December 27, 2014 A Flurry of Varying Cellphone Offers Sows Confusion Among Consumers by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Even executives at the wireless phone companies say their industry has created a confounding abundance of competing plans. Published: December…
December 27, 2014 Risks in Using Social Media to Spot Signs of Mental Distress by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER The ill-fated introduction in Britain of an app to detect predictors of suicide shows what may happen when social media posts…
December 26, 2014 Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox Live Networks Attacked by Hackers by NICOLE PERLROTH and BRIAN X. CHEN By NICOLE PERLROTH and BRIAN X. CHEN Over the Christmas holiday, the gaming servers for Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation 4 were offline, rendering…
December 26, 2014 M.B.A. Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Leading business schools are breaking from traditional approaches and picking up the digital-age arts of speed and constant experimentation. Published: December…
December 26, 2014 Management in a Digital Economy by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Business schools are struggling to adapt to the new realities of a digital economy. What are the best skills and training…
December 25, 2014 Daily Report: Google Knows What You’re Getting for Christmas by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Google, already the repository of our collective fears and hopes, can also predict what Americans are planning to put…
December 25, 2014 Ireland Lends Support to Microsoft in Email Privacy Case by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT In a legal brief supporting the tech giant’s appeal of a search warrant for communications stored at a Dublin data center,…
December 25, 2014 Uber Adds E-Hail Taxi Fee for New York City Riders by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The $2 fee applies to people who use the Uber app to hail a regular taxi. It already exists in other…
December 25, 2014 Apps to Ring In the New Year, and for the Resolutions After by KIT EATON By KIT EATON Apps offer ways to track the arrival of the new year, as well as methods for making and sticking to new…
December 25, 2014 Trying to Update an Overloaded iPhone by J.D. BIERSDORFER By J.D. BIERSDORFER Also, how to force-quit apps on Windows 8.1. Published: December 24, 2014 at 07:00PM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/1vp8PAL via IFTTT