March 8, 2016 U.S. Restricts Sales to ZTE, Saying It Breached Sanctions by PAUL MOZUR By PAUL MOZUR The Chinese phone maker will be blocked from buying American technology without a special license for violating sanctions against Iran. Published:…
March 8, 2016 Microsoft Opens Its Corporate Data Software to Linux by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY For the first time, Microsoft is enabling SQL Server, its software for managing business data, to run on a competing operating…
March 8, 2016 Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling in Apple iPhone Case in Brooklyn by ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN The Justice Department said a federal judge had erred in not ordering Apple to unlock a drug dealer’s…
March 7, 2016 Raymond Tomlinson, Who Put the @ Sign in Email, Is Dead at 74 by WILLIAM GRIMES By WILLIAM GRIMES The computer programmer chose the @ sign to separate a user name from a destination address to modify a messaging program….
March 7, 2016 Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple’s Appeal in E-Book Pricing Case by ADAM LIPTAK By ADAM LIPTAK Apple had wanted to appeal a lower court’s determination that it and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices above…
March 7, 2016 Europe’s Antitrust Enforcer on Google, Apple and the Year Ahead by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT In an interview, Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, discusses the issues underpinning her current investigations and whether she unfairly…
March 7, 2016 Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY As some tech sectors show signs of slowing, cloud services have created remarkable demand for highly educated engineers and mathematicians. And…
March 7, 2016 Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF A number of start-ups are developing a new generation of pattern recognition software that is slowly and steadily advancing artificial intelligence….
March 6, 2016 Farhad and Joe Examine Silicon Valley’s Pull in Washington by FARHAD MANJOO and JOSEPH PLAMBECK By FARHAD MANJOO and JOSEPH PLAMBECK The chat goes from new talking devices, a drone that sees things, goggles (really) and the Apple cliffhanger….
March 6, 2016 At RSA Conference, Unlikely Allies Address Value of Digital Security by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Given Apple’s dispute with the F.B.I., what surprised many at the world’s largest gathering of security experts was the nuanced tone…