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• Report: Google-Branded Tablet to Land in April
  The search giant's march to "own the whole widget" takes another big step forward.
  02.24.12

• Google Donates Biz Software for Mac File Encryption
  Google is helping Macs move into big businesses. Again. This week, Google announced that it would open source a software tool it built to automate the use of Apple's FileVault encryption software inside the company. The tool works with FileVault 2, which made its debut with Apple's Mac OS "Lion," and it's called -- of all things -- Cauliflower Vest.
  02.24.12

• Apple Gives Shareholders More Input; Will Facebook Get the Message?
  Shareholders want directors and executives who are publicly accountable, who represent the interest of every investor, not just the founder or themselves.
  02.24.12

• How Apple's Chomp Acquisition Could Change Your App Store Experience
  Apple's App Store has an inventory problem: There are simply way too many apps in the iTunes database. But the company's purchase of Chomp should offer greater nuance to app searches. We explain four likely benefits.
  02.24.12

• How to Do Stop-Motion Animation on a Budget
  Learn how to make fun stop-motion movies with your kids, without spending Hollywood money.
  02.24.12

• Will an Avalanche of iPads Crush Business Networks?
  Are Apple's iPads about to overwhelm corporate networks? The research firm Gartner says that unless businesses plan for it, they could require three times the amount of wireless coverage in order to support the iPad on corporate networks.
  02.23.12

• Keyboard Patent Shows How Apple Could Make MacBooks Even Thinner
  A new Apple patent application filing called "Single Support Lever Keyboard Mechanism" describes a few different ways Apple could trim some of the fat from existing notebook keyboards, making them even more slender.
  02.23.12

• Google to Oust Motorola Mobility Chief, Replace With One of Its Own: Report
  Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick declined to comment on the report, as Motorola's acquisition has not been closed.
  02.23.12

• Flash Hits the iPad, Thanks to the Cloud
  OnLive first put Windows on the iPad, but now the free-thinking San Francisco startup has gone so far as to put Adobe Flash on AppleÂżs holy tablet. And, you guessed it, the cloud has a part in making it happen.
  02.23.12

• Review: The Beauty and Tragedy of Hungary's Supple String Bike
  02.23.12

• The Beauty and Tragedy of Hungary's Supple Stringbike
  The Stringbike is a bicycle from another world, a cat's cradle of strings, springs and pulleys. But it's so expensive, it may never win the public's acceptance.
  02.23.12

• Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash Onto the iPad
  On Wednesday, OnLive unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop -- a iPad application that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop and Windows applications housed on servers in the proverbial cloud -- and this new version includes a browser equipped with Adobe Flash. Famously, Apple doesn't allow the Flash player to run locally on the iPad, but OnLive is offering a way around the restriction.
  02.22.12

• Microsoft Office for iPad: Why You'll Need It, How You'll Use It
  Microsoft Office has been a desktop computer staple for decades, and now it looks like it might finally migrate to modern touchscreen tablets. But does Microsoft's productivity software even belong on a tablet? And if it does make the transition to touch, how will we actually use it?
  02.22.12

• Apple, Google and Other Mobile Giants Commit to App Privacy Standards
  The California Department of Justice issued a press release Wednesday detailing an agreement among leaders in the mobile space to strengthen user privacy and transparency policies for mobile apps. Apple, Google, HP, Amazon, Microsoft and RIM signed the agreement.
  02.22.12

• Apple Mimics Facebook With High Desert Data Center
  Apple has confirmed that it will build a data center in Prineville, Oregon -- next door to the massive computing facility Facebook opened last year -- and according to the Prineville city engineer, Apple is planning to build a facility that's "similar" to Facebook's energy-conscious creation, making use of designs the social giant "open sourced" to the rest of the world.
  02.22.12

• iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon
  In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products. But that may be about to change, as an Air Force office buys 18,000 (mostly) iPads, giving Cupertino a new chance to win the military's OS and tablet wars.
  02.22.12

• Beatles Ringtones Come to iTunes (Or You Can Just Make Your Own)
  You "Can't Buy Me Love," but that doesn't mean you can't buy that track and other songs from John, Paul, George and Ringo as ringtones on iTunes. Twenty-seven Beatles hits are available as ringtones through iTunes starting today.
  02.22.12

• Review: A Jacket That Controls Your Climate
  02.22.12

• Ubuntu for Android Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop Computer
  Cramming a desktop environment onto a smartphone is a fun project that promises very little actual usefulness. But now Canonical's Ubuntu for Android takes a different approach, surfacing the desktop OS only when it actually makes sense.
  02.21.12

• How Many Different Ways Can the Same iPad 3 Rumors Be Reblogged?
  We know. You're excited about the iPad 3. We are too. And so is just about everyone else who follows consumer tech hardware. Rumors about Apple's upcoming tablet have been pouring in for months, and we've been following them just like everyone else.
  02.21.12

• How Patent Battles Threaten the Simple Act of Unlocking a Phone
  Unlocking a smartphone is perhaps its most basic function. It's a no-frills feature, but an important one. And yet over the past six months, the simple act of unlocking a phone has grown absurdly controversial.
  02.21.12

• Apple's iCloud Has Solar Lining
  02.21.12

• Barnes & Noble Delivers New 8GB Tablet, Disappointing Earnings
  The new tablet and price drop are aggressive, revenue-boosting moves coming on the same day as B&N;'s quarterly earnings report.
  02.21.12

• Top 10 iPad/iPhone Gaming Peripherals
  02.21.12

• Fractal Musical Rhythms
  Music takes on fractal patterns when it comes to pitch, but what about rhythms? New research suggests it's not quite as predictable as experts might have expected.
  02.20.12

• Das Model S Professional Keyboard Brings the Clickety-Clack to Your Mac
  02.20.12

• The Vitrolum Republic Live at the Church of the Gesu
  02.20.12