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How does Sony's latest mid-range handset shape up? From a handful of phones a few years ago, Sony Mobile now offers a vast portfolio of Android devices -- and it's quickly exhausting the alphabet with its letter-themed X...

In an executive order signed today, President Obama called on government agencies to share underused wireless spectrum with commercial users.

Nyko recently announced their first batch of NVIDIA Shield accessories, and we got a chance to play around with them at E3. First up is a soft shell with form-fitted interior for some solid baseline protection. There's a...

Microsoft Office is now available on iOS.

A quick round-up of Microsoft-related news of the week, with the latest on Surface, Microsoft reorg rumors and more.

Lightscapes is an experimental work by London-based designer Troy Hyde that takes satellite images of some of the most lively cities in the world and transforms them into flickering animated images. The series takes an e...

True story: When I was in middle school, my mother sat my brother and me down at the dining room table to give us lessons from Emily Post's big blue bible called Etiquette. Fold your napkin when you leave the table. Star...

If Candy Crush is bleeding you dry, fear not - these tips can help you out Admit it: You're playing Candy Crush Saga. Or you know somebody who does. The Bejeweled clone has become a big of hit on iOS as well as Android, ...

Here's an example of a company using Optimizely's A/B testing tools for a high-profile game launch. The startup, which recently raised a $28 million Series A, is releasing a case study today about how Electronic Arts use...

Wind farms and intensive mining: Michael Slezak sees contrasts in Mongolia that reveal the obstacles in a green path to rapid economic growth

Yahoo has spent the past several months revamping its mobile apps, and it's shifting that attention to a Sportacular redesign just as playoff season reaches its peak. Now going under the more recognizable Yahoo Sports na...

The ZTE Open which runs on the Firefox OS has now arrived at the FCC.

Esai Morales is taking on Ken Howard for the presidency of SAG-AFTRA as the head of a revived Membership First slate. Morales, a Screen Actors Guild national board member best known for his role in "NYPD Blue," was in th...

While not the expected behavior, this bug is technically not a breach in security.

By Mike WallSpace.comNASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted 503 new potential alien worlds, some of which may be capable of supporting life as we know it."Some of these new planet candidates are small and some reside in th...

The British dictionary broke its rules in adding the more modern definition because the term is "catching on."

We just received this picture in our email, along with a cryptic reminder to "Tune in Sunday" from Samsung. We're not exactly sure what we'll be seeing, except that it involves Samsung, and producer, entertainer and entr...

Before allegedly becoming part of the secret National Security Agency surveillance program PRISM, Yahoo fought against it in court, in what was until now a secret challenge. The company eventually lost and had to comply,...

In this week's Ask A VC epsiode, we had Canaan Partners' Maha Ibrahim in the studio to chat about her perspective on social gaming, and more. Ibrahim, who has worked at Canaan since 2000, invests in cloud, social gaming ...

Amazon Web Services outages have prodded customer Netflix to write software that can keep the service alive amid infrastructure issues. Now comes a new tool addressing issues around the Christmas Eve outage.

The Kai Tak Airport, better known as Hong Kong International, dutifully served the island city for nearly three quarters of a century before shutting down in 1998. But rather than let that prime civic real estate fallow,...

Microsoft pushes Office 365 memberships with its new iPhone app, Project M.O.J.O. enters the Android-console competition, and Google+ rolls out new features.