The shift to smartphones and tablets became a landslide this year, crushing desire for laptop computers and pressuring manufacturers to adapt to the mobile Internet era. The trend promised to gain momentum in 2013, with

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Americans of all ages are increasingly using mobile devices for news, with many boosting their media consumption rather than just shifting from print sources, a survey showed on December 11. The Pew Research Centre study,

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US regulators have launched a series of probes on whether mobile apps targeted at children violate privacy laws by collecting and sharing data which can be used for detailed profiles, officials said on December 10.

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A controversial new global treaty on telecom regulations was signed Friday by two thirds of International Telecommunication Union members despite US objections to potential regulation of the Internet. "I say to the 89 states that

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Clothes that could literally light up your life were unveiled on December 11 by Japanese researchers who said their solar-cell fabric would eventually let wearers harvest energy on the go. The new fabric is made

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Facebook on December 12 unveiled simplified tools for protecting privacy at the world's leading social network and made it easier for users whose pictures are on display to ask friends to remove them. Facebook privacy

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Intel launched a data-centre chip using low-power technology found in smartphones, stepping up competition in the nascent microserver market and winning a nod from Facebook. The Atom chip rolled out on December 11 uses much

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US teachers have flooded school-centric charity website DonorsChoose.org to snap up Chrome notebook computers Google made available to classrooms for just $99 each. DonorsChoose said on December 11 that it was no longer taking Chromebook

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Yahoo! said on December 11 it was revamping its email for the Web and mobile devices in a move aimed at streamlining the service and making its look consistent across various platforms. "Since it's such

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Motorola Mobility on December 10 confirmed that it is shutting down most of its operations in South Korea as part of a move to consolidate research after being bought by Google this year. "This was

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