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New questions are being asked about how much accountability the crowd-funding website Kickstarter should have when things go sour The site, launched in 2009, is a crowdsourced lending site designed to help amateur inventors, artists. innovators or organizations receive funding for their ideas. Donations usually come in relatively small monetary amo...

While no one should expect to beam up to the starship Enterprise anytime soon -- or ever -- researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences announced Thursday that they have achieved a new record in quantum teleportation ...

Motorola has unveiled three new devices in its Razr smartphone line, touting extended battery life and larger screen size as their main selling points All three will be available from Verizon Wireless later this year. They will come preloaded with various Google services, including the Chrome browser, Google Play, Google Maps, Voice Actions for And...

Cellphone and smartphone users have a love-hate relationship with mobile apps. While they love the functionality and enhanced user experience they bring to the table, clearly many hate the perceived privacy intrusions, suggests a newly released report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. More than half -- 54 percent -- of app users surv...

Labor Day has come and gone, and now it's time for the big end-of-year season to begin. Expect lots of new product announcements, starting with the new Apple iPhone next week. It's all about what's new and what's coming next in wireless, telecom, television and technology. So here's a look at where several top companies stand on the growth Wave --...

The billing function conjures up many images, few of them positive. Essential to success of your business, yet often a burden for most organizations independent of size or market, billing is seen as a necessary evil to collect cash and enable organizations to stay alive. Over the past few years, however, as the world has moved online and towards greater digital consumption, billing is increasingly immediate and central to the customer experience and thus plays a much different -- and critically important -- role...

There is no off switch for the Internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who's widely acknowledged as the father of the Web, said in London when launching the World Wide Web Index report for 2012 The Index assesses the use, utility and impact of the Web around the world. It looked at 61 countries....

If you've ever had to give PowerPoint presentations away from home base, you'll knowthere's a certain amount of gear-related anxiety involved: Is the equipment going to be there? Is it going to work with my memory stick or version of PowerPoint? One way to take control is to use an iPad or certain Android tablets in lieu of the event-services suppl...

Voice mail is following in the footsteps of radio, television, film, records and email. That is, it is a technology that is slowly being supplanted by a newer technology -- in this case text messaging -- and may eventually become obsolete So say new figures Vonage provided to USA Today, which reported that the number of voice mail messages left on...

Nokia unveiled its first mobile handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS on Wednesday, and its Symbian OS days now seem like ancient history The company raised the bar for mobile phone users' expectations with the debut of its new flagship device, the Lumia 920. This handset's standout feature is its PureView camera....

Japanese manufacturer Murata has unveiled a new monolithic ceramic capacitor that is one-quarter the size of the one mainly used in smartphones Its new capacitor has a footprint of 0.25 mm x 0.125 mm, compared to the 0.4 mm x 0.2 mm footprint of the one currently predominantly being used....

The White House launched new versions of its mobile app Tuesday, releasing the app source code along with the new version in an invitation for developers to tinker with the revamped iOS and Android apps The apps, which have been rebuilt from the ground up, now feature live video streams of White House events, access to 99 percent of the content on ...

Swappers using the popular file-sharing protocol BitTorrent are spied on constantly by monitoring services, some of them seeking to identify media pirates, researchers at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom reported Tuesday Monitoring is particularly intense for files that are currently popular among sharers -- less so with less popu...

Facebook executives and employees must dread publicity these days. Every bit of critical news or commentary -- and there have been quite a few items that could be characterized as such lately -- seems to send the share price downward. The latest push apparently came on Monday from a negative article in The New York Times taking CFO David Ebersman ...

Many U.S. government agencies seeking to utilize cloud-based information technology have tilted to one of the most common IT functions as a beginning step -- email systems. Converting existing email operations to cloud-based platforms became much easier for all federal agencies on Aug. 30, when the General Services Administration awarded a set of IT contracts to 17 providers for cloud and related services...

Now is the golden age of marketing. I was tempted to write the second golden age since history sometimes seems to repeat but I am more of the Mark Twain school of history and he believed that history did not repeat itself but that it rhymed In that vein, what could be seen as the first golden age of marketing was really more the golden age of broad...

SolusOS is a relatively new Linux distribution that is attracting considerable interest as an alternative to unpopular desktop replacements for traditional Linux user interfaces. It has much to offer Linux users who reject the Gnome 3 desktop and find little appeal from the KDE and Unity desktop environments.It also provides Linux newcomers from t...

Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine in the Star Wars films was perhaps most memorable for its two suns, but astronomers working on NASA's Kepler mission recently discovered something much like it here in our own galaxy ...

Nokia on Tuesday introduced a new music app that provides U.S. Lumia handset owners access to its free streaming music service. "Nokia Music," as it is called, offers more than 150 different playlists, which are reportedly compiled by a team of music experts. In addition to the range of genres provided in the lists, users can create their own list...

The hacktivist group Anonymous has published 1 million universally unique identifiers (UDIDs) belonging to Apple devices These were among more than 12 million UDIDs stolen from the laptop of FBI Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl, the group said....