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Many of Apple competitors are having trouble making products people want and, quite naturally, money therefrom. Results from Motorola, LG, Nokia and HTC have all disappointed investors and analysts in recent weeks. Fundamentally, it’s well nigh impossible to compete with Apple on the basis of “kitchen + sink” feature sets and race to [...]

Less is more, or so they say. They being Apple fanboys, usually. But perhaps it’s a good strategy for Android handset manufacturers to adopt at this point in time.

HTC exploded onto the market thanks to its classy adoption of the [...]

Twitter has announced a new policy that allows it to remove tweets from viewers in one country only. It’s defended itself against claims of censorship by saying the move is a practical way of maintaining free speech.

Whatever you think of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, and the way the site was being used for less-than-legal means, you should spare a thought for those who were using Megaupload completely legitimately. As they have lost out by the site’s takedown in [...]

Here is a technology that’s both long on promise and, disappointingly, even longer in the time it’s taking to roll out. Whereas there are some notable White Space Television (WSTV) network deployments, including one just launched in a mid-size North Carolina city, the fact that you can count all of them with fingers [...]

If European officials have their way, “fuhgeddaboutit” could become a legally binding order. New rules would mean net users across the continent would have the right to force a company to delete all personal data about them in most circumstances.

The people need to stand up and be heard, to tell Apple that they want the option to open their ‘i’ devices up by jailbreaking.

The main reason to jailbreak a device is to expand its capabilities. This is especially true of [...]

The founder of Megaupload, a digital locker service taken down by the feds last week, has appeared in court in New Zealand. And so begins the long legal battle we’re all gearing up for.

The legal battle to bring Kim [...]

Whoa, nelly. Previously, analysts predicted that Apple’s Mac + iPad computers sales would make it the world’s largest “PC” vendor sometime within the first six months of 2012. So much for those rosy expectations — who thought that the Cupertino, California company would double tablet sales last quarter.

If your fridge has everything from a lettuce with icicles on it to butter that’s beginning to curdle, help could be on the way. A Norwegian firm has found a way to put tiny thermometers directly onto the packaging [...]

The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Well, maybe someday (eventually). Until then, everyone’s favorite Cupertino, California-based fruit company controls more of the semiconductor market than anyone and that brings with it incredible perhaps unprecedented power over component supply and pricing, as well as ability to deliver products that no one else [...]

Google has announced a slight tweak to its rule that previously insisted users were listed solely by their real name. But it’s rejected calls for totally anonymous profiles.

As we reported last July, Google initially had a somewhat muddled policy of telling users [...]