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Exclusive: New Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement

Larry Page recently called Google+ the company's "social spine." But a new report from RJ Metrics shows that the average public post there receives less than one +1. Just how weak is this spine?READ MORE

Baidu, China's Google, To Release Own-Brand Smartphone, Cloud Service [Updated]

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How To Pick One Good Android Phone

Buying a decent Android phone today isn’t too hard and costs about $200. Buying an Android phone that you’ll still want to own and use on a daily basis for two years? That’s much harder, and hundreds of dollars more, depending on your strategy.READ MORE

USPS To Stop Delivering iPads And Kindles To Troops And Overseas Consumers On May 16

The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple. READ MORE

Google+ Releases Mobile App

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How The iPhone-Android War Keeps Your Phone Virus Free

Albert-László Barabási is one of the world's top experts in network theory. Here's his take on mobile phone viruses and how a changing smartphone ecosystem could spell doom.READ MORE

5 Startup Lessons From Belly, Which Just Snagged $10 Million In Funding From Andreessen Horowitz

This is a big deal, as the firm's philosophy is to focus on only the 10 or 15 companies it thinks are going to matter in the long run. (See: Facebook, Airbnb, and Groupon, among others.)READ MORE

VeriFone Makes Most Decisive Move Yet To Change How You Pay For Stuff

VeriFone may in some senses be playing catch-up to the mobile payments revolution, but its sheer scale and international reach may make this the most important move yet to change how we pay for things in stores.READ MORE

Hey Microsoft, Google, Apple: Where Are Our Smarthomes?

The house that Bill built, versus the house that Larry and Sergey built, versus the house that Steve built. Three of the biggest tech firms have designs on our future smarthomes, but we just want to be living there already!READ MORE

RIM Reveals BlackBerry 10, Releases It Unifinished To Developers

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HTC May Be Making Another Phone With Facebook

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Huawei To Spend $4.5 Billion On R&D

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HTC Expects 55 Percent Higher Revenues For Q2

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Spotify's Updated Android App Is Now Ice Cream Sandwich Ready

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Google Tempts New Indian Android Buyers With 1GB Free Data

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How A $3.4 Million (And Counting!) Kickstarter Project Could Save The Wristwatch [Update: Record Funds]

The wristwatch is dying, right? Nobody even wants a "smartwatch." The startup Allerta raised $3 million in less than a week, and may yet prove all that wrong.READ MORE

The Great Tech War Of 2012: Players Invade Each Others Turf

Google's move to radically overhaul Google+ is just its latest salvo in its social battle with Facebook, just as Facebook's using Spotify in a musical skirmish with Apple, and Apple's battling with Amazon over ebooks....READ MORE

Google And The Death Of Getting Lost

What's that heaving into view over the horizon? Thanks to smartphones, tablets, and pretty much everything enabled with GPS, it's the end of traditional navigation as we know it. You can't get lost now.READ MORE

Google Tablet Delay, Instagram Worth $500 Million, Larry Page Explains Google's Plan, Anonymous Hacktivist Exposes China Secrets

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With Google's New Glasses, Your Head Is Your Smartphone

Google's Glass augmented reality system may be the smartphone (smartspecs?) of the near future, neatly linking our digital lives with our real ones. Is this a good thing?READ MORE