Articles by Steve Caldwell
RIP BlackBerry Live
BlackBerry CEO John Chen doesn't believe in holding big, annual events. It was but a matter of time. BlackBerry, which is struggling to survive in the highly competitive smartphone market, said it will not host any BlackBerry Live conference in 2014.
Verizon gets access to big-name clients with EdgeCast buy
Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast Networks gave up its IPO plans, Monday, in favor of a $350-plus million deal that will see it become a part of Verizon's Digital Media Services group.
NSA, GCHQ spied on online gamers in virtual world
It seems the American and British spies are not content with simply tapping phones, hacking into computers or checking whether any radical Muslim is frequenting any porn site. According to the documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, NSA and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (or GCHQ) also regularly patrolled the virtual world of online gaming viz. World of Warcraft and Second Life, to collect gamers' chats and snoop on suspects.
Google Doodle celebrates computer scientist Grace Hopper's 107th birthday
'Mother' of COBOL, Grace Hopper, made computer language understandable. Google has remembered the 107th birthday of computer pioneer Grace Hopper with a doodle.
BBM will come pre-installed in variety of OEM Android smartphones
With John Chen in charge, things seem to be looking up at BlackBerry. The company, which announced major top-level reshuffle earlier this week, now says its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) would come pre-installed on a variety of Android-powered OEM handsets.
Apple iPad event to live-stream: What you should know
Today, millions of people, including consumers, technology enthusiasts and journalists, will be turning their attention to the Apple event, which is scheduled to kick off at 10am PT.
Tech Talk: Is iPhone 5s TouchID really secure or just a marketing gimmick?
A couple of days after iPhone 5s with TouchID technology was launched, it grabbed the headlines for all the wrong reasons - a hacking group that calls itself Chaos Computer Club (CCC) said biometrics security couldn't prevent them from bypassing the lock screen and accessing all the data in the latest generation iPhone.
Gravity set to take box office by storm
Alfonso Cuaron's comeback movie promises to take you on a 90 min. ride of your life to outer space and keeps you on the edge of your seats till the very end.
Amazon wants to spice up living room entertainment with mysterious set-top box
Not content with being the king of online retail sales and the e-book market, Amazon Inc. now wants to control our living room entertainment as well.
