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Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc, whose proposed buy of T-Mobile USA is under scrutiny by U.S. regulators, promised to bring 5,000 wireless call-center jobs back to the United Sta…

Need proof that the iPad and other tablets are geared toward playing games? Now they've got their own joystick.Logitech has leapt into the gadget-accessory fray with a tool it clai…

The video gaming extravaganza known as the Penny Arcade Expo may be completely sold out, but who says you need a golden ticket to get in on the gaming fun?

Hurricane Irene may have been a wash for New York City residents poised for the storm of the century, but counties in its upstate watershed will be feeling its effects for a long t…

An atomic clock at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has the best long-term accuracy of any in the world, research has found.

Microsoft Corp has signed a partnership deal with a Chinese firm to develop and market cloud-computing products in China.

As Hewlett-Packard manages a tectonic shift in its business, thrifty consumers can expect to shake down more deals on gadgets.

A massive wall of video screens displays real-time images from a network of cameras, while employees look at a million points of data on their own computers. It's Houston's other m…

Leo Apotheker's credibility as a CEO is falling along with Hewlett-Packard's stock price.

Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon…

IBM has developed a microprocessor which it claims comes closer than ever to replicating the human brain.

Hot on the heels of Google's launch of social gaming on its nascent Google+ project, Facebook's announced changes this evening to its gaming system it says will make games easier t…

August's Perseid meteor shower ranks among the year's most popular sky shows, and provides a great opportunity to drink in a big gulp of night-sky goodness. So what if this year's …

One evening in the spring of 2010, Keith McSpurren settled down with his children in his home in Toronto to watch play-off hockey on television, a ritual repeated in millions of ho…

The landline phone company and its workers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are too far apart in their contract negotiations, and union leaders call their first strike in 1…

A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in.Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents…

Government departments have been ripped off by a "cartel" of big IT firms, a damning report by a committee of MPs has found.

Maybe it does, and maybe that helps explain the success of Google+. It only turns a month old on Thursday, but it already claims up to 20 million members. And since the service wen…

Professional and amateur astronomers are teaming up to study a cosmic "soccer ball" with a tricky goal in mind: understanding how the death throes of a star are affected by the com…

Amazon on Monday temporarily suspended sales of the Nintendo 3DS, the 3-D handheld video game console, on its popular marketplace website.A note Monday on the page for at least one…

When it comes to telescopes, many astronomers will tell you that bigger is better. The larger your collecting area, the fainter the astronomical objects you can study. Radio astron…

After the company raised the price of its DVD and streaming media plan by 60%, it had to draft hundreds of extra customer service reps to handle the floods of irate callers.

If Netflix had filed Tuesday's price-hike news in a movie genre, it would be either drama or horror.U.S. customers of the DVD-by-mail and Web-streaming service are storming the Int…

After the space shuttle Atlantis lands, the focus of the U.S. space program shifts to the International Space Station — so it’s fitting that NASA spacewalker Ron Garan took a momen…

A device that crowd-sources water quality could help prevent the spread of diseases such a cholera.