SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook's executives are not terribly worried about upsetting people these days.Flush with profits and a high stock price, Facebook recently shocked investors by saying that it planned to spend billions of dollars on projects...
Mobile operating systems or mobile OSs have come a long way since the first generation of Apple's iOS, back in 2007. With major advancements in hardware, and reduced costs of processors and sensors, the possibilities for mobile software have...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration is expected to include some modest changes to make it easier for technology companies to retain high-skilled workers frustrated by long and unpredictable waits for green cards.But...
SAN FRANCISCO: The bull run in Microsoft's stock this past year has helped the tech giant surpass Exxon Mobil and seize the rank of the second most valuable company, behind Apple Inc.Under new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has worked to overcome...
SAN FRANCISCO: Google is remixing the music on its YouTube video site with the addition of ad-free subscription service ``Music Key'' and a new format designed to make it easier to find millions of songs that can still be played for free.The...
NEW DELHI: E-commerce giant Amazon wants to do in India what Alibaba did in China. Amazon's India head Amit Agarwal on Tuesday met telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and urged him to allow the use of new technologies such as real-time...
NEW DELHI: The entry of Reliance Jio Infocomm in the telecom space will intensify competition and may bring data tariffs down by at least 20%, Fitch Ratings said today.It, however, said no tariff wars are expected as witnessed during the 2009-2013...
Apple Inc pulled a "bait and switch" move to force GT Advanced Technologies into a money-losing deal to supply the iPhone maker with sapphire, according to an affidavit by a senior executive at the company.In documents unsealed on Friday by...
NEW DELHI: Google in an official blog post has said that the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update has been released.However, the company has not said which models and regions will get the latest version of Android first. There have been no reports...