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Facebook tries to stay hip with jazzier News Feed
Facebook doesn't want to be dismissed as an Internet has-been before its social network even enters its adolescence. In an effort to remain hip, it ...
EU fines Microsoft $733M for breaking browser pact
The European Union has fined Microsoft €561 million ($733 million) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of Internet ...
Key dates in EU antitrust action against Microsoft
The European Union has fined Microsoft Corp. €561 million ($733 million) for failing to live up to the terms of a settlement that was to end the ...
Suit: 185K spyware images sent to rental computers
Spyware installed on computers leased from furniture renter Aaron's Inc. secretly sent 185,000 emails containing sensitive information — including ...
Report: Stuxnet cyberweapon older than believed
The sophisticated cyberweapon which targeted an Iranian nuclear plant is older than previously believed, an anti-virus company said Tuesday, peeling ...
Poland emerging as major European outsourcing hub
The first time Javier Bofarull Marques left Spain for Poland, it was for love. It was 2006, a boom time in Spain, and his friends thought he was crazy
Momentum grows for alternative phone system Tizen
The junior league of smartphone operating systems is getting more competitive. Phones from yet another contender — Tizen — will go on sale this year ...
HP finally parts with webOS in LG Electronics deal
Hewlett-Packard is selling its webOS software to South Korean electronics company LG Electronics, securing a new home for a technological orphan.
Correction: Wireless Show-Firefox Phones story
In a story Feb. 24 about the launch of phones using the Firefox web browser, The Associated Press reported erroneously that 13 phone companies around ...
Google adds new touch to line of Chrome laptops
Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made ...
Microsoft's Outlook takes aim at Google's Gmail
Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.
Apple says Macs at its offices were hacked
Apple says a small number of Mac computers at its offices were infected by malicious software, in an attack similar to the one Facebook acknowledged ...
A look at Mandiant, allegations on China hacking
A private technology security firm on Tuesday described in extraordinary detail efforts it blamed on a Chinese military unit to hack into 141 ...
Tamagotchi returns: Electronic pet reborn as app
Tamagotchi is re-hatching as an app. Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new ...
Yahoo CEO plans to prune company's mobile apps
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks the Internet company will be able to please more people with fewer smartphone applications. Mayer told an audience of ...
Alone, together: Snowed in, in the age of hashtags
The East Coast woke up under a blanket of snow this weekend and collectively documented the experience on the myriad social and mobile inventions of ...
Yahoo taps into Google's ad network, expertise
Yahoo is counting on rival Google to help accelerate its revenue growth. As part of a nonexclusive arrangement announced Wednesday, Yahoo's website ...
Review: iPhone Google Maps lags Android version
Every time my husband and I drive the 677 miles from New York to my parents' house in Michigan, we dread the long stretch of Interstate 80 through the ...
Ride-hailing apps offer new way to get around town
When Hesky Kutscher needed to get across town, he didn't call a taxi. He tapped a smartphone app called Lyft, which allows users to request car rides.
Google to set up $82M fund for French publishers
Google will help French news organizations increase their online advertising revenue and also set up a €60 million ($82 million) fund to finance ...
Apple blocks Java on Macs due to vulnerabilities
Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs written using the Java programming language after Apple ...
Review: BlackBerry Z10 is good stab at rebirth
Are you ashamed to have a BlackBerry? It's not exactly a status symbol any more, at least not in the U.S., after it got left in the dust by the iPhone
New BlackBerry won't be released in US until March
Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled new, versatile BlackBerrys after excruciating delays allowed Apple, Samsung and others to build commanding leads in ...
Review: Microsoft Office pricey, but good value
As much as I like Google Docs for word processing and spreadsheets, I find the online software clunky at times. So I was skeptical when I heard ...
RIM changes name to BlackBerry, unveils 2 phones
After lengthy delays, Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its first two phones with the new BlackBerry 10 system. The Q10 will have a physical keyboard, ...