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For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on its hands.

A few hours ago, I came back from the Apple Store at Roma Est driving all the way back home after a 19-hour wait for the new iPad. Tired – exhausted, my head exploding for the absurd coffee intake I forced my body into, but happy, smiling because I knew that what I had imagined

Valve Corp., the Bellevue-based video game company behind hit franchises like Half-Life and Portal, is a giant in the digital distribution of PC games. The company’s Steam distribution system, with…

Over the weekend we posted Valve co-founder Gabe Newell’s recent comments about the pricing experiments that the company conducts using its Steam distribution system for PC games. During another…

Every time Apple releases an updated product, analysts, pundits, and bloggers try to criticize the company for its timidity. Modest is a label worth wearing, though.

A professor and honors students from Ole Miss may have identified a new …

It costs Saudi Arabia $2 dollars to produce a barrel of oil. Why do we pay over $105 a barrel?

Modern iPhone users can set a passcode on their devices to encrypt their data …

Has it only been a year since the last Fools of the Year edition? These people make it seem longer.

The two candidates made the comments during a debate sponsored by Personhood USA, an anti-abortion-rights group.

Updated 4:52 pm with confirmed funding amount, full list of investors, and quote from Satish Dharmaraj. Rumors about Path’s new round of funding have circulated for some time, but they are now being reported as hard numbers. Path confirmed to VentureBeat today that it had closed a Series B round for “more than $30 million.” Earlier, […]

A minority of people expose the majority of personal data, mostly not their own.

Find parking charges, opening hours and a parking map of all Chicago garages, street parking, pay and display, parking meters and private garages

The Simple Dollar is a free resource for all things finance. Learn about budgeting, investing, credit, and more to take control of your financial destiny.

Imagine for a moment that no one ever joins Facebook again. Whether this year or five years from now, it has to occur: You can’t grow beyond the number of Internet users on Earth. Past that point, what happens? What’s to keep a rival like Googl [...]

This post looks at ways you can manage your brands reputations from within Google Analytics including the new Social Graphs.

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I had been certain that the bubble would pop. But I was disappointed. For weeks, print and pixel had been dominated by news, overwhelmingly uninformed or stale, about the long-awaited and presumptively historical Facebook IPO.

credits: Director/DP/Editor: Dane Story Writer/Producer: Evan Jennings Writers: Shashona Brooks, Max Kleinman Cast: Shashona Brooks, Evan Jennings, Max Kleinman, Stephanie Thompson, Morgan White, Sebrienne Oki, Olivia Schlueter-Corey

(Or: Why Windows 8 Scares Me -- and Should Scare You Too) I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of sett...

This video gives an overview of Windows 8 and some of the risky design decisions Microsoft made in it. It was designed as a supplement to my blog post on the subject at http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2012/05/fear-and-loathing-and-windows-8.html If you want to fully understand my perspective on Windows 8, you need to read the post. In this version of the video, I show the preview version of Windows 8 that was current at the time I recorded it. I have revised the video to show the release version of Windows 8; I encourage you to switch over to the new version here: http://youtu.be/Ohg_...