisingly strong second quarter earnings report That amounted to a $46 billion boost in investor confidence, with shares hitting a record high of $580.57.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week ordered Citibank and its subsidiaries to pay about US$700 million in relief to eligible consumers and a $35 million civil penalty for, in essence, scamming consumers into paying for unwanted credit card add-on products and services This is the 10th action the bureau has undertaken against banks for...

The scary news last week was that a couple of guys demonstrated they could hack into a Jeep and take control of it. Later, more details came out that suggested you might want to avoid Chrysler cars altogether. ...

Salutations, and welcome to another edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that sinks the battleships of terrible gadget announcements while prowling for the submarines of the exquisite On the grid this week are a rugged tablet, a wireless external smartphone storage stick, a modular speaker system, and a wearable for storing headphone...

The Linux Foundation this week announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a consortium dedicated to developing a new set of common container technologies and driving their adoption CNCF aims to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy containerized cloud applications oriented to microservices. The goal is to develop ...

Apple reportedly has pulled the Nest smart thermostat from both its online and brick-and-mortar stores, possibly paving the way for its own line of smart home appliances. The thermostat disappeared from Apple's product offerings earlier this month ...

Space fever seems to be catching on. Stephen Hawking and a group of other high-profile space scientists joined with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner this week to announce a new US$100 million effort to search for intelligent alien life The funding will go to the Breakthrough Initiatives' Breakthrough Listen program....

Game-streaming service Twitch on Thursday joined Apple and other tech companies in swearing off its dependence on Adobe's Flash The move away from Flash will happen in stages, but Twitch has promised its community that the gradual rollout will advance at a steady pace.

A type of fraud spreading through the mobile universe could cost advertisers more than US$1 billion globally this year, according to a July 2015 study released by Forensiq The fraud, called "mobile device hijacking," uses installed apps to rapidly load ads that no one sees -- but the fraudsters collect money for the ads as if they had been viewed....

Being on the cutting edge is exciting... so long as you are not the one getting cut. The global expansion of over-the-top video services has been rapid and extensive, but not always successful. Besides Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, three of the top OTT video players in the world, many new service providers have entered the market, particularly over the past six to nine months. Yet most have struggled to find success...

White-hat hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely took over a Jeep Cherokee, ran its controls, then cut the transmission as it sped at 70 mph along Interstate 64 in an experiment conducted with Wired They turned on the air conditioning, switched radio channels, turned on the windshield wipers, activated the windshield washer fluid pump, a...

The resignation of U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta is drawing mixed reactions from the cybersecurity community Archuleta's departure on July 10, in the wake of a massive data breach resulting in the theft of the personal information of more than 22 million people, is being characterized by security pros as everythin...

Jet launched this week, and it could be part of a growing trend. Many people love the club retail shopping idea of Costco, BJ's and Sam's Club. Jet is a new e-commerce player offering a similar shopping experience. Will the online model be successful? The retail shopping club is one of America's success stories. Customers pay an annual fee to bec...

I've been looking at process as the next big thing in CRM for a while. It only makes sense, for several reasons. First, as we move to conducting increasing amounts of business online, we lose the intimacy of personal contact between vendor personnel and customers. In its place we need accurate and authentic processes that treat customers in ways they appreciate...

Apple's stock slid on Wednesday following the company's fiscal Q3 earnings report late Tuesday. Shares opened at $122.05 -- more than US$8 down from Tuesday's closing price of $130.75 -- but inched upward to close the day at $125.22....

Amazon has been in its prime for quite some time, but there's a new show in town, and it claims that its prices are lower. Online merchant Jet opened its inventory of millions of products to consumers on Tuesday. While Amazon's Prime subscription service offers consumers extra perks for $99 a year, Jet requires payment of a $50 annual membership f...

Yet another Android smartphone hit the market last week -- but what's surprising is that it comes from Commodore The device, named the "Commodore PET," runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, and has a 5.5-inch full HD 1920 x 1080 IPS OGS display....