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CES and trade show serendipity will live on, Microsoft or not

The best things that happen at big trade shows like CES can go unnoticed.

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Galaxy Nexus on Verizon LTE; maybe the bigger battery isn't really needed

Testing out battery life and 4G LTE speeds on Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Nexus

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Time Travel, that continuing, evolving genre in "11/22/63"

Stephen King reaches back to Jack Finney, back to H.G. Wells and to all of us

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Banning cell phone usage while driving won't happen nationwide

The NTSB has its heart in the right place, but its proposed ban on electronics usage while driving is too little, too late.

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Safe bet: Mobile stays hot in 2012, among other predictions

Take these 2012 mobile predictions or leave them: RIM hangs in; AT&T flops on T-Mobile; iPhone 5 gets NFC; mobile campaigns will be key to electing the next U.S. president.

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Verizon's spectrum slam dunk over AT&T

While AT&T's been busy trying to get its merger with T-Mobile approved, Verizon's raced down court and bought cable spectrum. Insider (registration required)

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Smartphone speed tests and weighing network performance

What matters with a smartphone in a wireless network is how it works where you live and work.

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Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet: What you need to know

Low cost tablets from Amazon and Barnes & Noble are bringing in a new category of users, democratizing tablet tech.

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The dark side of Mobile World Congress 2011

While exciting new smartphones and tablets prevailed at MWC, some major vendors are raising troubling concerns.

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Barcelona Baby!

Mobile World Congress and life among the pickpockets.

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The iPhone killers: From Torch to Captivate to Eviscerate?

There's a war being waged over operating systems, screen sizes, resolutions and processor speeds. The interest in walloping the popular Apple iPhone remains keen, especially with iPhone shipping on Thursday. Consider the names of the coming devices.

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Videoconferencing at 30k feet over free Wi-Fi on Virgin -- mostly amazing

A flight on Virgin America included free Wi-Fi and a chance to try out the throughput with a live videoconference session from 30,000 feet

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Kudos to social networks, for what it's worth

Take a memo: Social networks are about communities first

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Using BCI to talk when ALS won't allow you

Scott Mackler showed 60 Minutes what many BCI demonstrations have not been able to: that technology innovations can be, frankly, akin to miracles

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The first cell phone, for me, replaced the bag phone

Motorola's DynaTAC 8000x was used to make the first commercial cell phone call 25 years ago, and now Motorola is laying off thousands and trying to spin-off its handset division. A lot has changed, but innovation is bound to continue.

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