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Microsoft Names New CEO: Satya Nadella

February 4, 2014 | 11:38 EST

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Google Services Down (Back Up For Most)

This story looks at an outage that affected certain Google services in early 2014, but don't worry; everything's back online now.

January 24, 2014 | 03:35 EST

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LogMeIn Free No Longer Available, Current Users Given 7 Days to Upgrade

This news story from early 2014 looks at the remote access service LogMeIn losing its free tier and giving users just 7 days to upgrade.

January 23, 2014 | 01:15 EST

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CES 2014 - Ad Leak shows T-Mobile Uncarrier 4.0 will buy your out of plan

In this story from 2014, our writer looks at leaks suggesting what the next step in T-Mobile's famous Uncarrier initiative would be.

January 8, 2014 | 11:57 EST

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CES 2014 - SNL + Tech = Best Weekend Update Ever

January 8, 2014 | 11:38 EST

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CES 2014: Nvidia Tegra K1, More Powerful Than a PS3 or Xbox 360

This story from 2014 takes a look at the Nvidia Tegra K1, the then-announced mobile and laptop chip with a pretty impressive amount of power.

January 7, 2014 | 04:19 EST

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Pebble App Store Announced for Next Year

This story from 2013 looks at the introduction of an app store to the Pebble smartwatch ecosystem, then scheduled for 2014.

December 19, 2013 | 09:30 EST

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New Twitter interface is finally back

In this news story from 2013, our writer looks at the return of the then-new Holo interface, which was reintroduced to Twitter via an update.

December 11, 2013 | 01:06 EST

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Like Google Now? Here’s How to Make it Even Better!

This article from 2013 is all about Google Now and some of the voice commands users could utilize in order to make the most of it.

December 3, 2013 | 09:00 EST

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CyanogenMod Installer Pulled from Google App Store

This news story from 2013 is about the jailbreak app CyanogenMod and Google instructing its makers to take it down from the Play Store.

December 2, 2013 | 09:00 EST

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Android 4.4 "KitKat" Preview

This story from 2013 is all about Android 4.4 and what it brought to the mobile space, as well as which devices it would be available on.

November 5, 2013 | 09:00 EST

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FYI: Microsoft Remote Desktop App Out Today

This story from 2013 is all about the launch of the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, which allowed you to view your desktop from a mobile device.

October 17, 2013 | 06:03 EDT

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Still Using Google Checkout? Not for Much Longer!

In this story from 2013, our very own Rutledge looks at the shutting down of Google Checkout, which was eventually supplanted by Google Wallet.

October 17, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Meet "Cortana", the Microsoft Virtual Assistant

This story from 2013 is about the introduction of Cortana, Microsoft's virtual assistant, and what it could mean for the company.

September 17, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Udacity Aims to Help Students Through New Partnerships

This story from 2013 is all about the educational platform Udacity and the many courses that it offered to users even then.

September 11, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Google Play update is showing some growing pains [UPDATE]

This news story from 2013 looks at a problem users were having with the Google Play Store at the time, but don't worry - it got fixed.

August 12, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Pebble Smartwatch Coming To Best Buy July 7th

This story from 2013 is about the Pebble smartwatch making its debut as part of Best Buy's retail lineup and what that entails for customers.

July 5, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Big Things Coming for Motorola

This story from 2013 looks at Motorola making a couple of big announcements (well, big for the company at the time, anyway).

July 3, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Microsoft Unveils Windows 8.1 Preview - Available Now

This story from 2013 is all about the preview build of Windows 8.1 being released to the public, as well as some of the features it offered.

June 28, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Plex Media Server - An All-in-One Media Solution

This story from 2013 is all about the Plex media server app, what it's useful for, and why our very own Rutledge thought you should use it.

May 29, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Google Drive Size Increased by Sharing Space

In this news story from 2013, our very own Rutledge looks at Google increasing its Google Drive storage space by combining services.

May 17, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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CISPA Dies in the Senate

This news story from 2013 is about CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, apparently failing to pass through the US Senate.

May 8, 2013 | 09:00 EDT

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Adobe Taken Off Ninite Installer

This 2013 story looks at the multi-install app Ninite, from which Adobe requested to have its programs removed at the time.

May 3, 2013 | 09:00 EDT