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Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:11 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
It can't be easy being Apple's Tim Cook -- not only is he running a multi-billion dollar corporation, but at every turn he has to hear the same thing: "But that's not how Steve Jobs would have done it."
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Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:34 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Google and Apple are saying they want to "play fair" with their patents, which in business-speak means they've figured out a new way to make a lot more money.
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:03 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Facebook's expected IPO set the stakes high for the social network, but dizzying heights may mean a harder fall.
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Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:15 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
The world is inching closer to the apocalypse, but the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show continued as usual this week, unveiling a line of gadgets that are pretty cool but still won't help much when the world ends.
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Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:00 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Facebook heads for its first initial public offering worth billions already, but being a social network means some people will exhibit some not so social behavior.
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Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:35 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Apple had a year that would stun any other company, but it came out on top through its trademarked combination of talent, business sense, and yes, balls.
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Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:16 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
For a long time, Google was mainly a search engine -- and a pretty good one. After all, when was the last time you heard someone say they were going to "Yahoo!" someone?
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Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:19 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
AT&T started out 2011 at the top of the cellular provider world, but over the year its position became a little more precarious as it saddled itself with an increasingly complicated merger.
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Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:38 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
The time last year, everyone from President Obama to business leaders was carrying a BlackBerry -- and anyone who wanted to be, well, anyone, had one. That was then, but a year's worth of iPhones and Android devices later...
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:21 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Mobile device prices are dropping, making them available to more people, but if their children get addicted to video games on them, it's a reaction that could mimic compulsive gambling.
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Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:09 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Nobody knows what they want to do with Hewlett-Packard's WebOS, but they might be able to handle it all better with a new smartphone app that detects users' stress.
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Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:17 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
A small Spanish company beat Apple's attempts to ban its tablets, while game wardens are cracking down on deer hunters who cheat by using smartphones to track their prey, showing the strongest don't always win everything.
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:57 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Steve Jobs might be gone, but his biography is a best-seller, showing it's going to be a long time before he's forgotten. Meanwhile, a new social network, Nextdoor, is giving users yet another reason not to have actual face-to-face contact.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:28 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Research in Motion just can't seem to catch a break, while Facebook addicts have a new argument against people who call them brainless for spending too much time on the site.
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Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:38 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
A huge BlackBerry outage left legislators and businessmen unusually quiet this week, but the iPhone 4S' Siri program has plenty to say to them if they're feeling lonely.
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Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:35 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer complications at age 56 just a day after Apple's iPhone 4S was unveiled, adding high and low points to the ever-changing tech industry.
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Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:28 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Verizon and T-Mobile are standing in Samsung's corner, while Amazon released a new Kindle that may compete against the iPad -- if Amazon can get past its customer privacy issue.
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Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:27 pm | By Sandy Fitzgerald
Hewlett-Packard named Meg Whitman as CEO in probably one of the worst-kept secrets all year, while Facebook made big changes to the site to compete with Google+, resulting in a whine heard around the world.
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