March 29, 2014 Review: Office for iPad Is Pretty and Functional by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Microsoft Office fans who’ve spent the last nine months using the software’s suite of apps on their tiny smartphone screens…
March 29, 2014 Cloud Computing’s Watershed Week by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Moves by older incumbents and young giants show that 2014 is the year computing everywhere comes into its own. Now it’s…
March 29, 2014 The Tech Bubble’s Silver Lining: Cheap Services for Everyone by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Box’s documents filed for its initial public offering show that the cloud-storage firm is losing a lot of money. There’s another…
March 29, 2014 BlackBerry Has a New Agenda and a New Dilemma by IAN AUSTEN By IAN AUSTEN While the strategy is far from a sure thing, analysts agree that BlackBerry’s new focus on mobile management software and services…
March 29, 2014 Microsoft to Stop Inspecting Private Emails in Investigations by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Microsoft will instead hand over investigations of stolen property to law enforcement agencies, the company’s general counsel said. The change came…
March 28, 2014 Cupcake Machine Opens in New York to Satisfy 24-Hour Cravings by REUTERS By REUTERS New Yorkers, who live in the city that famously never sleeps, now can satisfy their craving for cupcakes in any of those…
March 28, 2014 Government Data Requests Fall at Yahoo But Rise at Google by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Government officials in the United States and overseas made fewer requests for the private data of Yahoo users in the second…
March 28, 2014 Google Flu Trends: The Limits of Big Data by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Two recent research papers, examining Google Flu Trends, offer a critique of big-data analysis. Published: March 28, 2014 at 12:00AM from…
March 28, 2014 Despite Loss BlackBerry Has Some Hope for Future by IAN AUSTEN By IAN AUSTEN BlackBerry has had relentlessly bad financial news, but analysts are no longer raising concerns that the company is rapidly heading toward…
March 28, 2014 Intel Exits a Data Analysis Business and Invests in Another One by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The world’s biggest chip company is out of another business, a framework for big data analysis called Hadoop, and refocusing on…