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October 22, 2015

FAA to loosen restrictions on gadgets on planes, sources say

The Federal Aviation Administration hopes to relax rules governing when you can use your tablet, e-reader and other electronic gizmos on planes.

October 22, 2015

Meet Loren Brichter, the high-priest of app design

More than 2,500 miles from Silicon Valley, in a small home office with a dog bed under the desk, sits a man on the cutting edge of the apps boom.

October 22, 2015

Someone bought 1,000,000 BlackBerry Z10 smartphones

BlackBerry (formerly known as Research In Motion) says it has received an order for one million of its new smartphones, marking the largest ever single purchase in the company's history.

October 22, 2015

The 7 deadly sins of smartphone users

Everyone is guilty of the occasional indiscretion on a mobile device.

October 22, 2015

Wireless connections creep into everyday things

A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that charts your weight online. A meter that warns your AC when electricity is expensive. Welcome to the next phase of the wireless revolution.

October 22, 2015

Welcome to Pyongyang: North Korea's first video game is awful

You know how much fun you have driving around and finding places to fill up your car with fuel? North Korea has come up with a fascinatingly awful simulation of this mind-numbing menial chore.

October 22, 2015

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says company will pare its mobile applications to about 12 programs

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks the Internet company will be able to please more people with fewer smartphone applications.

October 22, 2015

Invisible smartphone on the horizon?

Using technologies developed for displays, a Taiwanese company is showing off prototypes of a phone made of glass.

October 22, 2015

Apple working on a less-expensive iPhone, sources say

Apple is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in corporate strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped.

October 22, 2015

Users flee Instagram after privacy outcry

Instagram users outraged over new rules made good on their threat to dump the popular photo-sharing app, which may have shed nearly a quarter of its daily active users.