February 19, 2015 Dropcam Keeps an Eye on the Neighborhood by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Setting up video surveillance on a driveway highlights the power of putting such tools in the hands of ordinary people….
February 18, 2015 Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious With Mobile by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD There’s a new strategy afoot at the company, which has brought apps and services to the Apple and Android devices people…
February 18, 2015 Photoshop at 25: A Thriving Chameleon Adapts to an Instagram World by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Adobe, which introduced the image-editing program in 1990, has moved to a less expensive subscription-based model in an effort to democratize…
February 18, 2015 Securing a Hotmail Account by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER How to use two-step verification to guard against unauthorized access to your email. Published: February 18, 2015 at 07:00PM from…
February 18, 2015 Daily Report: U.S. Said to Have Surveillance Tools in Computers Overseas by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES A Russian firm says the United States has found a way to permanently embed surveillance and sabotage tools in…
February 18, 2015 Tencent to Develop Chat App for Fords in China by REUTERS By REUTERS Ford said it was in talks with Tencent, maker of the popular WeChat messaging app, to develop messaging functions for the manufacturer’s…
February 18, 2015 Valuation for Snapchat Could Rise to $19 Billion by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Snapchat, the start-up with disappearing photo messages, may be popular with teenagers. But in investors’ eyes, it is commanding a very…
February 18, 2015 IBM, G.E. and Others Create Big Data Alliance by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY A number of big tech companies with an interest in building out the big data market have announced a standard for…
February 17, 2015 Astro Teller, Google’s ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ on Making Profits at Google X by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY Astro Teller, the head of the Google X research group, talks about the company’s efforts to commercialize projects like the self-driving…
February 16, 2015 Spyware Embedded by U.S. in Foreign Networks, Security Firm Says by NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER By NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER A Russian firm says the United States has found a way to permanently embed surveillance and sabotage…