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Investors Dance to Pandora’s Q2, but How Long Will the Music Last?

Internet radio service Pandora announced its first results as a publicly traded company on Thursday ...

Where the TouchPad Went Fatally Wrong

HP's TouchPad tablet never sold so well as when HP announced last week that it was ceasing production of the device ...

HP’s Tablet Failure: Big Fun for FOSS Fanatics

There may be life yet for the seemingly defunct HP TouchPad. The company has discontinued its development of all webOS devices, leading retailers to drastically mark down prices on the TouchPads they have in stock. Some buyers have been able to score one for as little as $100 -- that's $400 off the initial asking price when the device entered the market a couple of months ago...

Sony Looks Into the Mirror to Boost Its DSLR Cred

Sony has announced two new additions to its SLT-A family of cameras: the A77 and A65 ...

RIM Throws Smartphone Newbies a Curve

In the wake of its largest-ever global launch of smartphones earlier this month, Research In Motion on Tuesday announced three new BlackBerry Curve devices ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Hacker Smack Talk Escalates

This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account ofVanGuard Defense Industries Senior Vice President Richard Garcia ...

SPACE

DARPA’s Long-Term Long Shot to the Stars

In a few short weeks, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, will award a US$500,000 grant for a 100-year starship project ...

Will There Be Life After HP for WebOS?

HP on Thursday shook the mobile devices world in announcing that it's killing off its webOS-powered smartphones and TouchPad tablet line ...

The Plight of the Android App Wallflowers

Android device users spend more time on their apps than on the mobile Web, and the top 10 apps account for 43 percent of that time, according to Nielsen ...

Is the HP TouchPad Untouchable?

Battered by repeated price cuts and reportedly sluggish sales, it looks as if the HP TouchPad tablet is struggling in the market less than two months after it first hit retail shelves in July ...

FCC to Scrutinize BART’s Cellphone Block

The U.S. Federal Communications Communication (FCC) reportedly intends to investigate the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) over the San Francisco-area public transportation system's recent shutdown of cellphone service at four stations in the face of a public protest ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Reining In Mobile Security Mayhem

Two papers on mobile security were presented at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, held in San Francisco recently ...

Google’s Motorola Marriage to Come With Big Patent Dowry

Google announced Monday it intends to purchase Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion, pursuant to regulatory approval ...

Acer’s Latest Iconia Tablet May Run Out of Gas

Acer on Friday announced the first seven-inch tablets in its Iconia line -- the Iconia Tab A100 series ...

The UK Riots, RIM and the Price of Privacy

London's burning, and it may lead to a clampdown on social media in the UK. ...

SCIENCE

Scientists Pop Atoms in Microwave, Out Comes Quantum Entanglement

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used microwaves to entangle ions in yet another step toward developing quantum computers ...

How Anonymous Could Attack Facebook – If It Really Wants To

Could Facebook be the next target in hacker group Anonymous' crosshairs? ...

Paper Pushers Turn to Tablets

Two major publishers -- the Tribune Co. and the Philadelphia Media Network, or PMN -- plan to offer long-term subscribers free or heavily subsidized tablet readers ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Half-Pint Hackers and Rats in the Walls

It's been a mighty interesting week in security ...

The Future of Android, Part 2: Security Snafus

The Future of Android, Part 1: The Legal Squeeze ...

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