Category: Tech

By QUENTIN HARDY Why is a leading cloud-computing company joining with one of the world’s largest makers of computer gear? It’s either smart business…

By NICK WINGFIELD A nearly full house showed up at this year’s event, the last one with Steven A. Ballmer as the company’s chief…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What is the Xbox One? Published: November 19, 2013 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/11/19/technology/ap-us-tec-digital-life-tech-test-xbox-one.html via IFTTT

By REUTERS Two leading U.S. senators introduced a bill on Monday aimed at making it harder for “patent trolls” to file frivolous infringement lawsuits….

By MARK SCOTT Shareholders approve a $7.2 billion sale of Nokia’s cellphone business to Microsoft, leaving the company with its networking and mapping units,…

By QUENTIN HARDY An American expatriate has made a site that maps all the bitcoin trades in real time. One striking thing is China’s…

By BRIAN X. CHEN Lawmakers in San Francisco and New York are pushing cellphone makers to adopt a so-called kill switch that would allow…

By BRIAN X. CHEN Leander Kahney, the author of several books about Apple, took on the challenge of analyzing Apple through the lens of…

By J. D. BIERSDORFER Avoiding telephone scams and ways to search more easily. Published: November 21, 2013 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/technology/personaltech/moving-content-to-a-new-ipad-and-calls-from-the-help-desk.html via…

By NICK BILTON YouTube, one of the world’s most popular websites, went offline for a short period for many of its viewers on Monday…