Once bitter rivals, US tech giants Apple and IBM have now teamed up to
develop business apps and sell iPhones and iPads to corporate customers. Apple and IBM have agreed a “landmark deal” that will see the technology giants work together to develop apps for iPhones and iPads. Under the agreement, …
Verizon got a little more serious about tackling prepaid cellphone
service when it unveiled new Allset plans a few months ago but it was hobbled by the lack of LTE. Why not just go to rival carriers who’ve had fast data for considerably longer? That won’t be a problem after today. Big Red now le...
Google ended a long and unpopular policy Tuesday requiring a real name to register a Google+ account. In a blog post the company explained the reason for the change. The original real-names-only policy “helped create a community made up of real people, but it also excluded a number of people who…
These contact lenses will be a breakthrough in diabetes management and will allow diabetics to
monitor blood sugar levels without drawing blood. Pharmaceutical company Novartis announced Tuesday that its eye care division, Alcon, will license Google’s smart contact lens technology, creating a tool to monitor dia…
Google has Nest, Apple has HomeKit and Samsung has…SmartThings, we’re hearing. The deal was completed for around $200 million dollars though it might have been less according to one source. (Update: The deal is not done yet, says another.) SmartThings is in the home automation space and allows ...
Google said Tuesday it had created an elite team of researchers to find and report major Internet security flaws potentially thwarting both Chinese hackers and U.S. intelligence agencies. In a blog post Google security engineer Chris Evans said the team, dubbed Project Zero, will hunt for bugs …
After an earnings report that came in below analyst expectations, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer spent a good portion of today’s analyst call making the case that she can still turn the company around. Mayer said that Yahoo was “not satisfied with our results this quarter.” However, she also argued that…
Q. I just noticed Internet Explorer is gone from the apps displayed on my Windows 8.1 screen. The browser opens but only in the Desktop mode version. How can I get the app version back? A. If Internet Explorer 11 has disappeared from the collection of app tiles on the Modern interface side of yo...
For anyone who’s ever experienced customer-service woes be glad this isn’t you. AOL product manager Ryan Block, a former editor with Engadget, shared via Twitter a recording of his uncomfortable conversation with a Comcast customer-service representative on Monday night. Block said he was callin…
The team behind the popular custom ROM Paranoid Android revealed the first build that incorporates a recent apps interface similar to Android L. The new interface is currently available in PA 4.5 Alpha 1, a preview build meant to showcase design changes that are currently in the works. Announced …
