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- Apple's Siri has a rival: Google voice search
The Google Search app does some things better than Siri.
- How to 'tether' your PC to your phone
A lawsuit now makes 'tethering' PCs and phones cheaper.
- Will music resurrect Myspace?
As Myspace reinvents itself, the social network aims to be nexus for bands and fans.
- Can a Motorola X Phone keep up with Apple and Samsung?
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Motorola is hard at work on an 'X Phone,' a flagship smart phone that would stand out from handsets made by Apple and Samsung. But 'X Phone' development may be running into some early obstacles.
- Websites go dark: Moment of silence honors Sandy Hook victims
Websites go dark one week after the shooting in Newtown, Conn. A group of tech leaders and celebrities interested in tightening gun laws organized for the websites go to dark at 9:30 a.m.
- Instagram retreats following backlash
Instagram, a photo-sharing service acquired by Facebook earlier this year, reversed some of the unpopular proposed changes to its terms of service. The remaining new provisions will go into effect on January 19.
- Brothers Grimm saved classic fairy tales by changing them forever
Disney wasn't the first to change Grimm's Fairy Tales. Even the Brothers Grimm tinkered with their stories from one edition to another.
- Facebook $1 fee? New scheme aims to make money, cut spam.
New from Facebook: $1 fee to send priority messages to people outside of your social contacts. This Facebook $1 fee feature isn't available outside of the US yet, but the social network could expand it if it proves popular.
- Path introduces social search that's more intuitive than Facebook
Path, a small social network designed to be more intimate than Facebook, introduced a new search feature on Thursday that lets you look back on moments you've shared with friends. You can search these moments by person, location, date, or even emotion.
- The real Brothers Grimm were stranger than fiction
The Google homepage celebrates the 200th anniversary of the first edition of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales,' a collection of stories which transformed Western literature. Here's a quick look at the men who worked tirelessly for 50 years to assemble the tales.
- Instagram uproar: A testing ground for Facebook?
A popular photo sharing site owned by Facebook, Instagram released new terms of service on Monday. Now Instagram users have a month to decide how much control over their data they are willing to give up.
- Reconstructing Adam Lanza's hard drive
Adam Lanza's hard drive is destroyed. Mr. Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 27 people and himself in Newtown, Conn., last week, smashed his computer the morning of the attacks. Investigators are trying to put Adam Lanza's hard drive back together -- but even if they fail, there might be other ways to see what Lanza was doing before the shootings.
- Can Instagram really sell your photos?
Instagram changed its user agreement, allowing the website to use shared photos in any way it wants.
- Chinese customers buy 2M iPhone 5s in first weekend
The iPhone 5, which launched in China on Friday, will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December.
- Apple iPhone gets blockbuster weekend, thanks to China
Chinese consumers snapped up 2 million iPhone 5 handsets over the weekend. Still, a new Citi Research report helped drive Apple shares down.
- Instagram, now under Facebook banner, changes privacy policy
Instagram is updating its privacy policy in order to share data with Facebook, which bought Instagram earlier this year.
- Google+ iOS, Android apps see major updates
Google+ is getting a facelift.
- US may snub UN Internet regulation treaty
A Western bloc led by the US has strongly resisted any UN-imposed rules on the Internet, fearing it could be used to justify further limits on cyberspace.
- After short absence, Google Maps returns to the Apple iPhone
Google Maps, which was temporarily banished by Apple from all iOS 6 devices, is back in style.
- BlackBerry 10 to be tested by US government agency
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, will test out the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system.