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Fone Free Feb is, like Dry July and Ocsober, encouraging Aussies to give up something for a month. In this case it’s smartphones. The charity is encouraging people to sign up and put down their phones for intermittent periods during the month of February, describing it as an opportunity to 
The PC market has been taking hit after hit these past few years. As PC sales continue to dwindle, big companies are struggling to stay afloat. However, this may be because big companies tend to focus on generic, low-end PCs. Smaller companies that focus more on unique, high-end computers are still
This week, Target’s CEO appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the recent breaches that led to the loss of 40 million credit card numbers, as well as information pertaining to 70 million customers. Although malware placed on Target’s system is what exposed the data, mo
Any interior decorator will tell you, there’s a fine line between blush and bashful. Unfortunately for Aio Wireless, the same can’t be said of plum and magenta, at least not in a court of law. T-Mobile announced today that a Federal Court in Texas has ordered the AT&T subsidiary to s
Yahoo has reportedly reached a deal to integrate Yelp reviews into its search engine results. The move is intended to help Yahoo increase usage of its search tools by improving local results with Yelp reviews of restaurants, mechanics, bars, and more. It also comes after its second consecutive quart
In a tweet earlier in the day on Saturday, Dong Nguyen–developer of the wildly popular iOS and Android game, Flappy Bird–apologized to fans while simultaneously promising to take his game down, assumedly from the various app stores it’s been selling like crazy on. His tweet hints at the insanity of
Have you ever wanted to launch something into space, but it’s always been too expensive or just too complicated? We’ve all had that problem at some point in our lives, but we’ve never been able to do anything about it – until now. Richard Graf of Cochrane, Ontario has built w
Earlier today, 500px announced that it would be getting into the licensing game with a new commercial licensing site dubbed 500px Prime. Announced on the image sharing site’s blog, 500px is painting Prime as a revolutionary commercial licensing marketplace that will “fundamentally change the way pho
Advertising company PubMatic has reportedly hired a pair of banks for an initial public offering, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites anonymous sources familiar with the company’s plans. PubMatic produces a platform that makes it easy to automatically buy and sell advertising spots
James Dean died before he could ever tweet. Now, the iconic movie star is at the center of a potentially groundbreaking legal dispute against Twitter Inc., defending itself over its refusal to do anything about the anonymous individual who has registered @JamesDean. The lawsuit was engineered by CMG
Networking experts are running out of superlatives to describe the coming tidal wave/explosion/cataclysm of mobile data traffic. Cisco last week said mobile data is expected to grow by 11 times in the next four years, reaching 18 exabytes per month by 2018. An exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes. Mobile
Hacker Jose Julio loves robotics and says his daughter loves air hockey. One day, he decided to build her an air hockey robot out of 3D-printer parts and a PS3 camera to make sure she could always play the game. This is an amazing achievement: the robot doesn’t just move in two dimensions. It can al
