Is it time to ditch the iPhone for the Samsung Galaxy S4?

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May 03, 2013

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In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon advises a longtime iPhone user who is tempted to jump ship for the new Samsung Galaxy S4. She also explains why Apple may need a low-cost iPhone.

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Google: The future of search is Now

Google Now is the company's big bet to maintain market share as people leave the desktop and search on mobile and wearable devices.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 earns Pentagon security nod

The Pentagon gives official approval to any Samsung device protected by the Knox security software, which for now includes just the Galaxy S4.

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Intel's next CEO: Manufacturing chief Brian Krzanich

The chipmaking giant also appoints the head of its software business, Renee James, as president.

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Google Glass code lets you snap a photo with a wink

Designed as Android source code, Winky allows Google Glass owners with some programming savvy to take pictures with just a wink of the eye.

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Filmmaking at the atomic level? IBM nets Guinness world record

With "A Boy and His Atom," Big Blue and its scanning tunneling microscope have made what is surely the first movie explicitly starring atoms.

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Google, Nike, Jawbone and the fight to win wearable computing

The market is still young. But companies big and small are positioning themselves to be at the center of the wearable computing business when it explodes.

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BlackBerry CEO says tablets will be useless in five years

In an interview with Bloomberg, CEO Thorsten Heins questions the value of tablets, pouring cold water on a PlayBook successor.

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Twenty years on, the Web faces new openness challenges

CERN set the Web on fire by releasing open software without royalty payment requirements. Two decades later, proprietary technology has found a foothold.

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Apple, Samsung's next critical play: Affordable smartphones

Both companies have made a killing with their flagship products, but the next wave of growth will depend on how well they adapt to the low end of the market.

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Pictures of the Week (slideshow)

From planetary, super-size hurricanes and next-generation space flight to bathing with Google Glass and the world's smallest movie, here are the best tech pictures of the week.

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Wearable tech gets in the game (pictures)

From science fiction to science fact, wearable technology is tracking our every move.

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Every atom matters in new IBM film (pictures)

IBM's short animated film "A Boy and His Atom" was shot at the atomic level and now holds the Guinness record for world's smallest stop-motion movie.

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Its liquid helium coolant spent, Herschel is set adrift (pictures)

The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope that peered into the darker, cooler regions of the universe, has stopped making observations after running out of helium coolant.

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Twaggies turn tweets into comics (pictures)

The Twaggies site has turned text tweets into illustrated comics since 2009. As the site narrows in on comic No. 1,000, here are some of the top Twaggies.

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