The Internet Is Getting Too Big for Just One Kind of Wi-Fi
The Wi-Fi Alliance is working on two new specifications—one with much more range and one with much less.
View ArticleFive Reasons Why the Internet of Things May Already be Broken
There are some big obstacles before the internet of things can become a viable business.
View ArticleFacebook Increasingly the Gatekeeper of Your Online Identity
The notion that the world outside its homepage remains anonymous is increasingly untrue.
View ArticleWill This Google App Really Reinvent Email?
Google’s Inbox is not an email app. It is a personal assistant, a tool for reminders, and a way to quickly scan incoming information all in one.
View ArticleThe Future of Wearable Technology Sounds Kind of Awful
A new report out from the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers concludes that sooner or later wearable technology will catch on.
View ArticleAmericans' Share of Online Global Population is on the Decline
As more people access the Internet in more diverse ways, the established measurement systems for advertising and other analytics are becoming less effective.
View ArticleCEOs, Beware -- Someone is Snooping on You Using Hotel Wi-Fi
The attackers use hotel Wi-Fi to prompt people to download updates for software such as Adobe Flash, Google Toolbar and Microsoft Messenger. The updates are in fact malware.
View ArticleChina Poised to Dominate E-Commerce by 2018
One of the factors that helps drive rising e-commerce sales is consumer confidence.
View ArticleSurvey: Americans Do Care About Online Privacy After All
Yet, the idea that people simply do not care about privacy remains entrenched.
View ArticleWhy Robots Won't Take Over the World Anytime Soon
Efforts to develop artificial intelligence continue apace, with major computer science research and development facilities devoting time, energy, and money to making computers behave like humans.
View ArticleHow Even the Remotest Parts of the World Are Getting Mobile Coverage
A new device is using regular radio spectrum to connect to mobile phones in its area.
View ArticleWhy Fewer Americans Are Googling Things
People who are coming online now are getting used to a world in which they go to apps rather than a browser to look for something.
View Article5 Tech Predictions You Should Actually Pay Attention To
January may be coming to a close, but the flood of predictions, forecasts, and prognostications for the year ahead hasn’t abated. Here are the important ones.
View ArticleThe Search Engine of the Future Will be All-Seeing, All-Knowing ‘Watcher in...
Search as envisioned in the 1990s is no longer fit for purpose.
View ArticleWhy the Top-Level Domain Revolution Fizzled Out
Dot-com and dot-net continued to raked up nearly 26 million new domain registrations in the first nine months of 2014.
View ArticleHow American and British Spies Hacked the World’s Largest SIM-Card-Maker
Mass surveillance has cast its net even wider than previously thought.
View ArticleWhy the Mobile Industry Wants to Kill the Password
As data rather than voice or text becomes the big reason people use their mobile phones, networks want to extract more value from their users.
View ArticleThe Many Americans Who Only Use Smartphones to Go Online
One in five adults in the United States connects to the Internet without desktops or laptops.
View ArticleThere’s One Part of the Tech Industry that Mobile Is Not Disrupting
Criminals and other malicious actors tend to prefer more traditional means to break into networks than mobile devices.
View ArticleHow to Use Mobile Phone Data for Good Without Invading Anyone’s Privacy
Call-data records show the true nature of social networks and human movement.
View ArticleYou Can Now Protect Your Facebook Messages From Snooping Eyes
The social network has added another layer of security for the cautious: encrypted notification emails.
View ArticleWhy Apple Is Suddenly So Obsessed With Your Privacy
Apple claims it does not pass along your data to third parties or use it to profile you.
View ArticleA Brief Guide to the Fantastic, Wondrous Creatures of Tech Industry Jargon
First came the unicorns. Then came the decacorns. Now people are talking about dragons, centaurs and even ponies.
View ArticleLife-Saving 'Undo Send' Feature Now Official Part of Gmail
One of the most life-saving software tweaks ever invented.
View ArticleCan Europe Be a Leading Tech Power?
Andrus Ansip, Europe's Digital Market Commissioner hopes to make that happen.
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