Category: What’s On

The online review site Yelp and mobile game company TinyCo have both settled separate charges with the Federal Trade Commission that they improperly collected information from children under the age of 13 through their mobile apps. Both settlements were for violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. Under its agreement with the FTC, Yelp will pay a civil penalty of $450,000 and must delete any information it collected from users who registered and stated they were 13

A new solid state drive (SSD) from Micron Technology promises to be the company’s highest performing drive to date. The M600 SATA SSD, shown here, will boast improved power efficiency, better performance, and increased durability and lifespan. The drive also comes with 256-bit hardware encryption and will be available with capacities ranging from 128 GB to 1 TB.The new drive is being positioned on the high-end of Micron’s client segment, replacing the M550 as its highest-performing client model, and standing

Microsoft has developed a new keyboard that works with a variety of operating systems. In addition to Microsoft's own desktop OS Windows, the "universal" keyboard will also be compatible with the iOS and Android mobile operating systems by Apple and Google. Ironically, about the only device it will not work with is a Windows phone. The Redmond, Washington-based company is promoting the peripheral's ability to connect with both tablets and smartphones. In addition, Microsoft says the keyboard can be paired with

While it's only a year-and-a-half old, Docker appears poised for big things in the world of distributed applications, and the company just scored $40 million in new funding to prove it. The San Francisco-based startup raised the series C funding with the help of Sequoia Capital, just nine months after it closed $15 million in funding led by Greylock Partners. Since launching in March 2013, Docker has seen adoption of its platform expand rapidly. Docker's open-source, containerized platform allows developers to

The National Security Agency (NSA) is hacking into corporate servers and attacking global ISPs as part of its effort to map off the entire Internet according to a report Sunday in Der Spiegel, a German daily, citing new documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The spy agency is also placing under surveillance the CEOs and other employees at telecom companies it considers vital to the infrastructure of the Internet, the documents reportedly reveal.According to the paper, the map has close

As the issue of cell phones and distracted driving grows more divisive in many countries, a city in China has created a tongue-in-cheek way of discouraging distracted walking. The municipality of Chongqing has created a phone-free pedestrian lane on its sidewalks.Chongqing, a municipality of 29 million in southwest China, is trying to figure out how to break pedestrians of the habit of walking while looking down at their phones, according to a report by Time magazine. The city thought it

Google is bringing its two operating systems -- Android and Chrome -- closer together with the release of its first four Android apps for Chromebooks. Announced last Thursday, the new Android apps for Chrome OS include the language education app Duolingo; Sight Words, a vocabulary learning app for children; the workplace productivity tool Evernote; and the video creation and sharing app Vine. "These first apps are the result of a project called the App Runtime for Chrome (Beta), which we announced

Customers pre-ordered more than four million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets in just the first 24 hours, according to Apple, around double the number the company saw for the iPhone 5s and 5c a year ago. Apple is on track to top 10 million units sold over the entire launch weekend, if the tech giant can keep up with the level of demand. The smartphones first became available for pre-order at midnight Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, despite a somewhat

Mojang, the small Swedish firm behind the wildly popular video game Minecraft, is being acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. The sale is set to be closed late this year, with the acquisition expected to be break-even in fiscal year 2015. One of Mojang's founders, Markus Persson -- known as "Notch" -- said in a post on his personal blog on Monday that he would be leaving the company "as soon as this deal is finalized." Noting that he had decided

SanDisk is laying claim to offering the world's highest-capacity SD card, 512 gigabytes of flash storage -- but at $800, it's not cheap. The new SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I aims at photography and video professionals that absolutely must have the most advanced equipment available to shoot 4K Ultra High Definition (3840x2160p) video, Full HD video (1920x1080) and high-speed burst mode photography. Dinesh Bahal, vice president of Product Marketing at SanDisk, said his company continued to push the boundaries of technology:

On pins and needles for your new iPhone? Prepare to wait a little longer: Apple exhausted its pre-order supply of the iPhone 6 Plus on Friday. By 9:00 a.m. EDT, the iPhone 6 Plus was listed on Apple's U.S. online store as scheduled to ship three to four weeks after ordering. The iPhone 6 remained in stock, at least on the Apple store, with deliveries promised by Sept. 19. That’s the date the new smartphones are set to go on sale

Verizon plans to launch an "over-the-top" digital video broadcasting service by the middle of 2015, CEO Lowell McAdam said Thursday. Speaking at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia conference, McAdam said the service would deliver video content to wireless devices on an a la carte basis. "No one wants to have 300 channels on your wireless device," McAdam said, according to a transcript of the talk published on the investment information site Seeking Alpha. "We are very focused on probably late first half of

Google has kicked off yet another program aimed at helping to develop the next big thing in tech: Google Cloud Platform for Startups. The program offers early-stage tech companies $100,000 in credit for Google's Cloud Platform services, along with 24/7 support and technical architecture review help from Google's engineers. The new offering was announced Friday by Urs Hölzle, Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, during the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Partner Summit. According to a Google blog post,

Apple is generating plenty of buzz for its iPhone 6 and Apple Watch models, but behind the scenes it’s the iOS 8 that’s gluing all the innovations together. The tech giant will start rolling out the new version of its mobile operating system on September 17 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free update. Apple is billing iOS 8 as a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience. The update includes new messages and photos features, predictive

Global retail revenue from smart wearable devices will triple in volume by 2016 before eventually reaching $53.2 billion in sales by 2019, according to Juniper Research. The findings were published in a new report, “Smart Wearable Devices: Fitness, Glasses, Watches, Multimedia, Clothing, Jewelry, Healthcare & Enterprise 2014-2019.” The report maintains that the recent entry of key industry players within the wearables sector -- such as Apple, which introduced its Apple Watch on Tuesday -- is part of a process that will

A new computer Trojan may be targeting clients of Salesforce.com, the company announced in a security warning posted on its Web site. The malware, known as Dyre or Dyreza, appears to be a variation of the previously known Zeus Trojan, which had been known to target banking Web sites in search of financial accounts. According to Salesforce, the vulnerability was discovered by one of its security partners on Sept. 3. The malware is designed to steal user log-in credentials and resides

The new iPhone 6 isn’t simply bigger, Apple claims, it's better in every way. The two new models, called the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are larger, yet thinner than the iPhone 5, and supposedly more powerful and more power efficient.Apple describes the iPhone 6, which CEO Tim Cook debuted in Cupertino today, as having a smooth metal surface that seamlessly meets the new Retina high-definition display.Wondering what else is new and different with the iPhone 6? Here's a

Two new bigger iPhones, the long-rumored Apple Watch, iOS 8, and a new Apple Pay service introduced at the company's launch event Tuesday gave fans lots to fawn over. Most of the new products announced by CEO Tim Cook at the event, broadcast live from the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, will be available later this month. But on the Apple Watch, Cook remained coy, saying only that the device would be available in "early 2015." The two new iPhone 6

It’s not called the iWatch, but it’s an Apple watch all the same. In fact, it’s called the Apple Watch and the tech giant is billing it as its most personal device ever -- chock full of “revolutionary” technologies with a “pioneering” user interface featuring a “Digital Crown” that lets you scroll, zoom and navigate. But what does this device look like beyond all the buzzwords? Well, the Digital Crown is certainly a smart watch innovation. Apple considers the Digital Crown