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Artists seeking to sell their work and art lovers seeking to buy it need now go no further than their computer. With the rise in online art sales, buying and selling original art can take place entirely online ...

A brown dwarf is A) a tepid spot of tea; B) a tiny cup of java; or C) a star with so little energy its temperature isn't much different from a cup of coffee or tea The correct answer -- C -- describes a newly discovered, lukewarm star about 75 light years -- 709,539,630,000,000 kilometers or 440,887,486,000,000 miles -- from Earth.

A major 2008 settlement between Google Books, authors and publishers has been rejected by a New York federal Judge. Judge Denny Chin of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the US$125 million settlement because he said it would give Google too much power in the search market The 2008 settlement included the Author's Guild and Association of...

Microsoft has released the so-called NoDo update, fulfilling a pledge it made earlier to do so by late March The ill-fated update had been originally scheduled for rollout during the first week of March. The release was put off after Microsoft ran into problems with its first update in February....

2010 was the year of social media: Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year, "The Social Network" seemed poised for Oscar glory, and Facebook exceeded Google's daily traffic. Certainly there were hiccups along the way -- privacy settings, ease-of-use and the Google Buzz debacle -- but no serious commentator currently considers the social Web to be anything but an established part of the media universe...

I saw an interesting CRM user interface the other day, and while I don't usually write about something as basic as the UI, I was drawn to this one. Actually, I've been very interested in a new class of UI emerging lately; something we haven't thought about in a long time is re-emerging, possibly as a differentiator, so perhaps this is timely The l...

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When so-called "minicomputers" first appeared in the 1970s, they supplanted mainframes on a scale of size and cost expressed by Bell's Law, which holds that a new class of smaller, cheaper computers comes along roughly every 10 years. ...

Its logo depicting a wily flame-colored fox encircling the globe suggests that nonprofit Mozilla aims to set the world on fire with every new version of its free, open source Web browser Firefox, released in its fourth incarnation Tuesday Available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and Maemo, Firefox 4 boasts speed and performance advancements...

Amazon launched its own Android app store Tuesday, an event immediately followed by the introduction of a lawsuit filed by Apple, according to Bloomberg. The suit claims trademark infringement and unfair competition on usage of the term "app store." ...

Winning regulatory approval may be a difficult battle for AT&T in its bid to buy up wireless rival T-Mobile. However, if it does indeed gain permission to purchase its GSM wireless competitor, the technological challenges could prove to be much less of a headache AT&T will be able to transition T-Mobile USA's networks into its own fairly easily, sh...

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are flexing their collective majority muscles in both substance and style. The most significant change resulting from gaining the electoral majority in the House, of course, is that direction of all committees has shifted to Republican hands But other significant changes are under way. Last week, H...

HP's recent Strategy Summit in San Francisco provided a coming-out party for the company's CEO Leo Apotheker before 350-plus IT industry analysts, and he wasted little time setting an agenda. Information, Apotheker said, represents the world's "most valuable commodity," reinforcing HP's plan's to support "seamless, secure, context-aware" information access to connected devices of every kind.

Last week, at the HP Summit 2011 in San Francisco, the tech industry waited with bated breath for HP CEO Leo Apotheker's first presentation as CEO. Surely, the theory went, he would make a startling pronouncement describing a twist in the company's strategy -- say, a greater focus on developing its own integrated software stack, as opposed to its current strategy of relying on partners.

Adobe announced Monday that its Flash Player 10.2 update is now available on Android Market The update's a production release for Android 2.2 and 2.3 but an initial beta release for Android 3.0.1....

Friendly to capitalism but unfriendly to democracy, the Chinese government is cracking down on that great engine of information democratization, Google, the Internet search giant claims. Complaints that Google's Gmail email system hasn't been performing up to speed in China prompted Google to level the accusation. Google has investigated the repo...

AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about US$39 billion. The deal will need approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to verify it would not violate antitrust laws. If approved, it could close in about a year.

AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about US$39 billion. The deal will need approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to verify it would not violate antitrust laws. If approved, it could close in about a year.

AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about US$39 billion. The deal will need approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to verify it would not violate antitrust laws. If approved, it could close in about a year.

Sony is readying a hybrid Vaio notebook with a docking system that augments its hardware, as well as another Vaio sporting Chrome OS, according to a report in SonyInsider. The so-called hybrid notebook will feature the communications technology Apple introduced as "Thunderbolt" recently in its MacBook Pro notebooks, the report stated....