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Facebook Barrels Ahead on 10th Anniversary

It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online. They did. And in the…

Google Awards $106M in Stock, Cash to Schmidt

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting paid a lot more than he did when he was running the Internet company. Schmidt is getting an award of $100 million in…

Gameloft to Develop Official Mobile Game for Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Gameloft, a leading global publisher of digital and social games, has teamed up with Marvel to announce the development of its upcoming smartphone and tablet title, Captain America: The Winter…

Microsoft Taps Longtime Insider Satya Nadella as CEO

Microsoft Corp.’s board has chosen longtime company executive Satya Nadella to guide the company into the future after the once-dominant software giant faltered in recent years amid the rise of…

Obama Secures $750M in Pledges to Get Kids Online

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has secured commitments from U.S. companies worth about $750 million to get more students connected to high-speed Internet. AT&T, Sprint, Apple and Microsoft are among…

U.S. Census Bureau Tracks Americans’ Computer Use Through 3 Decades

America’s — and Americans’ — relationship with computers and the Internet has radically changed in the last 30 years, U.S. Census Bureau figures show. In 1997, 18 percent of U.S….

Apple Skips Super Bowl, Posts Mac 30th Anniversary Ad on YouTube

Like it wasn’t bad enough that the Super Bowl was a super bore and that 99.999% of the commercials turned out to be pricey stink bombs. Even worse, Apple didn’t…

Citi Unveils New Mobile App

Redesigned Citi Mobile App Optimizes Navigation and Adds Key Mobile Features for Banking and Credit Card Customers Today Citi launched its redesigned Citi Mobile App for iPhone and Android devices…

New NU App to Link World to the Campus

LEWISTON – Niagara University has launched a new app that will connect the world to the campus, giving users access to news, events and scores, as well as an employee…

AT&T Reduces Rates for High-Data Plans

NEW YORK – AT&T is reducing cellphone rates for family plans with large amounts of data. The new rates are available starting Sunday and apply to plans with at least…

Google Shucks off Motorola; Good Idea or Bad Decision?

Google, which bought Motorola Mobility in 2011 for $12.5 billion, announced last week it is selling the smartphonemaker to PC manufacturer Lenovo for $2.9 billion. Bad deal? Perhaps not, experts…

Website Aims to Connect Civic Groups, Potential Volunteers

A centralized resource that aims to match volunteers and organizations that need help has restarted in a virtual capacity, three years after a physical Volunteer Center shut its doors due…

U2 Announces New Song “Invisible” Free For 24 Hours

On Super Bowl Sunday, February 2nd, for a period of just 24 hours, a new U2 song titled “Invisible” will be globally available via iTunes as a free download to…

LA Unified Gets Lower Price for Thousands of iPads

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Unified School District is getting a break on the price of thousands of iPads, as it continues the rollout of a $1 billion plan to…

Electronic Arts’ Dungeon Keeper Now Available Worldwide on App Store and Google Play

Mobile Reboot Of Cult Classic Game Filled With Diabolically Fun Wit And Strategy Welcome back, Keepers! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) announced today the worldwide launch of Dungeon Keeper™, EA Mythic’s…