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4.30am is an ungodly hour to wake up. My eyes still crusted over with sleep, I stumbled out of my bunk, gave myself a quick baby wipe shower, splashed water on my face, brushed my teeth trying not to swallow the cholera water and lurched upstairs.

. The Computer Science department at the University of California at Santa Cruz has a few tricks up its sleeve with regard to artificial intelligence.  RCR Wireless News spoke with …

Google is trying to make itself seem more attractive to mobile game developers, with Ian Ni-Lewis, Developer Advocate for Games at Google pulling out all the stops to woo the gangly geniuses out of their basements.

Online security is crucial. Making certain that your identity is not easily stolen and that grubby little thieves can’t get their hands on your money or private data is something to take very …

I seem to have fallen into the Haitian time warp, where everything seems to have gone by so fast at such a slow pace. Because everything takes time here.

Reuters | March 30, 2011 | Chikako Mogi (Reuters) – Japanese imports of rare earths fromChina shrank further in February, sliding 36 percent from January, data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance …

In an effort to tackle the ongoing problem of Android fragmentation Google Inc. has apparently issued an ultimatum to its partners that from now on Android Godfather Andy Rubin will check all customisations and must approve them before they are released.

Vancouver Sun | March 30, 2011 | Mike Swift AUSTIN, Texas – As Facebook evolves from insular Silicon Valley start-up to a global company with a necklace of offices around the …

Reuters | March 28, 2011 | Gowri Jayakumar Hurt by Japan‘s devastating earthquake and tsunami, IT vendors NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have decided to refrain from making personnel and organizational changes, …

Although Google Inc. may be frying bigger fish right now, the Federal Trade Commission has just announced they have reached a settlement with Google over the search giant’s bungled launch of Buzz last year. The agreement stipulates that Google must submit to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years in order to make sure they do not violate privacy policies again.

Google Inc. has today taken the wraps off yet another enhancement to its increasingly diverse services, the +1 button. At its core the +1 button is the same as a Facebook “Like” button, although it can be deployed anywhere on the Web, most importantly in search results.

One of the biggest trends in 2011 is the mobile wallet, and Microsoft Corp. wants in. According to sources, Microsoft is currently developing its near field communication-enabled hardware for Windows …