March 12, 2015 F.T.C. Sues DirecTV, Saying It Misled Consumers About Costs by REBECCA R. RUIZ By REBECCA R. RUIZ The federal agency said the satellite television giant had not made clear the terms of a two-year service contract, with…
March 12, 2015 Review: Google Chromebook Pixel by MOLLY WOOD By MOLLY WOOD The top-of-the-line Google laptop, back in a new version, is meant more as a testing ground for new technology than a…
March 12, 2015 Daily Report: These Politicians Have No Email Problem, Because They Never Send One by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES In the wake of news that Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private email address during her time as secretary…
March 12, 2015 NSS Labs’ Testing Service Will Hold Security Vendors Accountable by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH A new service, from a company that does not sell security products, tests the effectiveness of security software in real time….
March 12, 2015 InMobi Plans to Stay Independent, Dismissing Rumors of Talks With Google by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The chief executive of the Indian mobile advertising start-up denied reports that the company was discussing a possible acquisition by Google….
March 12, 2015 Kleiner Perkins Portrays Ellen Pao as Combative and Resentful in Sex Bias Trial by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Lawyers for the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers made the most of their first opportunity to defend the…
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…