Apple snaps up celebrity-backed Web app firm Particle
Apple buys a San Francisco-based HTML5 Web and Web app design firm backed by Justin Timberlake.
October 16, 2012 7:14 PM PDT
Intel's cautious outlook suggests the PC market still stinks
The chipmaker reported third-quarter revenue that exceeded its reduced estimate, but the current period still looks pretty terrible from its perspective.
October 16, 2012 1:33 PM PDT
At $499, is Microsoft's Surface priced to move?
Microsoft's tablet with 32GB of storage will start at $499. Add the ultrathin keyboard, and it jumps to $599.
Surface team stirs up some Reddit buzz
Microsoft confirms Surface pricing
Just what is Windows RT, anyway?
October 16, 2012 8:00 AM PDT
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Best Buy's Insignia Flex tablet to get mid-$200 price tag
Due next month, the 9.7-inch Android tablet will be priced between $239 and $259, Reuters reports.
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Verizon draws fire for monitoring app usage, browsing habits
"We're able to view just everything that they do," Verizon Wireless exec has boasted. Privacy groups say initiative -- including linking databases showing whether customers own pets -- may violate wiretap law.
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A solar flare of cosmic scale (pictures)
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory records a glowing light bulb-like billowing tower of plasma on Sunday that was more than 100,000 miles across.
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Where do most people accidentally destroy their iPhone?
Hint: It's in the same place where folks tend to accidentally cut themselves and warm things with fire.
Analysts pare Apple estimates on iPhone shortages -
Apple executive e-mail explains new iPod's missing light sensor
A purported e-mail exchange between a customer and Apple's marketing chief explains why the company's latest iPod Touch can't see the light.
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