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Microsoft being sued over tracking software

Sep 1, 2011
A class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Microsoft, claiming that software on the Windows Phone 7 tracked and stored location data for up...

Google buying Motorola

Aug 15, 2011
So this is a fine way to kick off a week in tech news. Google is slated to pay 12.5 billion dollars for the handset maker. The deal would put...

Microsoft Windows Phone is losing to... Bada

Aug 12, 2011
The big question here is: what the heck is Bada? It's a mobile phone platform from Samsung (Samsung!) that is outselling the much heralded and oft...

Facebook destroys text messaging as we know it

Aug 10, 2011
That's the hyperbolic headline. The more tame one: Facebook rolls out an app people may or may not use. It's an app called Messenger that serves...

HTC cries "Uncle!"

Jul 26, 2011
HTC may have had enough in its patent dispute with Apple over smart phone technology. Bloomberg is reporting HTC, a Taiwanese phone maker is ready...

G+ on the iPhone

Jul 20, 2011
Google+ is now available as an app on the iPhone. It had already been around for Android but it's a little surprising that Apple and Google got it...

Spotify is coming to America

Jul 7, 2011
That's a headline we could have written a year ago, possibly with a question mark at the end of it. The new wrinkle now is that the web music...

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Good news for Android in new Comscore scores

Jul 6, 2011
We get these periodic reports from Comscore that indicate exactly where the trends are going in terms of personal electronics, particularly smartp...

Go grab your Google Goggles, get to the Getty

Jun 28, 2011
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles is now Android enabled. You can take a picture of a painting in the permanent collection from the free Google...

Amazon tablet to be here in August

Jun 22, 2011
Not here like St Paul, here like in the public. Maybe in St Paul. Amazon has been rumored to be working on a tablet computer for a while now and...