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Inside Knowledge Graph: Google’s deep-diving semantic search
Google is starting to roll out its new Knowledge Graph technology to its English-speaking users in the United States. Although the new service will be popping up as an adjunct… →
iCloud refresh: Does Apple need to compete with social media?
Last year, Apple bet big with iCloud, looking to dislodge the personal computer as the center of users' digital universes and transfer all that to the cloud. Music, media, contacts,… →
Get ready for off-brand Ultrabooks: Can AMD’s new Trinity processor beat Intel on performance and price?
Struggling chipmaker AMD has formally announced its second-generation A-series APUs for notebook and desktop computers. Codenamed Trinity, these processors look to take on Intel's latest Ivy Bridge processors head to… →
Zooming in on Apple’s high-density Retina displays
Apple raised eyebrows when it introduced the iPhone 4 with its so-called "Retina" display. Although many dismissed the screen as a gimmick, once folks set eyes on one it was… →
Facebook Highlights: The beginning of paid social networking?
Facebook is testing a new pay-to-promote system for status updates: the idea is that users can pay a small fee to Facebook to have a particular status update appear on… →
Oracle v. Google: The bewildering Java trial explained
A San Francisco jury has returned verdicts on three of four key questions over copyright issues in the high-profile courtroom trial between Oracle and Google. Neither company won a decisive… →
Yahoo’s Scott Thompson: Time for the chopping block?
At the beginning of 2012, Yahoo installed PayPal's Scott Thompson as its new CEO. The inauguration followed a lengthy CEO search after the company summarily fired the outspoken Carol Bartz.… →
Is the Amazon Kindle in trouble?
The common wisdom at the moment is that Amazon has a solid hit on its hands with the Kindle Fire: after all, ComScore says the Kindle Fire is the most… →
Amazon joins Netflix, Hulu, Google with original TV programming
Online retailing giant and e-book market leader Amazon is getting into the original video programming business. Starting today, Amazon is inviting anyone with a good idea for a primetime comedy… →
Cleanup in aisle sex: How app stores are censoring smut
In a change of practice — if not policy — Microsoft has begun removing apps from its Windows Phone Marketplace that contain sexual content or racy imagery, particularly in their… →
Who has the fastest Internet? Report sheds light on most- and least-connected countries
For the last four years, the content-distribution service Akamai has been publishing its State of the Internet report, which reads like a list of the haves and have-nots in the… →
Trapped in the past: How slow adoption rates hurt Android
Fragmentation. It's the word that clings to Google's Android platform like the smell of grease hours after leaving a diner. There's no question Android is succeeding in the marketplace, with… →
Should Samsung take Android and run?
Apple certainly had a blow-out quarter (following on a whole series of blow-out quarters), but there is another company raking in money on mobile technology: Samsung. The South Korean company… →
What we’ve learned (so far) from Google vs. Oracle
Google and Oracle are in their second week of a trial that's expected to last for about two months, as Oracle tries to make the case that Java technology used… →
All hail the new spam king: India
As one of the most-connected countries in the world, computers in the United States have historically been the biggest source of spam on the Internet. That doesn't mean the U.S.… →
