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Apparently listening, FCC approves newest 'Net plan for schools

People-powered radio: YouTube launches crowdsourced music program with SiriusXM

As first FCC anti-'fast lane' comment period comes to end, startups rally their voices

GoDaddy goes shopping again, picks up Canary calendar team

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Google raises table stakes for the cloud: two terabytes of storage free

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Princeton researchers use sunlight to convert CO2 more efficiently than plants do

Mobile ads make their way toward ruling the world

7 international ISPs sue UK's surveillance agency

Simply Hired simply scores a funding round of $12M

Philips, born a lighting company, is now spinning off a lighting company

Reading Rainbow fans break record for series-turned-app

Apple updates Final Cut Pro X and other pro tools

NASA to aliens: Stay tuned for a group message from humanity

Germany to Verizon: No more governmental contract, 'cause NSA

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Barnes & Noble CEO: 'Nook is a business that's changing'

In Amazon vs. German publishers, one analyst calls both 'hypocrites'

As if Yo is not enough, get ready for Yo for Business

Google might try to stretch a telecom cable across the Pacific

New tests question if current quantum computing is really, you know, a quantum leap

Path turns at the fork: no limit on friends, separate messaging, business texts

NY Times, Washington Post, Mozilla join hands to reinvent the comments section

Future FBI may bullhorn: 'Step away from the 3D printer…'

Forget photo filters: this messaging app sends smells

Brit spy agencies redefine 'external' communications — & spying on the Web

This is the smartwatch we've been waiting for — but it doesn't exist, yet

Supreme Court will decide if the First Amendment can protect threats on Facebook

Chromecast usage drops in the U.S. as streaming media settles in

Would you want a Portable SIM wearable to separate your identity from your phone?

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Apple App Store users and developers got more than a few goodies this week

Facebook buys startup whose tech offers 'bite-sized' one click data packages

Whew! ASUS packs a smartphone into an Android/Windows tablet/laptop hybrid

Google's planning to lace the sky with Net-providing satellites
