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Aiming to capture a piece of the market that has given the Raspberry Pi such a warm reception, SolidRun on Wednesday announced a new tiny computer of its own dubbed the "CuBox-i." ...

Breaking the screen on your mobile device doesn't have to mean a brand new, expensive bit of kit. It's actually quite easy, and cheap, to replace the glass once you get the hang of it. A tablet touchscreen can cost about US$50 if you perform the work I've replaced a few touchscreens on my roughly handled devices and found that tablet and phone cons...

Samsung on Wednesday showed off its much-anticipated Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the IFA consumer show in Berlin The device serves as an ancillary to a user's Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, both also unveiled at IFA on Wednesday....

Microsoft will launch its Xbox One video game console on Nov. 22 in 13 countries, the company announced on Wednesday Among the first nations to receive the widely anticipated device are Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the United States. Other markets will follow in early 2...

The Internet is abuzz with news that Google has teamed up with food giant Nestle to name the next version of Android after the latter's famous chocolate bar -- KitKat -- rather than continue its tradition of nonbranded nomenclature with the name "Key Lime Pie." ...

Ministry of Sound, a London night club and dance music brand, is suing music streaming service Spotify for copyright infringement Ministry of Sound claims that Spotify has refused to delete users' playlists that copy Ministry of Sound compilation albums, some of which contain "Ministry of Sound" in their titles. The brand is thus seeking damages an...

The Japanese government on Tuesday announced it would be allocating US$473 million to help the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), build an ice wall to prevent water being used to cool it from poisoning the surrounding groundwater Currently, it's estimated that more than 79,000 gallons of contaminate...

Bionym on Tuesday unveiled the Nymi, a wristband designed to replace the need for passwords and locks by using individuals' unique heartbeats to authenticate a range of devices. To activate the Nymi, a user simply touches an embedded biosensor sitting atop the thin wristband. The touch generates the user's unique electrocardiogram reading for auth...

Any time the U.S. government signals it is embarking on a program to invest tens of billions of dollars, potential vendors take notice -- especially during a time of spending restraint The federal government, through the General Services Administration, has launched a new program for the procurement of a wide range of professional support services...

Do you remember walking by telephone poles at downtown intersections 10 or 20 years ago and seeing them covered in fliers, placards, and notices? If it was a really popular intersection, there were probably several layers of paper pinned, tacked, taped, and stapled on top of each other If the telephone pole was wooden, you could see generations of ...

Keeping track of my bits and pieces of information across several computers running Linux and Microsoft Windows has long been a problem. CherryTree is a sweet solution that keeps my information local and cloud-free.CherryTree is an outliner-style hierarchical note-taking application that features rich text and syntax highlighting. It stores data i...

In this week's All Things Appy, we take a look at the five best, must-have free apps for communicating in Windows 8 and taking advantage of the tile-based layout that's native to the ecosystem About the Platform: Windows apps can be found in the Windows 8 Store, which is available from within Windows 8. Click or touch the Start page's Store tile,...

If there's one attack surface that's attracting growing attention from digital marauders, it's a system's endpoints. With the proliferation of devices accessing corporate networks, securing connections can be a defender's nightmare Endpoints have an allure for attackers because they offer multiple attack vectors, such as social engineering attacks,...

Against the backdrop of the IFA 2013 trade show in Berlin on Monday, Acer introduced its new Liquid S2 smartphone, a 6-inch full HD handset capable of capturing 4K video The Liquid S2 has the distinction of being the first smartphone with officially announced 4K Ultra HD recording capability. To support that high-resolution video, its 6-inch screen...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will pay more than US$7 billion to buy all of Nokia's devices and services business and to license Nokia's patents as the latest step in its long-drawn-out quest to make some headway in the mobile market ...

Viewers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas will be able to watch the US Open tennis tournament and the final episodes of the hit serial-killer drama Dexter on Showtime this week thanks to a new agreement between CBS and Time Warner Cable that ends a monthlong blackout CBS programming, which includes Showtime Anytime and video-on-demand services, r...

Yahoo China ceased providing news and community services Sunday, a move experts say signals that Yahoo is pulling the plug on its Chinese service People attempting to access Yahoo China are now automatically redirected to now.taobao.com, a public welfare site run by China-based Alibaba Group, which operated Yahoo China and used to own a large stake...

It seems cloud has gone from "emerging" to "entrenched" faster than any technology in recent memory -- and much of cloud adoption is of the Software as a Service variety. For example, 71 percent of the organizations that responded to a 2012 Gartner survey had been using SaaS for less than three years, highlighting just how quickly enterprises were adopting. ...

It's no longer uncommon for marketers to customize the messages they send via email, but such personalization capabilities haven't typically been extended to Web content. Enter Silverpop, which last week released a beta version of Smart Content, a new product designed to enable just that Smart Content is not a stand-alone offering; rather, it lever...

The Future of Farming, Part 2: New Growth Patterns "Growing crops is only half the job," AG Kawamura said....