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Google on Wednesday unveiled Newsstand, a new Android app in its Google Play store that's designed to collect and present the user's favorite news sources in a single place Readers can subscribe to a host of magazines, newspapers, blogs and news sites. The app formats and optimizes the content so readers can navigate the articles, images and video ...

Just one week after its biggest rival hit the market, Microsoft's new console, the Xbox One, will go on sale with a series of splashy events to mark the launch. From the stroke of midnight on Nov. 22, a new war will be under way, with all three major consoles of the new gaming generation in the market ...

Logitech on Wednesday introduced its new PowerShell Controller + Battery, a device that's designed to turn users' iPhones into gaming consoles Compatible with iPhone 5, iPhone 5s and fifth-generation iPod touch devices running iOS 7, the PowerShell offers analog off-screen controls along with a battery pack for US$99.99. It is now available....

Bitcoin, the virtual currency that governments love to hate, came under the spotlight this week at a United States Senate committee hearing on virtual currencies Government and law enforcement agencies and the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children emphasized the attractiveness of the virtual currency to cybercriminals, while the Bit...

The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week launched a probe of the safety of the Tesla Model S automobile The investigation "was prompted by recent incidents in Washington State and Tennessee that resulted in battery fires due to undercarriage strikes with roadway debris," agency spokesperson Kathryn Henry told TechN...

China's massively popular WeChat messaging app has exposed school students to prostitutes through its "People Nearby" feature, which is sometimes used by prostitutes as a form of, shall we say, mobile advertising A survey among students, conducted in a handful of major Chinese cities, found that the kids had indeed come across prostitutes' accounts...

The U.S. government's Big Data initiative is sparking more investments in data management projects, especially those involving joint efforts between business and government. Under the sponsorship of the Obama administration initiative, the White House showcased more than 30 Big Data projects Nov. 12 at an event hosted by the federal Office of Science and Technology. Many of the projects involved commercial companies, including major pharmaceutical and IT firms...

The story of this year's Dreamforce might best be told through the partner community and AppExchange, and that makes it a story about the platform. Appropriately enough, Salesforce teed up the platform topic in Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff's Tuesday keynote and the press conference immediately following it, where he announced Salesforce1 Salesforc...

New technologies are transforming how artists make and market their work. Google Earth sometimes makes mistakes: Freeways look like they are upside down or waterfalls flow sideways. For engineers or programmers, these might seem like things to fix. For artists like Clement Valla, however, they're artistic opportunities. Valla's project Postcards ...

Samsung has claimed Galaxy Gear smartwatch sales exceeded 800,000 in the last two months, but it is unclear how many of them are actually on consumers' wrists. The company unveiled the Gear in early September as a companion device for several models in its line of Galaxy smartphones and tablets.

Dropbox is not only planning to raise US$250 million in the next few weeks but is also seeking a corporate valuation of $8 billion, according to a news report Tuesday in Bloomberg Businessweek That $8 billion is more than double the valuation investors placed on the company the last time Dropbox hit the funding circuit back in 2011. The company has...

NASA's MAVEN mission is under way following Monday's successful launch from Cape Canaveral of a spacecraft that will explore Mars' upper atmosphere and seek answers to questions about the planet's evolution ...

Here's a new take on the point-and-shoot camera: It's the throw-and-catch camera. Called "Panono," this throwable, panoramic device contains multiple fixed-focus cameras that shoot simultaneously, allowing you to capture "everything in every direction," in the words of its creators, who are now seeking funding on Indiegogo....

Qualcomm on Monday announced its Toq smartwatch will be available on Dec. 2 for US$350. The Toq is compatible with Android-powered smartphones. Wearers can accept or reject phone calls and view text messages and other notifications via a Bluetooth connection.

Six people have been arrested for their involvement in a worldwide ATM heist that resulted in the theft of US$45 million from two Middle East banks Five men and one woman, all from the suburbs of New York City, were charged with being members of a cybercrime outfit that lifted debit card information from MasterCard. The six people were accused of b...

Yahoo on Monday announced it will extend 2048-bit encryption planned for Yahoo Mail across its entire network CEO Marissa Mayer reiterated that the company "has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency."

Salesforce.com on Monday unveiled Salesforce1, as it kicked off its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The Salesforce1 platform allows software vendors, developers and customers to integrate third-party services using application programming interfaces and sensors. Salesforce1 reportedly will be equipped with a far larger number of APIs than ...

Tablets and CRM, Part 1: A Plus for Productivity GE Capital has an iPad app, based on Salesforce.com, that integrates geospatial data to let mobile sales reps know which customers need attention and where they are. It is a simple, yet impressive example of a company using tablets and CRM functionality to improve its internal productivity.

Enterprise software vendors want you to believe that they can customize their software to fit your company's particular needs. That promise is also one of open source software's chief claims to fame So is the make-it-your-way vendor promise a better option than what the open source community offers? Is a business owner with specialized software nee...

Mobile apps for consumers have been criticized for gathering more information from users' devices than they need. It seems, however, that mobile apps from companies fare no better Ninety-seven percent of some 2,000 mobile apps produced by 600 companies accessed at least one private information source on the device they were installed on, according ...