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Corporations fear open source like 12th century Europeans feared the plague. However, corporate fears of open source are usually a sign of misinformation or lack of information.

All together now: "Finally!" At long last, the leaks are being plugged by none other than Verizon itself, who today confirmed that the Droid 2 is more than just a figment of everyone's imagination.

Facebook’s growth in the UK has waned over the last six months, suggesting that the social network is nearing saturation point, according to new statistics.

Apple is hustling to issue a patch for a flaw that makes it possible to remotely hack the operating system for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch.

Terry Childs, the "rogue techie" who refused to disclose the passwords to a crucial city networking system for the better part of two weeks, has been sentenced to four years in state prison. He also may be stuck with up to $1.485 million in restitution payments.

Talks Some Serious Smack.

A new Student Monitor study revealed this weekend that almost half of college students getting a notebook plan to buy Macs. Of the 87 percent of prospective buyers, 47 percent plan to get some form of MacBook.

OK, so-called web surfers, listen up. You might be able to ride from page to page with your speedy search engines, sure, but could you make it from Amazon to the Pirate Bay only clicking links?

An enterprising iPhone hacker has figured out how to get Adobe Flash working on the iPhone, despite Steve Jobs' banishment of the third-party plugin from all iDevices for ...

A look at Intel's Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and how to decide how much processing power you should buy to meet your needs.

It wasn’t too long ago that YouTube was one of the only online video sites, and online video had no trouble drawing in an audience. Now that a host of new players have hit the scene, including Netflix and Hulu to name just two, companies vying for eyeballs are having to come up with new ways to stand out in the crowd.

A survey by Accenture showed that nearly 40 percent of those queried also planned to migrate critical operations to open source systems in the next 12 months. This year could be of critical importance to the open source software industry, with a majority of businesses and organizations in the US and UK expecting to increase investment.

A worker at a mainland Chinese factory is claimed to have carried a white phone into Hong Kong, using the box for a black model as a disguise. Photos of the smuggled iPhone show white trim inside the headphone and docking ports, as well as slightly modified slits around the earpiece.

No anonymity is the future of web in the opinion of Google's CEO Eric Schmidt. His message was that anonymity is a dangerous thing and governments will demand an end to it.

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Movies based on video games tend to, for lack of a better word, suck. Super Mario Bros. Max Payne. Even the, ahem, “charms” of Milla Jovovich, have not been sufficient to mask the fact that the Resident Evil franchise lacks the old-school chills that made the video games such memorable classics.

Just as we were wrapping up for the weekend, Saudi Arabia still had BlackBerry service, despite an impending ban. RIM made a lot of talk about not doing any particular governments any favors, but word from Saudi Arabia’s Comms and Info Tech Commission suggests that three servers are being put in place that would satisfy regulatory requirements.

Back in October of last year, Google and Verizon came together in order to provide an intense amount of corporate support for the FCC's then-fledgling net neutrality push. Today, said push has turned into quite the monster, with a recent court ruling asserting that the FCC doesn't actually have the authority to impose net neutrality.

When one side abandons reason and resorts to fear-mongering and name-calling, it signals that it has no pertinent arguments to put forth. This vacuum of logic results in the side with no valid arguments, aside from greed and self-interest, reducing itself to declaring the opposing point of view socialist, or communist.

Samsung today brought out two new touchscreen messaging phones focused on social networks and AT&T’s Mobile TV service.