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Google Brands Intellectual Ventures a Patent Troll for Latest Suit

“Invention capital firm” Intellectual Ventures sues Motorola Mobility. Again.

Windows Version of Quicken on the Mac

Walt answers a reader’s question on using a Windows version of Quicken on the Mac.

Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up

The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is an evolution of prior Samsung models and despite some improvements, it still is especially weak in the software Samsung adds to basic Android.
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Facebook Gets a Hold on Phones

Facebook Home, a new suite of software Facebook is introducing for Android phones, aims to take over phones right from their lock screens.
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Letting Go of Gmail

Walt answers readers’ questions on deleting a Gmail account, Roku and transferring files from an old PC to a new one.

How Apple Gets All the Good Apps

While Apple never creates apps for other mobile systems or devices, its major mobile-platform foes — Google, Amazon and Microsoft — make many of their apps available for Apple devices.
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Can a Touchscreen Replace a Mouse?

Walt answers a reader’s question on whether certain programs running on Windows 8 machines will require using only the touchscreen.

2013: Talk Gets Cheaper, TV Gets Smarter

Walt looks ahead at the technology trends of 2013.
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A Maps of the World

Walt answers readers’ questions on the new Google Maps for iPhone.

Google Maps for iPhone Returns Better Than Ever

The new iPhone version of Google Maps isn’t just better than Apple Maps, but also better, in most respects, on the iPhone than it is on Android phones.
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How to Do Spreadsheets on a Tablet

Walt Mossberg answers a reader’s question about working with spreadsheets on the Surface RT tablet.

Nexus 4 Is a Great Value With Small Improvements

Google Moves Ahead in Fight to Dominate the Map Apps

An iOS App for Google Maps and YouTube?

The iPhone Takes to the Big Screen

A Laptop for Light Work

Keeping the Family Tree

New Samsung Tablet Offers a Stylus and a Split Screen

Move Over, Picasa

Many Devices, Many Files and Four Ways to Share Them

An In-Between PC

Windows or Apple?

From Google, the Toughest Challenger to the iPad

Instant Google Results

A Laptop for a College Student

Even With a Little Polish, Chrome OS Is Still a Bit Hazy