India May Soon Resolve BlackBerry Dispute

By VIKAS BAJAJ

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Research In Motion, maker of the popular device, is negotiating to avoid India's threat to block encrypted corporate messages.

Wireless phone companies, government officials and Research in Motion, have been figuring out details of how monitoring encrypted e-mail would work.

Google Sued in Spain Over Data Collecting

By RAPHAEL MINDER

A court is investigating charges that Google broke Spanish law while gathering photographs for Street View, its photo-mapping service.

A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds

By ASHLEE VANCE

Lyric Semiconductor unveiled plans this week to build a chip, able to compute likelihoods, that may help figure out which book someone will want to buy on Amazon.com or help create a better gene-sequencing machine.

Investors Chide Michael Dell

By ASHLEE VANCE and MIGUEL HELFT

A quarter of Dell’s shareholders withheld support for Michael Dell, the company’s founder and chief executive, at their meeting this month.

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Is the Web Dying? It Doesn't Look That Way

Wired's Chris Anderson argues that the World Wide Web is dead, but the data used to pose this argument could say the opposite.

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For the Class of 2014, No E-Mail or Wristwatches

The Beloit College Mindset List helps prepare professors for the incoming class's cultural habits.

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Apple Hires Expert on Mobile Payments

Apple may integrate technology known as near field communications into its mobile devices.

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Bits Pics: A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers

A photographer documents a garbage dump in Ghana where computers are burned and ripped apart.

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Mark V. Hurd, former chief of Hewlett-Packard, was accused of sexual harassment by Jodie Fisher, an H.P. contractor. A company inquiry found no harassment, but found other violations.

Despite H.P.’s Efforts, Spectacle of a Chief Goes On

By ASHLEE VANCE

Hewlett-Packard had hoped that Mark Hurd’s resignation would close this chapter, but a stream of leaks followed.

Cyriac Roeding demonstrated his Shopkick app on Monday at an American Eagle Outfitters store.

Aisle by Aisle, an App That Pushes Bargains

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

Major retailers are working with a new smartphone app called Shopkick that tracks and offers promotions to users as they shop.

North Korea Takes to Twitter and YouTube

By CHOE SANG-HUN

In the last month, North Korea has posted a series of video clips on YouTube brimming with satire and vitriol against leaders in South Korea and the United States.

Nonprofits Review Technology Failures

By STEPHANIE STROM

While technology’s potential to bring about social good is widely extolled, its failures have rarely been discussed.

W.T.O. Rules Against European Union on Tariffs for Electronics

By REUTERS

A panel backs the United States, Japan and others in their complaint over duties on products like flat-panel displays.

Step 1: Post Elusive Proof. Step 2: Watch Fireworks.

By JOHN MARKOFF

A claimed proof for one of the most vexing mathematical problems, P versus NP, set off shock waves online, demonstrating the potential of Web-based collaboration.

Miles Byrin Tani, 14 months, is fitted with a camera system in an N.Y.U. lab.

Looking This Way and That, and Learning to Adapt to the World

By CHARLES Q. CHOI

Eye-tracking studies suggest that infants may be more capable of understanding and acting on what they see than had been thought.

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