The boss of eBay has backed Google in its antitrust battle with the European Union by saying the pair are direct competitors in online shopping. The European Commission's competition experts claim Google abused its dominance of web search to gain an advantage over rival shopping search engines. Google responded by saying it was dwarfed in web shopping by the likes of Amazon and eBay. Now eBay's chief executive John Donahoe […]
Apple and Google are taking their epic mobile-device battle into your next car. Both companies now offer a way to connect to and control your phone from your vehicle’s in-dash infotainment system. Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto let you use your car to have your phone make calls, send and receive texts, handle emails, and even control some apps without ever having to pick up your handset. When can you […]
Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and the Edge are released next week, and early reviews indicate that it could be enough for Samsung to challenge the iPhone 6 as the flagship phone of choice. The Android phone was unveiled at the beginning of March. When it was launched, The Independent’s David Phelan said that this was the phone that Samsung had to really get right, given the problems with its predecessor the […]
Last week, some San Francisco residents glimpsed the future. A Mercedes-Benz driverless concept car, called the F015 Luxury In Motion, was spotted in the area on March 4. The car, which was first unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last September, was cruising around on city streets for a photo shoot when bystanders began snapping their own pics, Mercedes-Benz spokesperson Diedra Wylie told The Huffington Post. This […]
You can put the Apple Watch on your wrist April 10. That's according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who stepped on stage Monday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco to unveil the final details about the wearable device, which was first announced back in September. April 10 is the preorder date and the first day you'll be able to try the Watch on in […]
Two recent events illustrate that most people do not protect their data very well online. On October 4, Adobe reported that its systems had been penetrated by attackers who stole 38 million user accounts and passwords. BBC reports that "123456" was the most popular password among the comprimised Adobe users. About 1.9 million people used the sequence. This week security experts from Spiderlab said they discovered a trove 2 million stolen social media passwords from all over the […]
