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When people see my iPhone they're like, "My God, man, do you have some kind of crazy phone virus?" It's got no web browser. No email. No Twitter, no Instagram, no Facebook. More »

It's only March, but 2013's already proving to be quite the wild ride for music distribution trailblazer, eMusic. A month after eschewing its long time subscription-only model by adding direct music purchases, the site h...

Google Keep is now live for us. You can go check it out now at ://drive.google.com/keep. More »

Swype's been doing pretty well at keeping the early-adopting folk equipped with the latest and greatest it has to offer in the swiping-instead-of-typing world. And to keep the ball rolling, a new Swype beta (v1.4.9.13905...

What do Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher "Biz" Stone have in common with Thomas Edison? That's easy, they're all patent holders. Issued today, the USPTO's database details a messaging system where users ca...

But the San Francisco startup loves smart ones that live in the cloud.

Astronomers at the Herschel space observatory have discovered some of the youngest stars ever seen, NASA reports. With observations from the Herschel telescope as well as the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Pathf...

It's time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the hallowed gates of the tech industry's hottest companies to get a first-hand look at what they're really like. This time, we heade...

Whether pedaling to Rock Vegas with the top down or boarding a pterodactyl flight to Hollyrock, no self-respecting cave man leaves his igneous abode without proper eye wear. Now, both the stone age man about town and mod...

Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and Wordpress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, a...

A Toshiba Portege Z10t tablet has stopped by the FCC -- and yes, you read that correctly. The Portege name is most readily associated with Toshiba's line of Ultrabooks, but this FCC filing hints at something different --...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Visa Inc Chief Executive Charlie Scharf suggested on Wednesday that the payment network may impose a fee on digital wallet operators like PayPal, following rival MasterCard Inc.

The general notion of purchasing and playing a game entails that the particular title has been developed and released for distribution. Imagine having the ability to play games while they were still under development? To...

Scientists in Switzerland have developed what they say is the smallest medical implant with multiple sensors ever created, a 14-millimeter long chip that can measure molecules in the bloodstream of a live organism and tr...

The British government has determined that BlackBerry's new devices are not secure enough for sensitive work, The Guardian reports. Though BlackBerry's pedigree shows a focus on enterprise security, its upcoming Z10 and ...

Two short months after issuing a Release Preview, Microsoft's fully realized Windows Embedded 8 is ready for the POS terminals it helps to operate. The OS, heavily utilized across healthcare, manufacturing and retail ind...

Intertrust, which received a huge patent infringement settlement from Microsoft nearly a decade ago, has turned its focus to Apple with a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.

Intertrust Technologies, a software and patent holding company based in Silicon Valley, announced today that it has sued Apple for infringing 15 patents relating to security and "distributed trusting computing." The alle...

Just like internet cookies went from major privacy concern to an accepted part of web browsing, the sharing of personal information like location and DNA will become more acceptable once people understand the value they ...

Amazon appears to be in talks with various music labels about starting a subscription service, adding to its already Amazonian-size empire of offerings.According to "multiple sources" who spoke with The Verge, the talks ...

By Tia GhoseSpace.comNASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft — the farthest-flung object created by human hands — has traveled beyond the sun's sphere of influence and may even have left the solar system forever, a new...

Companies often need to decide between innovation and open standards when they put their data into the cloud. So how can we improve data portability?