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Microsoft execs haven't been beating the parallel-computing drum as loudly as they were a year or two ago, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening in this space.

Can you justify the cost of the Mac for back-to-school or back-to-work needs?

IFA, the big consumer electronics show in Berlin, officially starts today and several companies are using the event to announce long-rumored tablets. Do any of them have what it takes to compete...

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, techies seem to abhor locked systems.

Comment spam is an increasing nuisance, but security firm Sophos notes that Apple didn't consider the problems when it launched Ping. Simply put, Ping lacks spam and URL filtering.

While disease may spread through a single contact, concerted action against it requires multiple contacts.

AMD's new chip architecture, dubbed Bulldozer, is being highly anticipated next year as the company prepares to match Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge processors. Included in AMD's plans,...

International cyberwar should be averted by a global cybersecurity peace treaty, according to the head of the International Telecommunications Union.

There is no bandwidth shortage. Visitors to Burning Man will get free cellular calls this weekend as a result.

EMC continued to lead the external storage market in overall market share, but there's a dogfight between IBM, NetApp and Hewlett-Packard for the No. 2 spot. Dell was No. 5 in market share.

Say what you will about the new social features that Apple baked into its venerable iTunes software, most would agree that it has a lot of potential. ButàPing's suffering from some growing pains...

Right now, many of the solar projects you read about are intended supplemental energy sources. That is, the technology being installed is offsetting some portion of a home's or business's energy...

Tom Eston: Facebook is trying some new ways to innovate security, though it's still overlooking some other simpler fixes. Should you care about these new controls?

Here are seven mobile apps that could make your Labor Day weekend getaway, far or local, as smooth as possible.

There are a plethora of new digital camera releases this fall, and it could be an ordeal to sort through all of them. Following last week's round-up of summer announcements, here's a helpful guide...

Following screams and howls from enthusiasts who are attached to brands and branding, AMD defends its decision to ditch the ATI graphics brand.

Yesterday David Pogue of the New York Times blogged about how AMD aren't all that keen on those stickers that are plastered onto notebooks, and want to phase out the use of stickers altogether....

Yesterday David Pogue of the New York Times blogged about how AMD aren't all that keen on those stickers that are plastered onto notebooks, and want to phase out the use of stickers altogether....

The Samsung Epic 4G is Sprint's version of the Galaxy S and it has a number of features that make it unique from its cousins on the other carriers.

Two bits of browser news - one good, one bad.