Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were frenemies, as many know, but when Jobs died last fall, the mutual respect between the two tech titans was quite strong: By his bed, Jobs kept a letter Gates had written the Apple co-founder in his final months. Gates said on his last visit with Job …
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President Barack Obama does his first Google+ "Hangout" Monday at 2:30 PT/5:30 ET, and while questions for the live-streamed interview are now closed — more than 228,000 people submitted questions — you can still watch it online. Google+, the social network that's tr …
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How do you get the word out about a boycott of Twitter when it's Twitter that's needed to get the word out? It was tough, especially in the case of the hastily organized one for Saturday meant to protest the site's new policy of censoring certain tweets, or posts, in some countr …
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Google doodles often honor people, like Freddie Mercury or Mark Twain, but Saturday's doodle pays homage to the "world's largest snowflake." The snowflake was seen on Jan.
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Anger over Twitter's new policy to censor messages on a country-by-country basis is resulting in protests by some Twitter users who say they will refuse to tweet on Saturday. Using the hashtags of #TwitterBlackout and #TwitterProtest, some of the short-messaging blog's 100 milli …
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The man who narrates the wildly popular video-gone-viral, "Honey Badger," has a few choice words about the creature itself, which pretty much destroys anything in its path and eats anything it wants (including, ugh, a cobra). "Because of today's society, I feel it's an animal th …
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Sophos Security polled more than 4,000 Facebook users about the new Timeline feature, rolling out now, and more than half said that Timeline "worries" them because of security issues. "The response was (an) overwhelming negative" one, said Graham Cluley, Sophos' senior technolog …
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Say "aloha" — in this case, "goodbye" — to a proposed law in Hawaii that, if passed, would have forced Internet service providers to keep track of all state residents' activities on the Internet for two years. One of the goals of the legislation, supporters said, was …
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Teens ages 13 and up in the U.S. can now join Google's social network, Google+, although the search giant said it is adding safety measures for younger users.
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We all know Siri can do a lot of impressive things — apparently even order up bags of Doritos and party wear that appears on the spot, as shown in this Super Bowl commercial from the chip-maker.
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In a nation of T-shirt wearing nerds (and non-nerds), you can give your iPad or Apple laptop a T-shirt, too.
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Wow, never mind the glitzy baubles that are available on a new website, Never Liked It Anyway.
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We all know Apple's extreme attention to detail, even down to the packaging, and how it's focused on elegance and ease.
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Hotmail users who own Amazon's Kindle Fire now have their own app for the Microsoft email program.
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The Droid Razr Maxx, boasting 21 hours of battery life, will be available Jan. 26, sold by Verizon Wireless for $300 with a new two-year customer service plan. The phone is made by Motorola.
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Ding, ding ding! Your time is up! This is not a drill: You can no longer avoid using Timeline on Facebook, something that until now has been optional. Timeline is rolling out over the next few weeks to everyone, all 800 million users, Facebook said Tuesday, and once you have it, …
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Is your Twitter account showing you're "following" someone you're not? And removing those you do follow? Don't panic.
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Anonymous claimed credit Tuesday for hacking a Federal Trade Commission website as part of a continuing attack on government and private industry sites in retaliation for possible anti-piracy legislation in Congress. The FTC-run site, OnGuardOnline.gov, aims to help users "be sa …
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In the future, your hard drive may not be your hard drive: A federal judge has ruled that a Colorado woman, charged in a mortgage scam case, must turn over the password needed to decrypt her hard drive so that police can view the files on it. Ramona Fricosu was given until Feb.
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Google is reversing its you-must-use-your-real-name policy for Google+, saying during the next week, it will start allowing "alternate names — be they nicknames, maiden names, or names in another script — alongside your common name" on the social network. "Est …
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It seemed like the real thing, but it wasn't, and now a knockoff of a popular photography app for the iPhone has been pulled from the App Store by Apple. Camera+ (made by taptaptap) is one of the most highly regarded apps for the iPhone, making its camera even better than it alr …
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There may be 15 seconds of fame (15 minutes is so 2011), but there's also 15 seconds of tolerance for an online ad.
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As Google and Facebook fight for supremacy of the Web, watch out: A nerd war has erupted in light of Google's recent news that it is now forcing new Google account users to join Google+ and Gmail. It's not like this war is new.
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Get an iPad, Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet over the holidays? You're not alone: Tablet and e-reader ownership increased by nearly double over the holidays, and more than 1 out of every 4 Americans now has one of the devices, according to a new study. "The number of Americans owning …
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By David Zax, Fast Company Many of us have had the experience — often, just as we were about to give up on humanity — of having a lost wallet or cell phone returned to us by a perfect stranger.
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Why hasnt this so-called "Journalist" been fired or at the very least told to do some ACTUAL research???
gammers are "over weight and 35"? "top 5 things to hate about HDTV"? sheesh....should i go on???
but this is just my personal opinion....and you know what they say about opinions :)
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