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Bill Gates dismisses criticisms from Steve Jobs and talks about the original Macintosh computer.

South Africa's Allied Technologies Ltd is in talks to pay up to $60 million for unlisted Kenyan IT firm Symphony, according to a person familiar with the matter, to help revive its struggling business in fast-growing east Africa.

Yahoo buys Interlick, an online ad technology company, while searching for a new CEO.

Samsung and HTC lead the U.S. in smartphone sales. Here's how their newest devices compare.

Apple unveiled its much-awaited iPhone successor on Oct. 4 calling it iPhone 4S.

Nobody would ask who the top five men are in U.S. technology because their ranks fill the executive suites at Intel, Apple, Texas Instruments, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Motorola Mobility. But finding the women is harder because there are fewer, especially at the CEO level, where they can really influence the company and the industry.

Microsoft will release a commercial software development kit for the Kinect in early 2012.

Shares of Yahoo slipped nearly 7 percent in early Monday trading as services reported management may reward shareholders with a special dividend. Many had been hoping for a sale.

Windows Phone has the most to prove, but can Android 4.0 take on Windows Phone and defeat iOS 5?

Shares of Hewlett-Packard rose about 3.5 percent Friday after the No. 1 maker of PCs decided not to drop out of the business. Separately, Fitch said the decision favorably affected its credit rating.

Now that Dropbox has a comprehensive group collaboration offering, it is finally on-par with Box.net. Which is the best cloud solution for you?

Samsung has taken a bite out of Apple. The Korean technology giant has replaced Apple as the world's number one smartphone vendor in Q3 2011.

Shares of Hewlett-Packard rose about 3 percent Friday after the No. 1 maker of PCs decided not to drop out of the business.

A side-by-side look at two high-end smartphones.

Mobile phone firm Nokia has launched Lumia 800 smartphone in a move to regain its lost smartphone market, which is currently dominated by Apple's iPhone and other Android smartphones.

Given the likelihood one of the rivals of the iPhone 4S will be the Nokia Lumia 800, it will be interesting to have a comparison of the features of the two competitors.

Nintendo announced its first annual loss in company history, a result of poor software sales and yen exchange rates. If Nintendo can't stop the advent of mobile gaming, should it join instead?

Now that most U.S. technology companies have reported quarterly results, the upshot is that they largely dodged any bullets from the European economic crisis.

Hewlett-Packard will remain the world’s No. 1 PC maker. The company decided not to spin off its Personal Systems Group after all.

Nintendo, which popularized gaming for the masses with accessible, colorful products, reported a loss of $926 million on Thursday, by far the largest for the company.

Firefox signed a partnership with Microsoft to release a version of its Web browser with Bing as the default search engine. Is Google in trouble?