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Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it "on a computer" or "over the Internet" doesn't mean you deserve a patent, according to an amicus brief filed on Friday by Google, Facebook and six other tech compa...

The transition from advertisers, publishers and ad networks using UDIDs to target their ads to Apple's expressly designed-for-them Identifier for Advertisers, is going slowly. The reason? A combination of a bug, bad timi...

Here’s a photo that’s currently going viral on the web. As with many other viral photos, it’s being shared with all kinds of different descriptions, and people are simply passing it on to family and ...

You almost always have your laptop, iPod, and smartphone with you, but don't always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in your car if it's particularly cold outside?

A look at the New York Tech Scene from the NYCEDC Entrepreneur at Large: This week, NYCEDC had an 'eat our own dog food' moment....

A few days ago, I was walking my dog toward the downtown area while chatting on my phone.   A boy about 12 years old, swished up to me on his skate board at the cross light and commented, ?Thank Goodness you still ...

Paint My Cat, created in Vancouver, is a new app that's creative, artistic, educational, and great family fun. This sure isn't what my kids had for coloring books. It's created by a dad who sees a really big picture.

Do Apple products seem just a little less "insanely great" since the untimely demise of Steve Jobs? Should Apple be wondering what Jobs would have done? Our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech found a pair of ...

An attempt to save the lives of both elephants and people by moving the pachyderms away from humans has failed in Sri Lanka, a new study finds.

Group of tech companies argue that combining abstract ideas with "on a computer" is undeserving of a patent and stymies innovation. [Read more]

Bing thinks that Google is "scroogling" you by giving you a bunch of paid ads disguised as search results. But as long as other search experiences are sub-optimal to Google, it does not have any evolutionary pressure to ...

The other day, I got a Skype video call from my mother. This was unusual since she rarely calls me via Skype. I answered the call and saw my mother sitting in her living room, the camera at an odd angle as I looked up at...

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson walked into famed celebrity designer Zac Posen's showroom in November 2007 prepared to give the pitch of her life. The Gilt co-founder was attempting to sell Posen and his team on putting some of ...

If Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley makes you gag and, in turn, makes your gags want to gag, you could be in luck. HBO has bought the pilot for a very different Silicon Valley that might serve as an effective antidote t...

Canadians have had to be content with a form of Kindle Store limbo until now. They could buy Kindle e-books, but they've had to rely on a US-centric portal that scarcely acknowledges their literary tradition. As of this ...

LG is announcing today that since the launch of the "L-Series" group of handsets, it has sold 10 million units worldwide. When LG started rolling out the L-Series as the mid- to low-range set of devices to compliment its...

Square CEO Jack Dorsey today announced via Twitter that Square has added gift card capabilities to its iOS apps. The gift cards come alongside Passbook integration, which allows customers to send Square gift cards from l...

A proposal introduced Friday at the World Conference on International Telecommunications would lend the ITU and its member states greater control over the internet. Changes outlined in the document would transfer many du...

In the run up to the October launch of Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone 8, a number of commentators who had experienced the beta versions of some of the software elements wondered if branding these operating syst...

Instagram photos are no longer visible in the Twitter timeline. Instead, users are seeing blank white space after clicking "view photo" from Twitter's web client and official mobile apps. We've been able to confirm the i...

13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro, Side View The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro has a great screen and performs well. But is it good enough to justify the price tag? Click here to view this gallery. In June, Apple released its firs...

Instagram images are not displaying on Twitter cards as of Sunday afternoon. Instead, users are being shown an empty white space where a photo should live. A link to the Instagram photo is still included. Update: A Faceb...