Technology Industry

Google asks Supreme Court to decide Android copyright case

AT&T to pay $105 million to settle mobile-phone cramming charges

The FTC, FCC, and state attorneys general accuse the company of making millions of dollars from unwanted third-party charges

IBM debuts first Watson machine-learning APIs

APIs for Watson are available through IBM's Bluemix cloud service, covering the likes of machine translation to rendering visualizations of data

Microsoft looks to poach Salesforce.com customers with aggressive pricing

Aggressively priced CRM Online product bundle includes both Office 365 and Microsoft's Power BI tool

Gartner lays out its top 10 tech trends for 2015

Internet of things, smart machines, pervasive analytics, and 3D printing are all part of Gartner's list of strategic technologies for the year ahead

Microsoft Security Essentials may be throwing false positives for Trojan:DOS/Alureon.J

The precise circumstances are unclear, but it's becoming obvious that MSE in some cases detects a DOS/Alureon.J infection where none exists

Surprise patch KB 3005628 bodes ill for Microsoft’s patching strategy

Out-of-band patch fixes errors 0x800F0906 and 0x800F081F in .Net Framework 3.5, but disrupts Microsoft's patching plan

Amazon’s assimilation of the Washington Post is nearly complete

To no one's surprise, Jeff Bezos has made good on his promise to subsume the venerable Post into the Amazon machine

The best new features in Windows Server 10 (so far)

The early look at Windows Server 10 reveals many expected enhancements and nice surprises

Facebook open-sources its Chef cookbooks

Facebook offers two homemade devops tools for systems management on GitHub and says more are on the way