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People seek crisis help online: Hurricane Sandy information sharing peaks with Hurricane Hackers, but Google's live interactive Super Storm Sandy 2012 crisis map and new Public Alerts feature proves crucially useful.

Rockies update should also give Dell, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp the fear Exclusive  EMC is developing a follow-on VNX storage array that will combine flash and disk drive storage in a hybrid arrangement and deliver a mi...

As we brought to your attention last night, Google set up what it calls a "Crisis Map" as we waited for Hurricane Sandy to make land-fall. It has, and damage has been done, including massive power outages in all affected...

Planning to dress as a plain old witch or scarecrow this Halloween? Sorry, that's not going to cut it anymore.

MyShoebox provides mobile and web apps to aggregate and organize user photos from a number of sources. It also provides unlimited storage for users to backup all of their photos, and provide access to them on all the dif...

With the rainy season now in full force across much of the United States, animals both in the wild and at zoos are coming up with some unique ways to cope.

Electronic Arts celebrates the launch of a new Star Wars online video game with events around New York City.

The four major U.S. networks have issued statements on Hurricane Sandy and the ongoing recovery efforts to get the East Coast cell service running again. But don't hold your breath for anything soon.

Verge employees in and around New York City are reporting that some carriers' networks are spotty today — in particular, T-Mobile and AT&T have confirmed outages in certain areas, and it's likely that the severe w...

A traffic gridlock in Melbourne earlier this month has been blamed on a faulty switch, not the work of hackers.

A wider product portfolio and solid sales of its low- to mid-range Galaxy-branded smartphones will help keep Samsung ahead of the pack.

The number of people who can read and write code, particularly for mobile devices, is dangerously low: what's needed are easier ways to create software you can use in the context of your specific needs

Rovio has released a trailer for the upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars that gives us a first look at the game in action. While it's quite brief, we now know at least two things about the game: Luke Skywalker appears as the ...

The social-shopping site hits 2 million members and says it's beating competitors Pinterest and Fab on mobile despite a smaller user base. [Read more]

The damage caused by superstorm Sandy in the United States is still being catalogued. But so far, it seems the storm will enter the pantheon of top disasters the country has ever faced.

Apple's proprietary messaging system for iOS and Mac OS X is once again experiencing issues. [Read more]

The Opportunity rover is NASA's longest rover mission.

Superstorm Sandy smashed the East Coast on Monday night, triggering floods, fires and devastation. Some residents affected by the storm used the Instagram photo app to quickly post square-shaped photos showing flooding, ...

Microsoft is sounding very bullish about the Sisyphean challenge facing it in the smartphone space: to transform Windows Phone from an also-ran into a serious, top-three smartphone contender -- pointing to lessons learne...

What do tech babies dress as for Halloween? You'd think maybe a meme or gadget, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer dressed her son MacAllister as a chili pepper for YaBoo, the company's Halloween party for kids. Mayer, who gave...

Apple's having some issues with iMessage, again — for the second time in the last week, users are experiencing difficulties sending and receiving messages on both iOS devices and Macs running OS X. Symptoms appear...

Telcos tighten up ship Australia’s biggest independently owned mobile phone, internet and telecommunications retailer has been left in the cold after negotiations to renew a ten year retail contract with Optus une...