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By Felix Salmon: Amidst all the positivity coming out of Yahoo and Tumblr, any self-respecting pundit is going to want to pour cold water on the whole deal. Especially since billion-dollar mergers almost never work out very well. But here’s...
Google spent more than three hours yesterday showing off what’s next for Android, Chrome, Google Search, and more. There were no eye-popping demos like last year’s sky-diving Google Glass extravaganza, and we didn’t see any hardware announcements, save for Google’s...
Google today unified the storage limits for Gmail and Google Drive, giving users 15GB of free storage across both products. Now instead of having a 10GB limit on Gmail and 5GB on Google Drive and Google+ Photos, users get 15GB...
Until now, if you wanted to utilize turn-by-turn navigation on Google Glass, you would have to connect it to an Android device via Bluetooth, and install the Glass companion app on your phone or tablet. TechCrunch reports that all that...
If you want the look and feel of a smartphone, but are worried that a fancy device won’t last long in your butterfingers, Samsung may have a solution. According to the Wall Street Journal, a rugged version of Samsung’s flagship...
NEW YORK (AP): Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House. The false tweet said there had been two explosions at the White House and that...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday says repeatedly the company’s bold moves into new projects are “big bets”. Someone may think these moves are crazy, but if they become successful it can add hundreds of billion dollar business to the...
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say. PC shipments collapsed in the last quarter by almost 14...
They’re a smug, self-centered, self-righteous lot at Facebook. Which is why Facebook Home, the tool that turns your Android into a Windows Phone, was designed specifically for them. They can stare at their phones all day, bathing in the joys...
The Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed a Spanish security researcher’s claims that an airplane flight management system used by pilots could be taken over by an Android app running on a local mobile device and used to seize control of...