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(Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd has launched its new line of re-engineered BlackBerry smartphones, taking the wraps off the long-delayed devices at a series of events around the world on Wednesday. The company used the occasion to announce that it was changing its name to BlackBerry, hoping a new brand identity will …

You probably don't want to forward this roster of tireless go-getters to your boss

Mark Atwood

La elección de un sistema operativo para una computadora es una situación que, en situaciones cotidianas al ingresar a una tienda de venta de artículos electrónicos, está marcada por la presencia de la plataforma Windows de Microsoft. Nada de esto impide que los usuarios puedan optar por software libre, sin costo alguno …

What a difference just a few months makes. If you don’t recall, it was only last September when Apple’s (AAPL) share prices were blasting past $700 and bullish analysts were proclaiming that the company was well be on its way to having a $1 trillion valuation and dominating the tech industry for years to come. All that’s …

Those of you who bought one of Google's affordable 7-inch tablets, the Nexus 7, may have noticed the tiny gold connector pins near the bottom of the left-hand side -- the ones that looked like they were supposed to do something, but didn't, and the manual (really a pamphlet) just mysteriously called them a "4-pin conne …

First announced in 2009, CCP Games' online first-person shooter tie-in to its popular sci-fi MMO, EVE Online, was finally released as an open beta on Tuesday. Called DUST 514, it allows PlayStation 3 owners to play in the same world as EVE Online, fighting ground battles while EVE Online pilots contest star systems. The …

México, 22 Ene. (Notimex).- Del 24 al 26 de enero en el Centro Nacional de las Artes (Cenart) se llevará a cabo el "Live Performers Meeting" (LPM), el evento más importante a nivel mundial dedicado a la manipulación y mezcla de video en tiempo real.

Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has been promoting its Firefox OS project (once known as "Boot to Gecko") for some time now. A hardware partnership with Telefonica, the international telecom giant, had been announced, but no phones had yet been unveiled.

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Paul Spain is the host of the weekly NZ Tech Podcast, one of New Zealand's leading locally produced podcasts and often appears on TV and video as a commentator on consumer and business technology topics.

Natalie Chanin’s life-changing epiphany struck while standing on a New York City street corner.

Mark Atwood

Raspberry Pi’s $35 Linux-based computer is a runaway success. Creator Eben Upton told ZDNet in a recent interview that his team thought they would sell 1,000 units when they were designing the mini PC, but sales have now topped 700,000. ”We honestly did think we would sell about 1,000, maybe 10,000 in our wildest dreams,” …

I'm Mark Atwood, and I'm the Director of Open Source Evangelism for HP Cloud Services. I've been working at HPCS for several months now, getting a feel for HP and our place in the open source and OpenStack® community.

Google (GOOG) CEO Larry Page seems unimpressed by Apple’s (AAPL) “thermonuclear war” against his company’s operating system. In an interview with Wired posted Thursday, Page was asked to respond to reports about the late Steve Jobs being “competitive enough to claim that he was willing to ‘go to thermonuclear war’ on Android.” …

The Nexus 7, made by Asus in partnership with Google, was the first really successful Android tablet that wasn't made by a bookseller. It brought the hundreds of thousands of games and apps on Google Play (formerly the Android Market) to a wide audience, and it did so at an unheard-of price point: Only $199, for a device …

By the end of this month, Amazon's Kindle Fire may no longer be the cheapest "real" tablet out there. PC hardware manufacturer Asus, the brand name behind Google's Nexus 7 device, is coming out with another 7-inch tablet called the Asus MeMO Pad, which will start at $149. The MeMO Pad will launch in "selected markets" this …

Today in the age of the "brogrammer," whose frat boy tendencies are glorified and sought after by cutting-edge online startups, women in tech often find themselves objectified and excluded -- especially in communities like Wikipedia and open-source software, where women make up even less of the population (around 13 percent …

Google's aptly-named Nexus 7 tablet made a splash when it debuted last year, at $199 and with a screen 7 inches across. Apple soon released its own iPad Mini to join the increasingly crowded world of miniature tablets, which -- at about half the size of a regular iPad -- are so small as to be pocketable.

Both GameStick and NVIDIA's Project Shield are upcoming game consoles the size of a game controller, which can hook up to a larger display. Both are powered by Android, Google's open-source operating system that's normally used on smartphones and tablets. And both have working hardware prototypes already. But one is a $99 …

Despite being announced at last week's Consumer Electronics Show, NVIDIA's Project SHIELD isn't the first game-console-in-a-controller to be announced this year. That honor goes to the GameStick, an indie project being funded on Kickstarter. As relative newcomers to the gaming scene, GameStick's creators face an uphill …

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