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IBM’s super computer made its official broadcast debut on Tuesday night in the final round of what was actually a two game round of Jeopardy that was designed to demonstrate that we are moving ever closer to the birth of the kind of artificial intelligence that Terminator’s Skynet was based [...]

In a world with iPhone and Android phones flooding the market, companies like RIM need to find ways to try and keep up and one of the best ways to continue to compete is to get better data and programs for the Blackberry.

Mobile World Congress is usually where Nokia showcases its new and upcoming mobile phones. This year is different, though, as Nokia rather focuses on strategic business choices that it has done recently.

One congresswoman is attempting to make it harder for online firms that make their money off of tracking what websites certain users browse to without the users’ consent. The “Do-Not-Track-Me-Online Act” intends to actually do two things.

You would be hard pressed to find someone who has had as eventful and odd an existence as Julian Assange has had over the last few months. His website, Wikileaks was well known before but after their latest data dump of classified cables, Assange became known as something as an [...]

There is little doubt that at the moment there may not be a cellular company in more trouble than Nokia is right now. To Nokia’s credit, their CEO Stephen Elop seems to completely understand that the company is seriously struggling and he’s trying to pull the company out of its [...]

Some people don’t realize but online games such as the ones that are offered at sites like Facebook can actually be big money scores. Those big money scores can be even bigger when they are hacked by the right people who know how to steal themselves some serious cash.

Someone’s getting a new address. And they’re inviting 600 million people to the housewarming. Okay, maybe not, but our favorite social network will soon move to a new headquarters in Silicon Valley.

A new survey by uSamp seems to show that quite a large portion of Blackberry and Android users have some serious interest in the iPhone if they are already Verizon customers. The survey showed that a large majority of Blackberry users showed at least some interest in switching over while [...]

While different charges for different levels of internet usage has been kicked around in several different countries, so far none are looking as hard at metered internet usage the way Canada is. The country to the North of the US says that no plan to go to metered internet is [...]