November 24, 2015 Researchers Track Tricky Payment Theft Scheme by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH About two years after a hack at Target became national news, retailers are determined to avoid a similar disaster. Published: November…
November 23, 2015 Proposed Regulations for Drones Are Released by CECILIA KANG By CECILIA KANG Recommendations by a Federal Aviation Administration task force call for owners to register and for the aircraft to display identification numbers….
November 23, 2015 Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job by CECILIA KANG By CECILIA KANG Today’s tech companies have accepted lobbying as an essential part of doing business. Published: November 22, 2015 at 07:00PM from NYT…
November 22, 2015 Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Turkeys, News and News Turkeys by FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC On whether instant reactions to breaking news make it preferable to avoid the Internet and television altogether until…
November 21, 2015 Gear VR Offers a Preview of Virtual Reality in the Home by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN For an early stab at consumer virtual reality, the Gear VR is a work in progress that can cause eye…
November 21, 2015 Daily Report: Google Gets Serious About Competing in Cloud With Amazon Web Services by JIM KERSTETTER By JIM KERSTETTER Few would argue that Google knows better than most how to manage huge data centers. But in recent years Amazon has…
November 21, 2015 Yahoo Restricts Ad-Blocking Software for Some Email Users by MIKE ISAAC and SYDNEY EMBER By MIKE ISAAC and SYDNEY EMBER Yahoo blocked some users from accessing their Yahoo email accounts unless they switched off their ad blockers, adding…
November 21, 2015 Mark Zuckerberg Plans 2-Month Paternity Leave From Facebook by KATIE BENNER By KATIE BENNER Family leave policies have become the subject of much discussion in the tech industry, and a number of top companies have…
November 20, 2015 LivingSocial, Once a Unicorn, Is Losing Its Magic by MIKE ISAAC and KATIE BENNER By MIKE ISAAC and KATIE BENNER A former darling of the start-up world, the company offers a glimpse of what some of today’s biggest…
November 20, 2015 Backing Up iCloud Contacts by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER You can back up the an address book as a vCard file and import it back into the cloud if…