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The micro-blogging platform's new prompt, "What's happening?", is also a redefinition.

On Thursday, I was able to spend some time with the Casio G'zOne Rock, a rugged feature phone that could appeal to adventurers or simply people who break their phones often. A suite of outdoorsy tools also adds to the appeal.

I had a chance to test out Sony Ericsson's new Xperia X10 (codenamed "Rachael") for a few minutes at last night's Pepcom in NYC. It's a beautiful phone, and a uniquely Sony product.

Several New York City Council members are considering a resolution urging the Federal Communications Commission to adopt net neutrality rules, but AT&T met with agency officials this week to voice concerns about the proposal.

The new version of the PogoPlug, announced Friday, improves on the design of the original (assuming you like purple) and adds options to share a lot more data from a lot more drives.

A world-wide gang of criminals stole money from over 2,100 ATMs one year ago according to information released by the FBI. The machines were in at least 280 cities in the US, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, one of the more user-friendly versions of Linux around, has agreed to assist Google with its Chrome OS.

Hoping for an e-reader in your stocking this year? You might be out of luck. Barnes & Noble has announced that pre-orders for its Nook e-reader will not ship until January 4.

While the tech world has been waiting for Apple, Microsoft, and even TechCrunch to introduce their tablets, a company called Camangi has gone ahead and released its own device, the WebStation.

Google fired another shell at Microsoft's fundamental business model on Thursday, when it released the code behind its Google Chrome OS. What happens when you turn the operating system into just another advertising medium? Quite a number of things.

Late on Wednesday, Asus announced its update to the Eee Box line of nettop PCs. Like recent entries in the category, it can be used either as a Home Theater PC or as a slim netttop, hiding behind a monitor with the included VESA mounting kit.

The world's number one search provider has opened its operating system project up to the world. Here's what it's all about.

Google on Thursday released the code for its upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season.

It's time for yet another application store, but this time it's not for a phone or an MP3 player. Instead, Livescribe is introducing a beta edition of its App Store for its Pulse SmartPen.

News editor Mark Hachman is on-site at the Google Chrome OS technical preview, and will be live-blogging the event for PCMag's Gearlog blog.

The Verizon ads that take aim at AT&T's 3G network will stay on the air – for now.

Jim Lynch sounds off on companies that ban telecommuting for their employees.

Think you're getting a cell phone for free? No way.

The Asus 1201 is the first Ion-based netbook that bundles a dual-core Intel Atom processor.

Netflix on Wednesday officially expanded its streaming capabilities to Sony Bravia TVs and Blu-ray DVD players.

Microsoft announced Wednesday that Asus will be producing a new Home Server, known as the TS Mini.

Music service Vevo will launch on December 8, the site announced in a Wednesday e-mail.

Microsoft on Wednesday launched a public beta of Office Mobile 2010, coinciding with its launch of the Office 2010 beta.

The concept of TV Everywhere fails to take into account that consumers don't necessarily want to watch TV everywhere - or at least pay TV, according to the lead product manager for Google.

It's entirely possible, and reasonable, that the controllerless Project Natal technology Microsoft is developing will replace a remote control on Xbox 360-powered TVs, Marc Whitten, the general manager responsible for Microsoft's Xbox Live service, told attendees at the Streaming Media West show.

Several Droid users have reported issues with the smartphone's Exchange support, including the fact that the device has no support at all for Exchange servers when certain enhanced security features are enabled.

Just a week after the second beta launch, Mozilla on Wednesday released Firefox 3.6 beta 3, which adds 80 changes to the previous version.

T-Mobile announced Wednesday that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 with Wi-Fi Calling is now available.