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iRobot unveils robotic navigator

Qualcomm targets PCs, takes aim at Intel’s ultrabooks

Qualcomm wants to put its S4 Snapdragon chips in thin and light laptops with always-on connectivity

Pyxis Mobile becomes Verivo Software, broadens its scope

Apple enterprise sales of Macs, iPads to jump 58% this year

Analyst estimates $19B in corporate sales of Macs, iPads this year, $28B in 2013

PixelOptics shows off smart eyeglasses

The skinniest, thinnest, most emaciated products of CES 2012

Acer, Corning, Huawei and others tout thinnest products ever!

Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone

Great screen, but will its battery last through a lot of heavy use?

Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centers are not a perfect solution

State Dept. official: Governments can’t fight social media

Ross calls for governments to support an open Internet, but not for terrorism organizations

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s compensation jumped 6-fold in 2011

Most of the $378M was in stock grants that vest in 2016 and 2021

CommVault to combine backup, archive functions

It plans to launch its virtual data repository in the next month

French antitrust regulator rejects HP’s demand that Oracle continue Itanium support

It will continue investigating HP's complaint that Oracle prices and support policies harm HP's Itanium server business

Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability

Exploit code for a denial-of-service vulnerability in ASP.NET was published on GitHub

French operator Free slashes mobile pricing with 3G network launch

The company has been threatening since 2008 to halve the cost of mobile communications

Google social search adds ‘personal’ Picasa, Google+ results

Users logged into their Google Accounts will be able to see content their social contacts have shared privately with them

Visa certifies smartphones for NFC payments

By certifying the phones to work with its payWave system, Visa guarantees performance and interoperability

Virtual-security appliances winning users over traditional messaging-security software

IDC study foresees businesses favoring virtual-security appliances, mostly for VMware sites at first

Pirate Bay block prompts Anonymous to launch DDOS

A court ruling that forced a Finnish ISP to block The Pirate Bay has angered the hacktivist group

Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance

Announced last September, the Oracle Big Data Appliance is ready for purchase

AT&T pushes ahead after T-Mobile bid

Carrier touts new mobile app tools, devices touted

Cisco cranks up Internet TV volume at CES

Videoscape cloud-based video portfolio fortified to compete with Google, Apple offerings

HP Spectre ultrabook differentiates with NFC, wireless audio

HP joins a gaggle of PC makers introducing ultrabooks at the CES show

For Microsoft’s last CES keynote, Ballmer hawks Windows 8, Kinect

Steve Ballmer gave Microsoft's farewell keynote at CES, where he talked up its Xbox, Windows 8 and Windows Phone software

Sony defends products, brings out stars to emphasize media holdings

The consumer electronics company also announced two new Xperia smartphones as well high-definition Internet-powered TVs.

US Commission probing if India intercepted its emails

A hacked memo allegedly from India's military states that the country intercepted the emails with the help of mobile phone companies

Apple CEO Cook receives $376 million stock award

Stock grant worth $376 million is intended as a ‘promotion and retention award’ for CEO Tim Cook, Apple says

Lenovo takes wraps off ultrabook, tablet hybrid

It also unveils cloud offering, desktop with a touchscreen

Nokia unveils Lumia 900 smartphone at CES

Windows Phone 7.5 device to run on AT&T's LTE network

Lenovo shows ultrabook-tablet hybrid with touchscreen

The IdeaPad Yoga looks like an ultrabook at first glance, but the screen folds to turn into a tablet

Samsung plans smart TVs with face recognition, voice and gesture control

The Korean electronics giant said all its devices would be tightly interconnected, but TVs are at the 'heart' of the ecosystem

Nokia unveils Lumia 900 for North America

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the new phone at CES

AT&T to sell Android tablet, 5 smartphones on 4G LTE

Pantech Element tablet to sell for $300

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 coming to Verizon

Pricing for thinnest tablet not announced

Cloud Computing Report Card: Grading Our Predictions

Gen Y Traits in the Workplace Unveiled

Apple iOS strength prompted Objective-C language growth in 2011

LiftMaster app can open your garage door

CES newcomers, like LiftMaster, bring consumer electronic wares to Las Vegas

Intel shows off hybrids: Ultrabooks that turn into tablets

Windows ultrabooks: What’s Apple response?

Analysts take a shot at how Apple may react to PC rivals of the MacBook Air

3M Demos 46-inch multi-touch display

New system aimed at retail, education and military markets

Sprint unveils Nexus, tri-mode hotspot for LTE

The company's first three devices for LTE will be the Galaxy Nexus, the LG Viper and a 3G/WiMax/LTE hotspot

HTC Titan II coming to AT&T 4G LTE

The Titan II runs Windows Phone OS, has a 16-megapixel camera

Do you know your cyberthreats?

Cybersecurity threats 101

Intel shows off ultrabook prototype at CES

It can be used as a laptop or tablet

LG aims smartphones at sports fans, corporate IT

Firm touts ESPN and VMware links on different devices

HTC, Nokia to offer first LTE Windows Phones on AT&T

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at AT&T's Developer Summit on Monday

Intel says future ultrabooks will come with touchscreens, voice recognition

Intel is pushing the new type of laptop that is all the rage at this year's CES

iPhone purchase plans at all-time high in U.S.

Best showing ever for Apple's smartphone months after the debut of new model, says pollster

Android Arrives: Consumerization of IT Gets Muddy

AT&T promotes HTML 5 apps

The operator unveiled a new API platform for developers to build HTML 5 apps for mobile phones