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Apple's iMac, or all-in-one desktop Mac, has always had a flair for the dramatic. From the "transparent gumdrop" original, to the "Pixar lamp" model, through to today's enormous flatscreens, it's been perhaps the most distinctive desktop computer in each of its iterations.

CDNetworks amplía la aceleración Cloud dinámica al ofrecer contenido dinámico para sitios web y aplicaciones cloud, como Sharepoint y Drupal en todo el mundo a las poblaciones de internautas de mayor rápido crecimiento en los países BRICI (Brasil, Rusia, India, China e Indonesia) y ahora en Chile, Dubai, Arabia Saudí y …

Amazon appears to be positioning its Kindle Fire lineup of tablets as the Pepsi to Apple's Coke, as John Gruber put it earlier this week. The various iPad models are better made and have more apps, but lack a handful of features and cost a lot more.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal is cutting about 325 jobs as part of a major reorganization by its new president, David Marcus, designed to regain an innovative edge and head off rising competition. PayPal, the online payment pioneer owned by eBay Inc, said on Monday the full-time jobs would be eliminated as it combines …

Up to now, Google has avoided competing directly with Apple's iPad. It's done so indirectly, through third-party products like the Motorola Xoom, and the many other generic-brand Android tablets. But when Google itself stepped up to bat, earlier this year, it released the Nexus 7, which is half the size and half the price …

Educators can download free teaching materials and get paid to share their lessons.

A headless humanoid robot clambers noisily through an obstacle course with the grim, unfeeling purpose of a terminator. Luckily, it's just the latest video celebrating the official start of a U.S. military challenge to create robots that can work alongside humans in disaster scenarios.

Buenos Aires, 25 de octubre (Télam, por Nicolás Piccoli).- El periodista español Bernardo Gutiérrez presentó en Buenos Aires su nuevo libro "#24H", escrito en tiempo real y con la colaboración de sus seguidores en internet, donde el eje de su discurso pasa por la red y su influencia en la sociedad actual. ...

El viernes comienza una nueva era para Microsoft. Dejará de ser el rey de la computación personal tradicional y abandonará su histórica guerra bilateral con Apple (más la competencia con Linux en el terreno corporativo). ...

The Obama administration came under fire on Wednesday after Reuters and Fox News reported that internal State Department emails revealed that an Islamic militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the Benghazi attacks on social media platforms, but this afternoon, Hillary Clinton fired back saying U.S. intelligence …

It was, from the start, about as hard an intelligence problem as you can find. The date was Sept. 11, and the CIA was stretched thin, monitoring anti-American protests in no fewer than 54 countries that day, according to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Post-Qaddafi Libya itself was still chaotic, caught …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday a Facebook post in which an Islamic militant group claimed credit for a recent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya did not constitute hard evidence of who was responsible. "Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence. …

The White House this morning attempted to down-play the significance of emails sent to top national security officials during the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, one of which suggested a known terrorist group claimed credit for the attack in...

Apple VP Phil Schiller spent awhile at Tuesday's iPad Mini event talking trash about Google's similarly-sized Nexus 7 tablet, according to Android Central's Alex Dobie. The Nexus 7, made in partnership with Asus, is specially designed to run the latest version of Android, and gets frequent feature updates much like Apple …

Apple's just-announced iPad Mini looks like a spectacular tablet, and one that's worthy to carry the iPad name. It can run the same apps as the full-sized iPad, but isn't much bigger than Google's Nexus 7 tablet, even though its screen is 35 percent larger.

Last year's Samsung Galaxy Nexus is, at the moment, Google's flagship Android phone. That "at the moment," however, is because multiple sources confirm that Google's about to unveil new Nexus devices at an event on Oct. 29, including a Nexus phone by LG.

Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have released new documents backing up claims by security personnel previously station in Libya that there was a shortage of security personnel in Benghazi. The documents also included an “ACTION MEMO” for Under Secretary of State...

How the celebrated unit went from being a ragtag band of outlaws to America's go-to guys

It’s important to realize that just because someone holds a position of leadership, doesn’t necessarily mean they should. Put another way, not all leaders are created equal. The problem many organizations are suffering from is a recognition problem – they can’t seem to recognize good leaders from bad ones. In [...]

The iPad was introduced 2 1/2 years ago, and Microsoft finally has its answer: Microsoft Surface. It's an iPad-style tablet, with its main claim to fame being the Touch Cover, a Smart Cover-style thin magnetic cover which has embossed keys and a touchpad on the inside. Just fold out the Surface's kickstand and lay the Touch …

Microsoft has been teasing us with Surface, its upcoming iPad equivalent, for months. The tablet has a 10.6 inch screen, larger than the new iPad's but not Retina-sharp, and has a kickstand to prop it up so you can type with its unique Touch Cover accessory. Now Microsoft has revealed that it costs only $499 ... and that …

It's clear the education realm is at a turning point. Since the Internet was made available to the public, a natural component of its growth has been the concept of free and open information, which covers almost all forms of media for whatever purpose you can imagine, from copyrighted videos and music to personal file sharing …

Microsoft has just announced Xbox Music, its "All-in-One Music Service" for Windows PCs, tablets, and Xbox game consoles which combines features from several different online stores and services. Like Pandora, it lets you stream music online; like Spotify, it lets you pick specific songs and artists. It has an iTunes/Amazon …