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Twitter on Thursday announced a new addition to its social-TV arsenal: SnappyTV. SnappyTV is an online service that allows content owners to clip, edit and share video from live broadcasts in near-real time....

Lego fans are about to experience a new way to play with their favorite plastic bricks, both in the physical and virtual worlds The company on Thursday announced its line of Fusion playsets will become available in August. The sets combine traditional brick construction play with video games through new technology. The goal is to allow people -- e...

Amazon's share prices shot up by nearly US$10 on Wednesday after the company announced its Fire Phone, but by press time Thursday they had fallen by $5.76 to $328.62 That might be a pretty solid indicator of the device's chances in the market, despite its power-packed hardware and ecosystem....

The United States' hopeful tinkerers and entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday on the White House lawn to showcase their innovative ideas at the Maker Faire ...

Congressional Democrats this week took another go at Net neutrality. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., member of the House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, introduced the Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act....

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son may have new hope for a Sprint, T-Mobile merger. After SoftBank merged with Sprint last summer, Son set his sights on T-Mobile. There was early resistance from regulators, but that may be softening, with Comcast-Time Warner Cable and AT&T-DirecTV having joined the merger dance Trying to understand and predict what regulat...

The open-source Android operating system has long been considered by security experts to be the mobile OS most vulnerable to security threats, but iOS is just as vulnerable, Marble Security has found However, the two OSes expose users to different types of threats....

I don't know anyone who was ever great at sales forecasting. This is not to say that it can't be done, but it's a hard problem -- like forecasting the weather. Today, we can get weather forecasts for many days in advance with temperatures accurate within a few degrees, because we've invested in many data gathering and analysis tools like satellites, computer modeling and analytics. ...

Despite entering the smartphone world late, Amazon managed to doubledown with a user-focused infusion of technical innovation to deliver acompelling new device: the Amazon Fire Phone The most head-turning feature is its ability to trackyour face and create a three-dimensional effect on thehome screen and in apps, which makes it seem as if you're pe...

Apple is making a foray into the entry-level desktop market with the introduction of a lower-cost iMac The 21.5-inch, all-in-one system features a 1.4 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor. That increases to up to 2.7 GHz with Turbo Boost Speeds. It includes an Intel HD 5000 graphics card, 8 GB of memory and a 500-GB hard drive.

BlackBerry, whose share of the mobile phone market has been on a downward spiral, this week launched BBM Protected, the first in its planned eBBM Suite of secure enterprise-class messaging products BBM Protected targets regulated industries....

I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours That's the idea behind a new photo-sharing app Facebook released Tuesday for Android and iOS devices.

Apple has reached a settlement with plaintiffs in 33 states regarding allegations that it colluded with five major U.S. book publishers to fix the price of e-books. The class action maintained that Apple overcharged plaintiffs US$280 million. News of the settlement came on Tuesday via a filing with U.S. District Judge Denise Cote by Steve Berman, ...

HP on Tuesday announced HP Enterprise Applications Services for Workday -- essentially consulting services for customers of Workday's Software as a Service Workday is a human capital management package that unifies human resources, talent management, payroll and financial management....

Spire on Tuesday kicked off preorders for its namesake new wearable device dedicated to promoting health by monitoring the wearer's breathing Billed as "the first wearable that tracks both physical movement and state of mind," Spire is the first activity tracker to measure breathing patterns, the company said, thereby offering new insights into per...

Successful companies today run largely on data and analytics. The more precisely you can measure the various aspects of your business, the better you can fine-tune its performance. With e-commerce companies especially, everything can be measured, which has provided some amazing opportunities to improve performance -- but sometimes it can lead to issues.

Amazon is poised to reveal its very first smartphone, and the rumor mill is in full swing The device isexpected to include a 3D display, and it reportedly will be available exclusively on AT&T with its new sponsored data service bundled in.

Google's Nest subsidiary has returned its Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm to the market, less than one month after recalling 440,000 units because of a defect The device has been discounted to US$99 from $130....

Facebook on Monday unveiled an iPad app update designed to make the site a hub for game, video and content discovery. A new panel appears on the right-hand side of the iPad providing news and entertainment Games are heavily featured. More than 70 percent of Facebook for iPad users played a Facebook-connected game in the past 90 days, the company no...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk threw the automotive industry into a tizzy last week, when he announced that he was throwing open the company's patents Some hailed the move as yet more proof of the abysmal state of the United States patent system; others opined that it would give the electric car industry a boost; others just penned paeans of praise to ...