One pesky state law means many new smartphone buyers could pay more than three times as much in sales tax as they would for the same phone from the same retailer in any other state. [Read more]

Network equipment maker’s CEO tells reporters that joint venture is looking to unload noncore units to focus on mobile network equipment. [Read more]

The Australian Department of Defense says that the Taliban is creating fake Facebook profiles with photos of attractive women to lure in and acquire information from soldiers. [Read more]

Despite iPhone’s inroads in enterprise execs are excited about the potential of Windows 8 devices. [Read more]

New app from Expect Labs is designed to listen to what is discussed in a conversation and instantly deliver relevant information based on what people talk about. [Read more]

A pumped-up Zuckerberg speaks about Facebook’s mobile future and how he is still focused getting the mission and the business in sync. [Read more]

It doesn’t take long to grok that the NBA Baller Beats game for Xbox 360 and its Kinect motion-tracking camera gizmo could cause a problem or two around the house. [Read more]

Pop quiz hotshot: What do you get when you heat gas above 3 million degrees Celsius? High-energy X-rays of course — just the kind that NuSTAR was launched to detect. The space telescope took a break from hunting black holes to snap its first-ever …

Microsoft’s Windows Store — the built-in app store for Windows 8 and Windows RT — is fully open to developers as of today. [Read more]

Skateboarding down hills has always been a lot more fun than going up — until now. The Boosted Boards electric skateboard glides up inclines with grades as steep as 15 percent. [Read more]