Stories by: Ed Oswald

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Move over Instagram, here comes Facebook Camera 24 May, 2012 19:47:00

Facebook might have acquired Instagram, but that's not stopping the site from releasing a social photo-sharing app of its own.
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Facebook IPO madness: Own a piece of the giant social network 19 May, 2012 03:35:00

Facebook's initial public offering, or IPO, hits Wall Street Friday, and is one of the most highly anticipated tech stock offerings of the past decade. Everyone, it seems, wants to be in on the action. And it's possible to do so--after the big boys get their hands on it first.
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Angry Birds Space rockets to 50 million downloads in 35 days 01 May, 2012 06:54:00

Angry Birds Space has broken a new record: it's the first app to hit 50 million downloads in just 35 days, which is two weeks faster than the previous record-holder, Draw Something.
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Google starts selling phones again, tablets appear to be next 25 April, 2012 10:26:00

Some two years after Google first attempted to sell phones online on its own, the company will try once more. Google Tuesday added a section called "Devices" to Google Play--the first device to appear is Samsung's Galaxy Nexus.
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Cadillac self-driving cars: Out by 2015? 21 April, 2012 08:38:00

Google has been getting all of the attention when it comes to self-driving cars, but such technology still seems to be a ways off from hitting the market. The first publicly-available "self-driving" car could come from Cadillac, who is showing off self-driving technology of its own.
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Android apps don't need permission to see your data 13 April, 2012 07:54:00

Android critics often point to the operating system's lack of control over apps as a threat to user security, and this is yet again proving to be true.
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Google bought Motorola for the hardware, after all 03 September, 2011 07:21:00

Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility last month wasn't just about the patents. The Mountain View, Calif. company is interested in the hardware business, too.
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Amazon's Tablet to be 'hundreds less' than iPad 27 August, 2011 06:55:00

The fire sale of the HP TouchPad (and the resulting rush to snag the tablet) proved one thing: if it's cheap enough, they will come. This could be good news for Amazon, who reportedly plans to release its own tablet in late September/early October for "hundreds less" than the iPad.
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Apple gets ban on Samsung Galaxy S, SII, Ace smartphones 25 August, 2011 03:30:00

Despite accusations that it may have altered photos of Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones to strengthen its case, Apple has succeeded in getting a Dutch court to ban the sale of three phones that it claims are too similar to the iPhone.
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Nokia scrapping Symbian in the U.S. for Windows Phone 7 10 August, 2011 08:22:00

We knew it was going to happen, but Nokia's finally made it official: the company is killing off Symbian in North America. Nokia president Chris Weber revealed the (soon) death to AllThingD's Ina Fried on Tuesday.
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Facebook's planned news feed changes should worry you 05 August, 2011 07:31:00

Facebook is tinkering with our news feeds in order to give marketers and developers more visibility. According to the Wall Street Journal, the changes may allow the social networking site to gather even more information on its users.