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Amazon partners with Best Buy to get its burgeoning suite of tech products in front of customers

Amazon partners with Best Buy to get its burgeoning suite of tech products in front of customers

A financially troubled company that was on the brink of ceasing its rural cellphone service, including the ability to call 911 in some areas of Vermont, is trying to keep the service running.

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APNewsBreak: US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC

A federal appeals court has overturned a decision in a long-running legal battle over whether Google infringed on Oracle's Java programming language to build its hugely popular mobile operating system, Android

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Apple is hoping it can regain ground that its products have recently lost in U.S. classrooms, but a longtime technology analyst believes the company must be willing to cut prices to do that.

The Justice Department's watchdog says FBI officials did not try as hard as possible to unlock an iPhone as part of a terrorism investigation

Apple wants to play a more prominent role in education, but it isn't willing to cut prices to make the grade

Apple is adding the ability to use a digital pencil to draw and write on its cheapest iPad model in an attempt to make the tablet more compelling for creating, teaching and learning.

How Facebook was able to siphon off phone call and text logs from Android users

A South Korean mobile device maker says the responsibility for protecting user privacy falls not just on one single company but on all players in the mobile industry

A man who tried to marry his laptop in a legal fight against same-sex marriage is popping up in states across the country as he pushes legislation to require an internet block on pornography and human trafficking websites

A man who tried to marry his laptop in a legal fight against same-sex marriage is popping up in states across the country as he pushes legislation to require an internet block on pornography and human trafficking websites

Allegations that PM Narendra Modi's official smartphone app is shipping Indians' personal data to servers abroad have degenerated into a sarcastic back-and-forth online

Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official smartphone app is shipping Indians' personal data to servers abroad have degenerated into a sarcastic back-and-forth online

An environmental group says Grand Teton National Park has prevented the public from learning about tentative plans for more than 50 miles of fiber-optic cable and new cellphone towers in the Wyoming preserve

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