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Chrome Remote Desktop App Now Available for Mobile Devices

Back in 2011, Google Chrome released a beta Chrome Remote Desktop feature that was very useful for workers on the road. The feature allowed...

Senate Bill Aims to Replace Federal Agency With Google Search

A little-known federal agency, the National Technical Information Service, works quietly behind the scenes, collecting scientific, technical and engineering information and selling reports on...

The Good News and Bad News of Getting a Google Glass Invite

Since Google Glass first began being distributed to early Glass "Explorers" in April 2013, I've wanted to try one personally to see how it...

YouTube Live-Streaming Coachella Music Festival April 11-13

YouTube is live-streaming the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival starting at 6:30 p.m. EDT April 11, bringing music fans...

What Spilling Your Beverage on Your Laptop Teaches You

It was to be the last time I traveled with my 5-year-old Lenovo T61 laptop running Windows XP because, hey, Windows XP support is...

Google’s Chromecast TV Dongle Gets a Chrome Experiment

Google's innovative $35 Chromecast television dongle often gets cool new features, but a new add-on from Google's Chrome Experiments project is slated to be...

BlackBerry Suing Senior OS Expert to Try to Keep Him From Quitting

From the annals of That's Not Ideal comes news that BlackBerry sued an executive, Senior Vice President of Software Sebastien Marineau-Mes, to keep him...

HTC’s Big March 25 Reveal Is No Secret, but So What?

Very likely, Illinois teen Roshan Jamkatel really did post an early review of HTC's upcoming smartphone, code-named the M8, to YouTube (though in one...

Why Mozilla’s Brendan Eich Is the Right Choice for CEO

Finally. At long last and after two CEOs who left after short tenures on the job, Mozilla now has the CEO it always should...

Google Won’t Face Class-Action Lawsuit in U.S. Over Scanning of Gmail

Gmail users who wanted to band together to take Google to court over its scanning practices of Gmail messages won't be able to fight...