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BlackBerry announces Z30 smartphone with 5-in. display and large battery

Launch comes even as BlackBerry is on the selling block

Web pages with full window video backgrounds … almost possible

Gibbs tries to build a web site with full browser window video and it works, just not reliably or everywhere

Microsoft Windows 8.1 for businesses is now available for testing

Availability is intended to make testing the Microsoft operating system possible to plan migrations from earlier Windows versions

Sweet! Tiny, far-flying robot based on honeybee

Researchers working on agile, self-navigating 'robotbee' capable of flying around the world using little fuel

Fluke’s AirMagnet Spectrum ES: Inexpensive Spectral Analysis for Cellular Services

Already a leader in Wi-Fi spectral analysis, Fluke Networks has announced a powerful, low-cost spectrum analyzer for cellular that will prove invaluable in solving a broad range of coverage and performance issues.

Internet.org looks to ‘Facebook for Every Phone’

How Facebook could benefit greatly from its Internet.org initiative.

MIT team says space weather has taken out satellites

Satellites, key to Internet, GPS, world-wide communications, need to be hardened more

Space storms causing satellite failures that blunt Internet and TVs

MIT say solar flares and geomagnetic storms are the cause of most satellite failures in recent years

With Wallet update, Google promises continued NFC investment

Barcode scanning for loyalty card points also supported on all Android phones in Wallet update

Where do SDNs Fit in the Data Center?