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The United States may buy a lot of proprietary software, but when it comes to international development, it's betting on open source.

Acquisition is designed to help Cisco keep a grip on the rapid growth of the mobile Internet due to the rising number of smartphones and other devices.

The new Viper Smart Start iPhone app can lock and unlock your car with your iPhone. It can even turn it on in case you want to defrost it before getting in.

The focus of today is on Intel's earnings, but tomorrow could see U.K.-based ARM and its satellite of chip and device makers pose a growing competitive threat.

The Sidekick outage shows that management hasn't caught up with the cloud, not that network storage is unreliable.

The movie "Paranormal Activity" cost almost nothing to make, but is a big hit. That success it being credited to online buzz and social networking rather than conventional marketing.

In a new step to advance Web programming abilities, Mozilla's next Firefox will be able to detect how you're tipping your computer.

SanDisk X4 flash memory chips allow consumers to store more data on tiny Secure Digital flash cards.

Writer Neil Gaiman will compile 1,000 tweets of contributors into an audio book in his latest innovative use of the Internet.

The wireless carrier says "recent efforts indicate the prospects of recovering some lost content may now be possible." Those who suffer permanent data loss will get $100.

Do you feel the trademark Yahoo warble fails to express your personality? There's a yodel for that, and it comes as part of the $100 million ad campaign.

Microsoft and Danger remain largely silent as to both what led to a massive data loss as well as what it plans to do to try to make things right, not to mention what this will all mean for the future of the device.

The company says it is aware of a problem related to guest account log-ins that "occurs only in extremely rare cases," and it does not yet have a fix for it.

James Dyson, who is famous for his vacuum cleaners, has created a fan that has no blades, using instead a unique technology to "multiply" air 15 times, expelling 118 gallons of smooth and uninterrupted air every second, according to the company.

A downed Facebook database left a small but vocal percentage of its userbase without access to the social network for as long as 10 days.

After offering a few tantalizing teases, Dell has now released a couple of shots that show just how the superthin can get away with being only around 10mm thick and still be usable for typing.

Just in time for Halloween, a brilliant psychic is holding a Tweance. On October 30, you will be able to tweet your favorite dead stars. And they may just tweet back.

Two features added to the productivity suite, multiple-file uploading and folder sharing, bring functionality found in other Google products.

This free dictionary and thesaurus app is much like the iPhone version, but with a couple of BlackBerry-only extras.

Researchers are pairing the electroscalpel with mass spectrometry to map out with molecular precision--mid-surgery--where and how aggressively cancer is spreading.