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Apple’s legal counsel is irate over comments made by the federal judge overseeing the trial.
Google could end up battling Facebook for control of Waze, which builds a mapping-and-navigation app.
The next exotic locale for Street View: the Galapagos Islands, land of giant tortoises and other unique species.
Twitter’s new two-factor authentication only takes a few minutes to set up. Here’s a quick guide.
The battle for the living room, driven in large part by cloud functionality, is about to hit a whole new level.
VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will compete in a crowded IaaS field.
The Hitachi Content Platform demonstrates the cloud-related issues confronting many IT vendors that made their name in proprietary hardware.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer clearly hopes her bold moves will spark a corporate turnaround.
COBOL programming language first appeared in 1959, but that’s not stopping IBM from trying to make it play nice with the modern world.
Yahoo has a history of making high-profile acquisitions that subsequently implode in spectacular fashion.
The Department of Defense has approved BlackBerry, Apple’s iOS, and Samsung Knox for use.
Google CEO Larry Page used his I/O keynote talk to suggest the tech industry could be more positive. That won’t happen.
DeadDrop, built by Swartz and other volunteers, allows sources to anonymously send data and documents to publications.
Google unveiled a new educational initiative at I/O centered on Android apps. It’s altruistic, but also something of a swipe against Apple.
Venture-backed European Internet companies are going to remarkable lengths to get talent—but not always legally.
Rumors suggest Google will use its Google I/O conference to launch some sort of Spotify rival.
BlackBerry made a number of announcements at the conference. Also, CEO Thorsten Heins doesn’t think tablets are doomed after all.
Rampant smartphone theft is a rising concern in cities. Will manufacturers and carriers submit to installing a device “kill switch”?
Facebook’s Android software faces middling user reviews, dipping install rates, and other troubling signs.
Bill Gates offered a hint of emotion while talking about Steve Jobs in a televised interview.
Rumors suggest a new Nexus 7, updated Google Maps, and upgrade Google Wallet could all make appearances at Google I/O 2013.
Amazon may be preparing to leap into the smartphone game. But its rumored killer feature, 3D, has been tried without much success before.
For the satirical newspaper, the cyber-attack wasn’t funny at all.
TechCrunch is suggesting that Nook e-readers and tablets will eventually fade away, conceding that battlefield to Kindle e-readers.
Diablo III’s in-game gold might not be Bitcoin, but a recent bug demonstrated how chaos can quickly seize a virtual currency.
