Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google’s darlings at the company’s annual I/O conference this week. Google brands I/O as a conference for developers, and this year, with a range of new tools unveiled to attract more outside developers — and boost the [...]

Social media 4 hours ago During the Google I/O developers conference this week, the tech giant unveiled a slew of new photo-related features now available on Google+. Could those features — which work their magic without any user intervention — [...]

Warner Music Group and Universal Music are both excited about Apple’s planned streaming service (dubbed “iRadio” in the media), but Sony Music is apparently hung up on how much it gets paid for songs that are skipped. Citing unnamed sources, CNet reported that the other labels are frustrated about the [...]

The Defense Department said Friday that it has approved Apple devices for use on its networks, meaning that it can issue its employees iPhones and iPads at the office. Apple joins Samsung and BlackBerry on a short list of commercial smartphone makers whose devices, the Pentagon says, are secure enough [...]

The hacking group that calls itself the S.E.A. struck again on Friday, this time breaking into the Twitter accounts and blog headlines of The Financial Times. The attack was part of a crusade that has targeted dozens of media outlets as varied as The Associated Press and The Onion, the [...]