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In today's world of touchscreens, each generation has gotten better but they all seem to be magnets for fingerprints and smudges. The iEraser cleaning block is about the size of a deck of cards and has what the company website calls "a stable and uniform cleaning surface" on one side to clean your screen.
QUESTION: I like to record videos with my phone and share them with my family and friends. However, when I upload them to YouTube, strangers leave mean comments. Is there any way I can share my videos privately?
Books and bits united Monday as Microsoft provided an infusion of money to help Barnes & Noble compete with top electronic bookseller Amazon. In exchange, Microsoft gets a long-desired foothold in the business of e-books and college textbooks.
Books and bits united Monday as Microsoft provided an infusion of money to help Barnes & Noble compete with top electronic bookseller Amazon. In exchange, Microsoft gets a long-desired foothold in the business of e-books and college textbooks.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has long been seen as the humorless and unemotional guy running the show from behind the scenes. But he is beginning to reveal a more assertive and eloquent side, hinting that he's learning to shoulder more of Steve Jobs' role as a front man and leader.
Apple had its biggest gain in more than three years after reporting that demand for the iPhone in China fueled a 94% surge in quarterly profit. That eased concerns that had cut shares 12% in two weeks.
When Quicken Loans went fishing this month for laid-off Yahoo engineers in California, it got more than a few nibbles.
Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, trumped skeptics once again by reporting blowout iPhone sales.
Hidden in AT&T; Inc.'s financial statements is a story that runs counter to its optimistic profit projections: The company is generating less revenue from each new smartphone subscriber.
T hinking of selling your smartphone or laptop computer? If you have a BlackBerry or an iPhone, go right ahead. If you were planning to sell an Android phone or a computer running Windows XP, however, you may want to think again, McAfee identify theft expert Robert Siciliano says.
What's the best part of traveling? Meeting people from other cultures? Trying new foods? Seeing priceless historical sites? Nope. It's the passport stamps.
QUESTION: I'm shopping for a new smartphone, and I've found the one I want on Amazon.com for only a penny. In the cellular provider's store, it costs $199. What's the catch if I buy from Amazon?
Google is celebrating Earth Day with a homegrown doodle (and some self-promotion).
Messages posted all over Facebook and other digital media may look annoying to some — but they are the strongest links of communication in trying to save a missing child's life.
According to TechCrunch -- citing "multiple sources close to the company" -- Facebook's initial public offering (IPO) will hit the NASDAQ on May 17.
The websites of the sheriff's office and the county were shut down Sunday when officials learned they had been hacked. On Thursday, they were running as usual.
The blog Naked Security from company Sophos is warning Android users about a fake Instagram app that's popped up following its debut on the Google operating system.
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Move over, shovel. There's a new gardening tool in town. Garden apps have been springing up on smartphones for years, allowing you to stay connected while getting away from it all. Some apps identify plant species and their natural pests, others design virtual gardens. Here are 10 apps worth digging into:
QUESTION: I heard that NetZero is offering free wireless broadband. I travel frequently and could use this to save money over AT&T; or Verizon. Is there a catch?
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Macomb County residents who rely on text and e-mail alerts for everything from personal banking notifications to traffic updates can add another topic to that list: elections.
No, Facebook users, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That square image plastered on your Facebook profile page has gotten larger.
The Federal Communications Commission has fined Google $25,000, saying the online search leader impeded an investigation into how it collected data while taking photos for its "Street View" mapping feature.
First it was street-corner phone booths and home delivery of telephone books. Now, land lines are on their way to becoming part of American telecommunications history.
The Justice Department and 15 states sued Apple and major book publishers Wednesday, alleging a conspiracy to raise the price of electronic books they said cost consumers more than $100 million in the past two years by adding $2 to $5 to the price of each e-book.
Google is tweaking its social network, Google Plus, to make it easier to use and to distinguish it from rival Facebook.
The U.S. government filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and various major book publishers Wednesday, saying the publishers conspired with Apple to raise retail electronic-book prices to limit competition.
Poor Instagram users. First, their beloved photo-sharing application moves from iPhone-only hipness to the Android phone masses.
Instagram is enjoying the biggest week in its existence. The company, already riding high on its iOS success, launched its Android app and captured 1 million downloads in its first day and unless you live under a rock, you will know that yesterday, Facebook came in and bought the company for a cool $1 billion.
QUESTION: My wife is struggling to turn off the Internet at a reasonable time and frequently comes to bed at 2 or 3 a.m. Are there any software programs that would automatically disable the Internet after a certain time?
Facebook, the biggest social-networking service, is buying the Instagram mobile photo-sharing application for about $1 billion in cash and stock, using its biggest acquisition yet to attract users of mobile devices.
Faltering Internet icon AOL squeezed out more than $1 billion from Microsoft for a trove of some 800 patents in an auction, the latest sign of just how valuable such portfolios can be for the world's biggest technology companies.
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Facebook says it will spend $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing software company Instagram.
When you have a boo-boo, you reach for a Band-Aid not a bandage. When you need to blow your nose, you ask for Kleenex not tissue. If you decide to look up something online, you Google instead of search for it. And if you want to buy a tablet computer, there's a good chance there's only one name you'll remember.
Meet Project Glass: an augmented reality undertaking that's emerged out of the company's black ops innovation lab, known as Google X. With Project Glass, Google is taking a serious look at augmented reality. What would life be like if rather than reaching into our pocket for a phone, the data we need was fluidly woven right into our lives?
Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson eliminates jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company. The cuts announced Wednesday represent about 14% of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo. Yahoo estimated that it will save about $375 million annually after the layoffs are completed later this year.
The social media giant Twitter is opening an office in downtown Detroit in the M@dison, the digital incubator hub recently developed by Quicken Loans founder and Chair Dan Gilbert.
Quick, take a look around. Your stuff is disappearing. Not long ago, homes would greet you with physical manifestations of personality -- stately books, shiny CDs, classic movies on DVD, glossy photo albums. But all those touchstones, and more, are quickly changing from atoms to bits and taking up residence in the cloud.
Facebook fans are getting an early shot to see the all-star superhero tale "The Avengers."
Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in an investigation that resulted in Google forfeiting $500 million last year are about to learn how much of that sum they will receive.
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