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Driverless cars move closer in California

The state's transportation committee advances a bill with liability language pending

Twitter releases first report on gov’t requests for user information

Most information requests came from the US, where Twitter complied at least partially with three-quarters of them

Scientists may have found proof of ‘God particle’

Announcement set for Wednesday is expected to show proof of Higgs boson, a key to understanding the nature of the universe

Cisco changes privacy policy for Linksys routers after uproar

Cisco removed language saying Cisco might collect and share Wi-Fi router users' Internet history

Linux is culprit in leap-second lapses: Cassandra exec

The Linux kernel has a bug in how it handles leap seconds, according to the creator of the Cassandra database

Groups release dueling Internet freedom declarations

One declaration focuses on net neutrality, while a second asks government to stay away from regulations

Microsoft shares upgrade details for Windows 8

New OS assumed to be released by end of year

Apple’s $60M trademark deal opens way for iPad Mini in China, says analyst

Size and price point matters in mainland China, says expert, who sees a 7-in. iPad as Apple's killer tablet for the Asian market

Kai design keeps Google’s Nexus 7 tablet fast and priced at $199

Nvidia says the Kai reference design includes 'sacrifices in the right places' that allow cheaper displays and more efficient memory

Windows 7 to pass XP in usage share this month

And could remain Microsoft's most popular operating system for years if Windows 8 falls flat

Widely used Web attack toolkit exploits unpatched MSXML flaw

Security researchers saw an exploit for the CVE-2012-1889 vulnerability being used with the Blackhole exploit toolkit

Google offers concessions to EU antitrust regulators

Google makes proposals aimed at avoiding a massive fine

Micron to buy struggling Elpida Memory for $2.5B

Micron to also acquire controlling shares in Rexchip Electronics for $334M

Leap second bedevils Web systems over weekend

Reddit, LinkedIn and other sites were knocked offline by an extra second added to the official time

Dell buying Quest for $2.4 billion

The deal had been rumored for some time

Why Mark Zuckerberg is a bad role model for aspiring tech execs

Few college dropouts end up running U.S. high-tech companies; most tech CEOs have at least one graduate degree

Tiger Mom was right about techie teens

Most U.S. tech CEOs attended elite, private colleges, survey shows

Both IE and Chrome claim June’s top browser spot

Stat firms disagree on virtually everything about browser wars

Feds cracks down on data brokers

But protecting your online privacy remains an uphill battle

ITC to review Xbox ban recommendation in Microsoft, Motorola case

The investigation by the ITC has attracted interest from the FTC, U.S. Congressmen and the industry

Apple pays US$60M for iPad trademark in China

The legal battle had once threatened to ban sales of the iPad in China

Samsung seeks stay on injunction against Galaxy Nexus

The court had in a separate order issued a preliminary injunction against sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet

IBM to pitch augmented reality as a retail sales aid

IBM has designed a mobile application that can identify products without the use of QR codes

Apple demands ipad3.com domain

Second time in two months it's filed claim with U.N. agency to get hands on a URL

Kinect brings the magic to Windows PCs

Imagine controlling a PowerPoint presentation with a wave of the arm

Smartphone Survey: iPhone is tops among Network World readers

iPhone is most popular device, BlackBerry users are jumping ship, Android is most popular OS, according to results of online survey

Linksys firmware upgrade for Wi-Fi routers angers some users

After complaints on forums, Cisco's home networks unit provided instructions for rolling back the EA3500 and EA4500 firmware

Microsoft’s Yammer buy raises questions about NewsGator’s future

Yammer is a competitor to NewsGator's Social Sites, an enterprise social collaboration add-on for SharePoint

Has Google done enough to keep Android phones up-to-date?

The company will provide device makers a developer kit to help them adopt new Android releases more quickly

Google sharpening Analytics’ tracking of mobile applications

A new set of reports due later this summer will provide broader, more specific usage metrics to makers of mobile applications

Google hands over control of Google Web Toolkit to steering committee

Job ad indicates Apple using Oracle, IBM servers in North Carolina data center

Apple is looking for Unix engineer to support Oracle and IBM servers at its data center in Malden, North Carolina

Government slates meetings on mobile privacy standards

White House effort aims to bring industry, consumer groups to the table to jointly create new Internet privacy codes of conduct

Google exec claims Chrome is the world’s most popular browser

Microsoft declines to comment on usage metric spat that started earlier this month

Judge considers hearing on improper Megaupload seizure

Customers of the file-sharing site should be treated as creditors and wait until the DOJ's copyright case is resolved, a DOJ lawyer says

4 Things RIM Can Learn from Apple and IBM

iPhone users: Five years later, the device is more than a machine

The iPhone has become greater than the sum of its parts

Why, when and how to migrate to Windows 8

Businesses should feel no pressure to adopt the new operating system, maybe ever

HP cloud plans focus on open source, management

HP's Converged Cloud model will depend on interoperability with hardware from other vendors

Nexus 7 tablet: Android no longer an also-ran

Small, cheap and highly functional, Google's Nexus 7 is an impressive device

Six ways to make mobile networks perform better

Future mobile networks will use multiple technologies to almost reach 1Gbps

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 29

Flawed batteries, the late date earlier, NFC ecstasy

ICANN cancels Digital Archery program, has no immediate alternative

Applicants for new gTLDs have to wait three weeks to learn how ICANN will evaluate their applications

Apple hardware engineering chief Mansfield retires

Bob Mansfield, who joined Apple in 1999, helped to oversee development of the iPhone and iPad

Google makes small changes to Google+ but shows social skills elsewhere

The company rolled out incremental improvements to its social network platform while adding social elements to its other offerings

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RIM delays BlackBerry 10, reports plummeting sales

The BlackBerry maker also posted a quarterly loss of $518 million and announced 5,000 job cuts

Lack of features could hamper Nexus 7’s market entry, analysts and users say

Some are grumbling about what the tablet doesn't offer and say it will do little to help Android in the market

Google announces offline editing for Docs, and Google Drive for iOS

A version of Chrome for iOS was also part of the second day of the company's Google I/O conference

Google launches IaaS Compute Engine

The Google Compute Engine will offer Linux virtual machines