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Apple's Samsung Win Slams Asian Phone Makers
Samsung wasn't the only Asian smartphone maker to suffer through a Black Monday.
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Cyberwars Reach a New Frontier: The Airport
It sounds like an air traveler's nightmare: a sophisticated software attack that allows hackers to access internal airport computer systems and manipulate data...
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Dinner and a Robot: My Night Out With a Pr2
On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of dining at the exclusive Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Why Apple Will Turn to Holograms
Look around your office hallway or college campus and you'll see people holding interactive panes of glass.
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Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the .s.?
In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...
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In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again
Since the mid-1990s Liam Casey, PCH International's chief executive officer, has helped technology companies with the nastiest task in Silicon Valley: building...
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H-1B Visas Hit the Cap, Sending Companies to Plan B
For Silicon Valley, a day of ritual disappointment came on June 12: The U.S. announced that the slots for 2013 H-1B visas had all been filled.
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Apple vs. Google: Starkly Different China Experiences
In China, sometimes having the first-mover advantage is often no advantage at all. Case in point: Apple vs. Google.
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'Adaptive Radio': The Next Big Thing in Wireless?
James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a two-foot fiberglass antenna.
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Nine Things You Should Know About Facebook's Ipo
The social network priced its shares at $38 apiece, valuing the company at $104 billion.
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How Much Is a Tweet Worth?
The question has an almost koan-like quality. And yet at a time when the ranks of billion-dollar social-media companies keep growing (Instagram being the latest)...
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Apple's War on Android
In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge.
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An App That Helps You Cozy p to Strangers
Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...
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Garmin Finds a New Direction
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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Jobs FBI File Notes Drug Use, Tendency to 'Distort Reality'
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with...
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Who Does Google Think You Are?
A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age.
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Steve Ballmer Reboots
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.
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