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Huge week in tablets sets the stage for war

Microsoft and Apple are converging on the battlefield with tablets in hand. This is going to be an excellent holiday season for gadget lovers. This was a big week for...

Amazon’s strange spherical buildings approved in Seattle

The project that would put huge biodomes in downtown Seattle has been approved to move forward. A city design-review board on Tuesday unanimously endorsed Amazon.com’s plan for a five-story office...

Limited talk minute plans are (nearly) dead

AT&T eliminated all but one of their limited minutes plans for talk and text. They are the final holdout. The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell...

#Video: Xbox One ad is an invitation to the next generation

It's not just about gaming anymore. Microsoft really wants you to see their upcoming Xbox One as an all-inclusive entertainment system. The video itself does a nice job of communicating...

Russian 4G won’t work on new iPhones

Until recently, Russia didn't have a strong 4G network. Now that they do, you won't be able to use it if you have a new iPhone. Russian carriers began official...

Nintendo pulls away from online gaming for now

Nintendo has never been good at online play. They have tried, failed, tried again, and failed again. This time, it's as if they're completely giving up. The upcoming Wii U...

Data brokers are still in Rockefeller’s crosshairs

If you're going to make someone on Capitol Hill angry, it shouldn't be West Virginia Democrat Senator John D. Rockefeller IV. He doesn't slow down. He doesn't give up. He...

Snapchat hopes they’re worth $3.5 billion

They said no to Zuckerberg's billion dollar offer. Now they're going for another round of funding. This time, they hope they're worth more than the chats that disappear after they're...

That barge in the bay may be Google’s next data center

There's a huge building being constructed in the San Francisco Bay and nobody seems to know what it is. Some are speculating that it's a gigantic floating Google data center....

UK’s NSA counterpart tried tenaciously to keep surveillance a secret

If people only knew what the GCHQ was doing, they would fight them. That was the perception at the UK's counterpart to the NSA and they tried everything they could...

Did NSA.gov suffer from a DDoS attack?

As of the posting of this story, their website is not responding. It hasn't been responding for several hours. Is the US government's spy agency experience a DDoS attack? The...

Technology: the US government’s kryptonite

They try. They really do. President Obama has been arguably the most tech-friendly and tech-savvy president the country has ever seen. He cannot, by himself, turn a culture of backwards...