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Google's new Instant feature, which refreshes search results while people type queries, presents big changes for users, publishers and marketers.

New Pentax K-r DSLR is optimized for low-light photography and filled with creative in-camera editing effects.

If you need a devoted dictionary app, both the iPad and iPhone editions of Terminology are characterized by smart font choices, a pleasant minimalist look, and an eye-friendly color palette.

The $150 Pentax Optio RS1000 will offer swappable faceplates that you can design yourself, while the 10x optical zoom Optio RZ10 is the company's first foray into the pocket-megazoom realm.

Mophie has updated and redesigned its popular Juice Pack Air battery backup case for the iPhone 4. The case's built-in battery doubles the iPhone's internal battery, offering up to 6 extra hours of talk time on 3G, 36 more hours of audio playback, or nine hours of watching videos.

With a number of companies -- including Google and Apple -- collecting wireless data, it's clear that many users do not understand how the data is being collected or why. And security experts are just now starting to discover some of the ways that this information could be misused.

NFL 2011 for iPhone keeps everything that made NFL 2010 successful, and adds on a small handful of gameplay and visual improvements. The result is a fun football simulator, with a few new minor annoyances, but a very solid enjoyment factor.

Salesforce.com has unveiled plans to take its Chatter social networking service show on the road with new mobile apps for the major smartphone and tablet platforms, including the iPhone and iPad.

Hot on the heels of iOS 4.1, Apple also released iMovie 1.1 on Wednesday, updating its portable movie-editing app. The new version adds a number of significant new features and support for the new fourth-generation iPod touch.

This app promises to save you time by making it easier to enter events into your mobile calendar. QuickCal Add is certainly cleaner than the built-in Calendar app, but those time savings never materialize.

Unfair though it may be to kick a week-old service, kick I shall and suggest that Apple’s Ping social networking service is, in its infant form, unfulfilling. Here's what I'd change.

To coincide with Wednesday's iOS 4.1 update, Apple also updated iPhone Configuration Utility, its device management software for businesses and the enterprise, with some key new features.

Searching from Google's homepage no longer requires hitting return; results are updated live as you type.

Microsoft has posted a third behind-the-scenes video of its forthcoming Office for Mac 2011, showing off collaboration features, Web apps, a new scheduling assistant, and a presentation broadcast feature.

Oranged Software announced the release of Studiometry 8, the latest version of the company’s project management software.

Like the 2.1 and 3.1 updates before it, iOS 4.1 brings to the table not just bug fixes, but also new features and enhancements, such as Apple's Game Center, HDR photos, and more.

The latest update to Apple's mobile OS brings a handful of new features and squashed bugs, including high dynamic range photos, FaceTime calling from the Favorites menu, Game Center, and fixes for proximity sensor and Bluetooth audio problems.

Mozilla on Tuesday patched 15 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 11 of them labeled critical.

The full-featured Nikon Coolpix P7000 is geared to go head-to-head with Canon's G series, offering fast access to manual controls and performance-minded hardware.

Apple's new iPods are now on sale, but we've had our chance to get up-close and personal with these latest music devices. Find out what our reviewers think of the new nano, shuffle, and touch.