February 6, 2016 BlackBerry Lays Off 200, Pointing to Shift Away from Phones by IAN AUSTEN By IAN AUSTEN The Canadian company’s chief executive has said in the past that he wants to maintain the company’s phone business. That is,…
February 6, 2016 U.S. and Europe in ‘Safe Harbor’ Data Deal, but Legal Fight May Await by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The agreement would let businesses like Google and Facebook continue to move personal data across the Atlantic, but European privacy officials…
February 6, 2016 Disconnecting From a Virtual Private Network by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER If you do not want your VPN app to start up every time you use the Internet, you can adjust…
February 6, 2016 For Parental Controls, iPhones Beat Androids by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN The Apple phones were able to accomplish a range of restrictions, like blocking content and purchases, while Android phones offered…
February 6, 2016 Apps to Manage Passwords So They Are Harder to Crack Than ‘Password’ by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Evaluating the merits of Dashlane, 1Password, LastPass and other methods of keeping long lists of increasingly complex passwords safe and…
February 5, 2016 Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists’ Tweets by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The company said it had suspended 125,000 accounts associated with extremism since mid-2015 and was accelerating its review of users suspected…
February 5, 2016 Daily Report: The Mystery of Amazon’s Bookstores by PUI-WING TAM By PUI-WING TAM How an offhand remark about Amazon opening new bookstores spawned a viral reaction and a backtracking. Published: February 3, 2016 at…
February 5, 2016 Concern Grows in U.S. Over China’s Drive to Make Chips by PAUL MOZUR and JANE PERLEZ By PAUL MOZUR and JANE PERLEZ Chips with military as well as electronics uses came under focus when Washington officials killed a $2.9 billion…
February 5, 2016 Six Degrees of Separation? Facebook Finds a Smaller Number by JONAH BROMWICH By JONAH BROMWICH Just think of yourself as being that much closer to the actor Kevin Bacon. Published: February 4, 2016 at 07:00PM from…
February 4, 2016 Reinstalling Windows 10 by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Even if you upgraded to Windows 10 by downloading the software free on your PC, you can still reinstall the…