June 17, 2014 Facebook Releases Slingshot for Self-Destructing Selfies by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL On Tuesday, Facebook rolled out Slingshot, a stand-alone app that lets users share photo and video messages that are then meant…
June 17, 2014 Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Isn’t for Everybody by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Users who mainly want a tablet that can sometimes be used a computer may be fine, but if you want to…
June 17, 2014 Reclaim the Firefox Search Box by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Plus, how to remove books from a Kindle e-reader screen. Published: June 19, 2014 at 12:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/1lKseut…
June 17, 2014 Daily Report: Amazon Seeks Tighter Hold on Shoppers Through a Phone by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Amazon is set to give the brutal phone business a shot. On the one hand, analysts say, it has…
June 17, 2014 London Welcomes the Tech Set and Its Money by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The city is hosting a number of events this week as continues efforts to diversify the local economy and embrace the…
June 17, 2014 As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish by DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY By DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY Seeking ever-higher payments from publishers to bolster its anemic bottom line, Amazon is holding books and authors hostage…
June 17, 2014 Nest’s Smoke Alarm Returns, With Price Cut by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Nest’s smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarm is coming back to store shelves two months after safety concerns prompted a recall…
June 17, 2014 Microsoft Unveils Machine Learning for the Masses by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Microsoft plans to make predictive data analysis, now an arcane field, a standard part of business. The company says that a…
June 16, 2014 Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Design Process and Product Philosophy by BRIAN X. CHEN and MATT RICHTEL By BRIAN X. CHEN and MATT RICHTEL Apple’s design chief, who rarely speaks publicly, said in a recent interview that the company’s design processes…
June 16, 2014 A Smartphone Keyboard App That Anticipates What You Want to Type by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT SwiftKey’s app for Android, which the London start-up made available free last week, is used on almost 250 million handsets. Now…