The BBC has updated its Sport app for iOS and Android to support Google’s HDMI streaming device Chromecast. The update has been timed to coincide with the opening of the Commonwealth Games, and enables viewers to watch live and on-demand sport, including up to 17 streams of live action from Glasgow’s games, on their televisions [...]
Some business travelers may choose their hotels based on promises of free Internet connections, but that's practically useless when the service is spotty and the bandwidth is limited. There's nothing quite like the frustration of faulty Wi-Fi when you just need to get online quickly to upload files or Skype into a meeting (or even [...]
Matt Maloney thought the day his company went public would be one big celebration, but that didn't turn out to be the case. He walked into the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of April 4 to ring the bell and watch as GrubHub, the online food delivery business he cofounded a decade earlier, [...]
Online retailer Amazon has reported its second quarter financial performance, with a larger-than-expected $0.27 per share loss on revenue of $19.34bn (£11.39bn). While revenue grew 23 per cent year-on-year, its operating income dropped to -$15m, down considerably from $79m in Q2 of last year, and led to a net loss of $126m in the quarter. [...]
Seven countries now boast wireless broadband penetration over 100 per cent, with more mobile data accounts than people, a report has found. The report, by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), found that Finland, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Korea and the United States all reported penetration above 100 per cent, with Finland topping [...]