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  • The Office of Management and Budget has approved the FCC's rules on net neutrality. That means in the next one to three weeks, the Federal Register…

  • Sep 13, 2011

    53 billion

    That's the number of minutes logged by Americans in the month of May on Facebook, according to a recent study. That's a lot of minutes. And no…

  • …says guy with a huge interest in making iPhones not cool anymore. Martin Fichter is the head of handset maker HTC's operations in America and at…

  • Authors from the UK, Australia, and Canada have filed a suit against the University of Michigan, California, and Wisconsin, as well as Cornell and…

  • At yesterday's BUILD conference, Microsoft offered developers a preview of the new – and very catchily named – operating system, Windows 8. (It…

  • Sep 12, 2011

    Bob Seger caves

    Long time digital holdout Bob Seger, he of Silver Bullet Band fame, will allow his music to be sold over iTunes. I guess he's planning on taking…

  • The web bookmarking site Delicious, or del.icio.us was hugely popular among heavy internet users who had some degree of web expertise (webpertise?)…

  • Sep 12, 2011

    Watson gets a job

    The Jeopardy-winning, IBM supercomputer known as Watson has been licensed to health insurer WellPoint. The brains behind Watson will be optimized…

  • Fans of the Red Sox and Yankees may be bitter enemies, but after rolling out the paywall for the Boston Globe, their newspapers have one thing in…

  • One of the biggest problems with the lithium batteries used in everything from laptops to electric cars, its liquid electrolyte. It gets really hot…