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BlackBerrys to Bing: Where tech is headed next

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:54:32 EDT

Tech competition is heating up: Google vs. Microsoft! Microsoft vs. Apple! Apple vs. Palm! Here's how the second half of '09 is shaping up.

Cool gadgetry for your car

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:21:15 EDT

Your car may not be new, but its gizmos can be - for as little as a few hundred bucks.

Genetic sequencing gets personal

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:20:39 EDT

Price competition is coming to the rarified world of genome sequencing.

Top 10 moments in Steve Jobs' career

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:25:58 EDT

As he returns to work after a serious illness, we take a look at the highlights of Jobs' years at Apple.

States fire shots in Internet sales tax war

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:07:22 EDT

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Better search for the Twitter age

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:45:19 EDT

When Iran cracked down on journalists following its recent election, international focus turned to Twitter as citizen journalists posted 140-character reports and links to photos and videos to the site. Trouble was, it was hard to sift the useful and reliable nuggets of information from scores of tweets that included plenty of spam, useless remarks, and stray sentiments.

Sirius XM: The best play on an auto rebound

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:37:37 EDT

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Nvidia goes mobile

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:35 EDT

You say, "potato," I say, "netbook." That's a bit how I feel when Michael Rayfield, who heads up the mobile computing effort at graphics chip specialist Nvidia, drops a tiny computer on my desk. Branded Mobinnova, it had an almost 9" diagonal screen and a solid keyboard that folded around a tube stuffed with batteries and various connectors.

Nielsen: Apple is tops for hardware buzz

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:53:29 EDT

Facing off against IBM's 'Jeopardy!' computer

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:45:00 EDT

I'm a bit intimidated entering IBM's research center in Hawthorne, New York. After all, the company's sales totaled $104 billion...yes, billion...last year.

Touchscreen trend takes off

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:11:33 EDT

Touchscreen technology is having a golden moment.

Sony: Lost in transformation

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:27:48 EDT

These days Howard Stringer makes his home in a hotel suite in an affluent Tokyo neighborhood not far from Sony headquarters.

Microsoft open to Yahoo deal

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:31:38 EDT

Steve Balmer says a partnership would make sense to try and give Google a run for its money in search.

Calif. may swap print books for digital

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:06:39 EDT

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new weapon in his war on state's bloated budget: electronic textbooks.

Palm's loss narrows, shares jump

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:41:44 EDT

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The book that Facebook doesn't want you to read

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:34:50 EDT

Best-selling author Ben Mezrich is the first to concede he doesn't know exactly what happened between Mark Zuckerberg and the Victoria's Secret model at that San Francisco club in the summer of 2005. He tells the story just as sources reported it to him: a touch on the leg. A grasp of the hand. The pair leaving the club. That's it. Any inference from there is your own.

New Ericsson CEO will face fierce competition

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:38:49 EDT

It is no surprise that Hans Vestberg, who will become Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson's CEO next year, started off an interview about his new post by talking about the global financial crisis. Vestberg, after all, is the Swedish telecommunications gear maker's chief financial officer, and he's had a front-row seat for the worldwide economic malaise.

China's new frontier

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:58:09 EDT

At phone operator Movistar's sales offices in Buenos Aires, customers line up to buy high-speed wireless services to access the web on their mobile phones. Most Argentines don't realize, though, that the company providing the gear for their broadband connections isn't a longtime supplier to Latin America like Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, or Motorola, but a relative newcomer called Huawei.

What's next for Qualcomm?

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:13:36 EDT

Paul Jacobs could be the Clark Kent of the tech sector. Tall, clean-cut, and a tad bookish (he has a Ph.D. in engineering), he's the epitome of the mild-mannered CEO -- most of the time.

Viacom's second shot at MySpace

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:59:36 EDT

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