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  • Google's RealTime search got its own page today.  The service turns offers search results from news sites, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and more in a…

  • A new report from the Government Accountability Office confirms there's not much competition among wireless service providers. Nonetheless,…

  • Everybody's talking about the new service Google rolled out yesterday – making voice calls through Gmail.  Wired's Ryan Single has an…

  • U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III writes in the latest issue of Foreign Policy about the 2008 hack into a military laptop he…

  • The blogosphere—well, OK, a select subsection—is abuzz about "The Buzzer," the nickname for a mysterious Russian shortwave signal that…

  • A federal appellate court in Washington DC will consider the fate of so-called e-cigarettes next month. E-cigarettes use batteries to turn nicotine…

  • Google announced today that Gmail accounts can now take phone calls. For the rest of the year, you can use your Gmail account to call people in the…

  • Finally a publisher wins a fight in the brave new world of e-books. Last month, literary agent Andrew Wylie struck a deal with Amazon to publish a…

  • Nobel laureate and Cornell University physics professor Robert Richardson has a warning about helium.  The world is running out of it. And that…

  • George Lucas is protecting the Star Wars legacy again.  This time, he's suing a company called Jedi Mind, Inc. They make a wireless headset that…