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Facebook Unveils Anonymous Login at F8 Developer Meetup

Facebook made news April 30 at its F8 developers' conference in San Francisco by introducing a revamped mobile app development platform. It also broke...

How Cloud-Service Price Wars Increase Sales, Innovation

As cloud-service price wars continue to escalate--mainly among the three largest providers: Amazon, Google and Microsoft--the price cuts are, in fact, driving increased investment...

Amazon’s New Wearables Store Nods to a Shift to Mainstream

If more evidence were required to prove the whiplash pace at which the wearable device industry is growing, Amazon offered it April 29, with...

Microsoft’s Xbox Originals Content to Arrive in June

Like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, Microsoft is jumping on the original-content bandwagon with its own Xbox Originals service.The company today announced a lineup of...

Intel Declares IoT Important Enough to Start a New Division

Intel, which has been providing processors for the so-called Internet of things for more than three decades before the trend was named, has appointed...

Daily Tech Briefing: April 25, 2014

In the past, Federal Communications Commission officials have said defending net neutrality was a high priority. However, following its courtroom defeat to Verizon in...

Cisco Demos New Collaboration Functions for TelePresence

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Back in 2006, when Cisco Systems launched TelePresence -- its deluxe way to save travel and hotel costs for meetings...

Microsoft Expects Cortana Voice Assistant to Get Smarter

Cortana can speak, listen, decipher text queries and get to know users, courtesy of Microsoft's search and machine-learning technologies. According to the software giant's...

Microsoft Moves Toward Next-Gen Computing With Kinect, Perceptive Pixel

Microsoft is working on gesture-based computing, bringing the future depicted by the "Minority Report" closer to reality.To help bring about this future, the software...

Daily Tech Briefing: April 16, 2014

In response to the Heartbleed security vulnerability that was revealed last week, the OpenSSL Software Foundation is asking for money to help support its...