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What's next from the people who invented the PC?
Anonymous hacking spree hits PayPal, Symantec
'SNL' assaults social media experts
Why the Microsoft store isn't like the Apple store
In iOS 6.1., Siri will help with movie ticket purchases
Apple's taxes on overseas profits last year: Less than 2 percent
Beware: Fake airline Instagram accounts promise free flights
'Saturday Night Live' Web site defaced in apparent hacking
Are you being cyberbullied at work?
iPad Mini costs at least $188 to build, teardown reveals
Being there: The Hifiman HE-6 headphones

What's next from the people who invented the PC?

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 09:00 PM PST

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center is known for its almost eerie capability to be working on what's next before most other companies can see it. CTO Sophie Vandebroek needs to keep that happening. [Read more]

Anonymous hacking spree hits PayPal, Symantec

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 07:31 PM PST

The hacks are apparently just the beginning of document dumps and defacements for its day of protest, the 5th of November, aka Guy Fawkes Day. [Read more]

'SNL' assaults social media experts

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:21 PM PST

In a withering little skit, those who opine on social media are shown to be, well, mere opiners. [Read more]

Why the Microsoft store isn't like the Apple store

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:11 PM PST

It's easy to think that Microsoft stores are mere copies of Apple stores. But a visit to a newly-opened store shows that there are differences. You just have to be open to them. [Read more]

In iOS 6.1., Siri will help with movie ticket purchases

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 02:26 PM PST

The oft-criticized voice-command feature gets another capability. [Read more]

Apple's taxes on overseas profits last year: Less than 2 percent

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 12:25 PM PST

That's much lower than the 35 percent corporate tax rate in the U.S., and calls into question how Apple is able to get away with such a low rate. [Read more]

Beware: Fake airline Instagram accounts promise free flights

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:43 AM PST

Instagram accounts for American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and JetBlue are promising free flights to people who follow and share them. The only problem is they aren't real. [Read more]

'Saturday Night Live' Web site defaced in apparent hacking

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 11:09 AM PST

Site's content replaced with Guy Fawkes nursery rhyme as well as an indication that "user info" and "passwords" had been exposed. [Read more]

Are you being cyberbullied at work?

Posted: 04 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST

A study shows that it isn't just kids who suffer cyberbullying. It's anyone who works. Some 80 percent claim to have suffered within the last six months. [Read more]