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  • Her influenced has reached President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. His just-announced Tumblr site asks readers to submit their stories to help…

  • Oct 25, 2011

    Blue Coat trouble

    Telecomix, the activist group that likes to be referred to as "internauts" rather than hackers – thank you very much, tipped the U.S. government…

  • Does anyone else imagine the Super Committee being staffed by the Super Friends but dressed up like congress people? Like Batman and Aquaman and…

  • There was a hearing yesterday on the lawsuits from the Department of Justice and Sprint against AT&T in its proposed takeover of T-Mobile. The…

  • Google Buzz may be abandoned but the repercussions over the service live on. When Buzz launched in 2010, there was a lot of sharing of contacts…

  • Fine, I'll be the one to go against the grain. I'll never claim to understand the stock market but I think all this talk of Netflix being doomed…

  • Oct 24, 2011

    Test tube burger

    Mark Post, a scientist in the Netherlands, has been given €300,000 to come up with a synthetic burger. Post heads the department of vascular…

  • By all counts, the departure of Dag Kittlaus was an amicable parting and long expected. Kittlaus stuck around through the launch of the iPhone 4S,…

  • Not sure what verb to use here, really. Gets, grabs, apprehends, takes hold of, captures, nabs, pinches….

  • Hours after yesterday's 7.2 magnitude quake struck eastern Turkey, Turkish TV journalist Erhan Çelik appealed to his 22,000+ Twitter followers to…