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Jack Dorsey revolutionized online socializing by co-founding Twitter in 2006. Now he wants to transform the way people exchange money.

It looks like the Jan. 5, 2010 date for a Nexus One launch has been confirmed. At the very least, the new device, the so-called "Google Phone" will be announced that day, as Google has announced an Android event for that day.

The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia launched a new patent broadside against Apple, escalating a battle for control of the smartphone market that has already led to a flurry of lawsuits.

Here's yet another example of why you shouldn't just blindly follow the directions you are given by your GPS unit. An elderly couple, John Rhoads, 65, and Starry Bush-Rhoads, 67, were led astray by their GPS unit, and stranded in snow, but their GPS-enabled cell phones relayed their position to 911, which saved them.

In the 2009 holiday season, th Kindle became Amazon.com 's most gifted item ever , but next year, who knows how it will do? That's because the rumored Apple Kindle-killer tablet PC will be out, if all plays out as it seems, and an analyst believes Apple could sell as many as 1.6 million of the "Kindle Killers" in 2010.

CHICAGO a ' The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a plan that would allow the agency that buys electricity on behalf of utility customers to seek proposals for long-term wind-power contracts.

A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S. Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated migrants where to find water and pipes in poetry ...

Rumored specifications have hit the Web detailing Google's forthcoming Chrome OS netbook.

It is evident from the recent Predator drone hacking that the only way to protect over-the-air transmissions is some sort of encryption. Meanwhile, eighty percent of the world's phones are GSM-based, meaning, they use SIMs and operate on networks like the U.S.'s AT&T and T-Mobile, but on Monday a German security expert announced that he and a group of contributors had broken the primary encryption code protecting GSM phone calls.

Mac clone maker Psystar last week indefinitely suspended sales of its only product, a $50 utility that lets customers install Apple's Snow Leopard operating system on generic Intel-based computers.

U.S. retailers posted a better performance during the 2009 holiday shopping season, with sales as tracked by MasterCard Advisors unit SpendingPulse up 3.6 percent.

Legislation that could bring more wind turbines and solar power projects to Indiana has a good chance of passing in the upcoming legislative session after failing in the last session's closing hours, two state lawmakers say.

China's utilities will be required to buy all the power produced by wind farms and other renewable sources under a new law meant to promote the industry and reduce heavy reliance on coal.

According to some reports, AT&T has apparently stopped selling the iPhone in New York City. If you listen to certain customer service representatives, it's because "New York is not ready for the iPhone." It may not be all that cut and dried, however.

With hard times in the auto industry and car dealerships closing around the country, the gleaming showrooms that once featured next year's models are becoming this year's new store, restaurant, school, day care center or yoga studio.

AV Comparatives, one of the well-respected independent testing houses of security software, has released not one, but two tests in December of 2009. Both of them showed pretty impressive results for smaller antivirus firms, as well as freeware solutions, including the new (and free) Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) product.

In this May 13, 2009, file photo, Jonathan Hutcheson works on his laptop as his iPhone lays beside it at a coffee shop in Columbia, Mo.

After a YouTube video resulted in HP laptops being snarkily called "racist," the creators of the video have spoken out. Much like Fake Steve Jobs and Operation Chokehold, it's all in good fun, and not meant to cause a real controversy.

As the world continues to reel in the aftermath of the flight 253 incident, in which Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, attempted to set off PETN explosive on a Northwest Airlines flight (Delta Airlines is NWA's parent company), a security expert says there is an answer. The backscatter machine, which provides a full body scan, could have prevented the incident, but at the cost of privacy for many.

The federal government says it takes an average of 34 months to approve or deny a patent, but one Wausau businessman is not letting that delay keep him from developing his innovation.