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The Apple Newton MessagePad revisited: Warts, wins, and all

The 20-year-old device shows both how much change has passed -- and the consistency of mobile's underlying principles

Lessons from NASA: How to solve problems quickly under pressure

Make sure you have the right tools in place to determine the source of unexpected events quickly -- they do in fact exist

Google’s cloud encryption is good for PR — and users, too

Google's addition of default encryption in its cloud storage plays on NSA-induced fears, but it's not a bad strategy

Google pushes Glass release date back to 2014

Company changes its tune after sources leaked plans for a 2013 Glass ship date during Google I/O in May

HP joins Nvidia’s Grid alliance

HP will equip a Gen8 Proliant blade server with speedier graphics boards

Hacker: I pwned Zuckerberg; at least give me a stupid T-shirt

When Facebook fails to pay $500 bug bounty, hacker goes public -- by hacking Zuckerberg's Facebook account

Oracle unveils HTML5-based mobile BI app designer

Business users can create their own mobile apps, according to Oracle

‘Almost finished’ build of Windows 8.1 still a mess

Now that Windows 8.1 Build 9471 is widely available, it's time to take another look at the painful changes in Windows 8 'Blue'

New TWEETS-per-second record — GOOGLE downtime — OUTLOOK down three days — HADOOP sits on Oracle, Teradata — Upheld: Changing IP address unlawful in Swartz case — ‘JOBS’ loses

Dell drops $299 Windows RT tablet, cheapest offer now $479

Bucking a recent trend of lowering prices, Dell's XPS 10 Windows RT tablet is now only available bundled with a keyboard