Microsoft to Offer Office for iPad, Maybe a Bit Late
By NICK WINGFIELD
Owners of Apple’s tablet will be able to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other popular productivity tools — but they still may not want to.
A rendering of a solar-powered drone from Ascenta, the British company acquired by Facebook.
Facebook is creating a laboratory to devise a way to provide web access from solar-powered drones or perhaps other “connectivity aircraft.”
BlackBerry, in John S. Chen’s version of the future, will become a leading supplier of software and services to securely manage the proliferation of smartphones and tablets used by business and government workers.
BlackBerry has had relentlessly bad financial news, but analysts are no longer raising concerns that the company is rapidly heading toward collapse.
Owners of Apple’s tablet will be able to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other popular productivity tools — but they still may not want to.
Two recent research papers, examining Google Flu Trends, offer a critique of big-data analysis.
Eight writers and video producers had accused Baidu of violating their right to free speech by blocking users in the United States from viewing their pro-democracy material.
A new report shows how much work it is to download apps, interact with the mobile Internet billions of times a day, and all feel frustration at slow loads and app crashes.
Government officials made fewer requests for the private data of Yahoo users in the second half of 2013, but such requests continued to rise at Google, the companies said on Thursday.
Twitter and Billboard plan to create the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts: continuously updated lists of the songs being discussed and shared the most on Twitter in the United States.
Several large corporations are working to establish global standards for the connections of intricate systems of sensors and computers in hospitals, oil rigs and other industrial settings.
The world’s biggest chip company is out of another business, a framework for big data analysis called Hadoop, and refocusing on how to sell more chips.
The deal for the mobile Internet service provider represents a reshuffling of assets within the corporate family of SoftBank, which owns about 42 percent of Yahoo Japan.
Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR has brought attention to its co-founder Palmer Luckey and the Southern California tech scene where his company took root.
Once you decode a tumor’s genome, what’s next? Oncologists hope that IBM’s Watson will help them find drugs for patients’ particular brain cancer mix.
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At least until the end of this decade, viewers will have to navigate between multiple streaming services to watch the movie or TV show they want.
Curved screens are the latest thing in TVs and phones, but while they work brilliantly in televisions, at least one phone model was a disappointment.
A number of alternatives to SMS allow longer messages, group chats and the ability to add photos or videos.
From cleaning pools to carrying shopping bags, the dream of robotic servants is edging closer to reality.
The apps available to baseball fans in New York City are some of the best around.
HTC on Tuesday announced the new version of its flagship smartphone, which features notable camera tricks, including a feature that lets images be refocused after the fact.
By offering everything needed to produce (and sell) a design, one Queens factory hopes to be the Amazon of 3-D printing.
Once you’ve decided which camera to buy, you’ll have to figure out which bag can fit your camera and maybe some lenses and a laptop.
The creators of Nimblstand incorporated a design aspect they call gravity nesting, which allows almost any tablet to fit in the stand.
Plus, finding and adding shortcuts to Mac programs not on the dock.
Plus, adjusting the font size on the Chrome browser.
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