March 7, 2016 Raymond Tomlinson, Who Put the @ Sign in Email, Is Dead at 74 by WILLIAM GRIMES By WILLIAM GRIMES The computer programmer chose the @ sign to separate a user name from a destination address to modify a messaging program….
March 7, 2016 Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple’s Appeal in E-Book Pricing Case by ADAM LIPTAK By ADAM LIPTAK Apple had wanted to appeal a lower court’s determination that it and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices above…
March 7, 2016 Europe’s Antitrust Enforcer on Google, Apple and the Year Ahead by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT In an interview, Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, discusses the issues underpinning her current investigations and whether she unfairly…
March 7, 2016 Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY As some tech sectors show signs of slowing, cloud services have created remarkable demand for highly educated engineers and mathematicians. And…
March 7, 2016 Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF A number of start-ups are developing a new generation of pattern recognition software that is slowly and steadily advancing artificial intelligence….
March 6, 2016 Farhad and Joe Examine Silicon Valley’s Pull in Washington by FARHAD MANJOO and JOSEPH PLAMBECK By FARHAD MANJOO and JOSEPH PLAMBECK The chat goes from new talking devices, a drone that sees things, goggles (really) and the Apple cliffhanger….
March 6, 2016 At RSA Conference, Unlikely Allies Address Value of Digital Security by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Given Apple’s dispute with the F.B.I., what surprised many at the world’s largest gathering of security experts was the nuanced tone…
March 6, 2016 It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD When the same skillet costs $200 at a dozen web stores, the bargain isn’t so obvious to consumers, and scrutiny of…
March 5, 2016 U.N. Rights Chief Says Unlocking Gunman’s iPhone Could Open ‘Pandora’s Box’ by NICK CUMMING-BRUCE By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE U.S. officials need to weigh the uncertain benefits against the broader implications of breaching personal security, the high commissioner said. Published:…
March 5, 2016 Facebook, in Accounting Change, Could Pay Millions More in British Taxes by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The company will report sales linked to its British operations, mostly digital advertising, through its local subsidiary rather than its Irish…