Why US government IT fails so hard, so often  —  The rocky launch of the Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov is the most visible evidence at the moment of how hard it is for the federal government to execute major technology projects.  But the troubled “Obamacare” …

Coming from Apple in 2014: 12-inch Retina MacBook, sharper iPad, cheaper iMac?  —  According to typically-reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, Apple has a slew of new products in the works for 2014.  The analyst has summarized his expectations for these new products in a new research note …

Waywire, Cory Booker's Attempt to Build a Web Video Startup, Sells to Magnify  —  Waywire, the video startup best known for its association with politician Cory Booker, is being sold to Magnify, a Web video distributor.  —  People familiar with the transaction say that Magnify …

In a Mood?  Call Center Agents Can Tell  —  IN a YouTube clip from one of Steve Jobs's last interviews, he appears to be enjoying reminiscing about how he first hit upon the idea for the keyboardless tablet that eventually became the iPad.  —  “I had this idea of being able to get rid of the keyboard …

Bilton Book: Twitter's Dick Costolo Was Fired (And Rehired) in 2010  —  Twitter's founding tale keeps getting more and more complicated.  —  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was briefly fired from the company by an advisor to the board in 2010, according to a new book detailing the early, tumultuous days of the microblogging service.

Xero Zeros In On Another $150M To Do Battle With Intuit In The World Of Online SMB Accounting Software  —  Nearly a year after Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners and others put an extra $49 million into Xero, the online accounting software company is adding yet more capital to its coffers.

Nexus 5 Bares All In Leaked Crystal Clear 7-Minute HD Video  —  A crystal clear 7-minute video of the Nexus 5 (I think we can accept that's going to be the name at this point) was just leaked on the web.  It's an older build than the one leaked by TuttoAndroid yesterday, but look …

Google CIO Ben Fried on the company's internal tools and restrictions  —  Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works  —  It was the former Google employee's first day out in the real world.  He removed the enterprise security settings from his iPhone, and installed the apps he wasn't allowed …

Iconic Homebrew Computer Club to Reunite Thanks to Kickstarter  —  The legendary computer club where Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first showed off their early retail computers is reuniting next month  —  Tech-savvy members of the Homebrew Computer Club are scheduled …

Try as it might, San Francisco based EFF can't avoid Washington  —  Try as it might, anti-surveillance group can't avoid Washington  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A jolt of pride and panic flashed through the Electronic Frontier Foundation when the first images of Edward Snowden appeared …