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There was a point in time where Zynga's cash cow Farmville was almost impossible to escape.

Apple apparently wants to make it easier for iPhone and iPad users to identify the songs they hear, so the company is reportedly planning on including Shazam's song identification technology in iOS 8. Including Shazam as a system-level feature would make it easier to answer those "what song is playing" questions, but could put a crimp in sales of ... (more)

Neophyte CEO Satya Nadella held an event in San Francisco Tuesday, his third public appearance in three weeks.

A Berlin-based researcher says he has managed to fool the fingerprint-based security system on Samsung's new Galaxy S5 smartphone using wood glue and a picture of the original print.

The Samsung Galaxy S5, which went on sale Friday, comes with an "astronomical" cost for materials of $251.52 for the 32 GB version, according to a teardown estimate by IHS Technology.

One M8 and Nexus 5. The results showed that using a plastic case for phones is not necessarily a point against the South Korean giant.

I missed my brother's anniversary last week. But I have a very 21st-century excuse: I lost it in the cloud.

The Apple vs Samsung legal battle has been full of low points for both companies as they spare for global domination, but an email from Samsung's VP of Sales fired off just two days after Steve Jobs' death shows how heartless the war has gotten.

Top 10 free and paid game apps for the iPhone and iPad in Canada for the week ending April 13. These game apps are available from the App Store on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch or at www.itunes.ca/appstore.

Typo halted the sale of its add-on keyboard for the iPhone on Tuesday after an injunction took effect that bans it from being imported to the U.S. The injunction is part of a patent lawsuit brought against it by BlackBerry and was triggered when BlackBerry put up a $500,000 bond with the court.

William Torres, 22, and Kayla Nunez, 19, both from New York, were arrested Saturday for investigation of communications fraud, theft by deception and possession of forged documents.

A Diocese of Scranton priest accused of inappropriately touching a teenage girl in 1998 told investigators he searches the Internet for depictions of women being strangled, chloroformed and sexually assaulted.

A trade group for wireless providers said Tuesday that that nation's biggest mobile device manufacturers and carriers will soon put anti-theft tools on the gadgets to try to deter rampant smartphone theft.

Samsung doesn't provide adequate security protection with the fingerprint sensor on its new Galaxy S5 smartphone -- at least that's the contention of a group of researchers who were able to hack their way past the sensor.

Before, voice search lacked the natural language interactions of Apple's Siri and Google Now.

Hunger Games: Catching Fire was the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards, which also featured a tribute to the late Paul Walker and a star-studded opening.

Liam Neeson Stars in the year's biggest edge-of-your-seat action thrillerCo-starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery and Academy Award?? winner Lupita Nyong'o"Thrilling and intense! Liam... is a U.S. air marshal fighting to save a plane full of passengers trapped aboard a plane 40,000 feet in the air in the explosive, high-octane action adventure ... (more)

Two sex offenders out on parole went on a savage rape and murder spree that left FIVE women dead... all while wearing their GPS ANKLE BRACELETS EXCLUSIVE 'They're not mine': Estranged husband of woman who admitted to killing six of her newborn babies says he isn't the father and that she was kicked out of the house for cheating Is this the worst ... (more)

CIO - Microsoft's ubiquitous Office productivity suite's arrival on the iPad late last month means many things.

Samsung on Monday resumed its defense against Apple's multibillion-dollar patent infringement case, relying on its top marketing executives and Google engineers to convince a federal court jury that Samsung's success selling smartphones has nothing to do with Apple's iPhone and iPad technology.