Microsoft targets Motorola Mobility, claims patent abuse
Software giant says the company is trying to use essential patents "to kill video on the Web." Microsoft also takes a swipe at Google, which is acquiring the Motorola company.
Microsoft ad goes for Google's jugular
February 22, 2012 5:45 AM PST
Apple vs. Facebook: Why users are the losers
When big companies fight, it's rarely the big companies themselves that take the biggest hit. Ben Parr digs into a clash of tech titans.
Microsoft Office for the iPad: To be or not to be
February 22, 2012 4:17 AM PST
Under the hood: HTML5 or native? A guide
Taking your site mobile is a technology minefield. Here's how we're doing it at CBS Interactive.
February 22, 2012 5:00 AM PST
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Watchdog group: Foxconn hid young workers before inspection
One of the organization's employees also says Foxconn banned 16- and 17-year-old workers from overtime while inspections are ongoing.
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Verizon customers hit by another 4G LTE outage
Verizon users across various states are reporting another outage of 4G LTE services, though 3G users may also be affected.
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iPad and Kindle Fire: The top 5 technical annoyances
Trouble with Wi-Fi connections proves among the top issues confronting users of both tablets, in a study by tech support Q&A site FixYa.
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Social messaging cost carriers $14B in SMS revenue, says firm
Cell phone owners are turning to other services to chat with friends, according to Ovum. It also says carriers lost $8.7 billion in SMS revenue in 2010 because of social messaging.
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Microsoft Office for the iPad: To be or not to be
The Daily stands by its report that Microsoft has created an iPad version of Office, though the folks in Redmond label the story inaccurate.
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Photos claim to expose inside, outside of iPad 3
Are we peering inside the iPad 3, while seeing design tweaks to the outside too?
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Sorry, PlayBook 2.0 still isn't worth your money
Yes, the updated software now gives you access to e-mail, but tablets should do a whole lot more. Does the PlayBook offer anything the iPad or an Android tablet doesn't? Not really.
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Two Android tablets take on Apple: One is up to the task
Can Android tablets match the iPad in usability? Yes, if they apply an important lesson from Apple.
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The least sexy iPad 3 part emerges...maybe
The glass front that will grace the front of Apple's next iPad has possibly turned up, providing a few clues about design changes in store.
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 arrives, built-in e-mail and all
If at first you don't succeed, they say. Still, although PlayBook owners will now have much of what they were hoping for in the first version, they're not getting everything.
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Sorry, PlayBook 2.0 still isn't worth your money
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Yes, the updated software now gives you access to e-mail, but tablets should do a whole lot more. Does the PlayBook offer anything the iPad or an Android tablet doesn't? Not really.
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Microsoft: Google bypassed IE privacy settings too
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Discovery comes just days after Web giant was found to be sidestepping the user privacy preferences in Apple's Safari.
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Scared of Anonymous? NSA chief says you should be
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The director of the National Security Agency says the hacktivist group is growing more powerful and could eventually attack our power grid. So beware.
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Finally, a cost estimate for building a real Death Star
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The Empire's crown jewel would take more than 800,000 years and many thousand times the world's GDP to build.
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 arrives, built-in e-mail and all
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If at first you don't succeed, they say. Still, although PlayBook owners will now have much of what they were hoping for in the first version, they're not getting everything.
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Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End
Google is currently making a pair of glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer's eyes in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.
from Bits
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Comcast to Launch a Netflix Rival
Comcast is taking aim at Netflix, unveiling an Internet streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a selection of old TV shows and movies.
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Robert McDowell: The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model.
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Disk-Drive Woes Weigh on Dell
Dell said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 18%, as supply constraints for disk drives and weak demand from public-sector customers more than offset the computer maker's shift to more-profitable products.
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Alibaba Takes Web Unit Private
Alibaba Group, which is partly owned by Yahoo, plans to take private its Hong Kong-listed e-commerce portal Alibaba.com in a $2.3 billion deal.
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