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  • Yeah, about those plans to dump home PCs. Those plans announced in August by HP's then-CEO Leo Apotheker. Well, he's gone now, Meg Whitman is in…

  • That's the first movie to be released on UltraViolet DVD by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, which is a consortium of movie studios and…

  • Blackberry had a third day of outages across Europe, East Africa, and India. Parent company, Research in Motion figured out the problem was caused…

  • Oct 12, 2011

    Japan on the cheap

    Six months have passed since the earthquakes that did so much damage in Japan, and the Japanese tourism agency is thinking of ways to get the word…

  • Researchers at the New England Complex Systems Institute have come up with a computer model that can predict what regions of the world will erupt…

  • It's the first day of the company's X.commerce conference. Reuters reports eBay is expected to announce deeper Facebook integration today. It's…

  • Is this memo item dated 2010? It is not. For whatever reason, it took until yesterday for the social media titan to finally launch an app for iPad….

  • Am I bad at punctuating a statement about Facebook's gregarious disposition? No. I am reporting that Facebook acquired a company called Friend.ly…

  • Oct 11, 2011

    Blackberry woes

    Yesterday Blackberry service went out for millions in Europe, Africa, and India. The outage lasted about a day, but service has been mostly…

  • In response to growing concerns over children being exposed to sexually explicit material, British Prime Minister, David Cameron will unveil a new…

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