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Googler Sergey Brin cries crocodile tears on threats to ‘open Internet’

People gather outside the Nasdaq Marketsite waiting to see Facebook's share prices posted on video monitors in New York May 18.

Facebook’s flat debut puts social media firms under microscope 0

Streetwise The tale of the tape is ugly for Facebook

Commentary and Features

Simply jam Montreal-based startup FixMeStick's big black USB key into your computer, click “Run FixMeStick,” and sit back while it identifies and deletes any malevolent executable files on your computer.

Gadget

Take a swing at malicious software with FixMeStick

Our brooding hero – a bit craggier, a little greyer, and slightly broader around the waste than you might remember him – leaves his old life behind to start anew as a bodyguard in São Paulo, Brazil in Max Payne 3.

Review

New ‘Max Payne’ a bullet-time bender in balmy Brazil

Birgitta Jonsdottir, formerly of WikiLeaks, and an Icelandic MP, has had her Twitter account subpoenaed by U.S. government. She is photographed at The Globe and Mail during and following an editorial board meeting on Jan. 11, 2011.

Dwayne Winseck

Twitter-WikiLeaks case a test of press and privacy rights online

Internet pioneer Len Kleinrock poses for a portrait next to an Interface Message Processor, which was used to develop the Internet. Mr. Kleinrock, arguably the world's first Internet user, says Facebook is fine for his grandchildren, but it's not for him. File photo taken Aug. 25, 2009.

Social Web

Meet the Facebook refuseniks: Millions say 'no like'

Tech News »

Prochymal approval makes Canada first country to OK stem cell therapy

Digital Culture »

The App Center will, for the first time, allow software developers to sell apps to consumers directly on Facebook. Consumers will need to use Facebook Credits, the company’s payment system, to purchase the apps and Facebook will take a 30 per cent cut of the revenue as it does with in-app purchases, said Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich.

Facebook joins the app store game with a showcase of its own

Social gaming has become a wasteland of pointless exercises and money grabs, unentertaining entertainment for the listless ... and Zynga is largely responsible for it.

Drawing conclusions from a social gaming fad

Blog Draw Something gets players to sketch their own ads

Mobile and Telecom »

Handset sales in China, the largest single cellphone market, dropped more than 6 per cent from a year ago as consumers waited for new, more advanced models coming to the market this quarter or next, Gartner said.

Mobile sales slump as Chinese buyers wait on new models: report

China’s biggest wireless carrier in talks to add iPhone

Gaming News »

'BioShock Infinite' delayed, will miss 2012 holiday season

Game Reviews »

The most haunting situations in Walking Dead are those that force a hurried decision you know, even as you make it, will have lasting consequences. What does your choice say about you?

Walking Dead a zombie game that tests your ethical limits

Science »

This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources shows a conceptual rendering of satellites prospecting a water-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The group's mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to mine rocket fuel and valuable minerals out of these rocks.

James Cameron's next venture: mining asteroids

Gallery In pictures: High-tech tycoons want to mine nearby asteroids

Small Business Technology »

One huge bottleneck is moving the data from where it’s stored on a hard disk into the computer’s memory, where computations happen.

Could this be the end of the hard disk?

Going to China? Leave your laptop at home

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Prince Charles is shown being followed by his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, upon their arrival at the British Columbia Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Friday November 6, 2009.

National

Prince Charles and Camilla’s royal tour to honour service by Canadians

Nazan Afshin-Jam in Ottawa

Politics

There’s more to Nazanin Afshin-Jam than her beauty queen past

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