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How they hacked the iPhone 5s TouchID

It took months of research and development for Apple to finalize their much-anticipated TouchID biometric security system on the new iPhone 5s. It took half of a weekend for Chaos...

BlackBerry executives may be flying coach after jet selloff

When a company is failing, they usually check to see what luxuries the executives can live without once they've cut the workforce down. That's what's happening at BlackBerry. First, they...

Apple should take other phones as trade-ins

The easiest way to keep people coming back to Apple is to be, well, Apple. The second easiest way is to give current iPhone users a way to get some...

Twitter hopes advertising by TV networks can boost them before IPO

It took Facebook a year to get its IPO jumpstarted. Twitter hopes to cut straight to success with their IPO and getting big deals from TV networks might just do...

The internet needs more women according to the United Nations

There are 1.5 billion men online worldwide compared to 1.3 billion women. The conclusion from the UN study is that device makers should consider it an "emerging market" bigger than...

You may not have to turn off devices during takeoff and landing by early next year

I'll admit it. I'm that guy that pretends to turn off my iPad when the plane takes off and lands. So far, I haven't caused an accident. Sometime early next...

Valve wants to move into your living room this week

The Steam Box is going to happen. That much we know. The rest is speculative at best. Will they announce Half Life 3? Will they be expanding their scope to...

Rumors swirl about today’s Microsoft event

Surface phone? A couple of new Surface Pros? Something with Nokia? Microsoft is having an event today and it has similar buzz to the Apple events. If only they could...

Will Google’s Calico focus on immortality?

It's a crazy concept. It's about as crazy today as the thought of driverless cars or computers you wear on your face would have been a decade ago, but here...

Microsoft’s Surface 2 represents everything that’s wrong with their model

Hardware is fine. It's necessary. Someone has to do it. Those who do it should specialize in it. Microsoft has always been a great software company (otherwise, they might have...

A tale of two consoles – Xbox One versus PlayStation 4

Which is better? That's the question that will continue to be asked without a clear winner all the way through the launch of both and probably well beyond that time....

The iPhone fingerprint scanner has allegedly been cracked

We almost made it through the whole launch weekend without the infamous fingerprint scanning security system getting hacked. Almost. Just days after making the iPhone 5S available to the public,...