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by Chris Nerney

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Chris Nerney writes about research news and the latest discoveries in the areas of science, technology, space and psychology.

More developers defecting from RIM

Posted Jun 27, 2011 - 12:57 pm

Starting on Thursday, social media management application maker Seesmic will cease support for Research in Motion's Blackberry.
Android, Apple
The (literally) unbelievable UFO war in Antarctica

Posted Oct 29, 2012 - 03:41 pm

You may not have heard about this, what with all the coverage of Hurricane Sandy and the U.S.
aliens, antarctica
Video: Watch this sinkhole totally swallow several large trees

Posted Aug 22, 2013 - 10:43 am

Officials from a parish in south Louisiana videotape several trees being pulled underwater by a large sinkhole.
Louisiana, sinkhole
Red Hat shares soar after hours following Q4 results

Posted Mar 23, 2011 - 06:07 pm

Shares of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) skyrocketed almost 11 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday following the release of the open-source software vendor's fiscal fourth quarter earnings report.
(Also see: Red Hat Defends Kernel Code Obfuscation)
Jim Whitehurst, open source
Saving someone's life? There's an app for that

Posted Dec 02, 2010 - 06:55 pm

Here you go, Apple: You've been handed the perfect advertisement for your App Store.
basketball, Eric Cooper
Track your trick-or-treaters with these mobile apps

Posted Oct 31, 2011 - 05:27 pm

Admittedly this blog post will have a short shelf life, but it gives you a great head start for next Halloween!
Android, Apple
How many of us are being spied on through our laptops?

Posted May 04, 2011 - 03:10 pm

It's easy to treat the story about the Wyoming couple suing a PC rental chain for spying on its family through a rented laptop as an "offbeat" news item. But the tale actually raises a troubling thought: More of us probably are being spied on by the computers we have in our homes, offices and in between than we know.
Aaron's, Byrds
IBM study: Many companies botching social media

Posted Mar 17, 2011 - 06:02 pm

It appears many companies are doing this whole social media thing all wrong, according to a new study by IBM.
Fortunately, IBM this week launched a "Smarter Commerce" consulting practice that includes, among other things, a social media component. The serendipity of it all.
Facebook, IBM
What the first news articles said about the Roswell UFO incident

Posted Jul 08, 2013 - 02:19 pm

It's been 66 years since initial reports that a flying saucer had been recovered in the New Mexico desert. Here's what the first articles said about the sightings, investigation and official statements.
Air Force, aliens
Sure, now they tell us: Former Palm employees say webOS was fatally flawed

Posted Jan 02, 2012 - 07:51 pm

For all the criticism former HP chief executive Leo Apotheker took for the TouchPad tablet disaster and his decision to abandon webOS after HP paid $1.2 billion to Palm for the mobile operating system, the fired CEO was dealt a losing hand from the start, according to former Palm and HP employees.
Android, Apotheker

October is...
Unified Communications Month

BY THE NUMBERS: UC&C

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TIP: Use your cell phone as a WiFi VOIP phone

TOOLBOX: Six alternative tools for small business collaboration

CASE STUDY: Enterprise social network moves ad agency into the future

Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft

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AMD pushes forward with new video cards and a few surprises

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See - and hear - what it was like to surf the web 20 years ago

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Valve completes its trifecta of announcements with the Steam Controller

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Which makes you more productive: The iPhone 5s or Samsung Galaxy S4?

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