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Honda Fit EV Earns EPA’s Highest Fuel-Efficiency Rating at 118 MPGe

The Honda Fit EV was intended to be the car manufacturer’s answer…

Daniel McCall

Google Android Maps Will Soon Offer Off-Line Maps

Yesterday we reported that Apple is preparing its own mapping software to…

James Johnson

LinkedIn iOS App Transmitting Unsecured iCal Information To Servers

It is not a good day to be LinkedIn, first I reported…

James Johnson

Afghanistan Twin Bombings Kill 23 Civilians, Wound At Least 40 More

Twin suicide bombings in Kandahar, Afghanistan have killed at least 23 and…

Melissa Stusinski

1,000 Foxconn Employees Riot Over Still Miserable Conditions

Apple has promised to clean up the horrid living and working conditions…

James Johnson

Google Marks Opening of the First Drive-In Theater With Google Doodle Animation

Today’s Google Doodle marks a bit of Americana that has sadly fallen…

Kim LaCapria

iPhone App Remembers Where You Parked, Finds Your Car

Kickstarter has struck again, this time helping a startup release an iPhone…

James Johnson

Hacker Claims: 6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Hacked

LinkedIn has not had a good run at user privacy over the…

James Johnson

Flexible Glass Revealed By Scientists [Willow Glass]

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled “Willow Glass” a new product from the makers…

James Johnson

Google Now Warning Users Who May Be Targeted By Foreign States

Google is fighting back against foreign state-sponsored groups who are targeting the…

James Johnson

Facebook Engagement Dips: 34% Of Users Spending Less Time On Social Network

Facebook stock is being pummeled over what investors discovered was a shrinking…

James Johnson

Sprint’s Virgin Mobile USA to offer iPhone

Sprint Nextel Corp. is expected to announce this week that it will…

John Stegeman

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Rules on Social Media Policy, ‘Concerted Activity’ on Facebook and Twitter

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has weighed in on the somewhat…

Kim LaCapria

Apple To Reveal New Mapping Service, Possibly Next Week

iPhone users looking to take advantage of navigation have long turned to…

James Johnson

Netflix Announces “Open Connect” Content Delivery Network

Netflix up until this point has relied on commercially based content delivery…

James Johnson

Mobile Wallets Are Scaring Big Banks And For Good Reason

Financial services industry consulting firm Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group (CG) recently…

James Johnson

Digital ‘War and Peace’ for Nook Falls Victim to Embarrassing Copy-and-Paste Gaffe

Nook hasn’t done too badly in the notoriously hard-to-crack eReader market, but…

Kim LaCapria

Facebook Access For Kids is Long Overdue, If You Want to Know What I Think

Facebook access for kids has always been a point of contention, and…

Kim LaCapria

Flame Virus Signed With Microsoft Root Authority Certificates

Microsoft on Monday released a high-priority Windows update and a security advisory…

James Johnson

ASUS’ ‘Nice Rear’ Tweet Sexist? Some Say No

ASUS drew the ire of many women (and some men) after its…

Melissa Stusinski

Twitter Buys NClud’s Intellectual Property, Acquires New Team Members

Despite rumors on Monday morning that design firm NClud had been purchased…

James Johnson

Meebo Picked Up By Google

Meebo , the social platform founded in 2005, has officially been snatched…

Melissa Stusinski

Lenovo Launches New IdeaPad Ultrabooks

Lenovo announced that they are adding new machines to the ultrabook category…

Melissa Stusinski

Adult Twitter Use Grows to 15%–8% May Tweet Every Day (Study)

A new study of about 2,2000 adults indicates that 15% of “online…

Robert Jonathan

Groupon Now Worth Less Than $6 Billion Google Had Offered

In the fall of 2010 Google, Inc. approached the team at Groupon…

James Johnson

Mark Zuckerberg Sued For Unloading Facebook Stock Before Price Collapse

Troubles at Facebook continue this time as a new lawsuit has been…

James Johnson

Pinterest Better at Driving Sales Than Facebook [Infographic]

Pinterest is a relative newcomer to the social media scene, but if…

Kim LaCapria

Buddy Media CEO Makes Awesome “We Got Bought” Video Following Salesforce Acquisition

Forget for a moment that Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow just sold…

James Johnson

Reddit’s Ins and Outs Explained by PBS [Video]

If you haven’t ever been able to get the gist of Reddit…

Kim LaCapria

Facebook to Allow Users to Vote on Privacy Changes

Brace yourselves: the onslaught of Facebook privacy-related status updates is coming. Basically…

Kim LaCapria

Inquisitr.com Launches Social Media News Section

Inquisitr.com is proud to announce the launch of our new Social Media…

James Johnson

Facebook Mulls Over Allowing Children Under 13 To Sign Up

Let’s be honest with ourselves for one moment, children under the age…

James Johnson

Samsung Galaxy S3 Arrives In US This June, Available At Five Carriers

Most of the world has already gotten its hands on the Samsung…

James Johnson