US court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect telephone metadata in bulk.
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Microsoft, Google not doing enough on phone thefts, says San Francisco district attorney
San Francisco’s district attorney says he’s optimistic that Apple and Samsung are making progress on a system that would render stolen smartphones unusable, but the same isn’t true of Microsoft and Google.
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What's next for Dish after losing out on Sprint?
As the dust settles after SoftBank’s US$21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint, losing bidder Dish Network may be just getting started at stirring up the U.S. mobile industry.
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Zuckerberg says no ads on Instagram — at least, not yet
Instagram users fretting about ads clogging up their image feed can breath easy, at least for now. Facebook said Wednesday it has no immediate plans to put ads in its photo-sharing app — though make no mistake, they are coming eventually.
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Google unveils $35 Chromecast device for TV and music streaming
Google has introduced a cheaper rival product to the Apple TV set-top box with Chromecast, a small portable device that streams video and music from people’s computers and mobile devices to their televisions.
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Polycom CEO resigns after expense-report scandal
Videoconferencing is advertised as a tool to reduce travel expenses, but for the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the business, apparently that wasn’t enough.
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Juniper CEO to step down as profits surge
The chief executive of Juniper Networks, Kevin Johnson has announced he is stepping down on the same day the network-gear company hit its second quarter targets.
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Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Viber support website
The hacker group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) broke into the customer support website for Viber, an instant messaging and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) application available for both mobile and desktop operating systems.
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AT&T's Q2 revenue, profit gained on mobile growth
AT&T posted higher revenue and profit in the second quarter, with gains in its mobile unit offsetting flat wireline revenue.
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AT&T's Q2 revenue, profit gained on mobile growth
AT&T posted higher revenue and profit in the second quarter, with gains in its mobile unit offsetting flat wireline revenue.
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