A little more than three years after opening Pioneer Studios, a skunkworks operation to develop consumer electronics and experiences, Microsoft has c... read more »
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Too busy to keep up with the tech news Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET for Thursday, May 19. Twitter beefs up your control... read more »
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MEDFORD, Mass.--In this densely populated city outside Boston without a farm in sight, agriculture researchers are engineering corn and other crops ... read more »
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We already knew that Verizon Wireless is promising to convert flat rate smartphone data plans into tiered data plans by summer, a move the carrier... read more »
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Google and its partners cleared the first major hurdle with U.S. regulators today to build a $5 billion transmission line that would transport elec... read more »
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(Credit: Clean Edge) Policy promoting green technology may be on the rise, but does that translate into well-developed technology--and, most imp... read more »
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Lenovo's top product manager for the popular ThinkPad line says USB 3.0 will go mainstream in 2012, while Intel sees the new Thunderbolt interface gr... read more »
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Symantec announced today that it has agreed to acquire privately held Clearwell Systems for $390 million, bolstering the security company's eff... read more »
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Salesforce.com reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and raised its outlook for the next three months and fiscal year. Growth for the... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The Endeavour astronauts installed a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station today, a powerful ... read more »
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commentary CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--One of the reasons I like to attend events like the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is that they're opportunities for a reality ... read more »
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You may soon be able to pay for dinner at your favorite restaurant directly through your cell phone courtesy of a new NFC system slated to become ava... read more »
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General Motors said yesterday that it will make 60,000 Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera plug-in hybrids in 2012, up from its previously announced 45,... read more »
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(Credit: Millennial Media) Android increased its lead over Apple's iOS in April as the top mobile platform tracked by ad network Millennial Media.... read more »
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It's curious to me that some people still think that cell phones are for talking to someone. No, they're for playing games, checking in, and sending ... read more »
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Toshiba announced a deal today to acquire smart-meter company Landis+Gyr for $2.3 billion in a move to fill out its power business. Landis+Gyr,... read more »
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There's no doubt that Clearwire faces a cash crunch among many other challenges as it tries to build its nationwide 4G WiMax network. But will the co... read more »
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Apple&39's iPhone 4 (Credit: Apple) Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo revealed several interesting things at the Reuters Global Technolo... read more »
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The new 5-bay 5big Storage Server from LaCie (Credit: LaCie) It's been a while since I last had opportunity to take on a Windows Server-based NAS ... read more »
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The newly inaugurated Wind Technology Testing Center. (Credit: Matt Bennett/Massachusetts Governor's Office) Boston is now home to the world's lar... read more »
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