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Which tech giant is winning the hearts and minds (but maybe not the wallets) of students? The past weekend saw two similar events at two very different companies.

If you walk past the windows of Sotheby’s Manhattan salesrooms between now and April 12, stop and look at the scorched metal sphere, seven and a quarter feet in diameter, displayed across from Rodin’s The Kiss. It is not a sculpture by Anish Kapoor; it is a piece of space ...

The iPad is now having a measurable effect on the PC sales industry, according to a recent analyst report from Deutsche Bank . The bank raised its stock-price target for Apple , and cut price targets for PC makers as a result. Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, issued a note to his investors today that's hit the tech headlines for one big reason: He suggests that while PC sales are continuing to grow over recent months, they're proceeding at a much slower rate than industry observers had expected, with one device to blame--the iPad

On April Fool’s Day, the prank that was the biggest hit in the office was Google Motion . With a realistic faux launching page, the seriousness of the prank definitely sparked some loud laughter here at Journyx

Security for smartphones is crucial, now that so many of us use them to make business calls, check work e-mail, and store information. We sampled several apps designed to take the risk out of computing on your phone.

Microsoft has revealed some statistics to buff up the PR image of its Windows Phone 7 platform--and some of them are fairly impressive. But MS has been economical with the data it's willing to share. In a post on its Windows Team blog , Microsoft is setting out the "numbers that matter" after a year of Windows Phone 7's existence.

Google's Android OS has made great strides in seizing marketshare among smartphones, but the fragmentation of devices has finally caught Google's attention--for its Honeycomb tablet OS, hardware specs will be much tighter.

With oddly simultaneous timing, a number of Apple's competitors have made bold statements alleging the iPad is poor in certain ways, not suited for particular uses, or even doomed to fail. You could be forgiven for thinking they're running interference because of fear. We marshall the evidence here.

1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time , angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income.

We branded it the Great Search Engine War of 2011 , when Google launched an all-out attack on Microsoft's Bing , accusing its arch-nemesis of copying search results. After several months, however, it's unclear what impact the war has had on Microsoft. Has Bing been planning a response?

Apple today announced that Bertrand Serlet, its senior vice president of Mac® Software Engineering, will be leaving the company after 14 years.

Amazon just revealed its own specially curated version of the Android Marketplace, but has chosen to label it the "Appstore." Apple , in turn, has now sued Android for trademark violation. The move is a not-so-subtle shot across Amazon's bows. The suit was filed last week, but has emerged at more or less the same time as Amazon's official unveiling of its Android Appstore--Amazon's version of the free-for-all Google Android Marketplace that, on launch, contains 3,800 apps

Remember back in 2009 when netbooks were selling like hotcakes? Well, those days are gone and now tablets are selling like hotcakes. It begs the question, naturally: are tablet sales cannabilizing netbook sales

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