Netflix cuts original TV deal with DreamWorks
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES — Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content.
Ohio police chief takes criminals to task online
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
KENT, Ohio — If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police Chief David Oliver and some of his small department's 52,000-plus Facebook fans.
Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
UPTON, N.Y. — New York to Chicago, in five weeks?
Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine
| |Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013
NEW YORK — Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so.
Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine
| |Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013
NEW YORK — Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so.
Web giants get broader surveillance revelations
|Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data.
Google launches Internet-beaming balloons
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.
Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.
A look at Google's Internet-beaming balloons
|Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
Google is experimenting with balloons that beam the Internet from the sky.
Web giants get broader surveillance revelations
|Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said Friday night that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data.
News Summary: Microsoft brings Office to iPhone
|Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
NEW SOFTWARE: Microsoft is making a pared-down version of its Office software package available on the iPhone.
NY's Bloomberg and SF mayor announce tech summits
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his San Francisco counterpart, Ed Lee, said at a news conference Friday that they are sponsoring a pair of technology summits over the next year.
Review: Office for iPhone helpful for subscribers
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
NEW YORK — The wait is over for the iPhone version of Microsoft's Office software.
At E3, sexism still an issue
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
LOS ANGELES — When it comes to video games, it still felt like a man's world at E3.
The new consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
NEW YORK — Microsoft and Sony offered new details this week on the game consoles they will start selling before the holiday shopping season. The Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 will join Nintendo's Wii U, which came out last year, in vying for shoppers' attention and dollars at a time many people are turning to phones and tablets for gaming.
Ideas for keeping your data safe from spying
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
LONDON — Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed.
Tereshkova marks 50 years of her historic flight
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
MOSCOW — It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago - putting a woman in orbit. And 26-year old Valentina Tereshkova carried her part with grace, shouting "Take off your hat, sky, I'm coming!" as she blasted off.
Microsoft brings Office to iPhone, but not tablets
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
NEW YORK — Even as a pared-down version of Microsoft's Office software package arrived on the iPhone, the company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices as it tries to boost sales of tablet computers running its own Windows system.
German ministers quiz web firms on US surveillance
|Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
BERLIN — German ministers questioned major Internet companies on Friday about U.S. tracking of web activity, days before a visit to Berlin by President Barack Obama.
Obama to take advantage of advances in wireless
|Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama is taking advantage of advances in the wireless industry to help create jobs.
