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On the anniversary of IBM becoming IBM, we’re reminded that many other famous technology companies also started off with a different name. How many of these do you know?

From Apple’s latest trademark coup to the secrets Anonymous hacked from the U.S. government to using Google Maps to find the best breakfast food in North Korea, we bring you the silliest stories in the tech world this past week

Take your mind off the untimely death of Hostess by reviewing the week’s top tech stories, which should be the only time NASA and Papa John’s are mentioned in the same story

A review of some of the top tech stories for the past week, with tongue planted firmly somewhere near cheek.

There has been some news about BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM). And by “news,” I mean to say “Screams, cries, deep sighs, and rhetorical questions about what else could go wrong.”

This week's news involving Research in Motion and Nokia are sad, predictable and -- in one case -- unintentionally comical.

Could the sex scandal involving U.S. Secret Service agents in Colombia be the key to the BlackBerry's comeback? Stranger things have happened.

What keeps people on the BlackBerry platform? The feel of the keyboard, sure. BlackBerry Messenger, maybe. But in some cases the answer is "I really don’t want to transfer all my contacts over.”

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plans to stop using Research in Motion's BlackBerry in favor of Apple's iPhone.

Hewlett-Packard and Research in Motion are facing some inflection points that underscore the problems undermining each company's fundamental business.

Kevin Purdy digs through the rumors and insinuations about mobile and wireless happenings and quickly summates them, so you can go on with your fact-based life.

Energy company Halliburton said it would replace 4,500 BlackBerry smartphones with iPhones over next two years, dealing a public blow to RIM's efforts to shore up its enterprise business.