Search Results

CTIA-The Wireless Association and major mobile manufacturers, providers and operating system makers have entered a voluntary agreement to include antitheft measures in smartphones ...

The FBI is planning to have a fully operational facial recognition system in place by this summer and may be well on its way to reaching that goal ...

T-Mobile has decided to end overage fees for its mobile customers ...

Amazon on Thursday released its annual letter to shareholders, revealing a smattering of tidbits about what's happening in the company now and what's in store for the future ...

Facebook is ditching the private messaging function in its main mobile application in favor of having the entire messaging experience take place inside the dedicated Messenger app ...

While Smart cars may be good for the environment and financially beneficial to owners, more so than other vehicles, those benefits are wiped out when a gang of vandals tips one over ...

Stanford researchers have created a new game controller that can measure a player's emotions. Eventually, developers may be able to use this information to adjust the video gameplay experience, depending on a player's level of engagement ...

Though the current incarnation of virtual reality entertainment has its roots in gaming, potential applications for the Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus extend far beyond video games. ...

BlackBerry has decided to part ways with T-Mobile ...

FireChat, an iPhone app designed for anonymous hyperlocal communication, could change the way we connect with one other: It does not require an Internet connection or even a cell signal to work ...

Sony has launched a high-end tablet targeted at businesses, which allows users to annotate and draw on documents on an e-Ink screen ...

Facebook last week announced more detailed plans to bring affordable Internet access to every person on the planet ...

Twitter has bolstered its photo-sharing capabilities with the addition of two new features: the option to add up to four photos per tweet, and a function allowing users to tag up to 10 other people in a photo. Both features are designed to make photos more social ...

eBay's board of directors this week urged shareholders to reject Carl Icahn's plan to spin off PayPal as a separate company ...

Facebook has agreed to acquire Oculus VR, maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming hardware ...

LG Electronics on Monday unveiled a light bulb designed to illuminate consumers lives in a more intelligent way ...

Although they previously came to an arrangement regarding stronger broadband service delivery, Netflix and Comcast last week sparred over the issue of Net neutrality in a public forum ...

The mobile game Flappy Bird seemed dead and buried, but a tweet from its creator suggests it may yet rise from the ashes -- perhaps not quite like the phoenix ...

Sony debuted Project Morpheus, its virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4 console, at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The project is in active development with a view to a future commercial launch. A software development kit also is under development ...

Google and Viacom have settled a long-running copyright suit, after a federal judge twice threw out the case ...