“It’s been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm.”
Sony is reportedly cutting 1,000 jobs in its smartphone group
“There’s no doubt that Sony’s smartphone division is struggling, and it sounds like that’s about to exact a big toll on the company’s workforce.”
Google’s Waze app endangers police: LAPD chief
“Los Angeles (AFP) – Google’s newly acquired Waze application poses a danger to police because of its ability to track their locations, the Los Angeles police chief said in a letter to the tech company’s CEO.”
Microsoft rebrands Acompli as Outlook for iOS and Android
“Microsoft is bringing a fully featured version of Outlook to iOS and Android today. The launch comes less than two months after Microsoft acquired email app Acompli in early December, and the software maker is turning Acompli into Outlook mobile.”
7 biggest revelations from Apple’s historic earnings call
“Tim Cook has a lot to be happy about. Photo: Apple Apple closed its earnings call this afternoon after announcing an unprecedented 74.5 million iPhone sales to go along with $74.6 billion in revenue and $18 billion in profits.”
AT&T reports Q4 2014 results: 1.9 million net adds, $34.4 billion in revenue
“AT&T has reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2014 today. Combining its wireless and wireline businesses the company brought in revenue of $132.4 billion on the year, with $34.4 billion in the fourth quarter alone — up 3.8 percent over the same quarter a year ago.”
Microsoft’s new Outlook app will change the way you do email
“Back in December, we noted that Microsoft had acquired the popular iOS and Android email app Acompli, which offered a more task-oriented approach to email, with the ability to schedule meetings, edit your calendar, and in your most important emails to the top of the page.”
How to control which apps have access to iCloud Drive
“With iCloud Drive, you can create files in one app on your iPhone and then open or edit them in a different app on your iPad or Mac. For privacy and security reasons, however, you can also control which apps can access your iCloud Drive files.”
Microsoft to release Skype update for iPhone, announces pre-release testing program
“Microsoft has announced a new version of Skype for the iPhone, which will arrive later today. Version 5.9 will introduce a couple of new features. The company also revealed a new program that will allow iOS users to test pre-release versions of the VoIP client before they are released to the public.”
OS X Yosemite review: 3 months later
“Three months ago Apple senior vice-president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, stood up on the Town Hall stage and said OS X Yosemite would be available that very day. We posted our OS X Yosemite review as soon as it went live, based on almost four months of beta testing.”
