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Talking on a cellphone while driving, get a ticket. Text while driving, get a ticket. Glance at that all-powerful map on your iPhone while driving? No problem. That was the conclusion Thursday of a state appeals court in Fresno, which for the first time in a California case found that drivers can us
BlackBerry’s new head of Enterprise and BBM, John Sims, has only been on the job for a few months but he already seems to be detailing his plans. He laid out to CNET some of his plans and goals for BBM and how 40% of BBM users are now on other platforms. He also said that he […]
Do you play a lot of Candy Crush Saga or Clash of Clans but almost never spend any money on in-app purchases? If so then you’re free riding on the backs of a tiny number of users who are spending ungodly sums on virtual goods that enhance their enjoyment of their favorite games. Re/code reports that
Cloud software company Salesforce.com just announced quarterly earnings results that were slightly better than what analysts had estimated, and the company announced that CFO Graham Smith will retire next year. The company reported non-GAAP earnings of seven cents a share on sales of $1.15 billion,
Tencent has expanded its reach from mobile phones to desktop computers by officially announcing a native Mac version of WeChat, its popular messaging app. Announced February 27 on Tencent’s official microblog, WeChat for Mac features both Chinese and English language options and is designed to suppo
Less than three years after launching a leading online video subscription service in Japan, Hulu has decided to bow out of the country. Santa Monica-based Hulu has agreed to sell its Hulu Japan subscription service to Japan’s Nippon Television Network, the companies announced late Thursday. Th
Expanding the notion of privacy rights in the digital age, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday that police improperly searched a Huntsville student’s cell phone without a warrant, even though the device had been sitting in a jail property room. The 8-1 ruling by the Court of Criminal
Online retail giant Amazon is reportedly speaking to major music labels about launching its own streaming music service, according to a Re/code report that cites unnamed industry sources with knowledge of the talks. Amazon currently offers its Prime membership, which costs $79 annually. In return, P
In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was lost when an accident at launch conspired to destroy it upon re-entry. It was a great tragedy, and one that spurred NASA to develop a contingency plan which could have saved the stricken crew. It reads like a movie script that would make Apollo 13 look like a
Call it the rebuttal to the rebuttal. Carl Icahn on Wednesday fired off his second open letter to eBay shareholders this week, reiterating a call for the ouster of board members Marc Andreessen and Scott Cook and once again demanding the company spin off its PayPal unit. Apparently he was unmoved by
In yet another announcement of a new cloud infrastructure service this week, IBM unveiled a hybrid-cloud solution for workloads that require high-performance hardware. The company will essentially set up a dedicated high-octane compute cluster for a customer at one of its data centers and connect it
Since September 2013, Securities and Exchange Commission rules have prohibited certain types of securities offerings from being made if anyone with a history of financial fraud is involved. The prohibition applies to “crowdfunding” — that is, sales of securities by start-up companies or
