Technology Industry

9 trends for 2014 and beyond

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OS X Mavericks vs. Windows 8.1: Which is really free?

Apple's giving away OS X Mavericks for free has stirred the Mac vs. Windows kettle up once again

Mobile browsers lag, so mobile HTML5 apps suffer

Hardware vendors are to blame for not updating older browsers to properly leverage HTML5, Mozilla's Christian Heilmann says

OS X Mavericks upgrade destroys data, reports Western Digital

Issues extend to external hard drives, as well as eSATA- or Thunderbolt-based peripherals from other vendors

What’s inside Android 4.4 KitKat and why you should care

A revamped interface, improved dialer, and app search are small steps toward a better Android

Urine luck: Dells may smell, but don’t blame the Intercats

New Dell laptops may smell like Garfield's toilet, but it's just glue, not your puddy cat

Chrome browser will block malware downloads

The new security feature is being tested publicly in a pre-release version of the browser

Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing cloud app rivals

Analysts say it needs to improve its unified communications and enterprise social efforts or risk being left behind

FAA says don’t put it away — HARDWARE Friday: iPad Air, Nexus 5 on sale — Senate bill bolsters NSA — badBIOS: Mysterious Mac malware

Tech industry calls for ‘oversight and accountability’ of NSA surveillance

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and other Internet companies have asked for permission to reveal data requests to the public