REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft thinks it has the one.The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price.For the ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders. That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer."Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco Wednesday for the ...
At the place where motherhood meets entrepreneur and play dates collide with iPads, a new market for parent- and kid-friendly technology is exploding.Family tech -- Web services and applications for parents and kids -- is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve ...
LOS ANGELES -- Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn't possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind."A lot of the folks straight out of school didn't know any better, so I hired them instead," quipped Greenberg, chief ...
Back when she was in college, software developer Monica Wilkinson says, she used to dream of "being able to carry a computer in my head," instead of lugging her books and laptop all over campus. As she tried out her new Google Glass recently, Wilkinson said, it felt like that fanciful idea had ...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate aimed to help traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping -- for many a largely tax-free frontier -- to state sales taxes.The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Installers show up on time. Headquarters often tells customers when something needs to be fixed without prompting. Unsolicited credits sometimes show up on bills to account for small service glitches.Talk to a sampling of the earliest Google Fiber subscribers in the nation's ...
He's 26, likes industrial and electronic music, has a bleached-blond Mohawk haircut and sometimes, Mikhail Davidov said, he starts his day "at the crack of noon."The late hours are in front of a computer, working on reverse engineering, tearing apart computer programs to find their ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There has been a dramatic rise in the attempts of governments to censor content on the Web, Google said Thursday, saying it has received "more government removal requests than ever before."Google said it received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content from ...
