In an ongoing effort in the fight against software and music piracy, Google announced a plan to put greater emphasis on legitimate sources. Google has … Read more…
Google has now overtaken Goldman Sachs’ political donation amounts in the United States, Goldman Sachs held the top slot at $1.4 million and Google slipped … Read more…
Yes, the big news today is the release of the new Nexus devices. Personally, I am rather excited, my wallet, on the other hand, is … Read more…
There may not be a huge amount of competition between Facebook and Apple on the surface but, behind the scenes, they are fighting for the … Read more…
A leaked Walgreens memo suggests that Apple Pay will be rolling out to its stores nationwide this coming October 18th. That’s just a few days … Read more…
From an internal data breach at AT&T to Snapchat news and bankruptcy filings, we’ve covered a lot over the past week here at Techaeris. Here’s a quick recap … Read more…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a whoopsie on Thursday when he phrased an answer to a question about gender equal pay in a pretty bad … Read more…
Google is taking the Java copyright case with Oracle to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes it can get a lower court’s ruling overturned. That … Read more…
The popular box office-tracking site boxofficemojo.com has effectively disappeared from the internet and all its links are being directed to a generic IMDB page. It should … Read more…
It seems like a lot of companies that we had in our head as mobile phone and tablet companies are starting to expand their horizons. … Read more…
Bloomberg is reporting that Samsung Electronics earnings are taking a 60% hit due to slumping sales of their Galaxy smartphones. Competition from cheaper Chinese devices … Read more…
I don’t know how to feel about the news that the iPad is now the favorite brand of kids. It moved up a couple points … Read more…
The stories of data and security breaches are becoming way to commonplace these past few months, from JPMorgan Chase to Apple’s iCloud services. It seems … Read more…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab and social media giant Twitter recently announced a 5 year, $10 million dollar initiative to study ways to better understand … Read more…
GT Advanced Technologies is one of Apple’s key Sapphire partners and has a $578 million dollar contract with Apple to supply synthetic sapphire to them. Now … Read more…
From underwater robots to an eBay/Paypal split and angry law enforcement we’ve covered a lot over the past week here at Techaeris. Here’s a quick recap of some of the stories we covered in our Weekly Refresh.
I still have a hard time getting my head around the fact that lines of code can be worth $19 billion, but EU regulators have approved the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp, the widely used cross-platform messaging app. WhatsApp is a really popular app and currently has over 500 million users. It functions over a data connection, so if you get your friends using it you can stop paying for that painfully overpriced SMS and MMS plan of yours, and, at the root of it, it basically does the same thing as Facebook Messenger.
CNNMoney has a short interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt where he answers some questions about some of Tim Cook’s comments concerning Google, privacy and online security.
Details of a data breach at JPMorgan Chase are emerging and up to 76 million households and 7 million businesses could be affected; one of the largest such breaches in history.
Every time you turn around, it seems like another Angry Birds game or product is launched. Recently Rovio launched Angry Birds: Stella, and Angry Birds: Transformers is due out later this month. However, it appears that interest in the Angry Birds franchise is finally waning as Rovio announced it is axing 16% of its labor force by laying off 130 employees.
Verizon has been throwing around the idea of throttling its users who were grandfathered in with an unlimited data plan after a certain amount of data usage. You can imagine this brought forth a storm of protest seeing as people are paying for unlimited and expect unlimited. Even FCC chairman Tom Wheeler commented that Verizon’s choice to throttle these users was “disturbing”.
A lawsuit is underway in a San Francisco federal court that could have long reaching consequences for Google and its users. After admitting that its Google Street … Read more…
Craig Walker is the creator of Google Voice (formerly known as GrandCentral Communications) and knows a thing or two about VOIP communications. Now Walker is running … Read more…
Google has been very active on the education front, supplying students and teachers with tools to make their worlds that much easier, now they’ve announced … Read more…
In this day and age, corporate takeovers are the norm. However, news surfaced today that effective next year, e-commerce site eBay and it’s payment arm, … Read more…
Apple and Google’s decision to include a high level of encryption into their latest mobile operating systems (iOS 8 and Android L) has law enforcement … Read more…
From iPhone’s #Bendgate to a bone paste aimed at strengthening bones and a new Anti-Facebook social media website, we’ve covered a lot over the past week here at … Read more…
Canada is currently undertaking a hearing into the future of the television industry in that country dubbed “Let’s Talk TV.” Major players have been asked … Read more…
