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Martyn Williams
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Martyn Williams is Tokyo bureau chief at IDG News Service.
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Microsoft is making a big play for the living room with a new Xbox console that marries games with live TV, Internet browsing, music and Skype.
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Members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote Thursday to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on how the futuristic device handles privacy issues.
6 days 21 hours ago
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Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the executive.
6 days 22 hours ago
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A day after breaking an almost year-long silence on a medical condition that had affected the way he speaks, Google co-founder Larry Page said Wednesday that people should be more open about their medical histories.
1 week 17 hours ago
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Google is adding a new level of personalization and a cleaner interface to its popular Maps product.
1 week 23 hours ago
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Google is adding 41 new features to its Google+ social network on Wednesday, including a richer interface that works better on mobile devices and some major enhancements to photo sharing.
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Google is rolling out a subscription music service that will bring users unlimited access to millions of songs in return for a monthly fee.
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The New York State attorney general has sent letters to the chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung asking them for help in combating cellphone theft and hinting he may pursue legal action if they don't cooperate.
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Incidents of cellphone theft have been rising for several years and are fast becoming an epidemic -- a violent epidemic.
1 week 5 days ago
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Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.
2 weeks 34 min ago
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Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit tried touchless gesturing systems and other technologies developed by Norwegian startups at a tech incubator in Palo Alto on Wednesday afternoon .
2 weeks 15 hours ago
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SearchYourCloud, which provides a single search interface to find documents stored on a desktop or several cloud-based services, expanded on Tuesday to include Box.
2 weeks 2 days ago
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A one-of-a-kind aircraft powered solely by solar energy took to the skies above Silicon Valley early Friday morning on the first leg of a planned trip across the U.S.
2 weeks 6 days ago
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Researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an insect-like robot that achieves flight by flapping a pair of tiny wings.
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North Korea's sole 3G network operator has managed to double its subscriber base in a little over a year and is about to hit 2 million users.
3 weeks 6 days ago
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The chairman of Yahoo's board of directors has stepped down from that position and will leave the board entirely later this year, Yahoo said Thursday.
3 weeks 6 days ago
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A key U.S. lawmaker has unveiled plans for a comprehensive review of the laws surrounding copyright in the United States to determine whether they are still relevant in the digital age.
4 weeks 18 hours ago
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has found no evidence that Apple infringed on a Motorola Mobility patent covering a touchscreen function.
4 weeks 2 days ago
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American Airlines restored access to its reservation system on Tuesday afternoon after a four-hour long outage that grounded its flights across the U.S.
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American Airlines grounded all its flights across the U.S. on Tuesday after an unidentified computer problem hit its reservation system.
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Stanford University's Robot Block Party got a preview of a robotic snake that will be on show at the upcoming Maker Faire.
5 weeks 6 days ago
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A Homebrew Robotics Club member was at Stanford University's Robot Block Party to show off his robots
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Forget the buttons and joysticks. A company has developed a mind-controlled robo-copter that takes to the skies with just a little thought.
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The Turtlebot II robot is a robotics development platform running the ROS open source robot OS. Within minutes, users can get the robot to move, follow them around and map their homes, the makers say.
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Eyeing the sometimes considerable data roaming bills that companies receive, a startup called Wandera launched a service Wednesday that promises to cut down on roaming data use.
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