Information Technology
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United Launch Alliance head reworking firm to competeMar 08, 2015 7:44 am - Faced with mounting pressure from Elon Musk's SpaceX, the new chief executive of United Launch Alliance said Monday that he has been reconfiguring the company to compete...
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Fraudsters profit as more file their taxes onlineMar 08, 2015 7:41 am - When Jeff Parish signed onto his TurboTax account recently, he was surprised to see that the popular online filing service had already calculated a federal refund - to t...
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Apple seen emerging as serious competitor by auto executivesMar 08, 2015 7:34 am - GENEVA - Automotive executives are taking seriously the prospect that Apple and Google will emerge as competitors even as they consider partnering with the two. "If thes...
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Internet invades everything at gadget fair in BarcelonaMar 07, 2015 6:32 am - BARCELONA, Spain - The pervasive creep of the Internet from computers and phones to all kinds of objects is the theme of this year's edition of the Mobile World Congress...
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Size matters: Phones as big as they can get for easy useMar 07, 2015 6:31 am - NEW YORK - There was a time you could count on phones getting larger each year. Samsung's runaway success with the big-screen smartphone even spurred Apple to release a ...
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Six of the camera industry's too-late attempts to compete with iPhoneMar 07, 2015 6:00 am - NEW YORK _ As proof of how far and how fast the camera giants have fallen, consider this: Apple is now running a crowdsourced marketing campaign called “Shot on iPhone 6...
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Google, Facebook update contrasting plans to connect worldMar 07, 2015 6:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain — Sci-fi solutions or making friends one at a time? Google and Facebook want more people online, searching around and clicking on ads. And they are find...
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Summers: Robots are hurting workers, and education won't fix problemMar 07, 2015 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — Two weeks ago, the famous economist Larry Summers sat in a chair on a stage at the National Press Club, talked with several other smart people for an hour a...
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BlackBerry offers new phones but turns focus to softwareMar 07, 2015 6:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain — BlackBerry may be launching four new smartphones over the coming year, but the struggling company is staking its future on becoming a giant in softwar...
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The week ordinary users beat the InternetMar 07, 2015 6:00 am - Last week, the impossible happened. Then it happened a second time. Then it happened yet again. In the space of three breakneck days, the Internet saw three reforms that...