LVMH’s TAG Heuer has plans for smartwatch: paper
Luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer wants to make its own smartwatch to compete with Apple.

September 15, 2014 at 10:59AM
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Apple Sells 4M iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Pre-Orders In Opening 24 Hours
Apple has sold a record number of iPhones during its initial pre-order weekend sales, topping the charts with 4 million units moved between when it kicked off pre-sales early Friday morning and the end of the same day.

September 15, 2014 at 08:34AM
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Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons’ electronic privacy
How ninja librarians are ensuring patrons’ electronic privacy.

September 15, 2014 at 08:34AM
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The rise of the anti-facial recognition movement
With Facebook automatically tagging your photos, Google Glass apps being able to pinpoint faces, and police using high-end technology to match digital and physical identities, big brother’s watchful eye is all around us.

September 15, 2014 at 07:25AM
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Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions
“Minecraft” was launched five years ago as a PC game, but 54 million sales later, about 40 percent of copies are downloaded onto phones and tablets. Left to their own devices, it does not seem likely that Mojang’s 40-strong team would ever get round to designing a Windows Phone version of “Minecraft.”

September 14, 2014 at 11:21PM
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Watch Charlie Rose Online – Tim Cook
Charlie Rose sits down with the Apple CEO to discuss the Apple Watch, Apple Pay and the new iPhone.

September 14, 2014 at 09:22PM
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Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom
According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire Internet, including end-user devices. In pursuing that goal, they have broken into networks belonging to Deutsche Telekom.

September 14, 2014 at 05:27PM
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In this Chinese city, phone addicts get their own sidewalk lane
Some places have lanes for bicycles, others for motorcycles, but there’s a place in mainland China that boasts a different type of lane altogether: One for phone addicts glued to their screens.

September 14, 2014 at 02:57PM
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Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court
There have been 11 court rulings on the patentability of software since the Supreme Court’s decision — including six that were decided this month. Every single one of them has led to the patent being invalidated.

September 14, 2014 at 12:50PM
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HBO is now “seriously considering” whether to offer HBO Go without cable TV
It really might happen. Just not quite yet.

September 14, 2014 at 10:57AM
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