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Firefox 22: Look Ma, No Plug-ins!

Firefox 22, launched by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday, supports voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing through the browser without plug-ins, thanks to full support for the WebRTC application programming interface ...

Sony Goes Light on New, Heavy on Marketing With Xperia Z Ultra, SmartWatch 2

Sony on Tuesday announced the Xperia Z Ultra, which it bills as having the world's slimmest and largest full HD smartphone display, and the third generation of its SmartWatch -- the SmartWatch 2 ...

Samsung Pours On the Marketing Pressure With Galaxy Tab 3 Launch

Samsung on Monday announced pricing and other details for its 7-, 8- and 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 family ...

Pesky Bug Drags Facebook Shadow Profiles Into the Spotlight

A bug that has been in Facebook's network for about a year has exposed private information on about 6 million of its users to other users during that period. This has revived concern that the company maintains a database of shadow profiles of members and their friends, even if the latter are non-members ...

What’s Yours Is Google’s Mine?

Google is internally testing a new service, Google Mine, that will be integrated with Google+, according to the Google Operating System unofficial blog. It will let users list their belongings, post photos to a Mine album, and share and track their belongings with friends ...

UMD Makes a Wood Battery for Pinocchio

In a remarkable display of creativity, the University of Maryland has portrayed a prototype nanobattery created by researchers as being made of wood, sending the blogosphere into a tizzy ...

Instagram Video Comes Out to Play

Facebook's Instagram on Thursday launched a video app, as had been widely expected. Instagram video is available now in the iTunes App Store and on Google Play for iOS 4.0 and Android 4.0 respectively ...

Google’s Gag Motion Is Mainly a PR Gimmick

Google is asking the secretive United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to let it disclose information about its orders ...

US, Russia Cyber Hotline Brings Back That Cold War Feeling

The United States and Russia are going to cooperate more closely on cybersecurity, the White House has announced ...

Financial Industry to Engage in Cyberwar Drill This Summer

A cyberdrill for financial services companies that was originally to be conducted on June 28 has drawn such a strong response that the organization sponsoring it has had to reschedule the event ...

Huawei Muscles In on Samsung, Apple Smartphone Turf

Huawei on Tuesday announced the Ascend P6, its first high-end smartphone. ...

Instagram Video Could Be Facebook’s Mobile Ace in the Hole

Buzz is building over Facebook's rumored plan to launch a mobile video app for Instagram. The mobile video app might be unveiled at a Facebook event on Thursday, according to TechCrunch. ...

The Ghost of SCO Dogs IBM Again

Like Carrie, whose hand emerged from the grave to grab Sue by the ankle in Sue's nightmare, SCO has reemerged from its grave to revive its lawsuit against IBM, 10 years after the case was first filed ...

Tech-Hungry ‘Crazy Ants’? Not So Fast

To read some reports in the tech press lately, one might think there's an electronics-hungry menace from South America on a march of conquest through the Southeastern United States and Texas, leaving a trail of destroyed smartphones and other precious devices in its wake ...

No Patents on Human Genes, Supreme Court Rules

In a decision that could make it more affordable for women to be screened for breast cancer, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that human genes cannot be patented ...

New Drive Aims to Stamp Out Smartphone Crime

A coalition of United States officials, institutional investors and consumer advocates on Thursday launched the Save Our Smartphones Initiative nationwide ...

Galaxy S4 Zooms In on Camera Functionality

Samsung on Wednesday announced the Galaxy S4 Zoom, a smartphone whose camera offers 10x optical zoom. ...

Tech Titans Speak Out for More PRISM Transparency

After initially denying involvement in the U.S. National Security Agency's highly controversial PRISM program revealed last week, Google and other tech giants that were named as participants now admit their involvement and are calling for greater transparency ...

Sprint Launches Spunky $99 Vital Smartphone

Sprint this week released the US$99 ZTE Vital, a high mid-range Android smartphone that could rock the market ...

iRobot Remotely Goes Where You Want to Go, Sees What You Want to See

iRobot, perhaps best known for its Roomba autonomous vacuum cleaner, has announced the Ava 500, a robot that lets users conduct video conferences while on the move. The device was developed and will be marketed in close alliance with Cisco. ...

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