Technology :: Personal Technology

The Top iPhone and iPad Apps on App Store

Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
App Store Official Charts for the last week.

Google Snaps up Waze to Add to Mapping Service

By Michael Liedtke | Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system.

World’s First Transgender Hackathon Planned for September

By EDGE | Tuesday Jun 11, 2013
This September, software developers, designers, and LGBT activists will meet in Oakland, CA., for Trans*H4CK, the world’s first transgender hackathon aimed to address issues specific to the transgender community.
Crowds line up around the Moscone West Center for the opening of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

Music Service, Mobile Software Expected from Apple

By Michael Liedtke | Tuesday Jun 11, 2013
The next version of Mac OS X will be called "Mavericks," after an undersea rock formation that produces big waves near Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Internet’s best wedding dance videos

Monday Jun 10, 2013
The Feed compiles the Internet’s best wedding dance videos, including a surprise performance to Justin Bieber’s "Baby," a new twist on the father-daughter dance and Jill and Kevin’s lively wedding entrance - viewed over 80 million times.

Is Big Data Turning Government into ’Big Brother’?

By Michael Liedtke | Sunday Jun 9, 2013
With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials.

Google’s Glimpse into the Future

Friday Jun 7, 2013
As Google continues to expand into new territories, the search giant is making a big push to become the center of your digital life. Chenda Ngak reports.

DHS: A Hunch is Enough for Searching your Laptop

By Anne Flaherty | Friday Jun 7, 2013
The Homeland Security Department is defending its policy of relying on a hunch to search laptops and copy digital files at the border.

Tech Tips: Ways to Improve Online Life, Save Money

By Anick Jesdanun | Thursday Jun 6, 2013
It took some discipline over a few months to get my digital life in order. As a result, I’m due to save more than $2,000 a year, money I can spend on a nice vacation.
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, right, arrives with her husband Charlie Brooks at a court in London.

Rebekah Brooks Denies Phone Hacking Charges

By Jill Lawless | Thursday Jun 6, 2013
Rebekah Brooks - a friend of Prime Minister David Cameron and once one of the most powerful people in the British media - on Wednesday formally denied charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and trying to thwart a police investigation.