If you’re a recovering iPhone user contending with the infamous iMessage bug—the one that traps iPhone texts in limbo when you switch to another smartphone—take heart: Fixing this problem just got a lot simpler. Apple now allows people to officially de-register from the iMessage system themselves,...
China, which has dozens of official languages, is now mocking Americans for being impressed by knowledge of just one. "U.S. media wowed after Mark Zuckerberg conducts Tsinghua University Q&A in Chinese," reads a South Morning China Post headline about the Facebook CEO's Wednesday speaking...
Despite building its entire existence around real identities, social network giant Facebook today unveiled Rooms, its new anonymous app. The project was created by the Facebook Creative Labs team. In the new app, users can create individual chatrooms around various topics they’d like to discuss, customize...
Two years ago, a team of engineers and designers on Google’s Gmail team decided that Gmail wasn’t cutting it. Google’s signature email program first hit the Web in 2004. In its earliest days, it was a godsend to everyone who battled against a daily rush of...
Cash, credit or smartphone? Apple has promised that its Apple Pay service can revolutionize the way we shop, replacing the normal credit card swipe with a tap of the phone and a fingerprint scan. But we wanted to see if Apple Pay would work as...
Are you tired of reading about the CIO-CMO relationship? Bored of hearing about the alleged war between the two roles and of how the CMO is becoming more tech-savvy, spending more on technology, bypassing the CIO and marginalising the role of IT in the process? Gartner...
In the old days, a door-to-door salesman knew his chances of making a sale multiplied if he could talk his way into a home. For today’s retailers, a critical step is getting customers into fitting rooms. Once a customer is trying on a product, she...
A vicious new bug on the Internet has an innocuous name but a nasty potential bite. Meet the Poodle attack, which exploits yet another vulnerability in one of the Internet's basic security protocols that could theoretically give an attacker access to your sensitive online accounts. Google...
The iPad is a laptop. So don't expect a huge upgrade this week. In four years, the iPad has gone from zero to a completely mature product, in a way that smartphones haven't. When a friend of mine asked me if he should upgrade his iPad...
About a year ago, the FAA gloriously adjusted their guidance regarding the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. For the first time in years, travelers could boldly and proudly listen to music or play Two Dots or mindlessly click into social apps...