In Apple's second quarter, iPhone sales in China surged nearly 250% year over year, making the country the iPhone's fastest growing market—a title it will retain...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 27, 2011
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 26, 2011
This year, magazine publisher Hearst Corp. intends to add five software engineers to its mobile development staff. Social-networking company Ning Inc. plans to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 15, 2011
Scientists funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen unveiled a $55 million computerized atlas of the human brain Tuesday, offering the first interactive...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 14, 2011
Facebook Inc. said it would share details for its new server systems and computer rooms with other companies, hoping to set off what it characterized as an open...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 8, 2011
The television is channeling you. Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 9, 2011
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company was "very proud" of employee Wael Ghonim, a leader in the antigovernment protests that toppled Egyptian...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 17, 2011
Chipmaker Nvidia plans this year to introduce a four-core processor, code-named Project Kal-El, that should offer roughly five times the processing power of its...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 16, 2011
Billboards and posters are one of world's oldest forms of advertising. Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless technology could revamp outdoor advertising...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 7, 2011
More than a week after his mysterious disappearance in Egypt, Google executive and political activist Wael Ghonim will be released from government detention on...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 7, 2011
Soon San Francisco drivers won't need to cruise endlessly in search of an available parking spot.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 27, 2011
Cybersecurity experts combating the Conficker worm claimed qualified success but said millions of computers world-wide were still infected by the malicious software...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 25, 2011
Last spring, Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 10, 2011
A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 20, 2010
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 16, 2010
Search giant displays its own health, shopping, local content ahead of links to competing sites.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 14, 2010
A lawsuit filed last Friday for alleged use of "history sniffing," a method for surreptitiously detecting what websites a person has visited, is the latest to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 8, 2010
David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 1, 2010
One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 24, 2010