Now that the new Android OS version has been rolled out to most, if not all, Nexus devices, complaints and bug reports have flooded the internet at an exponential rate. Users have posed many issues, but some of the most recurring complaints seem to be regarding a poor battery life, … [Read more...]
Treasury Department Says Banks Need Cyber Risk Insurance
Amid a plethora of cyber infiltrations, data breaches and hacking threats, one United States Treasury Department official is urging financial institutions to adopt cyber risk insurance in order to deal with these potentially catastrophic risks. Speaking at an industry conference … [Read more...]
Google Inc. Replaces Captcha with New Anti-robot Technique
If you're a human being and you absolutely detest trying to decipher distorted letters and numbers then perhaps you'll be pleased about Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) newest plan to replace the dreaded captcha with a new anti-robot mechanism. According to a blog post by Vinay Shet, a … [Read more...]
ECB Won’t be Adjusting Interest Rates
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced Thursday it has decided to keep its interest rates unchanged. The central bank left its primary interest rate - the cost of borrowing at its conventional loans - at just 0.05 percent. The ECB also kept its deposit rate at -0.2 percent, which … [Read more...]
Trapping Trademarks: The Case of Apple Inc. App Store
Ever since its advent in the technology industry, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has relied heavily on the concept of branding to expand its business. Surely, Apple is a brand name and any device the company launches under its name automatically receives a stamp of guaranteed quality. … [Read more...]
Hershey May Do Away With High-fructose Corn Syrup
Do you know what chocolate bars taste like with just sugar? Well, if you're an American born after 1982 then it's unlikely that you've tasted these delicious, yummy bars with just plan old sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup. Hershey is now considering removing corn syrup … [Read more...]
Google Inc. Protecting Carriers By Updating Android Release Policy
In a recent amendment to the release policy of Android OS, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has added a few lines, which provide the company a security blanket to safeguard itself from any blame later on if and when carriers decide to delay providing an update to the installed version of … [Read more...]
8% of Americans are Depressed Women Most Affected
A new report released by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that just under eight percent of Americans 12 years of age or older suffer from depression, and about one-third of them have sought assistance and treatment. According to the federal … [Read more...]
Chromebooks Replacing iPads in Classrooms
iPads are in trouble, period! There was a time when iPad dominated classrooms all over the US; however times have changed and Chromebooks are considered a better, more feasible option now. As the country enters the last month of the Gregorian calendar for the year 2014, Chromebooks … [Read more...]
Jeff Bezos Made ‘Billions of Dollars of Failures’
This year, online retail juggernaut Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) released its much anticipated Fire Phone. The company had high hopes for the smartphone, including CEO Jeff Bezos. Unfortunately for the corporation, it is now considered one of the biggest blunders coming out of Seattle, … [Read more...]
Nations Hit by Ebola Can Expect Poor Economic Growth in 2014
A new report issued by the World Bank Tuesday shows that the organization has modified its decreases in its 2014 gross domestic product growth estimates for the three nations that were the most affected by the outbreak of the Ebola virus. The World Bank stated that Guinea, Liberia … [Read more...]
Back from the Dead: Old iPods Drag Apple Inc. to Court
That’s not all! Steve Jobs is the one who is providing all the evidence against Apple Inc. But there is nothing supernatural about the case at all. It just highlights how technology has a way of sticking around even when the world moves on. This month, Apple will visit court to face a … [Read more...]
Fed Warns Inflation Drop Could Delay Rate Hike in 2015
The general consensus on Wall Street is that the Federal Reserve will undoubtedly raise interest rates sometime in the middle of next year, citing an improving labor market and the Fed hitting its targeted inflation levels. However, due to a decline in oil prices, some economists and … [Read more...]
On-demand Cleaning Service Helpling Raises $17 Million
Moving forward, Helpling will do for home cleaning what Uber did for ride-sharing and what Airbnb did for room-sharing, says the Berlin-based Rocket Internet in regards to its on-demand cleaning service. The company announced that it has raised $16.8 million from investors in its … [Read more...]
Intel Partnership May Give Google Glass the Boost it Needs
In a recent news report given by the Wall Street Journal, it was revealed that a possible partnership may be on the horizon, this time between Intel and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Google currently outsources its smartphone, the Nexus and the company is not famous for hardware … [Read more...]
Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Will End the World
Stephen Hawking continues to remain one of the most important figures of our generation. With his vast intelligence and interesting ideas, he can communicate twice as fast thanks to new technology developed between himself and Intel with the partnership of SwiftKey over the past three … [Read more...]
Emails from Steve Jobs May Cost Apple Inc. $350 Million
Apple is a company not unfamiliar with the court room. On an average the tech giant gets involved in at least one court case in a year since its rise to fame. However, what is unusual is the plaintiff’s evidence against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) which always puts Apple in hot water. … [Read more...]
Consumers Spent an Average of $380.95 on Black Friday
After all the hype, commercials and news reports advertising incredible sales on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the National Retail Federation (NRF) suggests that there were fewer sales and shoppers this year than in 2013. It has been reported that the NRF discovered 5.1 … [Read more...]
Apple Watch Tops Search Engine List of Best Wearable Tech
Before this decade, wearable technology was considered an alien thing. In fact, even the concept of wearable technology was just limited to movies. But concepts, ideas and time changes and nowadays, the world is obsessed with wearable technology, as after smartphones it is the next … [Read more...]
Technology Win: Girl Scouts Selling Cookies Online
Girl Scouts of the United States of America are going online to help sell their cookies. The century-old institution will embrace an e-commerce model as well as the 21st century next year by overturning its ban on selling their mint thins and other cookies online. The New York Times … [Read more...]
