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New Path Limits Photo-Sharing to Tight Circle

Everything about Facebook is big. A half-billion users, 700 billion minutes a month spent there. It has 900 million pages, groups and events, according to the Facebook stats page. A new social networking startup, Path, is aiming the opposite direction -- at least with its core functionality. The ne...

Verizon Serves Up Batch of Quirky New Handsets

Samsung and Motorola have dropped three new phones on the market, from an Android number with not one but two Super AMOLED displays to a flip phone that uses an E Ink display. All three are headed to Verizon Wireless stores by the end of the year. The Samsung phones, the higher-end Continuum and the...

Can WinPho 7 Close the App Gap?

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is in the wild, and one of the big questions about the launch involves the app ecosystem for the new mobile operating system. Microsoft promised about 1,000 apps on launch day, and it appears the company has managed to cover most of the bases for big-name apps, with offer...

New B&N Nook Colors Outside the E-Reader Lines

The $249 Nook Color is designed to appeal to readers interested in periodicals and graphic books as well as traditional text-dominated books, and it could boost the book retailer past prime competitor Amazon in the race to capture customers in the growing e-reader and tablet market.

When Worlds Collide: Galaxy Tab to Share Verizon Shelf Space With iPad

Verizon, the very same company that recently announced it will sell the iPad beginning next week, announced Wednesday that it will become the first U.S. carrier to stock Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The widely anticipated Tab is a 7-inch Android-based tablet -- the epitome of a class of devices that Apple ...

Facebook Gets Cliquey

Defying expectations that it would announce a complete site redesign, a new integration agreement with Skype or even a phone of its very own, Facebook instead unveiled a revamped groups feature on Wednesday, along with new tools to audit how apps are using personal data and to download all of a user...

March of Technology Could Trample US Audio Heritage

From fragile early wax recordings to today's podcasts, the nation's audio heritage is at peril, a report from the Library of Congress has concluded. The report, an outgrowth of a 2000 law mandating the Library of Congress to put together a national media preservation plan, found that efforts to pres...

Kindle Breaks Into Browsers

Amazon on Tuesday cracked the cover of its new book-in-a-browser service designed to make it easier for readers to discover new reads. "Kindle for the Web," as the service is called, doesn't allow customers of Amazon's e-bookstore to read their purchases within a browser window -- Amazon already has...

Sharp Launches Kindle/iPad Competitor in Japan

Electronics manufacturer Sharp said Monday that it will offer a Japan-only media service with an apparent focus on periodicals as well as e-books. In addition, Sharp will make two Android-based tablet devices that link to the service. "Galapagos," as the service will be called, will launch in Decemb...

MetroPCS Beats the Big Boys to LTE

Texas-based wireless provider MetroPCS announced Monday that it has turned on the first LTE network in the U.S., beating upmarket rivals Verizon and AT&T in deploying what is widely expected to be the next generation of wireless network technology. The company also announced a new Samsung LTE-en...

Facebook Phone, No – Facebookish Phone, Maybe

Facebook on Monday denied a weekend report that it is preparing to launch a branded phone designed to make the mobile phone experience more social, Facebook style. Although rumors spread following an anonymously sourced report that first appeared on TechCrunch purporting that such a phone is coming,...

IE9 Aims to Out-Chrome Chrome

Microsoft on Wednesday released the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9, a browser tightly integrated with Windows 7 and designed to fend off the rising threat of Google's Chrome browser and other competitors. The version unveiled Wednesday is by far the most complete look most people will have...

HTC Gives Sense UI a Facelift in New Desire Phones

HTC rolled out two new Android phones for the European and Asian markets on Wednesday, as well as an update to its Sense user interface and a new online service featuring remote phone locate and wipe services. The Desire HD is similar to the Evo model the company released in North America this year....

Nokia Delivers Solid Symbian Smartphone Trio

Nokia added three new siblings to its upcoming family of smartphone offerings at Nokia World on Tuesday, adding a business-oriented handset and two consumer-oriented devices to its previously announced flagship N8 phone. The E7, C7 and C6 are expected to roll out before the end of the year, but it's...

YouTube Gives Live Streaming a Spin

YouTube began a limited two-day test of live streamed video on Monday, partially fulfilling years of rumors that the Google-owned service would enter the live market currently dominated by players such as Livestream, UStream and Justin.tv. The experiement began on Monday with shows from Rocketboom, ...

Will HTC ‘Glacier’ Trigger Fastphone Wars?

A tech enthusiast site says it has uncovered evidence of a dual-core HTC phone called the "Glacier" that may be headed for T-Mobile. The report by AlienBabelTech.com details a since-removed entry on benchmarking site GLBenchmark showing a phone called "HTC Glacier" being tested by a user whose Linke...

RIM Carries BlackBerry Torch Into Smartphone Fray

It has not been a great year for RIM, the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry device simultaneously loved and hated by millions of corporate employees. The company has seen its stock price slip by more than a third and its market share among new smartphone customers dwindle from 45 percent in the sprin...

Outlook Friends Facebook

Facebook has joined the list of social networking sites available in the in-boxes of Outlook users, thanks to Microsoft's Outlook Social Connector. Outlook users have been expecting Tuesday's announcement since November, when Microsoft said the service would be included in its Office 2010 suite. The...

HP Sends New Mini Netbook to School

HP stepped into the world of classroom computing Wednesday with the debut of its Mini 100e Education Edition, a netbook designed specifically for elementary-level classrooms. The 3.19-pound clamshell device is powered by a low-power Intel Atom N455 processor using the NM10 Express chipset. It comes ...

Texting While Driving: Everyone’s Doing it

Adults are at least as likely as teenagers to text and engage in other distracting behavior behind the wheel, according to a survey released Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Twenty-seven percent of adult survey respondents said they have sent or read text messages while drivin...

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