SolarCity to give Nest thermostats to 10,000 new customers in California

Smart thermostat maker Nest has plenty of experience helping utilities manage peak demand through its Rush Hour Rewards program, which involves pre-cooling participating homes in anticipation of an energy rush hour and throttling AC usage during such...

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Intel sales sag under PC slowdown

The PC business enjoyed a bit of a revival last year as companies replaced older systems running Windows XP. Those upgrades are mostly done now, and the slower market has hit Intel's financial results. The chip maker reported first-quarter revenue of...

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Satechi joins the connected-home fray with a color-tunable bulb and smart plug

Bluetooth-enabled LED bulbs and smart plugs are coming out of the woodwork. San Diego-based Satechi is just the latest manufacturer to enter this emerging space. The firm, which sells a broad collection of PC, smartphone, and tablet accessories, launched...

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Windows vulnerability can compromise credentials

A vulnerability found in the late 1990s in Microsoft Windows can still be used to steal login credentials, according to a security advisory released Monday. A researcher with security vendor Cylance, Brian Wallace, found a new way to exploit a flaw...

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RadioShack presses ahead plan for sale of customer data

RadioShack will press on with its plan to sell its customer data, despite opposition from a number of U.S. states. The company has asked a bankruptcy court for approval for a second auction of its assets, which includes the consumer data. The state...

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Sharp develops 4K smartphone display, undecided on manufacturing plan

Sharp has developed a 5.5-inch display with 3860 x 2160 pixel resolution, which is equivalent to "ultra high definition," also known as 4K. The prototype LCD display, which could be used in smartphones in the future, has a pixel density of 806 pixels...

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Pivotal sets the stage for open-source in-memory computing

Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory database. Opening up the code could give enterprise customers more input into what new features are added...

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FCC net neutrality rules published to Federal Register

The new net neutrality rule of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was published over the weekend to the Federal Register, the daily journal of U.S. government actions, raising the possibility of a spate of lawsuits from broadband companies that...

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Sprint offers home delivery and setup of smartphones, tablets

Faced with a highly competitive market, U.S. wireless operator Sprint is now offering to deliver and set up phones, tablets and other connected devices for free at homes, offices and other locations chosen by the customer. The offer is currently limited...

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Dead Synchronicity review: This surprisingly disturbing point-and-click adventure lacks catharsis

"Dead Synchronicity is one of the most disturbing games I've ever played." I took a break from reviewing Dead Synchronicity to tweet that sentiment out the other day, and it's still the easiest way I've found to summarize the game. It's upsetting. It's...

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Hands on: Windows 10 Build 10051 brings impressive new features to phones, but slowly

Trying Microsoft's new Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10051 on a Windows Phone is like drizzling honey over granola: It can be an excruciatingly slow experience that rewards you with a sweet, yet nutritious update. Let's say that again: Some aspects...

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Microsoft Office Remote comes to Android, lets you control presentations from your phone

If you own an Android phone and use Office 2013, you no longer need to hover over your laptop or buy a Bluetooth remote to advance slides in PowerPoint. On Thursday, Microsoft released Office Remote for Android, a free app that lets you quickly access...

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Catching up to other African nations, Zambia plans mobile infrastructure initiative

As an increasing number of people use mobile phones to access the Internet in Africa, Zambia is playing catch-up. To spur Internet and mobile phone connectivity throughout the country, the Zambian government has announced an initiative to build telecom...

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Health IT vendors slammed for hampering the exchange of patient data

Electronic health records vendors make the process of sharing patient information too expensive and complicated for hospitals and doctors, a problem that affects the quality and cost of care. That's the conclusion reached by the Office of the National...

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The mobile-enabled enterprise: Are we there yet?

Modern mobile technology may have been born with the first iPhone, a quintessential consumer device, but it wasn't long before the business possibilities began to emerge. Fast forward to today, and it's difficult to find a company that hasn't embraced...

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ICANN seeks opinion on legality of '.sucks' registration process

The body that manages the Internet domain name system has asked regulators in the U.S. and Canada to comment on the legality of the high prices and procedures used by Vox Populi Registry for registrations of '.sucks' domain names by trademark owners....

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US blocks Intel from selling Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputer projects

U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China's supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests. In February, four supercomputing institutions in China were placed on a U.S. government...

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Transforming robot probes Fukushima reactor vessel

Tokyo Electric Power on Friday sent a robot where no machine has gone before—inside the highly radioactive heart of a reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant. The robot, developed by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy and the International...

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Universities reject trade body request to back patent reform bill

U.S. universities have rejected a request from trade body Consumer Electronics Association to withdraw their objection to U.S. patent reform legislation that aims to curb so-called patent trolls. The Innovation Act, reintroduced in the House of Representatives...

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Amazon updates the Echo for connected-home control

The day that Amazon Echo owners and curious onlookers were waiting for is finally here. In a clear message that it has strong designs on the connected-home market, Amazon has updated its cloud-enabled interactive speaker with the ability to control connected-home...

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Indian outsourcer Satyam's founder guilty of accounting fraud, court rules

The founder of Satyam Computer Services has been found guilty of a financial scam that brought the Hyderabad-based outsourcer to the verge of collapse before its rescue by a rival. A special court in south India found B. Ramalinga Raju and nine others,...

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Intel shrinks RealSense camera, targets smartphones

Intel plans to cut the fat from its RealSense 3D camera so that it can fit the device on a smartphone. The company's CEO Brian Krzanich showed off Wednesday in Shenzhen, China a 6-inch prototype phone built with the new camera, which is about half the...

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Tablo OTA DVR gets slick new apps, but new hardware gets pushed to May

Tablo is one of the more unique tools for those who've ditched cable TV, extending over-the-air antenna broadcasts to phones, tablets, computers, and set-top boxes. But until now, a subpar software situation has held Tablo's hardware back. Things are...

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Microsoft, Getty settle copyright dispute

Microsoft and Getty Images have settled a copyright dispute and agreed to work together to provide the digital media company's images for the software giant's products like Bing and Cortana. Getty had filed a complaint in September against the Bing...

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Complaint alleges YouTube Kids pushes advertising content

The six-week-old YouTube Kids service is a "hyper-commercialized" environment that intermixes advertising and other programming in a way that deceives its target audience, a coalition of privacy and children's advocacy groups said in a complaint to the...

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Bitcoin Foundation said to be out of cash

The Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that promotes development of bitcoin, is "effectively bankrupt" and has shed most of its staff, a member of the foundation's board of directors has said. Two other board members, however, said the foundation was...

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Uber seeks to dismiss India rape lawsuit

Uber Technologies has asked a California court to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought against it by a woman who alleges she was raped by an Uber driver while taking a trip in Delhi. In part, Uber contests that it never had a relationship with the driver...

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Expired Google certificate temporarily disrupts Gmail service

Google forgot to renew one of its TLS certificates, leading to service disruption Saturday for people using Gmail through third-party email clients. The problem was fixed in a matter of hours, but should serve as a reminder to online service operators...

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Major Roku upgrades include voice search for $100 Roku 3, new hardware for $70 Roku 2

Roku announced major upgrades to its popular media streamers on Tuesday. The flagship Roku 3 ($100) gets an all-new remote control with an integrated mic that can be used for voice searches, and the new Roku 2 ($70) is now based on the same hardware...

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