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Motorola’s new smartphone: Digital Legos

Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a modular smartphone, akin to 'Phonebloks' concept, but faces multiple engineering hurdles

Reports: Google close to manufacturing a smartwatch

The device will run Android and will connect to Android phones to pull information from Google Now

APPLE sells more, Cook bullish — Smartphones: Samsung 35%, Apple 13% — HADOOP, cloud king — MOTOROLA’s open-source hardware

Samsung’s share grows while Apple’s declines in Q3 smartphone market

Chinese maker Huawei also increased share to take third place in the smartphone market, Strategy Analytics said

Dell to show off its first 64-bit ARM server

Dell and HP are both moving forward this week with their low-power server plans

Tech spending hurt this year by Congress

Forrester Research makes a deep cut to its U.S. spending forecast for 2013

Apple profit declines as iPad sales flatten

While iPhone shipments grew, Apple's iPad shipments were flat and its Mac shipments declined in the last quarter

Retina MacBook Pros inexplicably freezing for many users

Apple's Haswell-powered Retina MacBook Pro plagued by hangs and lockups, with no clear reason why and no consistent fix

Car trouble? There’s an app for that

Not just cool and useful, the Automatic device also gives a tangible hint of the smartphone's new role at center of the Internet of things

For the Mac, like the PC, it’s all downhill from here

Just as businesses have begun to grudgingly accept OS X, sales are slipping in what may be the Mac's long, slow good-bye