Apple, for all the @!$%# they get for being “closed” and “evil”, has actually done far more to wrestle control back from the carriers and put it into the hands of consumers.
Two. Per. Cent. That's the market share for tablets including the RIM PlayBook and… all those other 7in tablets. Context says that's "more a comment on the appeal of current 7in tablets".
Apple has quietly begun work on a solar farm that apparently could help power its sprawling data center in southern Catawba County. Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., company has been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vaca …
Mercedes GP Petronas says a British teen who asked the Formula One team to sponsor his bionic hand has received a new prosthetic limb.
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In a 2001 column for Time magazine, journalist Jay Carney ridiculed President George W. Bush about his vacation plans during his first summer in office.
MS-DOS is 30 years old today. Well, kind of. On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), a hardware company owned and run by a fellow called Rod Brock.
Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics.
On the first day of C*****mas, the taxpayers gave to me bacon, ham and andouille. On the second day of C*****mas, the taxpayers gave to me big vote payoffs and some bacon, ham and andouille.
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The son of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., says items were stolen out of the government vehicle he was driving last Wednesday in downtown Detroit, FOX 2's Simon Shaykhet reports.
"It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol," said Gore, speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank. "First generation ethanol I think was a mistake.
Put your own politics on FOX and MSNBC aside for a second and let's just agree that they can both sometimes present potentially polarizing views.
If there is one thing I love about being black, it's the true insight it offers into human nature.
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Without regard for threat potential, airline passengers of all ages can now be forced to make the choice between baring their nakedness before a federal agent, or getting a full-body fingertip groping by another federal agent.
Despite a deluge of campaign spending over the last few months by Republican-leaning outside groups, Democratic candidates and their allies have outspent Republicans over all on television advertising in House races, according to data provided by Kantar Media's Campaign Media A …
It's time for newspaper endorsements to go the way of soapboxes, whistle-stop tours, and emery boards bearing a candidate's name.
What's particularly galling about the firing is that NPR gets tens of millions of taxpayer dollars annually -- either directly, in government grants, or indirectly, via the tax-deductiblity of private donations.
The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million. Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network for its response to Williams' comments about Muslims.
George Soros, the billionaire financier who was an energetic Democratic donor in the last several election cycles but is sitting this one out, is not feeling optimistic about Democratic prospects.
As millions of hardworking Americans struggle to make ends meet, Senate staffers will participate next week in a two-day orgy of back massages, organic food tastings and milk mustache photos.
Ethics Committee Chairman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) announced last week that Rangel will face his peers on Nov. 15.
Scientists found that a decline in the Sun's activity did not lead as expected to a cooling of the Earth, a surprise finding that could have repercussions for computer models on climate change. The Sun's activity is known to wax and wane over 11-year cycles, which means that in …
The Obama administration repeatedly withheld from the public worst-case estimates of how much oil was spewing from BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico, according to reports released Wednesday by a presidential panel investigating the disaster.
Last month, embattled Rep. Charles Rangel ripped into The Post for an article detailing how he'd helped an uptown nonprofit get a $2.6 million grant despite serious questions about his finances.
Apparently, Samsung isn't content with merely copying Apple's devices. The thing is, Samsung probably needs to spend more time learning WHY people are obsessed with Apple's products, and less time thinking it has something to do with advertising.
Everyone in the retail world wants to see if Ron Johnson can work his magic a third time.
Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and Freedom:
Germany’s plan to put a million electric cars on the road by 2020 is unlikely to do much for the environment without a dramatic increase in renewable energy, the daily Tageszeitung reported on Monday
Given all the chatter surrounding the (now on indefinite hiatus) SOPA bill, I’ve been meaning to post something about lending rights and Kindle books. We’ve published on this topic before, but as library lending via OverDrive and Amazon’s Kindle Owners Lend …
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