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Cisco, other router rivals challenged by economy, competition
The worldwide carrier routing and switching markets dropped a bit in the third quarter, decreasing 2.5% from last year and 1.7% from Q2, to $2.75 billion. Global economic uncertainty - underscored by the U.S. Read More


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Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control
New interface methods will revolutionize how we interact with computers Read More

DEA issues extortion scam warning involving Internet drug buys
The Drug Enforcement Administration today issued a public warning that criminals posing as DEA agents have apparently amped up an old scam to steal consumers' money. Read More

Ex-Apple engineer claims company is failing at Internet
Former Apple enginner claims Apple's Internet problems will be its undoing. Read More

Leaked internal Apple Store video explains how retail outlets can be "tranformational to your life"
Long before iPad 4, iPhone 5 and the iPad mini graced our world, Apple opened its first Apple Stores in 2001. Here's an internal video from last year leaked onto the Web this week. The glass-and-chrome stores were Steve Jobs' vision for boosting consumer sales via a great shopping experience. The feel-good video is chock full of Apple's bravado/pretentiousness, as Apple discusses its philosophy on... Read More

New Star Wars USB flash drives coming
If you haven't spent all your holiday shopping money just yet, check out these Star Wars-themed USB flash drives from Italian company Tribe. Read More

Digital watchdogs warn of spam, privacy issues with Facebook changes
Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Read More

User ranked top LTE smartphones
Here's what customers of three carriers say about their LTE smartphone purchases. Read More

House set to vote again on STEM visas
For a second time in as many months, U.S. House Republicans will try to win approval of legislation to issue up to 55,000 so STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) visas to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities. Read More

LulzSec hacker faces 30 years to life
Jeremy Hammond is in really big trouble. Or, perhaps, the government is just trying to "scare the (expletive) out of him," in the words of Kevin Mitnick, formerly known as the world's "most-wanted hacker" and now a security consultant. Read More

Java inventor James Gosling building smart marine robots
James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language when he worked at Sun Microsystems, finds the security framework for Java he designed still stands up after all these years. In fact he's using it today to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research projects. Read More

Did #FoolishParents name a child Hashtag?
One would hope that this is a hoax, because the alternative is that an 8-pound newborn baby girl has entered this world burdened by the name Hashtag. Although as you'll see in a moment, burden is in the eye of the beholder. Read More

Pay no heed to Facebook status updates concerning copyright ownership
On Monday morning, I noticed a few posts on my Facebook newsfeed that were a bit bizarre. All of the posts in question were the same and read as follows. Read More

 
 
 

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