Technology Industry

Appeals court strikes down FCC’s Net neutrality rule

The court says the agency doesn't have the authority to regulate broadband; the FCC says it may appeal

Google boosts patents in 2013 but IBM still dominates

Google remains ahead of Apple in patent awards

GOOGLE buys your home, Droid moves in — iOS catches up to Windows installs — MESSAGING app use triples — 1 in 10K apps successful

New SDK from Coinbase and BitMonet enables bitcoin-friendly Android apps

A new SDK lets Android developers easily accept bitcoin payments in their apps

Ex-Oracle salesman claims complaining about wage discrimination got him fired

An Oracle sales director allegedly said a lower salary offer was 'good money for an Indian,' according to a new lawsuit

In excess we trust: Let us now praise over-the-top tech

4K HDTVs, fuller-than-full-size phablets -- we scoff at them for the moment, but we'll all covet them soon enough

Google’s grand plan for Nest goes way beyond the Internet of things

Physical devices are becoming just as important as digital services in achieving Google's know-everything ambitions

Man or myth: The $3 million Google engineer

Is there really a software engineer at Google making $3 million a year? Maybe, but it would be unusual

Google buys smart thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion

Google stands to gain a massive stream of new data about people's daily habits

Nginx woos the enterprise with new commercial Web server software release

Nginx Plus offers more ways to route traffic among multiple Java components