March 12, 2015 Google Offers Cheap Storage for Certain Kinds of Data by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Google just matched Amazon for cheap online storage, with an important difference: While Amazon promises to fetch the cheap data in…
March 12, 2015 Slack, the Office Messaging App That May Finally Sink Email by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO The start-up Slack is changing the way workers communicate, with a group chat app that eschews privacy and automatically archives almost…
March 11, 2015 Learning Apps Outstrip School Oversight, and Loss of Student Privacy Is Among the Risks by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER Apps and other software can put powerful teaching tools at teachers’ fingertips, but concerns abound over data security, effectiveness and marketing….
March 11, 2015 Device Syncing: Call From Computers and Text From Tablets by MOLLY WOOD By MOLLY WOOD Technology from Apple, Google, BlackBerry and Motorola is increasingly allowing users to send texts and make phone calls from almost any…
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March 11, 2015 Daily Report: Using the Apple Watch by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Initial impressions of the Apple Watch are that it is good-looking for a smart watch and not hard to…
March 11, 2015 Facebook’s Status Update for Computing by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The latest development in Facebook’s push of open-source hardware: a new kind of networking switch, a powerful low-energy computer server and…
March 11, 2015 Google C.F.O. Is Retiring to Spend More Time With Family (No, Really) by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY While watching a sunrise from the highest point in Africa, Patrick Pichette decided it was time to “hit the road” with…
March 10, 2015 Fighting Back Against Malware by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER A flurry of pop-up ads, an unfamiliar search toolbar and a changed home page are just some of the symptoms…
March 10, 2015 Apple Watch Displays Your Digital World, at a Glance by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Initial impressions of the Apple Watch are that it is good looking for a smartwatch and not hard to use, but…