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Italy's Google Convictions Set a Dangerous Precedent An Italian court's ruling against three Google employees raises important questions about user-generated content and who's responsible for policing what people submit.
10 Questions About the Bloom Energy Server Bloom Energy's innovative fuel cell technology shows a lot of promise, but is the Bloom box too good to be true?
Augmented-Reality App Recognizes Faces Facial recognition app Recognizr is taking social networking to the next level.
Enter Nintendo's DSi XL versus Apple's iPad? Nintendo reveals its super-sized DSi XL US launch date and pricing, and teases an eBook reader in the bargain.
Apple's iTunes Store Serves up 10 Billionth Song Apple's iTunes Store hit a landmark on Wednesday with the download of its 10th billionth song.
Dragon Quest IX (Finally) Coming to the US This Summer Developer Level 5's roleplaying epic for the Nintendo DS gets a summer 2010 release window, but not a date.
Bloom Energy: What We Know, What We Don't The announcement of the Bloom Energy Server has caught the world's attention, but there are many questions that remain to be answered, and some will take time.
CompactFlash 5.0 Cards Could Reach 144 Petabytes of Storage Need storage? How does 144 petabytes sound? The theoretical capacity threshold for upcoming CompactFlash cards reaches staggering levels.
Google's Case in Italy Was Always Lose-Lose If Web sites that rely on user-submitted content on going to be held responsible for protecting people's privacy, there's a lot of content we're never going to see.
Court Order Helps Microsoft Tear Down Waledac Botnet Update: Microsoft says it has struck a major blow against one of the Internet's worst sources of spam.
Google Upgrades Six Gmail Features, Cuts Five Others If you like to watch YouTube previews from within Gmail, you're in luck. But if you were a fan of features that allowed you to add your location or a random quote to your signature, you won't be pleased.
New Cameras Go Retro at PMA 2010 At times, wandering through the PMA 2010 photography show in Anaheim felt like stepping into a time machine. A lot of the new imaging technology has a decidedly retro slant. Take a look.
Bloom Fuel Cell: Your Individual Power Plant Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley start-up, has unveiled a fuel cell designed to enable individual homes and businesses to generate their own power.
Microsoft Recruited Top Notch Guns for Waledac Takedown In a coordinated operation, computers security researchers appear to have killed off the notorious Waledac botnet.
Microsoft's Spy Guide: What You Need to Know A whistleblower site has been pulled offline for posting a handbook detailing what kind of data Microsoft keeps on its users.
IBM Speeds up Data Analysis With New Algorithm IBM has developed a new mathematical algorithm that could analyze and correlate raw data sets in a matter of minutes.
Yelp Hit with Class Action Lawsuit Animal hospital in California accuses the user-generated reviews site of asking businesses to pay for advertising in order to have negative reviews removed.
IE6's 'Death' Spurs Web Designers to Celebrate Denver firm pokes fun at aging Web browser's decline by issuing an obituary and an invitation to a wake.
Baidu: Registrar 'incredibly' Changed Our E-mail for Hacker Chinese search engine Baidu says a hacker who took down its site accessed its domain registrar account during an online chat with the registrar's tech help.
Study: Lithuania Has Highest Fiber Penetration in Europe Lithuania has become the European country with the highest fiber broadband penetration, with fiber access to 18 percent of its households
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PCWorld's Fantastic Freebies 2010: All-Time GreatsIn the 15 years of PC World's Best Free Stuff articles, some freebies come up time and time again. Here are the ones that meet the gold standard.
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