October 15, 2015 Listening for the Headphones You Want by GREGORY SCHMIDT By GREGORY SCHMIDT Sample the speakers and headphones with the music or use you have in mind. Here are a variety, including a set…
October 15, 2015 Walmart Takes Aim at ‘Cloud Lock-in’ by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Walmart is giving away some cutting-edge software to make it easier to switch cloud suppliers. Walmart’s retail nemesis, Amazon, is also…
October 15, 2015 Preparing for Disaster: When Your Phone Is Gone by KATIE BENNER By KATIE BENNER A primer on how to track and disable iPhones or Androids that go missing. Published: October 13, 2015 at 08:00PM from…
October 15, 2015 Encryption Is More Important, and Easier, Than Ever by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Nonprofit groups, tech giants and the federal government are pushing for more website administrators to incorporate HTTPS security into their sites….
October 15, 2015 Daily Report: Putting Twitter’s Layoffs in Perspective by JIM KERSTETTER By JIM KERSTETTER Analysts say Twitter’s cuts show something may be wrong inside the company. But when tech giants cut thousands of jobs, the…
October 15, 2015 Hacking for Security, and Getting Paid for It by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH A host of tech companies now offer hackers bounties for reporting the flaws they find in their technology, a significant shift…
October 15, 2015 Hackers Prove They Can ‘Pwn’ the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Patty Walsh invited two pro hackers to try to access to her life, which is not heavily wired. In two hours,…
October 14, 2015 Twitter Names Omid Kordestani as Executive Chairman by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The appointment of Mr. Kordestani, Google’s former chief business officer, brings an outsider onto a board criticized as too insular. Published:…
October 14, 2015 Behind the Failure of Leap Transit’s Gentrified Buses in San Francisco by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Leap charged riders $6, nearly three times the price of a city bus. Its draw was luxury, with black leather seats,…
October 14, 2015 Daily Report: EMC, a Big Company in a Small Town by JIM KERSTETTER By JIM KERSTETTER A deal between Dell and EMC likely means more consolidation to come among big business computing companies. But early signs indicate…