July 21, 2014 Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Is the Tech World’s Envoy by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Bradford L. Smith, general counsel at the tech company, uses the skills he learned as a Washington lawyer to advocate change…
July 20, 2014 Today’s Students Don’t Have to Suffer if They Hate Their Roommates by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER Technology is providing some solutions to problems that college students have with their roommates. Published: July 20, 2014 at 12:00AM from…
July 19, 2014 Avoiding Roommate Shock, Online by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER After decades of pairing students based on scant information, some colleges are giving them tools for making their own choices. Published:…
July 19, 2014 Unblinking Eyes Track Employees by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Abundant data, smart software and cheap sensors are beginning to make it possible to measure and monitor employees as never before….
July 19, 2014 Europe Wants Apple and Google to Fix In-App Payments Problem by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Many parents have learned the hard way that “free” mobile games are not always free, because they let players buy…
July 19, 2014 Maxing Out Gmail Storage by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Plus, how to remote control and share between Macs. Published: July 18, 2014 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/1rnD6Cb via…
July 18, 2014 Apple Adds Susan Wagner of BlackRock to Board by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Ms. Wagner will be the only board member from a company focusing on finance. Apple’s longest-serving director, Bill Campbell, will…
July 18, 2014 Now It’s Really Meg Whitman’s H.P. by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, was named chairwoman of its board Thursday, among other board changes. The changes illustrate…
July 18, 2014 Coming Soon to Social Media: Click to Buy Now by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Twitter and Facebook, which are fighting for the attention of social media users and advertisers, both announced baby steps into the…
July 18, 2014 Consumers Appear Uncertain About Connected Cars by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT While the likes of Apple and Google have introduced operating systems specifically for cars, many people don’t appear to be interested…