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It isn’t technology’s fault we’re all addicted to social media and gadgets. Technology is smart – it’s people who are dumb.

After years of being blocked in mainland China, Facebook and Twitter may be partially accessible in a section of Shanghai beginning this Friday.

What to expect from Twitter’s upcoming initial public offering, including timing, pricing, winners and losers.

I’m not falling for all the smartwatch hype and, if you’re smart, neither will you.  

Microsoft can’t beat Apple or Google playing their game by their rules – and that’s exactly what it seems intent on doing.

Want to know if a technology company is on its way up or down? It’s easier to tell than you think.

It’s said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. But sometimes, what we learn from history teaches us that repeating it may be the best idea after all. And nobody knows that better than IBM.

Everyone knows Apple’s smartwatch is coming but nobody knows what it is. Here are some predictions.

This is how the high-tech industry taught the world about innovation and entrepreneurship.

Is activist investor Dan Loeb’s plan to spin off Sony Entertainment a good idea, and would it help Sony revive its consumer electronics brand? 

Never before in history have people been so polarized about what those three letters represent. This separates the reality from the hype.

Facebook’s mobile ambitions should be bigger than a phone.

A new study from Sourcefire delineates the number of vulnerabilities – or software flaws – in the smartphone industry over the last 25 years.

Have you flipped to being a bull yet? The current rally doesn’t want to quit. I can’t help thinking, though, it’s doomed to fail.

Move over China and Russia: With friends like South Korea, who needs enemies?

Maybe Microsoft should ditch software for marketing sports ware, since, at the rate some founders are going, you'd think antitrust folks were watching.

With breakthrough products and services to launch this fall, Apple will finally prove it hasn’t lost its innovation mojo.

The less information you disclose, the fewer points of access predators/collectors have to breach your personal or business life. 

Everyone debating the merits of the deal and its valuation is missing the point: It’s a high-risk move born of desperation by Zuckerberg and company.

Five years ago, a tech pundit predicted, “Apple without Steve Jobs is Sony.” On the contrary, Apple is about to have a very big year.