Now boarding: JetBlue accepting Apple Pay on flights, and more for Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Now boarding: JetBlue accepting Apple Pay on flights Kevin C. Tofel Feb 10 2015, 6:41am PDT On your next JetBlue flight, you’ll need your photo identification and boarding pass but you can leave the credit cards behind. That’s because the airline will be the first to accept Apple Pay in-flight for any purchases made on board select flights, starting next week, according to […] Read More » Leaked Moto E looks like the budget phone to beat: LTE for $99 Kif Leswing Feb 10 2015, 6:29am PDT A now-pulled Best Buy product listing indicates that Motorola’s least expensive smartphone may be getting an update soon. The page listed a new Moto E for Sprint’s prepaid service sporting upgrades over last year’s impressive Moto E, including an LTE modem, double the storage at 8GB, and […] Read More » Sony seeks budget buyers with Xperia E4, a curvy-looking Z3 Kevin C. Tofel Feb 10 2015, 6:02am PDT Sony introduced a new phone on Tuesday, but it’s not the flagship you might have been waiting for. Instead, the company debuted the Xperia E4 with round edges for folks seeking a low-cost Android experience. Although the official cost of the Xperia E4 hasn’t been revealed […] Read More » Deezer’s high-def audio service comes to Sonos speakers worldwide Janko Roettgers Feb 10 2015, 6:00am PDT Deezer’s high-definition music streaming tier is expanding beyond the U.S.: Sonos owners around the world can soon stream their music as high-definition FLAC files with bit rates of 1,411 kbps or higher by subscribing to Deezer Elite, as the new tier is being called. This comes […] Read More » Nest tweaks its energy reports to include Nest Protect data Stacey Higginbotham Feb 10 2015, 6:00am PDT Nest users who look forward to their monthly emails are in for a change. Starting today they will get Home Reports instead of Energy Reports, and if they have a Nest Protect, they’ll see safety and usage data from the Protect smoke detector or smoke detectors […] Read More » Spot the robot dog takes a licking and keeps on walking Barb Darrow Feb 10 2015, 5:58am PDT Robotics company Boston Dynamics, now part of Google, is showing off its latest robot — Spot, a four-legged robot that can navigate office hallways or uneven wooded terrain. It can also recover after being tripped and even withstand what looks to be a full-on assault, if this new […] Read More » Sponsored post: Application liberation: The new cloud goal Cloud Connect Feb 10 2015, 5:55am PDT While cloud computing frees organizations from the many demands of managing their own hardware, cloud customers have found it’s not easy to move applications from one provider’s platform to another. New technologies are emerging to enable hybrid clouds that liberate customers’ applications. Read More » “Anonymous” hackers attack European Parliament president’s site David Meyer Feb 10 2015, 1:38am PDT The personal website of European Parliament president Martin Schulz was hacked last week, his office has confirmed. On Friday someone posted information on Pastebin indicating that they had retrieved database and password information from the martin-schulz.infowebsite. A spokeswoman for Schulz stressed that this was not […] Read More » Forget everything you thought you knew about the homepage Mathew Ingram Feb 9 2015, 3:46pm PDT Why do the homepages of so many news sites look the same? Former National Public Radio digital editor Melody Kramer came up with more than 60 different ways to rethink the homepage Read More » Qualcomm to pay $975M to China in antitrust settlement Kif Leswing Feb 9 2015, 2:15pm PDT Qualcomm chips and intellectual property are increasingly found in smartphones around the world, but there’s been a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the San Diego silicon firm for the past 14 months: Namely, the chance that China would boot the company out of the country or severely […] Read More » Google ditches its own protocol for HTTP/2 and a faster web Kevin C. Tofel Feb 9 2015, 2:08pm PDT After using its own protocol for several years to speed up the web, Google is dropping support for it and adopting a standard approach. Next year, Google will abandon SPDY in early 2016 in favor of HTTP/2 according to a blog post published Monday on the company’s […] Read More » Left Shark printer chomps on Katy Perry’s copyright claim Jeff John Roberts Feb 9 2015, 1:15pm PDT Left Shark rose to internet super-stardom by doing his own thing — and now a man selling models of the Super Bowl shark is doing the same, bucking the Katy Perry lawyer who wants him to stop. L’affaire Left Shark began last week when a lawyer for the “Roar” singer sent […] Read More » UBS: Apple “dictating the terms” in relationship with IBM Barb Darrow Feb 9 2015, 10:05am PDT Last July, when IBM and Apple announced their pact to deliver enterprise-class iOS apps to businesses, it was portrayed as a push into vertical industries like banking and retail. The first of these apps were released in December. But now UBS analyst Steven Milunovich said the […] Read More » Worried about smart TVs listening in? Welcome to the smart home David Meyer Feb 9 2015, 9:52am PDT The last weekend saw a fair amount of freaking out over the privacy policy associated with Samsung’s smart TVs, which warns customers that “if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third […] Read More » LG announces a Google Cardboard–based virtual reality headset Kif Leswing Feb 9 2015, 9:42am PDT LG’s high-end G3 smartphone was one of the first phones with a pixel-dense 2560 x 1440 display, and now LG is putting those extra pixels to good use. On Monday, LG and Google announced a new virtual reality headset for the G3, called VR for G3, that works […] Read More » Why it won’t matter if the next iPhone still has an 8MP camera Kevin C. Tofel Feb 9 2015, 9:37am PDT The iPhone 6s rumors are already beginning, and according to one analyst, the phone will continue to use an 8-megapixel sensor, just like the current iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets. The Taipei Times reports that opinion from Jeff Pu, an analyst at Yuanta Securities Investment Consulting, which […] Read More » Will calling Boston “CEO City” make it so? Barb Darrow Feb 9 2015, 8:38am PDT John Cullinane, who co-founded what many characterize as the industry’s first standalone software startup back in 1968 near Boston, thinks the city could do itself a favor in attracting corporate headquarters if it markets itself as “CEO City.” Cullinane, the exec behind Cullinet, posed that suggestion in […] Read More » Trellie launches a Swatch concept for smart rings and bracelets Stacey Higginbotham Feb 9 2015, 7:52am PDT Components are finally getting small and cheap enough that ladies (and gentlemen) can expect fashionable connected jewelry that won’t break the bank or their fingers, which is why the wearables market is finally seeing an explosion of devices such as Ringly, the Mota Smart Ring and […] Read More » And on the 7th day, OnePlus opened up its phone sales to all Kevin C. Tofel Feb 9 2015, 7:49am PDT After selling its Android handset for six months through a unique invitation system, OnePlus is switching gears. Starting on Tuesday, OnePlus will take phone orders from anyone for 24 hours and repeat the process weekly. Yes, those other six days will still require an invite to […] Read More » An Apple Watch app is coming for people with diabetes Kif Leswing Feb 9 2015, 6:42am PDT Medical device maker Dexcom has been showing off iPhone and Apple Watch integration for its implantable diabetes glucose monitors for the past few weeks. The app will display glucose readings on iOS devices and should be ready when Apple Watch is launched in April, according to the […] Read More »