On June 28, 2007, Nokia was the top selling mobile-phone company in the world, people stopped working when they left their computers, Android phones didn't exist, and high-powered executives were addicted to thumbing on their BlackBerrys. FULL STORY

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Amazon, Microsoft and now Google have each unveiled a new response to the iPad within the last six months. That means that consumers now have a whole lot more to think about when deciding which tablet to buy. FULL STORY

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Now we know why T-Mobile USA's CEO, Philipp Humm, resigned Wednesday: He's heading to European wireless competitor Vodafone. FULL STORY

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EBay's model for selling cars is getting a twist: Starting Thursday, some vehicles will have their prices chopped every hour until they sell. FULL STORY

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Google unveiled a new home server called Nexus Q on its Google Play store in the minutes before the company's Google I/O conference in San Francisco began. FULL STORY

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Google's science-fiction-like virtual reality glasses will start shipping next year with a price tag of $1,500 -- but most buyers won't be able to get their hands on a pair just yet. FULL STORY

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In the race to beat the iPad, Google is shifting strategies again. FULL STORY

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T-Mobile USA's CEO, Philipp Humm, resigned his post Wednesday after two years on the job. FULL STORY

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U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has approved Apple's request for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. FULL STORY

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Microsoft is stuck paying a $1 billion fine for an antitrust ruling handed down in 2008, after a European court on Wednesday rejected the company's long-running appeal. FULL STORY

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You have burning questions, and we have burning answers (we really need to stop writing these columns by candlelight). That's why, this week, we decided to take a passel of queries from our friends, followers and readers. We received these queries via e-mail, Facebook and in-person conversations. We spunked up the word… FULL STORY

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When people talk about the beginnings of the video game industry, one name invariably bubbles to the top: Atari. FULL STORY

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Is Orbitz trying to get Mac users to book higher-priced hotels? FULL STORY

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At a special dog-friendly press conference at its headquarters in San Francisco, Zynga announced some of its plans for the future, including an API for both Zynga developers and third parties. FULL STORY

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Following a period of freak-out on the Internet on Monday, Facebook appears to have pulled a controversial feature that let the social network's users get a digital list of other Facebookers nearby. FULL STORY

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Anastasia R. hates her boss, Jay, and wishes he would die. Matt B. is "carrying a bucket round in my car cause im so hungover." Charlie S. wants everyone to have his new personal phone number. FULL STORY

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Two dozen people have been arrested in the U.S. and around the world in a coordinated crackdown on financial cybercrime, officials said Tuesday. FULL STORY

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Whether you've noticed or not, you have a new primary e-mail address listed as your Facebook contact, and most likely it's an address you've never used. FULL STORY

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More than half of the world's smartphones run Android. That sounds like a pretty comfy perch for Google, but it's a precarious one -- and the historical tides that made Android such a stunning success are starting to swing in the opposite direction. FULL STORY

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Facebook on Monday appeared to have quietly unveiled a new feature designed to let people see which Facebook users are nearby at any given time. FULL STORY

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Google will kick off its annual I/O developers' conference Wednesday in San Francisco, but CEO Larry Page won't be speaking there. He also was a no-show at Thursday's annual stockholders meeting and is expected to miss the company's quarterly earnings call next month. FULL STORY

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Sheryl Sandberg finally cracked the ultimate boys' club: Facebook's board. FULL STORY

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If you're a Facebook user, you have a @facebook.com email address, whether you use it or not. Facebook is now automatically posting those addresses to users' profiles and displaying them as the default email address. FULL STORY

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Is corporate America ready to adopt social networking alongside traditional office tools like word processing apps and spreadsheets? FULL STORY

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Here's a real shocker: Teens are better than their parents at using the Internet, and are likely to hide some of their online behaviors from them. FULL STORY

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You've never heard of Irish-born entrepreneur Liam Casey, but you're probably carrying a gadget with parts or accessories made by Casey's manufacturing company, PCH International. FULL STORY

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"Batman 2: DC Super Heroes" is a blocky-looking comic book come to life, with an open world for exploring, more new heroes and villains, and (for the first time ever) actual dialogue from LEGO characters. FULL STORY

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We've all done it. Your friend uploads a picture of their new puppy to Facebook, and you somehow manage to leave a comment congratulating them instead on their "new pappy." FULL STORY

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Manliness, metaphorically embodied these days by facial hair, grilling meat and building domestic "man caves," is now carving its own space online. FULL STORY

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Having already gone 3-D, Nintendo now wants to go big, announcing a new version of its handheld gaming console with screens nearly twice as large. FULL STORY

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The tiniest iPhone rumors can cause a big uproar. FULL STORY

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This week I was sent on a three-day work trip to New York because, for some unfathomable reason, these people trust me outside the confines of my cube. Generally speaking, I don't mind being there. I like my cube. It has Tiki torches. FULL STORY

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What does a 31-year-old, 7-foot 6-inch guy in China do for an encore after a nine-year NBA career that made him his country's most famous athlete? Become a tech investor, of course. FULL STORY

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Does part of social media's future lie in the past? It's a question that's nagging some of the biggest names in the industry as they turn their attention to the swelling digital archives many of us have created online. FULL STORY

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Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India? FULL STORY

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Cue the collective Internet freakout! Twitter went down for several hours on Thursday afternoon, depriving users of a place to complain that Twitter was down. FULL STORY

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It's shaping up to be a huge week for Microsoft. On Monday, the company announced its Surface tablet platform at a hush-hush event in Los Angeles, and now Microsoft has unveiled Windows Phone 8 Apollo at its Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco. FULL STORY

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So this is how Microsoft wants to play ball. FULL STORY

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Got an LCD TV? Apparently, so does the rest of the world. FULL STORY

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Microsoft has announced its Surface tablets, due out late this year, at a time when security is a growing concern for users of mobile devices. FULL STORY

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If keeping track of friends was the first wave of social media, the next may be all about hooking up with strangers. FULL STORY

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Samsung rightfully enjoys pointing out that it ships more Android smartphones than anyone else. And, with its new Galaxy S III, the South Korean electronics giant has accomplished something only Apple has been able to do so far: sell the same exact phone at the same price across major U.S. carriers without letting them… FULL STORY

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How's this for a superlative? The biggest TV in the world. FULL STORY

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It's summer, and months after you made that vow to finally get fit, healthy and bikini-ready, you're actually going at it, sweating it up at the gym or jogging around your 'hood before work. FULL STORY

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Facebook really wants to know what you look like. FULL STORY

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