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1 - Solar startups set new power records 2 - Microsoft removes start button in Windows 8 3 - Tamron's 24-70mm lens takes image-stabilization lead 4 - Verizon teams up with Redbox to offer video streaming service 5 - iPhone soaks up 75 percent of all mobile phone profits 6 - HTC disappoints with financial results, forecast 7 - Electric autos--from Edison to robots (images) 8 - Electric vehicles: This time it really is different 9 - How NQ Mobile plans to make a name for itself in the U.S. 10 - Nikon's imminent D800 could offer high-sharpness option 11 - Super Bowling for ad dollars (roundup) 12 - Should Apple heed Chrysler's, GE's Super Bowl make-it-here message? 13 - Clint Eastwood in 'Super Bowl ads: Winners and losers (second half)' 14 - Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free 15 - The Super Bowl ads: Tech winners and losers (first half) 16 - NASA's big ideas for the future of flight (photos) 17 - iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst 18 - Aliens crave Earth wives in Chevy Volt Super Bowl ad 19 - Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics 20 - Kia offers 5 hours of Adriana Lima for Super Bowl
Startups Alta Devices and Semprius boast new solar efficiency records using very different techniques in an effort to knock down the price of solar power.
Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings.
The new lens, with a fast F2.8 design, can counteract camera shake with vibration compensation that Nikon and Canon competitors currently lack.
Verizon is getting into the video streaming business through a new partnership with Coinstar, the company that owns the Redbox video rental kiosk business.
Apple holds only a 9 percent share of the global mobile phone market, but it grabbed 75 percent of the industry's overall profits last quarter, according to data from Asymco.
Fourth-quarter profits slipped for the Taiwanese phone maker, and its revenue forecast for the first quarter is well below analyst expectations.
Take a tour of the past, present, and future of electric vehicles to see the multiple waves of electric cars in years past and a hint at future directions.
The near-term picture on EVs is fuzzy at best, but electrification is the future of the auto industry with hybrids leading the way.
NQ Mobile may be the best mobile security software you've never heard of. New Co-CEO Omar Khan has been tapped to make sure that changes.
It looks likely Nikon will announce a more expensive D800E SLR tomorrow, too, that abandons the convenient but blurriness-inducing antialiasing filter.
Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers connect with consumers? CNET takes a look.
One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. A lesson for Apple?
What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit.
Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest.
Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened.
NASA looks to advanced design concepts to reduce noise and increase the fuel efficiency of future aircraft.
Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell.
In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design.
Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.
How many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both?
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