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In early December, Sgt. 1st Class James Vester was responding to a Craigslist ad for an iPad when he was shot and killed in an apparent robbery on Indianapolis' west side.

There was an executive shuffle, an appearance by former CEO Steve Baller where he conceded he missed the mobile telecom revolution and a blow-by-blow account of Ballmer's struggle to convince his board to spend $7.2 billion buying the mobile business of Nokia.

This update is for iPads and iPhones that are using iOS7. This is a major update, as it deals with a security issue.

On its own, the iPad is capable of accomplishing a great number of day to day tasks.

Another hectic week in the technology space wraps up just as the massive festival for interactive geeks and the marketers who love them South By Southwest gets under way in Austin, Texas.

If you use an Apple iPhone, iPad or Mac computer, your next car purchase may be Apple equipped.

Q. I'm traveling to Mexico for spring break and my Spanish is a little bit rusty.

Not just in the metaphorical sense. A faint but unmistakable sour odor pervaded the California State Capitol building on Friday afternoon - the legacy, evidently, of a wayward skunk.

As you can imagine, SXSW Interactive attracts "digital natives" from all over the world that essentially wouldn't be able to survive without their mobile apps.

It may be the most recognized last six notes amongst all of TV theme shows - the punctuating triplets that close the ESPN SportsCenter theme song.

New and notable on DVD this week: "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" : Has it ever come to pass that a year's most popular movie and its best picture Oscar winner were released at the same time? Probably not since "Titanic," but here we have it.

Entrepreneur James Park says he was out-of-shape, hanging out at home playing videogames, when he had the idea to build a new wearable tech device.

If you read these pages regularly, you know I've been using the Olloclip for some time now.

Oscar Mayer says its "Wake Up & Smell the Bacon" app and plug-in device will turn an iPhone into a bacon-scented alarm clock.

A man trying to sell his iPhone on Craigslist met up with a person he believed wanted to buy the phone only to find out it was a hold up.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry will announce new charges against Michael Parrish at a press conference this morning.

National Day of Unplugging , which will be celebrated from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, is designed to help people take time to take time out, to put down their devices and pick up on the world around them.

Samsung says the Oscars selfie that went viral was a "surprise for everyone," after reports it was part of a pre-planned marketing stunt by the company, a sponsor of the Academy Awards.

News reader company Flipboard said on Wednesday it has bought rival app Zite from CNN and struck a content deal with the cable news network.

Microsoft's Office is the go-to software package for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.