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After launching voice calls for Canadian iPhone users earlier this month, Facebook today began rolling out the feature for those in the U.S.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Silicon photonics! The phrase itself rings of the future -- the Star Trek, Iron Man future of cool-sounding technobabble and powerful gadgets. But it's actually more reality than technobabble, as I...

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has announced plans to partner up with the leading providers of open source data centers.

Are you smarter than a fourth grader? Probably not, now that Pranav Kalyan has passed the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam.

AT&T has finally opened the gates so iPhone 4S users and owners of other non-LTE smartphones can video chat using cellular data.

Our next GamesBeat 2013 conference will take place on Oct. 29-30 at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, Calif.

Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm, will make a $3.7 million donation to cultivate civic participation and engagement through technology. The organization will dole out $2.1 million to the Sunlight Foundati...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- This morning, Facebook and a slew of big names in cloud computing and data center hardware unleashed a whole boatload of news -- new hardware designs, new jobs, and new partnerships, all around the...

What happens when a software-coding marathon meets the biggest sporting event of the year? In case you're waiting for a witty punch line, this is not the opening to an inappropriate joke. But, let me push up my glasses a...

Redpoint Ventures announced the closing of its fifth fund, $400 million dedicated to supporting early stage entrepreneurs, startups, and the technology they create.

Guest Post In my opinion, the future of social software isn't as a standalone service, which simply becomes a fire hose of irrelevant conversations for workers.

Amazon needs to make only $3/month on apps or content from each Kindle Fire it sells in order to generate a 20 percent profit, according to new estimates from ABI Research.

Herrod will lead the firm's investment focus in "next generation infrastructure technologies."

Advanced Micro Devices is announcing today that it has designed its standard server motherboard to be more modular and open under the AMD Open 3.0 platform. That platform, previously code-named Roadrunner," is a rethinki...

Cloud management software startup OnApp has raised $20 million in its second round of funding, cash it hopes will help expand its product offerings and expand into more countries.

Only one day after Oracle fixed a highly-publicized hole in Java, a new zero-day attack surfaced on online hacker forums. The zero-day owner says the exploit will be released to the highest bidder.

The White House has raised its requirements to make it more difficult to get a response on user-generated petitions today.

A leaked image of HTC's next major Android phone has hit the web, and it looks a little familiar.

Zettaset, a company that helps its customers deploy Hadoop, the open source computing framework that can process large data-sets, has closed a $10 million funding round.

Obama announced numerous actions the executive branch of government will take to combat gun violence.

Apparently a lot of people miss having the Start menu in Microsoft's Windows 8. SweetLabs' Pokki app, which adds a Start menu and app launcher to Windows 8, has attracted 1.5 million downloads to date. Pokki for Windows ...

New agencies seem to understand the concept of copyright fairly well, especially when it's their copyrights that are being violated. That's especially true for French papers -- which have threatened legal action against ...