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Twitter Tosses Tumblr Out of the Friend-Finding Circle

Weeks after removing its find-friends feature from Instagram, Twitter has done the same to blogging service Tumblr ...

Nokia and Microsoft Set Stage for WinPho 8 Device Debut

Nokia may be battered, bleeding and losing money hand over fist, but it's not out for the count. The company will unveil two new Windows Phone 8 devices at a press conference to be held jointly with Microsoft in New York Sept. 5, The Verge has reported ...

Archos’ Gen10 XS Tablet Line Comes Out of Its Shell

Archos on Wednesday unveiled a new Android tablet line, the Gen10 XS ...

Android Draws Point-and-Shoot Duty With New Nikon S800c

Nikon on Wednesday announced an Android-powered digital point-and-shoot camera, the Coolpix S800c ...

Panasonic Ambles Into the Smart Home With New Appliance System

Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic has launched an app for cloud-based services that will let consumers control home appliances using their Android smartphones ...

New Synaptics Tech Could Make Windows 8 More Touchy-Feely

Synaptics on Monday announced what it describes as the next generation of PC touchpads, its ForcePad ...

As Middle Eastern Malware Goes, Shamoon’s a Strange Bird

Yet another malware attack has emerged in the Middle East. Called "Shamoon," it's hit computers in Saudi Aramco's network, causing a sudden disruption ...

Room-Temp Breakthrough Heats Up World of Masers

Research scientists in the UK have demonstrated for the first time a solid-state maser that can work at room temperature ...

Fin Failure Spells Doom for Hypersonic Jet Test

The United States Air Force's third test flight of an X-51A Waverider hypersonic aircraft failed spectacularly Wednesday when it crashed seconds after being launched from a B-52 bomber ...

Court Ruling Puts Stamp of Approval on Warrantless Cell Tracking

Law enforcement agencies may be able to freely track cellphone users without first getting a probable-cause warrant thanks to a ruling handed down by the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Jose on Tuesday ...

Retailers Cram Another Payment System Into Bulging Mobile Wallet

A group of major retailers in the United States on Wednesday announced a new mobile commerce platform, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) ...

Kaspersky Seeks a Few Beautiful Minds for Gauss Decryption

Kaspersky Lab is reaching out for help to crack the security of the Gauss malware, which it discovered recently ...

Microsoft Reveals Windows RT Who’s-Who and What’s-What

Microsoft has announced that Asus, Lenovo, Samsung and Dell will unveil tablets based on Windows RT by the time it launches the operating system in October ...

IBM Asks Electrons to the Big Dance

Researchers from IBM and European university ETH Zurich have announced they have directly mapped the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor for the first time. They observed how electron spins move in a semiconductor while rotating, like couples doing a waltz. This will let them manipulate the spin, which is a crucial step toward developing spin-based transistors that can be electrically programmed. That, in turn, could help achieve more efficient means of storing data...

TrapWire Spooks Dangled Their Wares in Front of Google, Salesforce

The makers of a video surveillance program developed by former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) staffers attempted to sell their system to several big-name tech firms, according to leaked memos ...

Hackers Raid Blizzard, Make Off With Answers to Secret Questions

Hackers have hit Blizzard's Battle.net online gaming network, stealing users' email addresses, the answers to their personal security questions, and information relating to mobile and dial-in authenticators ...

Flame Malware Ignites Gauss in Lebanon

The fallout from the Flame malware that was identified in May continues. Ongoing research into the malware has led antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab to discover a new malware platform, which it has named "Gauss." ...

Lenovo’s Thinkpad 2: Microsoft’s Nightmare – or Dream?

Earlier this week, Microsoft OEM Acer criticised the company's plan to launch its own Surface tablets -- a decision that led to consternation among Redmond's hardware partners. ...

Are RIM and Samsung Ready to Do the Deed?

Once again, reports that troubled smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) may enter a deal with burgeoning smartphone rival Samsung are making the rounds ...

Starbucks Squares Up

Starbucks has selected Square to process mobile payments at its approximately 7,000 stores nationwide in the United States, in a move that could shake up the nascent mobile payments market in the country ...

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