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Google gets practice flying its high-altitude balloons in Project Loon

Google's Internet-delivering balloon circles the Earth

Startup’s stethoscope adapter gets to the heart of the matter

Doctors can add the device to their stethoscopes and send heartbeat data to their phones

US development agency defends its Twitter-like service in Cuba

USAID secretly helped set up a mobile phone messaging program to spread democracy in the country

5 Technology Initiatives and Reforms IT Wants in Washington

Public Wi-Fi speeds to get a boost from Qualcomm’s new antenna technology

Smartphones such as the HTC One M8, Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Z2 from Sony are already prepared to take advantage of MU-MIMO

EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges

The European Parliament has adopted the strictest of three definitions of net neutrality

LTE smartphone specs shoot-out: Nokia Lumia 635 vs. EE Kestrel

The Lumia 635 is lighter and has a host of photo apps, but the Kestrel has more RAM and a screen with more pixels

Windows Phone 8.1 confirmed, with Cortana digital assistant

Microsoft calls Cortana the first 'truly personal' voice-activated assistant

Enterprise software, devices to drive IT spending growth this year, Gartner says

Companies will start pulling the trigger on projects they planned in 2013, according to a Gartner analyst

Apple’s Schiller takes jury back to 2007 and the dawn of the iPhone

The Apple marketing chief is first to give testimony as the company clashes with Samsung