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Seven members of SEAL Team 6, the U.S. Navy's elite unit whose accomplishments include the killing of Osama bin Laden, have been disciplined for providing input for a video game, according to CBS Another four are under investigation for similar alleged violations. All are on active duty....

NASA and the European Space Agency have tested a prototype system that could truly give new meaning to long-distance calling. It could help enable Internet-like communications between Earth and other planets ...

Priceline is picking up the travel search engine Kayak for US$1.8 billion in a deal expected to broaden its mobile offerings and help it fend off unwelcome competition from new entrants to the online travel space Kayak allows consumers to shop and compare prices on multiple travel sites, earning a referral fee for the sale....

There's no better time to get an offer than a few steps into a store -- or so believesSensewhere, a company focused on hyperlocal interactions with consumers. It just released Adwhere, a location-based mobile application that can position consumers who are indoors and otherwise out of reach of GPS "Sensewhere uses a hybrid positioning technology t...

Implanted electronic devices can be powered by a biological battery that exists in the ear, researchers at MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Harvard-IT Division of Health Sciences and Technology have demonstrated for the first time Team member Konstantina Stankovich, assistant professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard Medic...

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace, and Rising TideMedia hosted our second annual Cloud Channel Summit earlier this week, giving executives fromleading cloud and channel companies a peer-to-peer networking forum where they could share perspectives on how to forge successful partnerships to capitalize on theunprecedented opportunities created by the cloud...

Mobile CRM and its related technologies have intrigued developers and users alike for years. However, it wasn't until Facebook announced it would acquire Instagram for an eye-popping US$1 billion that the money began to pour into this space. "That was the transaction that crystallized for us and a lot of folks that mobile is a hot growth area dese...

CoPilot Live Premium, an app from ALK Technologies, is available for US$9.99 at Google Play ...

Sandvine has released a new report on global Internet traffic that points to the growth of online data consumption and implies that the increasing use of legitimate content services such as Netflix may be softening the impact of illegal P2P file-sharing At face value, that seems difficult to believe.

While Research In Motion's BlackBerry 10 won't be released until the first quarter of 2013, the platform has already received a highly prized U.S. government security clearance, the company announced Thursday BlackBerry 10 won the FIPS 140-2 certification that will allow government agencies to deploy devices that run the OS. The clearance also appl...

Sprint will acquire wireless spectrum and customers from U.S. Cellular in the Midwest, in a US$480 million deal to expand its services in the area, the companies announced Wednesday Under the agreement, Sprint will pick up segments of PCS spectrum in multiple Midwestern markets, including Chicago and St. Louis. It will receive 585,000 U.S. Cellular...

Master Chief is going after some real world conquests in the newly released Halo 4 from Microsoft. In time for the launch of the game, American Express teamed with Microsoft to launch a campaign that will reward players who sync their American Express card to Halo 4 -- and by default, Xbox Live....

Kim Dotcom, founder of the now-defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has long been in hot water with the big, huge United States. Now he's irked the tiny, little nation of Gabon According to the BBC, Gabon has blocked the Megaupload successor, which Dotcom announced last week, and which is supposed to launch on Jan. 20....

Perhaps the United States was not the first to get into the 4G LTE wireless data game, but today it may be the most aggressive in rolling it out. The U.S. has more miles of network, more devices, and more subscribers than any other place on Earth If you listen to the advertising, it seems every carrier offers 4G, and every customer uses it. Do you...

Disasters -- be they man-made or natural, like Hurricane Sandy -- showcase the best in people. Neighbor helps neighbor like never before, people share what they have, and assistance comes from unexpected places. They also showcase people at their worst -- looters, scammers and other lowlifes emerge and heartlessly seek to profit from the victims....

My first impression of the bargain-basement US$39.99 Windows OS upgrade: To alloutward appearances, Windows 8 is a vivid, visual, deeply rewarding and aesthetically pleasing skin tothe 2009-released Windows 7 PC desktop OS Big deal, you might say....

AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will boost capital spending by as much as 16 percent to US$22 billion a year for the next three years to upgrade its wireless and wireline networks. The increase is necessary to compete with Verizon Communications, which is currently upgrading its own network The network expansion plans call for a budget of $8 m...

AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will boost capital spending by as much as 16 percent to US$22 billion a year for the next three years to upgrade its wireless and wireline networks. The increase is necessary to compete with Verizon Communications, which is currently upgrading its own network The network expansion plans call for a budget of $8 m...

Investors sent shares of AOL sharply higher after it reported higher-than-expected earnings and growth in advertising revenue The company reported a third-quarter profit of US$20.8 million, or 22 cents per share, on revenue of $531.7 million. That beat expectations of $521 million and marked a turnaround from last year's net loss of $2.6 million du...

Microsoft will phase out Windows Live Messenger, its consumer instant messaging platform, over the next several months as its users are moved to Skype, the company announced this week Microsoft hopes to smooth the transition to Skype for Live Messenger users by allowing them to log in to Skype with their Microsoft ID so that contacts in one program...