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Zynga is spreading its wings beyond Facebook, the giant social network that made it a giant gaming network in its own right. Some 232 million Facebook users also use Zynga ...

Many users of the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa found Monday that their Internet service had inexplicably had gone dark. Some were experiencing a total blackout, with no messaging service, email or Web access available. Others were able to intermittently perform some tasks, such as email or messaging. The problems had not been resolved by this article's publication time.

Sprint Nextel investors have received some very good news and very bad news. The good news is that the company plans to step up deployment of its Network Vision. This plan, originally described in December 2010, calls for a comprehensive, nationwide rollout of 4G LTE on its licensed spectrum. ...

Ejected from Oracle's Open World. An impromptu gathering at a nearby restaurant. Fulsome explanations from PR flacks and tweets galore. The relations between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff went from wary and grudging mutual admiration, to red hot rhetoric. How red hot? Well, for starters, Ellison referred to Salesforce.com as the "roach motel" of cloud services this week.

Yesware has gone to market with a new cloud-based email productivity application that is based on the simplest of concepts: Salespeople hate to waste time inputting data into their CRM systems. However, companies need that data salespeople hate to bother with. Ergo, a system that automatically inputs the data from work that salespeople are already doing -- that is, sending emails -- would save a lot of time and frustration.

India plans to provide very low-cost personal computing devices to millions of students through an agreement with DataWind to manufacture mass quantities of its Ubislate tablet for a price point of around US$50, according to Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal. ...

A vulnerability in a logging tool that HTC has installed on some of its Android devices poses a serious security problem for users, according to the Android Police. ...

Chrome, a relative newbie in the browser world, appears poised to take over the No.2 spot -- possibly within the next three months. ...

Bank of America may have hoped it could quietly slip a US$5 fee past its customers. If so, it was woefully wrong. ...

Is the tablet market so saturated that Research In Motion has thrown in the towel? The company has halted production of its PlayBook and will not pursue any other tablet projects, according to a research note from Collins Stewart Hawkpoint analyst John Vinh. RIM, for its part, staunchly denies the claim. ...

StayinFront has been offering users mobile functionality for 10 years. However, its apps were not optimized for the latest generation of mobile devices, Ken Arbadji, vice president of North American sales, is quick to acknowledge -- such as the iPhone, iPad and Google Android devices. ...

Amazon's Kindle Fire debuted Wednesday morning with much fanfare. Many of the tablet's specs were already known, leaked or widely suspected, leaving little to wow the crowds -- except the price point. The device is going to retail at an eyebrow-raising US$199, several hundred dollars less than the cheapest iPad. ...

Shares of Research In Motion showed signs of life, jumping at least 6 percent Tuesday, on talk that investor Carl Icahn has acquired a stake in the company. ...

OnStar recently raised hackles in the privacy community with revisions to its privacy policy. Now, members of Congress have taken up the issue ...

Just over a year after taking the job as HP's top executive, CEO Leo Apotheker may soon be unceremoniously escorted to the door. ...

Google has unleashed Google+ on the world, now completely unfettered by its earlier requirement to join via invitation ...

"I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation." Thus begins a blog post by Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, announcing a new change to the company -- a change that is almost guaranteed to further irritate an already angry and frustrated customer base. ...

Sony has changed the rules of engagement -- or rather, terms of service -- for users of its PlayStation Network. ...

Responsys has beefed up its email marketing, social media, mobile and channel marketing Interact suite with a retargeting application for display ads ...

Google, until recently a piker in the patent-holding tech community, is rapidly beefing up its portfolio -- or arsenal, depending on how one views it -- of intellectual property. ...