Articles by

Facebook on Monday announced that it will acquire Mobile Technologies, a company that specializes in speech recognition and voice technology "It has always been our mission to make the world more open and connected," said Tom Stocky, Facebook's director of product management....

Norway's government will not allow Apple to take aerial photos of Oslo, the Norwegian capital, in the company's quest to create 3D images for its mapping app Satellite images of Norway are fair game, but taking aerial photos requires a license, and Apple's request has been denied....

Uber-industrialist Elon Musk on Monday released the alpha plans for his proposed Hyperloop high-speed travel system between San Francisco and Los Angeles The Hyperloop will consist of streamlined capsules riding like hovercraft on an air cushion in a steel tube with solar arrays on its roof to provide power to the system. The tube will be supporte...

Isis, the mobile wallet joint venture of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, has announced partnerships with Chase and American Express in preparation for its debut later this year. Isis lets Chase cardholders with NFC-enabled smartphones tap their mobile devices in order to pay at participating retail locations, rather than having to use a debit...

As an onslaught of mobile video ads threatens the digital advertising landscape, it's sobering enough to realize that more than a few brands are not fully prepared Even more concerning, however, is that our wireless infrastructure is not ready for it, either....

A variety of factors can propel a Kickstarter project to funding success, but there's no denying that the sheer seductiveness of the product is a big one. Case in point: RAPIRO. What Is It?...

Android device owners who use Bitcoins may have their digital currency stolen because of a security flaw in Android, the Bitcoin Foundation has warned The problem may lie in Android's implementation of the java.security.SecureRandom application programming interface in Java....

BlackBerry on Monday announced the formation of a special committee to explore strategic alternatives to enhance its value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment. Among these options are joint ventures, strategic partnerships and even the sale of BlackBerry to another company....

Lon Snowden, the father of famed leaker Edward Snowden, and the family's lawyer have obtained visas to travel to Russia, where Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum as the U.S. seeks to extradite him on federal charges Speaking on ABC News' This Week, the senior Snowden and the lawyer did not divulge many details of the trip, but Lon Sn...

Almost a week after the Obama administration overturned a ban issued by the International Trade Commission against the import of certain Apple items, the ITC made a similar ruling -- this time, against Samsung. The commission on Friday banned the import of two older versions of the Galaxy smartphone and Galaxy tablet, agreeing with Apple's content...

Nice Systems has introduced a Contact Center Video Recording platform to its Nice Interaction Management suite. While not in great demand yet, this feature surely will draw more interest if customer service and regulatory trends continue on their current trajectory. The feature allows organizations -- banks and financial institutions, in particul...

Cloud storage technology options, along with developing trends such as Big Data, are driving rapid industry growth. Cloud storage developed around three model options: Infrastructure as a Service; Platform as a Service; and Software as a Service. Merging with these cloud service models are technologies providing cloud computing space and cloud ba...

There's another video game console fight coming, and Microsoft's latest -- the Xbox One -- has a hard act to follow as it joins the fray. Its predecessor, the Xbox 360, took on the competition and eventually dominated the gaming segment. It has been outselling both the Nintendo and Sony consoles for some time now. I'm guessing Microsoft felt it had an unfair advantage, because it apparently has been doing its level best to scare gamers away from the Xbox One ever since it was announced. ...

Researchers at the University of Hamburg in Germany have, for the first time, written and deleted data on single hypothetical particles called "skyrmions." Skyrmions have been reported to exist in thin magnetic films and superconductors, among other things, but this has not been conclusively proven....

The White House this week released a set of incentives designed to encourage private companies to join the administration in its efforts to cut down on cyberattacks. The initiatives are a follow-up to the cybersecurity executive order President Obama signed in February, following Congress' failure to agree on cybersecurity legislation last year. T...

Baidu, a Chinese Web company and operator of the country's top search engine, will reimburse users for scams carried out by websites that appear in its search results This is an extension of a scheme Baidu launched in May, when it promised to compensate consumers who were scammed -- but only up to about US$800, and only if the scamming site had pa...

T-Mobile stock hit a five-year high Thursday on a better-than-expected second-quarter earnings report and news that it added more than 1 million new customers in the period. Shares continued to trade above the US$25 mark on Friday.

IBM on Thursday announced a software ecosystem tailored for what in essence amounts to a computing architecture that works like the human brain It supports the programming cycle from design through development, debugging and deployment....

Watchdog Task Manager is available for US$3.49 in the Google Play store....

Microsoft has released an unboxing video for its upcoming Xbox One video game console, which will arrive this holiday season. In addition to the console, gamers will get a number of accessories: the expected Xbox One controller; a Kinect sensor that supports 1080p video; a category 2 HDMI cable that will be capable of outputting video in 1080p, 3D and even Ultra-HD (4K); a wireless adapter that operates on dual-band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz frequencies; and a gamer headset...