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Which mobile device you use says a lot about your buying habits. That's why Facebook just began allowing advertisers to select which devices and operating systems their Facebook mobile ads show up on. This lets Android a...

This column is personal. After a scary night in our home with trees crashing out back (no one hurt, missed the house), the wind howling with the rumble of hurricane winds, and the power inflicting a cold, data-less black...

The company, which is not known for cooperating with security researchers, says it is sending a team to talk to German hacker Felix Lindner, after Lindner exposes serious flaws in Huawei's routers.

io9updates: By Charlie Jane Anders Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and insane casualties. And we saw the “Frankenstorm” coming, for days in advance. We can send people into spa...

This video depiction of the story of our world, shown in just over a minute and a half, is something to behold. Described as a "tapestry of footage" from nearly 20 documentaries and movies, the short clip is a visually s...

Researchers from the organisation Global Advocacy, One Laptop Per Child have mounted an experiment in two small Ethiopian villages to see the effect of new technology on children in remote regions of the developing world...

Dimension Data will manage the data coming out of the state-of-the-art Fiona Stanley hospital, while Data#3 has been brought on to help with network infrastructure.

Asus Chief Financial Officer David Chang told the Wall Street Journal this week that his company is selling nearly one million Nexus 7 tablets every month. On Tuesday, the manufacturer announced a dramatic increase in Q3...

We get a first look at Microsoft's very own VoIP app, reworked just for Windows Phone 8 devices. [Read more]

Attorney General Kamala Harris is notifying mobile-app developers and companies that they must get in line with California law and post privacy notices for users or else face steep fines. [Read more]

Thanks to MapMyFitness, RunKeeper, Nike and many more, apps that keep track of your exercise and push you to drop those extra pounds are by no means novel. Nonetheless, bootstrapped European startup Runtastic is still ma...

The iPad mini has been rumored for nearly as long as the original iPad has existed, but it wasn't clear early on how many of those rumors were based on fact and how many were based on hope. Hope, that was, for a smaller,...

Microsoft's Metro design language has gone through a name change of late. Used to describe the company's design principles around typography and minimal graphics, Metro is now referred to as the "Microsoft design languag...

The fallout from Hurricane Sandy is still affecting startups left and right. New York's Fab.com sent a memo out to customers today saying that it is temporarily halting shipments of packages because its New Jersey-based ...

What happens when you gut a pumpkin and replace its insides with heat-shrink tubing, solder, 128 LEDs, eight AA batteries, an Arduino board and clever programming? You get what self-proclaimed tinkerer Nathan Pryor calls...

App of the Day: Runtastic Fitness Collection. A Little Coaching Can Get You to 100 Push Ups By Leslie Horn  Runtastic makes a great app for running, and now it has released a couple of standalone fitness apps for sit ...

As good as Google is at providing information, it should not and must not be allowed to conduct business as usual. It must and will eventually be regulated, just as the phone companies and credit bureaus are regulated. F...

We knew October would be busy. We had the invitations, the embargoes, and a stockpile of coffee and seltzer. But this past month turned out to more insane and more exciting than almost any month in the past year.There wa...

Apple says it plans to open up another 30 to 35 retail stores in the next year, bringing it right in line with its growth during 2012. [Read more]

Ghosts. Goblins. Gonzo. Henson Studios in Los Angeles delighted Muppet-loving trick-or-treaters with a special candy dispenser this Halloween. Little superheroes and princesses got their sweet tooth fix by picking chocol...

On Wednesday some U.S. wireless carriers implemented the first part of a national strategy to deter cell phone theft: a joint "blacklist" database of identifying information about cell phones reported lost or stolen.

Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration interpolated by The Huffington Post shows that Hurricane Sandy's wind swath covered an area of nearly 2...