Anticlimax (noun) 1. An event or conclusion that is far less important, powerful or striking than expected. 2. The release of Microsoft Office for the iPhone. Office for iPhone is big news, but ... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Technology companies, the custodians of reams of personal data from hundreds of millions of people around the world, have been under fire after recent revelations that they secretly handed ... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, ... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Google, Facebook and Microsoft on Tuesday asked the government for permission to reveal details about the classified requests they receive for the personal information of foreign users. ... Read more
ON a recent family outing, my mother and sister got into a shouting match. But they weren’t mad at each other — they were yelling at the iPhone’s turn-by-turn navigation system. I interrupted ... Read more
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is betting it has a new way to win the wallets of consumers. The company on Tuesday introduced the new version of its Xbox video game console. The Xbox has been ... Read more
REDMOND, Wash. — When Microsoft began selling its last video-game console nearly eight years ago, there was no iPad, smartphones had keyboards and Facebook was mainly for college students. ... Read more
Concerned about an increase in smartphone thefts, the New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is trying to get the nation’s largest cellphone makers to do more to discourage the thefts. ... Read more
SEATTLE — With Windows 8, Microsoft made bold changes to the look of the software that powers most personal computers. But those moves may have been too aggressive for some customers, the company now ... Read more
Let’s admit it: Love it or hate it, Windows 8 was designed for touch screens. Its new facade, the colorful quilt of square tiles that I call TileWorld, was born for finger operation. ... Read more