USB Type-C: Not living up to the potential it can B (for now)
New proprietary format standards are a hard sell: One need only look into the past few decades to notice a…
Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust investigation in Germany
Facebook may be abusing a dominant position in the market for social networks to impose unfair privacy policies on its…
Alleged Samsung Marshmallow update roadmap leaks
A new roadmap has leaked reportedly outlining Samsung’s international Marshmallow update plans for its Galaxy line of phones and tablets.…
IDG Contributor Network: The Internet of Trees
I recently connected with the CEO of a fascinating company based in Cork, Ireland, called Treemetrics. Its mission is to…
IDG Contributor Network: The first ever Google Car crash has a dirty little secret
I have a good hunch about what caused the recent Google autonomous car crash. From all reports, it looks like…
Samsung launches S Service online tech support
As good as modern technology is, at some point we’ve all run into bugs, errors and even major problems that…
Turkish mastermind of $55M ATM fraud pleads guilty
A Turkish citizen who led an operation that hacked into the systems of credit and debit card processing companies between…
WhatsApp update introduces document sharing support
The latest beta release of WhatsApp has added the first stage of document sharing. The WhatsApp update to v2.12.493 introduces…
Your tax dollars at work…real soon now
IT pilot fish starts work as a federal government contractor — and it’s not quite as smooth as he was…
IoT can be hard, but Red Hat and Eurotech are teaming up to make it easier
Getting IT to work smoothly is a challenge even when all the parts are in-house, but that’s nothing compared with…