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Netflix joined the ranks of Emmy nominees for the first time Thursday, scoring 14 nods for three of its online TV shows The streaming service picked up nine nominations for House of Cards, its original political thriller series, three for its reboot of the popular comedy Arrested Development, and a final two for its original horror thriller Hemlock...

Microsoft on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed expectations, blaming the disappointing results on the PC market slowdown and a write-down of Surface RT inventory Q4 net earnings were $4.97 billion, or 59 cents per share on revenue of $19.9 billion. The $900 million Surface write-down amounted to 7 cents per share....

A group of countries in Latin America seems to have successfully blocked online retail giant Amazon from using ".amazon" as an Internet address suffix A committee from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees top-level domain names, recommended that .amazon be precluded from the list of possible top-level domains....

The potential of 3D printing and robotics is nothing if not inspiring, but it's difficult even to imagine the extent of the inroads they will make in our manufacturing base or the myriad products they'll eventually produce Numerous people currently employed in the manufacturing segment could very well be displaced because of the growing ubiquity of...

Over the past three-plus decades, it's hard to think of a business computing-related technology that's driven more fundamental value than virtualization, and it's for a very simple reason: Since hardware evolves at a far faster pace than software, systems tend to deliver far more performance than needed, meaning they are drastically underutilized.

Just weeks after purchasing Neolane, Adobe on Thursday pushed further into marketing automation with the launch of Adobe Social, an application that expands the company's integrations with social networking sites and pretty much gives users a 360-degree view of their customers Integrated with Flickr, Foursquare, Instagram and LinkedIn, Social will...

Noinnion'sgReader Pro app for Android is US$4.99 in the Google Play store.Now that Google's wildly popular Google Reader has been switched off for good, what's everybody to do?...

Biologists are using a novel blend of technology and data sharing to track endangered wildlife, according to a report published this week in PeerJ. The report details the results of about five years of experiments with ways to track the vocal activity of birds, frogs, insects and mammals across Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, led by Mitchell Aide and ...

After months of mounting anticipation, Dell on Thursday delayed a critical vote that will decide its future Specifically, the scheduled special meeting of stockholders -- originally intended to vote on Michael Dell's proposed buyout of the company for US$24.4 billion -- was convened and adjourned to provide additional time to solicit proxies from D...

In a market where bigger is increasingly considered better, HTC on Thursday bucked the trend and announced the HTC One Mini, a compact version of its HTC One smartphone With a 4.3-inch 720p display, the new device is actually not that much smaller than the flagship HTC One, which sports a 4.7-inch display. The HTC One Mini runs on Android 4.2, also...

Google, which is fighting government requests for data in two courts and demanding greater transparency in the wake of the brouhaha over the NSA's PRISM program, is also experimenting with encrypting files on Google Drive, according to a CNET report Some files on Drive may already have been encrypted....

Despite gains reported in core business areas, eBay is facing economic weakness in key overseas markets, which sent its stock tumbling following its quarterly earnings report Wednesday. eBay reported non-GAAP net income of US$822 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with the $730 million, or 56 cents per share, that it brought in during the sa...

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder and executive chairman of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group, said that China's move to violently squelch Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989 was "the most correct decision," adding that "a leader needs to make this kind of decision." The remarks -- made to the South China Morning Post in May and posted to the out...

We have a problem. We don't have enough wireless spectrum to satisfy America's rapidly growing appetite. That means we'll increasingly have problems connecting with our smartphones and tablets. This spectrum shortage means we must decide the best way to use what we do have. So now is the time to draw a line in the sand and do what we must do -- prepare to share spectrum. ...

When Cirruspath wanted to update its Cirrus Insight Gmail extension for Salesforce.com, it asked clients to draw it a picture. The result is what it calls a complete redesign that integrates lead tracking through Salesforce.com seamlessly into Gmail ...

Mobile carriers may be coming out with increasingly flexible options, but you could be surprised by how much money you can save by moving your wireless plan over to a no-contract Mobile Virtual Network Operator, called an "MVNO." It's particularly worth exploring the possibility of dropping your existing postpaid major carrier contract at renewal ...

GlassUp is seeking to raise US$150,000 on Indiegogo to fund production of its eponymous product The GlassUp glasses will serve mainly as a display and will connect to mobile devices through Bluetooth. Models equipped with a camera or a prescription glasses option, or both, are also being planned....

Google is considering the possibility of launching an Internet-based TV service, according to numerous media reports Specifically, the company has approached several media companies about the possibility licensing of content for an Internet-based TV service that would stream traditional TV programming, The Wall Street Journal first reported, citing...

There's been a standard for super-fast SD cards for two years now, but signs of products deploying the technology have been absent. That is, they were absent until Tuesday, when Toshiba announced plans to deliver a new line of SD cards using UHS-II technology to the market this fall The advance notice gives device makers time to start designing pro...

In the wake of rising public anger against Microsoft over allegations of its involvement in the National Security Agency's PRISM program, the company on Tuesday urged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to let it share more details about the way it handles government requests for information about its customers There are "significant inaccuracies" in...