October 26, 2015 Facebook Strives to Bring Cheap Wi-Fi to Rural India by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Facebook is providing inexpensive wireless Internet access in about 40 villages in the foothills of the Himalayas and will expand the…
October 26, 2015 Facebook’s Internet for All Is a Tough Sell in India by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Facebook’s rocky experience since it brought stripped-down Internet access to India shows that good intentions and technological savvy are not enough….
October 24, 2015 Mike and Nick’s Week in Tech: Microsoft in the Cloud by MIKE ISAAC and NICK WINGFIELD By MIKE ISAAC and NICK WINGFIELD Farhad Manjoo is off this week, so tech reporter Nick Wingfield joins Mike Isaac to discuss Microsoft, whose…
October 24, 2015 Hackers Demand Ransom From TalkTalk, British Telecom Firm by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Hackers may have gained access to the personal data of some of the British telecommunications company’s four million customers, but it…
October 24, 2015 New Jersey Town First in U.S. to Use Uber to Curb Drunken Driving by REUTERS By REUTERS A New Jersey town on track for a record-breaking number of drunken driving cases has become the first U.S. municipality to partner…
October 24, 2015 The Cloud Is Here, Separating Disrupters From Disrupted by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY After Amazon, Microsoft and Google reported earnings on Thursday, their market capitalizations soared, partly on the growth of cloud computing. Published:…
October 23, 2015 Video Feature: Using Apps to Let Your Fingers Do the Globe-Trotting by KIT EATON By KIT EATON A collection of apps like Geography Quiz Game 3D and Guess the Place can help you brush up on your world…
October 23, 2015 Daily Report: A Trio of Earnings From Tech Behemoths by PUI-WING TAM By PUI-WING TAM Three technology titans — Amazon, Google and Microsoft — will be reporting their quarterly financial results on Thursday. Published: October 21,…
October 23, 2015 Microsoft Earnings Climb, Lifted by Strong Growth in Cloud Computing by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD A much bigger test for Microsoft will come during the quarter now underway, when a flood of new hardware running Windows…
October 23, 2015 Amazon Posts an Unexpected Profit, and Its Shares Soar by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD The company reported net income of 17 cents a share, rather than the 13-cent loss analysts expected. Its shares rose as…