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Microsoft is bound to play up the non-gaming entertainment features of the new console, focusing on streaming video, Skype calling, and deeper integration with other devices and services. Much has changed in the video game landscape since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 in 2005. Back then, Microsoft was a clear underdog, hoping to cut into [...]

More customers are satisfied with Apple’s phones than any other handsets, but they’re not as happy as they were last year, a new report said. According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index report issued today, Apple received a score of 81 (on a scale of 100) in terms of customer satisfaction. But the company dropped [...]

A senate panel releases a lengthy report detailing how the tech company used offshore corporate structures to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes. On the eve of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s hearing in front of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the subcommittee released a report Monday detailing how it believes the tech giant has [...]

The inventor of Bitcoin has been shrouded in a mystery so complete, it’s baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code [...]

Life becomes more meaningful when someone from a long way away reflects your own thoughts. It makes you feel less alone, less forlorn on your island of one. I was, therefore, lifted to heights previously unimagined on hearing that the head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has declared that Twitter is an appalling waste of [...]

At last week’s I/O conference, Google’s Larry Page didn’t speak like a CEO. He spoke like a politician. Congress is a dog that won’t go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant “no.” It’s not a [...]

New MacBook Air models may be right around the corner — if a reading of retailer tea leaves is correct. Signs may point to a refresh of Apple’s popular MacBook Air. Possibly next month. AppleInsider said Friday that at large online retailers like MacConnection, stock has vanished for the popular 13.3-inch Air with a 1.8GHz [...]

The Chromebook Pixel may be pretty, but it can’t talk to cameras — among the many problems that keep it from being a prime-time laptop. SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s expensive Chromebook giveaway here at its I/O 2013 conference can’t handle connecting to digital cameras, but that’s just one of many problems the laptop causes for its owners. Chromebooks, [...]

The Twitter co-founder’s new company, Jelly, closes its first round of funding with a celebrity-studded group of investors, including tech notables like Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman and Evan Williams. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has picked up some interesting celebrity investors for his mysterious mobile startup Jelly. The list, published on the company’s Tumblr Thursday, includes [...]

Attention early adopters: That first-edition Google Glass hardware is likely to be gathering dust a few years from now as the technology gets seriously revved (or falls victim to paranoid lawmakers and pub owners), but don’t toss it out! If an auction later this month of computing and other technological blasts from the past is any indication, it [...]