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"Last week our HTC One vs Samsung Galaxy S4 head-to-head concluded that Samsung no longer makes the best Android phone. But after developments this week, I wonder whether Google wants Samsung to continue making Android phones at all." Yup.

Manufacturer feeling financial pain after botching a batch Foxconn has apparently botched a batch of iPhones, which Apple returned to the contract manufacturer because they were not fit for sale.…

Newspapers were very much in the news this week, in the wake of the Boston bombings and the manhunt for the escaped suspect: many cheered the news coverage of the Boston Globe, in part because of the paper’s shrunken newsroom and the fact that it is up for…

The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended, after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev's capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies that spent the last week tracking…

A boy, a girl, Google, suspiciously-placed pants and a national highway NSFWish Google's privacy-invading StreetView machines may have captured their most embarassing moment yet, after images of what looks an awful lot like a couple indulging in some…

Ad giant may have to admit there are other search engines out there Google has been forced to abandon its bid to grab exclusive use of the web address extensions .app, .blog, .search and .cloud - after it was warned the move was anti-competitive.…

With all the talk about Dell going private so it can revamp itself without Wall Street on its back, we got curious. Who are the biggest private enterprise companies? Better yet, who are the biggest private companies under the radar? So we looked around. We…

Email delivery company SendGrid has fired developer evangelist Adria Richards for outting developers on Twitter who were making sexual jokes during a conference. The company made a statement on its Facebook account: Effective immediately, SendGrid has…

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Naked photos of teenage high school girls were spreading like wildfire last week at New Jersey's Ridgewood High School. According to Ridgewood Patch, female students took nude photos of themselves and sent them to a male classmate(s) via Snapchat, a photo…

Fisker Automotive founder Henrik Fisker has resigned from his post as the firm's executive chairman. An email said to be sent by Henrik cites several unspecified "major disagreements" with the company's executive management on business strategy as the primary…

Verizon Wireless has filled us in on the rest of its BlackBerry 10 launch plans: it will begin selling the Z10 on March 28th in-stores and online, with pre-orders beginning tomorrow at 8AM ET. The carrier had previously announced plans to sell the Z10 and the…

Jeremy Keith / flickr OAKLAND, California—Lawsuits challenging government secrecy have fared pretty terribly in the post-9/11 era, with the most recent example being the Supreme Court's ruling last month that a group of journalists and activists have no…

The last week of February was a big moment for smartphone news. Most of the big players attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to show off their upcoming gadgets for the spring and summer release cycle. We saw a lot of interesting phones that will be…

A recently-translated Al-Qaeda document published by The Associated Press outlines 22 helpful hints for evading or taking down US drones, ranging from radio silence to jamming communications equipment with an "ordinary water-lifting dynamo fitted with a…

It is widely expected that Apple will refresh its iPhone line-up later this year with the introduction of the iPhone 5S. We aren’t expecting much of a change between the iPhone 5 and 5S in terms of how it looks. That’s based on the fact Apple doesn’t…

Nat Friedman is CEO and co-founder of Xamarin  Apple’s App Store review process is designed to keep the app ecosystem healthy and to protect users from low-quality or hostile apps. And the system mostly works. But sometimes an app is rejected for reasons…

NEWS ANALYSIS: Tablets are certainly popular and have been cutting into notebook sales, but they can’t entirely replace the full range of PCs from laptops to desktops.

BlackBerry (formerly RIM) has just unveiled the BlackBerry 10 device that, let's face it, many of the faithful really want: the QWERTY keyboard-equipped Q10. It mates the hardware input that BlackBerry fans have known and loved while including a 3.1-inch…

Google has revealed the full scale of the US government's use of controversial legislation that bypasses judicial approval to access the online information of private citizens. According to its latest transparency report, the number of requests for private…

Rapiscan contract canceled The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that it is pulling all full-body scanners based on backscatter X-ray technology from US airports.…

A popular saying goes that programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code. And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there’s a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights. Some earlier, some later. A popular…

Photo: Aaron Swartz in 2008, with former Red Hat CEO Bob Young in the background. (CreativeCommons) The family and friends of Aaron Swartz — the famed Internet hacktivist who took his own life on Friday at the age of 26 — released a public statement on…

Well, this can't be a good sign. Samsung has told CNET that the company will not be launching its Windows RT tablet in the United States, citing a lack of demand and consumer confusion. After I spent an afternoon in my country's largest electronics retailer,…

Travel back in time – a long, long time Images If you've ever wondered what Mars might have looked like in the distant past when it had oceans and a cloud-filled atmosphere, an enterprising geek and digital artist from Nashua, NH, can help.…

It seems like only yesterday we were planning for the Mayan apocalypse, but like so many other products, the 14th b'ak'tun (next era) has been delayed due to bugs and lack of pre-orders. Yet if you talked to some pundits back in 2011, they'd have told you that…

After discovering a secret palace hidden in China's first emperor massive burial complex, Chinese technicians are nervous. Not because Qin Shi Huang's tomb is the most important archeological discovery since Tutankhamun, but because they believe his burial…

For months, frustrated car owners just couldn't explain it. As the Sun Sentinel explains, parking anywhere in the vicinity of the Hollywood Police Department would render their vehicle's keyless entry system useless. As more and more cars were towed away…

Michael Coghlan The Raspberry Pi, the $35 credit card-sized computer, has lived an interesting life despite being less than a year old. It has been used to teach programming and host servers, but above all it has provided a near-perfect platform for some of…

Anti-virus company Avast conducted a survey of Windows-based PC users the day before Windows 8 was released. The results were devastating for Microsoft and non-Apple PC makers. They were excellent, meanwhile, for Apple. Byron Acohido wrote up the results for…

NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple’s iPhone 5S is rumored to be launching in the first half of 2013. If that happens, what features must it have to be successful?

David Petraeus' biographer, Paula Broadwell, is presumed to have begun her affair with the CIA director as she wrote a book about his life.  As his biographer, Broadwell didn't gloss over what is by all accounts a huge factor in Petraeus' success: his wife,…

Who'll be the first to cry 'Keyboardgate!' Oh. We just did... It appears that your brand-spanking-new Microsoft Surface may need more than the security patch The Reg told you about – you may also need a physical patch for its Touch Cover keyboard.…

NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple's fourth-generation iPad was the biggest surprise at Apple's busy product introduction Oct. 23. But for consumers and enterprise customers, the latest full-size iPad is a must-buy.

Surprising news for a Saturday evening in London. Joanna Shields, the vice president of Facebook’s European, Middle East and Africa operations, is leaving the company to become the chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation, a David…

STANFORD, CA: Entrepreneurs flocked to Stanford University to hear Mark Zuckerberg, the T-shirt wearing chief executive, open up about the early days of Facebook. Since the social networking giant’s IPO in May, this is one of only a handful of public…

iPad Mini models and prices have been revealed by someone with access to the internal system of Europe’s largest electronics retailer, Media Markt. According to the screenshot, there will be 16 different iPad Mini configurations, starting at an 8GB WiFI…

They may look like fakes but their authors say they are very real. Excluding cropping or tone adjustments, none of these images have been Photoshopped (as in composed from many images or morphed or painted over). I look at them and I can believe them. More »

Whatever your reason: a winter vacation in Thailand at the beach, a wedding, or (best of all) general fitness, losing a little (or a lot) of weight is generally a great thing if done in the proper way through exercise and correct eating. Obesity is one of the…

There’s a been a lot of discussion this week about Apple‘s (AAPL) decision to replace Google (GOOG) maps with its own in the update of its iOS software. I don’t think the decision is the “disaster” or “catastrophe” some suggest. I appreciate the…