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Plus, big iPads, bigger hard drives and Steve Jurvetson’s Elon Musk mancrush.
Doubling down on the social enterprise.
Another day, another denial of service.
Tablets -- and especially the iPad -- are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses, and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
China may be looking at the issue of bundling, the subject of past antitrust complaints in the West.
Some smart marketing for Samsung, highlighting the fact that the S5 -- unlike many rivals -- is water-resistant.
Still more growth in the cloud.
Plus, Windows Mea Culpa and a drone-assisted Ice Bucket challenge.
The one-named exec posted his plans on Facebook, for which he designed the “Like” button.
Understanding why Sony pulled ahead in the console war.
The nostalgia market is still healthy.
Splish splash, I was taking a bath ...
The patent trolling firm is making “operational changes.”
Finally consumers will be able to choose Android or Windows on an identical -- and popular -- hardware design.
PlayFab wants to give the creative guys a bit more technical ammo.
Genius or mouth-breather? The mysteries of a mysterious Web text (sort of) revealed.
Watch the most feared woman in tech get doused on air on CNBC.
Apple, Samsung, HTC and Microsoft all have events planned for the coming weeks. Just how much “new” there really is, though, remains to be seen.
Don’t try to take these Instagrams at home, kids.
Tech’s week in review.
July, not April, is the cruelest month.
Wait ... what?
The company had promised its Android Wear-based smartwatch would launch this summer.
Analyst warns of a lack of compelling uses and the challenges around battery life.
Can the platform make the programming language cool and app development accessible?
Plus, pneumatic fish tubes and more bad optics for Uber.
Show of hands for those who want a “deeply personal, universally human way of operating?”
The basic phone is part of a continued business in that area, Microsoft VP Jo Harlow tells Re/code.
Also this week in Re/code, real-life Transformers and a chip that works like the brain.
Survey finds Microsoft’s offerings gaining favor with CIOs.
Johnson’s responsibilities will include relationships with partners, key accounts and device makers.
Plus, the bloodletting ends at BlackBerry, Xiaomi supplants Samsung as China’s leading smartphone vendor and Google’s summer camp.
What the?
If Samsung and other Android phone makers don’t have to pay Microsoft royalties on Android, Windows Phone could become an even tougher sell.
Plus, a Square meal of Caviar, and Elon Musk worries about Skynet.
How Facebook is trying get even more ad dollars, what the world’s most famous muckraker is up to and what Web privacy really means.
“That’s so-and-so. He’s a great engineer. He doesn’t like to wear clothes.”
How “a documentary about the failure to find a good documentary” turned into a meditation on history.