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  • After three days of worldwide outages, BlackBerry users are, for the most part, able to use their phones to send email, browse the web, and use the…

  • Oct 13, 2011

    Slow and furious

    The Federal Communications Commission unveiled its broadband access map yesterday. It shows broadband availability around the country. A big "pop…

  • Oct 13, 2011

    Bye-bye Braille

    Tablets. Wave of the future. Heck, wave of NOW, right? Well, what if you're blind? How's that flat, keyboard-less screen going to help you?…

  • Apple users are clamoring to get the newest updates, including the just released iOS 5 for the iPhone and storage via iCloud. Well all that ruckus…

  • Oct 13, 2011

    Get blacklisted

    Until today, the Black List was the name of a yearly email sent out by Franklin Leonard, who culled through piles of new movie scripts and sent out…

  • The iPhone 4s hits Apple stores tomorrow. And if you're one of those people who has a deep relationship with your phone, the 4s feels you. No…

  • I'm being facetious, of course. You would totally believe that this happened because of the numerous times it's happened in the recent past. In…

  • Yeah, not a great week to be working at Sony. Sony is recalling 1.6 million Bravia TVs sold since 2007 because a component on the sets can…

  • Oct 12, 2011

    iCloud goes live

    Starting today, Apple users can go to iCloud.com and begin their new life in the cloud. Store documents using the iWork applications, add or change…

  • If there's one thing the world needs right now, you guys, it's a new social network. Because really, honestly, that need is simply not being filled…