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April 29, 2010
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Firefox for Google Android: A Hands-On Tour Android users, listen up: Firefox has finally arrived for your phone. Well, almost. Here's a sneak peek at Mozilla's upcoming Google Android browser.
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Windows 7s Worst Features Windows 7 fixed many of Vista's ills, but it also introduced a few of its own.
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HP to Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion HP said it plans to buy Palm for $1.2 billion.
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Rumor: Xbox 360 To Get 'Live TV' in 2011 Canadian game site claims Microsoft has signed a deal to introduce multi-channel, high-definition live TV with DVR-like functionality to the Xbox 360 next year.
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Cub Scouts Add Video Game Award for Ratings Awareness The Boy Scouts of America surprise with two unusual new awards for developing skills related to video games.
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Gizmodo's iPhone Saga: Fact vs. Speculation In the meantime, there's no shortage of guessing about what will happen to Gizmodo -- so let's separate fact from speculation.
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HP Buys Palm: Why It's a Good Deal When a huge old-school company buys a scrappy (relatively) little one, my instinct is always to be worried. But lets play optimist for a moment.
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Steve Jobs Shares His Thoughts On Flash Steve Jobs breaks his silence on Adobe Flash outlining his beef against the technology.
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Terry Childs Juror Explains Why He Voted to Convict Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week.
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A Brief History of Palm With iPhones and BlackBerrys everywhere, and Google Android devices on the rise, it's easy to forget that Palm was the company that made it all happen.
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Hewlett-Packard and Palm Deal: 5 Wishes For $1.2 billion, Hewlett-Packard gets Palm, but what will the consumer get? Here are a few things I hope we see out of this deal.
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New Threat: Undetectable Facebook Scams Your hard-earned security smarts may not be enough to identify rogue Facebook apps. But a little patience may help.
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HP to Buy Struggling Palm for $1.2 Billion Hewlett-Packard plans to buy struggling phone maker Palm for US$1.2 billion.
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UN to Buy 500,000 OLPC Laptops for Palestinian Children One Laptop Per Child delivered 2,100 laptops to a United Nations project that aims to give half a million Palestinian children access to the computersby 2012
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HP to Buy Palm, Shake Up the Mobile World Under HP's ownership, Palm devices could once again hold prominence in the mobile landscape.
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iPad 3G: Details on AT&T's Data Plan Apple and AT&T release details on the data plan. Could it really be as easy as it sounds?
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PDF Exploits Explode, Continue Climb in 2010 Exploits of Adobe's PDF format jumped dramatically last year, and continue to climb during 2010, a McAfee security researcher said.
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Nokia Launches a New Brand of Music Service in India Nokia launches a new brand of music service in India; which resembles its “Comes With Music” service in other countries
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HP Purchase of Palm Paves Way for WebOS Tablet HP can leverage its $1.2 billion investment in Palm to develop a WebOS "iPad Killer"
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HP-Palm Faces Uphill Battle in Europe A merged Hewlett-Packard and Palm will have a long way to go before it can challenge the likes of Nokia, Apple, Research in Motion and HTC in Europe.
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Firefox for Google Android: A Hands-On Tour Android users, listen up: Firefox has finally arrived for your phone. Well, almost. Here's a sneak peek at Mozilla's upcoming Google Android browser.
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Rumor: Xbox 360 To Get 'Live TV' in 2011 Canadian game site claims Microsoft has signed a deal to introduce multi-channel, high-definition live TV with DVR-like functionality to the Xbox 360 next year.
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