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Google Ingress: How to save the world with your Android phone

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Google Ingress: How to save the world with your Android phone
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The 10 most influential smartphones ever
Our look back at the highlights of the smartphone's lightning-fast rise to prominence. Read More

Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet
A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wired together using Ethernet. And if you wanted to connect many nodes into a single high performance computer (HPC), you went with InfiniBand. Read More

Holiday Guide: How to buy Apple gear, affordably
It's the holidays and the special Apple fans in your life have their fingers crossed for some new gadgets to unwrap. But you've got a problem: The bank account isn't quite robust enough to pay full price for an iPhone 5 or the latest Mac. What to do? Read More

Smartphones could soon double as mood rings
A new algorithm that analyzes speech could one day enable smartphones to sense your mood. Who knows, maybe it could even prevent you from saying something you'll regret. Read More

Tablet smackdown: iPad vs Surface RT in the enterprise
IPads are already making their way into businesses via bring-your-own-device efforts with Microsoft Surface RT tablets hoping to follow suit as employees lobby for their favorite devices. But which one makes more sense from an IT perspective? Read More

4 LinkedIn Tips to Help You Get Hired This Month
If you've heard that companies don't hire during the holiday season, don't believe it, says career expert and LinkedIn spokeswomen Lindsey Pollak. Read More

Wireless LAN is beginning to look a lot more wired
It's the holiday season and soon we'll all hear the Bing Crosby or Perry Como song "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" over and over again. You can tell it's looking like Christmas, at least in Massachusetts. The malls are over-crowded; I have bags of ice melt in the garage; the usual rudeness you see on the roadways has been escalated; I have pine needles all over my house and the... Read More

Civil litigation: A better way to improve cybersecurity?
Former Homeland Security officials says settlement in Patco online banking suit is evidence that liability is better than legislation Read More

Steve Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher to be Sundance 2013's grand finale
The widely anticipated Steve Jobs biopic, dubbed "jOBS," will close out this coming January's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Read More

Another law enforcement group co-opted in extortion scheme
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Browser add-ons bring convenience, pizzazz, and efficiency to our surfing. I've rounded up some of the best to help you get the most out of the web. Read More

 
 
 

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