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Last year, RIM — maker of the BlackBerry smartphone line — acquired NewBay, a cloud hosting service, for $100 million. But on Friday, Synchronoss, a mobile software company, announced that it is buying NewBay from RIM for $55 million cash.

Joe Woodland invented the bar code — that collection of lines and numbers used to ring up your groceries every time you visit the supermarket — and after the longtime IBMer passed away earlier this month at the age …

The tech world never ceases to amaze. Sometimes, people build amazing things. And sometimes, the people who build amazing things do other stuff that leaves your jaw on the floor. Some of it’s good. Some of it is oh so …

On the day after Christmas, McAfee posted a long blog post describing how he gave Belizean authorities the slip and snuck out of the country to avoid questioning (and in his estimation, wrongful prosecution) following the murder of his neighbor, …

Chip-maker Marvell has vowed to fight a federal jury verdict that found the company had infringed on patents owned by Carnegie Melon University and awarded the university $1.17 billion in damages — one of the biggest patent awards on record.

Peter Kirstein is the man who put the Queen of England on the internet. In 1976.

Christmas Eve movie streaming was a little bumpy for some Netflix customers, thanks to an outage at Amazon’s North Virginia data centers. The problems started at about 12:30 p.m. Pacific, and it didn’t take long for customers to start reporting …

It all feels so new, doesn’t it? Facebook. FaceTime. Google+ hangouts. Hashtagging your memories on Twitter and Instagram. But this holiday season, as you and your enormous collection of Apple gadgets spend all your extra time connecting with distant friends …

Joe Woodland — who died last week at the age of 91 — is the man who dreamt up what became the Universal Product Code, the ubiquitous bar code used to ring up your groceries every time you visit the …

The massive database that stores top secret information inside the National Security Agency may yet spread to the rest of the U.S. Defense Department and other government agencies, after a change to the proposed Defense Department budget for the coming …

You’ve heard about Apple’s Cupertino spaceship. Now meet the company’s Austin, Texas crash pad.

By day, Benjamin Sloss Treynor is the guy Google hired to make sure its websites never go down. But that’s not his only identity. On another part of the web, Treynor is a kind of automobile-collecting demigod who enjoys the …

Judd Bagley set out to build a web app that would serve up a never-ending stream of news stories tailored to your particular tastes. And he did. It’s called MyCurrent. But in building this clever little app, Bagley also pushed …

The company behind the credit card sized Raspberry Pi mini-computer has launched its very own app store.

Whereas businesses once purchased servers from these big three to store and transport their digital goods, they’re now choosing to make their own servers and data centers. The server industry is being disrupted, and three key trends have evolved …

Google Fiber — the search giant’s brand-new, ultra-high-speed internet service — is only available in Kansas City, and even there, it only runs to homes, so there’s no trying the thing out during a Kansas City hotel stay. But if …

The HP boardroom spying scandal once transfixed the national media. It sparked Congressional hearings and lawsuits, and it changed the law. But it ended on Thursday in a mostly empty San Jose, California courtroom with a three-month conviction for Bryan …

A final chapter in HP’s pretexting scandal is set to end today as the last person facing criminal charges in the case — private investigator Bryan Wagner — is flying in from his Evergreen, Colorado home to be sentenced in …

Jason Wang once bought a home robotics kit. He had studied aircraft design in college and spent years at an electrics engineering outfit, but he still found the instructions completely incomprehensible. And the pieces were flimsy. And after he broke …

On January 2, 1991 a young Helsinki student named Linus Torvalds went shopping for the most badass computer he could afford. He spent FIM 18,000 — about $3,500 — on a gray brick that came with a 33 megahertz processor …