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  • This is kind of a weird one. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is giving the first big speech of CES and will apparently announce a set top box with…

  • So at last year's CES, 3D TV was the hot item. Tons of new sets got rolled out, the revolution was upon us. But the revolution didn't happen. The…

  • Usually the only time I think about Hotmail is when I'm admonishing my wife to drop her clunky old Hotmail account and switch over to something…

  • Research company Nielsen says 41% of new smartphone buyers in the last six months chose Android phones. That's compared to 27% going with iPhones.

  • The New York Times reports on the growing number of smartphones in prisons, where phones are a federal felony that comes with a sentence of an…

  • Over the weekend, Expedia just dropped American. This is an escalation from the dispute as it stood last week, when Expedia was burying American…

  • Wikimedia, the parent company of the online encyclopedia, says it has met its goal of 16 million dollars raised to keep the site commercial free….

  • Pardon the Buggles reference. Vizio has made a splash by selling cheap LCD TVs in places like Wal-Mart. Today, they're getting into the tablet and…

  • It was a frantic morning in the Moe household. First day back at school, first day back at work of the new year. I set my alarm as normal, on my…

  • We first spotted this over at Waxy.org, Andy Baio's highly recommended web site. Some French guys ran the texts of the Wikileaked cables through a…