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Apple has moved past LG in the worldwide rankings of mobile-phone unit sales. According to IDC, Apple is now the world's third largest mobile-phone manufacturer, behind Nokia and Samsung.

Google keeps taking tiny steps toward creating a full-fledged document creation and editing experience to users of computers and mobile devices. Recently, Google unveiled an?HTML5-powered app for the Chrome browser?that lets you read documents offline?but not edit them. Yesterday, Google?brought the same offline viewing capability to Docs for Android, but again without the ability to edit documents and then sync the changes once an Internet connection is reestablished.

The future of a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files is in the hands of a federal judge.

The duo behind The Thrilling Adventure Hour join the Storyboard to talk television writing. (They also interview Adam for this week's Nerdist Writer's Panel)

Google unveiled a new security service for the Android Market today that aims to auto-scan uploaded Android applications to detect potentially malicious apps more quickly, ideally before users download them.

Toxic barbs on a cucumber?s skin, nanoscopic flakes of metal and a mouse?s technicolor eyeball are just a few of 2011's best science visualizations.

In October 2010, Microsoft started working toward making the OpenStack open source project compatible with Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software. The project now seems to be hitting a snag?much as Microsoft's submission of Hyper-V drivers to the Linux kernel once did?but Microsoft says it is committed to making good on its OpenStack promises just as it did with Hyper-V and Linux.

Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.

Why don't we have a vaccine against MRSA, a dangerous disease of increasing concern? Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna reports.

If Facebook is going to develop and diversify its revenue streams ? which it must ? Credits is the natural place to begin.

This is what years of development, revamp and acrimony have yielded: Starting in May, Europe will have the beginning of an operational shield against ballistic missiles, courtesy of NATO. Spencer Ackerman reports from Brussels.

Microsoft's tablet-friendly Metro environment has banned Flash, but the company is offering a last ditch solution for websites that just can't let go of Adobe's plugin.

Internet giant VeriSign was hacked repeatedly in 2010 resulting in the theft of undisclosed information and raising questions about the integrity of security certificates issued by the company as well as its domain name service.

After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.

A new study characterizing ancient super volcanoes, called calderas, led to media reports of "early warning systems" for the climate-changing volcanic events. Eruptions blogger and volcanologist Erik Klemetti cuts through the hype and loose facts.

With Super Bowl XLVI only days away, you've got some prep work ahead to make sure everything goes swimmingly. Your TV and surround-sound system are ready, but what about the finer details of Super Bowl party hosting? We give you eight hardware must-haves.

What mystery novelty — a classic Xbox game perhaps? — will you find in your Cracker Jack box 20 years from now?

Tablets dominate the headlines, but ultrabooks are nearly as light, start up as quickly and offer the screens, keyboards, memory and processing power of full-fledged computers.