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New Zealand's top court takes Kim Dotcom appeal

|Thursday, May. 16, 2013

New Zealand's highest court ruled Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States.Read more

Highlights: music, maps, photo, other Google tools

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Google used its annual conference for software developers to unveil several new products, services and features. They include enhancements for online games, maps, search, music and photos and are meant to help the company cement its role in people's technological lives. Here's a look at some of the announcements made at Wednesday's keynote at Google I/O.Read more

Cisco 3Q net income rises 14 percent

|Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Cisco's net income jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter as revenue at all four of its divisions rose for the first time in a year and a half.Read more

Gadgets: Get your photos, slides digitized with simple service

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

After my mom sent boxes of my family's photo albums years ago we found a nice space on my closet shelf with hope of one day digitizing them.Read more

Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more popular.Read more

Warner Bros. shuffles deck as top TV exec leaves

|Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Hollywood studio Warner Bros. is shuffling its executive ranks as top TV executive Bruce Rosenblum leaves.Read more

Google's music plan part of fresh wave of upgrades

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Google

Google Inc. unveiled a streaming music service called All Access that blends songs users have already uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks. Google made it available in the U.S. Wednesday for $8 a month to early birds who sign up for service before June 30.Read more

Netflix trading at pre-plunge levels

|Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Netflix shares are trading at levels not seen since 2011 when it lost hundreds of thousands of customers after hiking prices for people who wanted continued access to DVDs as well as its streaming service.Read more

Syria rebels, regime troops fight in Aleppo prison

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Mideast Syria

Rebel fighters battled regime troops inside the walls of the sprawling central prison compound in Syria's largest city Wednesday, hours after blowing open the gate with twin car bombs in an attempted jailbreak, activists said.Read more

Google unveils maps, photo, music features

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Google

Google's sixth annual conference for software developers opened Wednesday with a chance for the company to showcase its latest services. Announcements included new features for online games, maps and search, a new music-streaming service and enhancements to its Google Plus social network, including tools for editing and sharing photos.Read more

Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

APTOPIX Ghana Space Program

Their project might not sound like much: The college students on Wednesday launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a soda can on a big yellow balloon.Read more

RIM unveils cheaper BlackBerry

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

BlackBerry Conference

Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets, stepping up its efforts to regain market share lost to Apple's iPhone and Android devices powered by Google's software.Read more

Tech Q&A: Law firm's custom email address locked in limbo

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

A company that overpromises what it can deliver should never deal with a lawyer.Read more

Russians attempt to topple Google in Vietnam

| |Wednesday, May. 15, 2013

Vietnam Google Challenger

Vietnam's booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That's not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit which believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market and also contend with a jittery, authoritarian government seeking to clamp down on freedom of expression online.Read more

Google's products dig deeper into people's lives

| |Tuesday, May. 14, 2013

Google

For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer.Read more

US judge in Ore. dismisses movie pirating lawsuit

|Tuesday, May. 14, 2013

A federal judge has dismissed a movie company's Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court's subpoena power in a "reverse class-action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less than $10.Read more

Nicole Richie gets candid in new AOL web series

| |Tuesday, May. 14, 2013

People Nicole Richie

As the Twitterverse expands with millions of users, it can be hard to have a unique voice. Nicole Richie doesn't have that problem.Read more

Google CEO discloses 'rare' vocal cord problem

| |Tuesday, May. 14, 2013

Google CEO-Throat Ailment

Google CEO Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to keep running the Internet's most influential company.Read more

Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks

|Tuesday, May. 14, 2013

Spotify-Most Streamed Tracks

The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, May 6, to Sunday, May 12:Read more

Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks

|Tuesday, May. 14, 2013

The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, May 6, to Sunday, May 12, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.Read more