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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early as next week at a developers' conference in San Francisco, said people familiar with RIM's plans.

            By Stephanie Lawson, IDG NEWS via:pcworld   AT&T is finally selling its satellite-3G smartphone, the TerreStar Genus, which can be switched from AT&T’s network to a satellite for coverage all over the U.S. The Microsoft Windows 6.5 device looks much like a normal smartphone, different from the larger, more […]

It’s two weeks into Notre Dame’s foray into their iPad-piloted class, and students and professors claim that the new interface is easier and better to use. The project management class led by Professor Corey Angst is part of the university’s eReader study and Notre Dame’s first paperless class. All materials for the 40 students are […]

Internet companies have appropriated the real estate business’s mantra — it’s all about location, location, location. But while a home on the beach will always be an easy sell, it may be more difficult to persuade people to start using location-based Web services.

              By: Joel Stein vai:yahoofinanace In the ultimate power move, there are people who don’t own a cell phone. And they’re making the world work for them. Your boss not knowing how to type, John Madden refusing to get on planes—these are adorable quirks caused by being old, or […]

OK Saints! Happy Wednesday. I see a post on facebook yesterday from one of the youth members at my church. I honestly couldnt understand one single word of it. So, I wanted to post this blog. Enjoy! We’ve seen report after report asserting that children, teens and even adults text like there’s no tomorrow. According […]

            by Jason Notte via:yahoofinance   Picking up an Apple iPad or clamoring for Amazon’s Kindle? You may as well get a DVD player, too, as their combined usefulness is on the clock. The future of technology is integration, something Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android products have a better grasp of […]

          via:yahoofinance When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser. Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of […]

via:yahoofinance In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides. Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open Internet, indicated Wednesday that it did not support a proposal by Google and Verizon that critics say could let providers of Internet access chip away at that openness. Meanwhile an executive […]

For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports "could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."