November 20, 2013 Engineered for Sound, at a Price by GREGORY SCHMIDT By GREGORY SCHMIDT Shure’s SE846 Sound-Isolating Earphones have a transparent shell that shows off the technology inside, and a $1,250 price tag. Published: November…
November 20, 2013 Start-Up Founders Look Beyond the Usual Options of Selling or Going Public by THE NEW YORK TIMES STAFF By THE NEW YORK TIMES STAFF Start-up founders are finding new ways to remain independent, like recapitalizing their companies or bootstrapping them. But while…
November 20, 2013 Salesforce.com and HP Buck Common Wisdom of Cloud Computing by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Why is a leading cloud-computing company joining with one of the world’s largest makers of computer gear? It’s either smart business…
November 20, 2013 Emotion at Final Shareholder Meeting for Microsoft’s Ballmer by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD A nearly full house showed up at this year’s event, the last one with Steven A. Ballmer as the company’s chief…
November 20, 2013 Review: Xbox One a Great Game Player _ and More by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What is the Xbox One? Published: November 19, 2013 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/11/19/technology/ap-us-tec-digital-life-tech-test-xbox-one.html via IFTTT
November 19, 2013 U.S. Senate Gets Bill Clamping Down on ‘Patent Trolls’ by REUTERS By REUTERS Two leading U.S. senators introduced a bill on Monday aimed at making it harder for “patent trolls” to file frivolous infringement lawsuits….
November 19, 2013 Handset Unit Nearly Sold, Nokia Looks to an Uncertain Future by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Shareholders approve a $7.2 billion sale of Nokia’s cellphone business to Microsoft, leaving the company with its networking and mapping units,…
November 19, 2013 Mapping Bitcoin by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY An American expatriate has made a site that maps all the bitcoin trades in real time. One striking thing is China’s…
November 19, 2013 Carriers Reject a ‘Kill Switch’ For Preventing Cellphone Theft by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Lawmakers in San Francisco and New York are pushing cellphone makers to adopt a so-called kill switch that would allow…
November 19, 2013 A Conversation With Leander Kahney, Author of ‘Jony Ive’ by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Leander Kahney, the author of several books about Apple, took on the challenge of analyzing Apple through the lens of…