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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone speaks to the Board of Trade Feb. 22, 2012 in Montreal.
Social media

Don’t stare at Twitter all day, founder says

Christopher Stone says fans of the popular social-networking tool should visit often but not devote their whole lives to it

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Canadian firm could lose contract for India's $35 tablet

Dispute nears breaking point as New Delhi slams DataWind, the Canadian-based winner of the original tender for $35 tablet

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EU pauses push for ACTA anti-piracy treaty

Facing steep opposition, controversial treaty referred to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates EU rights

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Screen grab from Ultimate Dog Tease YouTube video

‘Si, Es I, Pepe,’ and other videos YouTube’s paying $100-million to create

Google-owned site is spreading its wealth among producers, directors, and other filmmakers to generate 25 hours of original programming a day

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It's almost laughable the amount of hacking that's going on in PC versions of Call of Duty games.

XIM3: The headshot for PC gamers leery of console controls

Tired of unfair, cheat-hacked PC-game battlegrounds, adapter gives this keyboard-and-mouse gamer new life on the console

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A customer holds a Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet computer.

RIM unveils key PlayBook software upgrade

New operating system for price-slashed tablet at last has its own integrated e-mail inbox

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David J. Smith, senior vice-president of mobile computing, holds a BlackBerry PlayBook as he speaks about the upcoming software revamp.
Technology

The guiding hand behind the revival of RIM’s PlayBook

The tablet’s updated software is expected to come out this week, offering the company a second shot at getting it right. David Smith believes the delay was worth it

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Montrealer Matthew outside a Cafe he works out of in Montreal on a warm February Thursday, Feb.16, 2012. Matthew is one of the 'hackers' - computer geeks who are joining with Jeeshan Chowdhury of the University of Alberta's faculty of medicine at conference next week to devise computer/ mobile applications to make house calls more efficient for doctors.
Solutions

Bridging the gap between doctors and hackers to upgrade health care

Hacking Health summit will bring together IT experts and medical professionals to develop cutting-edge solutions for health-care glitches

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Google circumvented the default setting in Apple's Safari browser, meant to prevent advertisers from planting “cookies”, according to Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford University. Cookies are short pieces of code that gather information about the websites users visit and report the information back to the companies that planted them.
The search company quickly admitted to the unapproved data collection, but described its action as inadvertent and the byproduct of an effort to let Safari users connect to services like its Google+ social network while browsing other pages on the web.

Google on its heels after Safari privacy breach

Stung by recent revelations, Google is now racing to include ‘do not track’ technology in its Chrome browser, and its own ad network will abide by those requests

This screen shot shows the sneak peak of Apple's new operating system 'OS X Mountain Lion,' to be released this summer.

Four ‘wow’ features in Apple’s Mountain Lion OS

The latest upgrade to the Mac operating system has some revolutionary potential hidden away in its features, which may disrupt several businesses

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