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Apple Board member, and president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, Jerome B. York has passed away at the age of 71.

Google's upcoming set top box has great pedigree: It's Android-based OS, Sony and Intel are building the guts and design and Logitech doing what Logitech does best (input devices). So please, please, please don't screw this up.

Before Apple released the iPhone 3GS, a lot of people were hoping it would have ...

In this retrospective feature, we attempt to make sense of all the iPods and place them in a concise timeline. From the original iPod in 2001 to the d...

Russian police have raided a datacenter hosting iFolder.ru, a huge Rapidshare-like site. Their paperwork allowed them to search and gather evidence against a user who uploaded illegal material to the site. Although staff offered 100% co-operation, the police cut the power and sealed the servers in the datacenter, putting iFolder completely out of o

A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction on Wednesday barring local prosecutors from filing felony child porn charges against a teenage girl who took a partially nude photo of herself with her cell phone.

The term "pirates," meant to convey evil and mayhem, instead conjures up visions of a swashbuckling Johnny Depp, says an actors' group. Rupert Murdoch's son has an idea for a less-sexy word: thieves. Hasn't he seen "Ocean's 11"?

In recent years the US has begun to lag in education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and a number of efforts are underway to address this issue. We know that giving kids hands-on experience is one of the best ways to spark and keep their interest in STEM-related fields

Google announces the release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.

Developing countries often lack the appropriate infrastructure and trained personnel to enable lifelong learning or continuing education. Although broadband Internet is on the rise, it still requires a big funds investment. Currently the mobile infrastructure is the main access point for Internet communication ...

It’s perhaps one of life’s most dreaded moments – when you pull down your pants, rest your cheeks on the seat, and plop! into the toilet goes your phone. Instead of cursing your loose pockets and lack of brain, get that phone (iPod, whathaveya) into a bag of rice, STAT!

Open-source advocates at South By Southwest make a pretty convincing case that it could be sooner rather than later that the last closed-source Content Management System is developed.

The FCC, determined to get good broadband data for the first time in its history, has rolled out Web, iPhone, and Android speed test apps, and it is contracting for a 10,000-home hardware measurement as well. Preliminary (and unscientific) results inside. The results?

Stick that in your laptop.

The Federal Trade Commission has officially put companies on-notice. In a speech before an FTC roundtable yesterday, outgoing FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour called on Web services services like Yahoo!, Facebook and Hotmail to start using HTTPS/SSL encryption.

As most Twitter users know, a significant portion of the social network's value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The results, please...

Send mobile notifications from your website to mobile phones by just adding a couple lines of code. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars to make your own iPhone app, you can simply use Notifo which is more than an App, but a mobile platform that any website can use to push notifications to users.

This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate -- recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize -- are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman

Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload?

Amazon has finally released a version of its Kindle ebook reading software for the Mac. The company previously released a Kindle app for the iPhone a year ago, and has plans for an iPad version of the software as well.