Rampant Returns Plague E-Retailers
Free shipping and lenient return policies have given online retailing a huge boost. Now, chains are mining their order data to get shoppers to keep more purchases. Behind the uptick in e-commerce is a...
View ArticleThere's a New Deliveryman in Town
Mike Harper, a TriBeCa doorman, remembers Christmas Eve three years ago as a turning point in his career. At 7:30 pm, he watched in awe as a United Parcel Service Inc. deliveryman carted 27 packages...
View ArticleTribune Buys Gracenote From Sony
Tribune Co. said it will buy Sony Corp.’s Gracenote Inc. subsidiary for $170 million, a move to unite businesses that supply entertainment data. The Chicago-based media company said Gracenote will be...
View ArticleFor Health Coverage Starting January 1, Deadline Extended a Day
Federal officials delayed the deadline to sign up for Jan. 1 coverage through the end of Christmas Eve. The deadline was originally set for midnight on Dec. 23, but contractors managing the site...
View ArticleWith New Outsourcing Deal, BlackBerry Cancels Two Phones
A small item from BlackBerry’s earnings-related filing Friday got lost in the news of its hardware partnership with Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group–sales of its new phones have been so bad that...
View ArticleGoogle’s Schaft Robot Dominates Pentagon Contest
It may not be the prettiest robot on the scene, but the angular blue creation from Google’s newly acquired Japanese startup is poised to secure more Pentagon funding to develop a creation capable of...
View ArticleTarget Discusses Breach With State Attorneys
Target Corp. Monday moved to allay rising concerns from state attorneys general over its 20-day security breach. On Monday, Target’s general counsel Tim Baer held a 30-minute call with several...
View ArticleQOTD: Now You See It …
Erasability used to be a mistake. – Digital anthropology student Olly Osborne, who is studying the implications of data emphemerality, in a series on Medium called “Data Death”
View ArticleSamsung Phone Studied for Possible Security Gap
The security platform for Samsung Electronics Co.’s best-selling Galaxy S4 smartphone suffers from a vulnerability that could allow malicious software to track emails and record data communications,...
View ArticleScores of Music Services Stream Into Crowded Field
The number of music-streaming services is set to explode next year, as record labels have warmed up to the idea of renting consumers access to a vast collection of tunes, rather than selling them...
View ArticleIt's the Thought That Counts (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
View ArticleOnline Sales Jumped 37 Percent During Weekend
Retailers’ holiday sales have so far proved disappointing, but online sales again are a bright spot. After mall-traffic tracker ShopperTrak on Monday reported a 3.1 percent decline in holiday in-store...
View ArticleLate Surge in Web Buying Blindsides UPS, Retailers
A surge in online shopping this holiday season left stores breaking promises to deliver packages by Christmas, suggesting that retailers and shipping companies still haven’t fully figured out...
View ArticleLightSquared Files Bankruptcy-Exit Plan Backed by Fortress, Melody
Wireless venture LightSquared Inc. is seeking to exit bankruptcy protection with backing from private-equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC and Melody Capital Advisors LLC. LightSquared, which has...
View ArticleTechnology Fuels New Police Cruiser
To the untrained eye, it looks like almost any other New York Police Department cruiser combing the city’s streets — but this squad car has just as much brains as it does brawn. It is the department’s...
View ArticleQOTD: Sneaky Snaps
Back when we had cameras that weren’t in our phones, it would be really strange to just walk up to someone and take a picture of them, or kind of place the camera on the table and try to sneak a...
View ArticleJudge Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal
A federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the National Security Agency’s broad collection of U.S. phone-customer data is lawful, dismissing a complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union....
View ArticleTwitter Reverses Rally as Shares Dive
Twitter Inc.’s rally came to an abrupt halt on Friday. Shares of the microblogging site tumbled $9.56, or 13 percent, to $63.75, taking a dent out of the big gains that accumulated since the San...
View ArticleNSA Struggles to Make Sense of Flood of Surveillance Data
William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to snoop on Internet traffic around the world, delivered an unusual message at a recent privacy conference to...
View ArticleGoogle, Apple Forge Auto Ties
Technology giants Google and Apple are about to expand their battle for digital supremacy to a new front: The automobile. Next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Google and German auto...
View ArticleLG to Unveil webOS-Powered TV
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. will soon take the veils off a television model that will run on the webOS operating system, highlighting its ambition of creating a prominent operating system for...
View ArticleAcer Sees Senior Executive Departures
Acer Inc. said Monday that three senior executives had recently left the company and some of them won’t be replaced as the embattled personal-computer maker tries to keep costs low. The management...
View ArticleThe NSA and the Corrosion of Silicon Valley
I believe that the people who work at the NSA are patriots. They devote their considerable intellects to preserve, protect, and defend the people of the United States. I wish their patriotism +...
View ArticleApple Feud Deepens With Court-Appointed Monitor
A feud between Apple Inc. and a lawyer appointed by a federal court judge to monitor the company’s e-book pricing reform became even more acrimonious Monday. Michael Bromwich, the lawyer picked as...
View ArticleHP Affirms Higher-End Layoffs Figure
Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed it has increased by 5,000 the number of layoffs it plans to implement under the restructuring plan it adopted in May 2012, bringing the expected number of job cuts to...
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