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Apple's Path to the App Store Wasn't a Straight Road
The unveiling of the iPhone almost four years ago stands as a pivotal moment in computing history. The elegant design not only ushered in the mobile computing...
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Google's Ceo Steps Into Spotlight
In his most extensive public comments since becoming Google's CEO, Larry Page on Thursday delivered a carefully crafted response to critics who say the company...
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Google's Annual Developers Conference Gets nderway
Whether or not Google makes any blockbuster announcements at its annual developers conference that starts Tuesday—a news report on Monday said it may unveil its...
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Chinese Entrepreneurs See Apple's App Store as Entryway to Global Market
Lu Miao speaks very little English. He's never traveled outside of Asia. He's not a software engineer. But in a few short months, he became the founder of a successful...
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Browser Wars: Mozilla's Firefox Challenges Microsoft's IE, Google's Chrome
The Internet browser wars are back. Mozilla released its long-awaited Firefox 4 browser Tuesday, a critical moment for the upstart that first challenged mighty...
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Search Undergoing Biggest Disruption Since the Dawn of Google
Facing criticism over the quality of search results, Google recently tweaked its famously secretive algorithm to weed out spam sites and so-called "content farms...
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Silicon Valley's Innovators Take Aim at Your Wallet
Hang on to your wallets and purses. In the constant search for the next thing to disrupt, Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists believe that...
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The Winners and Losers from Google's Search Change
Google's major revamp of its search rankings last week created a new set of winners and losers, but some critics of the company say the changes are not being...
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Web Firms Face Brutal Competition in China
In China's young Internet industry, competitors draw blood.
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Tools For Maintaining Privacy on the Web
Virtually everything you do online is scrutinized by search engines and advertising networks that evaluate you as a potential customer based on what you search...
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Get Ready For the Decade of Gamification
The popularity of video games and the explosion of social networking are intersecting to redefine how we will experience the Web over the next decade.
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PARC, Which Laid Foundation for PC Revolution, Turns 40
PARC—the Xerox-backed research institution that laid the foundation for the personal computing revolution—is celebrating its 40th anniversary, but the fabled...
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When You Google, Think Ben Gomes
Like few other people on the planet, Google's Ben Gomes knows what interests the world.
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Stanford Finds Cheating
Allegations of cheating at Stanford University have more than doubled in the past decade, with the largest number of violations involving computer science students...12