Tracy Davidson

Headaches are mounting for Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry smartphones. Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM is facing pressure from activist shareholders at home while its customers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina have complained of service problems and outages over the past few days. The Canadian company on Tuesday acknowledged that [...]

Steve Jobs, the innovative co-founder of Apple who transformed personal use of technology as well as entire industries with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh computer and the iTunes music store, died Wednesday. The Apple chairman was 56. The iconic American CEO, whose impact many have compared to auto magnate Henry Ford and Walt Disney— whom [...]

Is $99 the magic number for tablet computers? Tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co. couldn’t sell its TouchPad tablets until it reduced the price to $99, slashing hundreds of dollars off the original cost. Then they flew off the shelves. The wildly popular promotion, in the wake of HP announcing that it was quitting the tablet business, may have some people [...]

AT&T(T) said Friday in a court filing that its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, which is being opposed by the Justice Department, will mean better service for consumers. According to multiple media reports, the company filed comments with the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia late Friday, saying it believes the public will see [...]

Until something goes wrong, consumers rarely consider the risks that come with various forms of payments. Sure, we recognize that we could accidentally lose cash, or that a thief could steal a wallet and take not just our money but our credit cards, too. But thanks to longstanding Federal Reserve protections, the downside of losing [...]

The square patterns found in the corner of print ads, in store aisles and elsewhere can be scanned by consumers’ smartphones and tablet computers to open a Web page, play a video or even place a call. Suddenly, they’re popping up everywhere — those square, futuristic-looking matrixes that appear to be a cross between abstract [...]

A privacy-rights group said it plans to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebook’s facial recognition feature for photo tagging. The Electronic Privacy Information Center based in Washington, D.C., is working on the complaint and will present it to the agency by Thursday, said Marc Rotenberg, the group’s executive director. Other privacy and [...]

While the sun beat down last week on a $187,000 rooftop solar system on his Chester County barn, Edward Frankel watched his electrical output add up. Every two minutes, a meter ticked off another kilowatt-hour of power generated by the 150 solar panels Frankel installed last year at his Honey Brook farm. For every 1,000 [...]

Nintendo, the manufacturer of the Wii and 3DS game systems, said Sunday that it had been the target of a recent hacker attack, the latest in a flurry of intrusions into corporate Web sites. Nintendo, which is based in Kyoto, said in a statement that a server at an affiliate of its United States unit [...]

The USPS is a wondrous American creation. Six days a week it delivers an average of 563 million pieces of mail — 40 percent of the entire world’s volume. For the price of a 44¢ stamp, you can mail a letter anywhere within the nation’s borders. The service will carry it by pack mule to [...]