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May 24, 2010
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Good-Bye to Privacy? Learn about major new threats to your privacy, from social networks to advertisers to yourself.
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Facebook Blocks Access in India to Controversial Page Facebook blocks controversial page ‘Everyone Draw Mohammed!’ in India
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Nexus One, Motorola Droid Line Up for Android 2.2 Update The OS rollout begins -- Here's how to get your update now.
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Google Gives the Gift of Pac-Man Forever Google cements its love for the classic Pac-Man game with a promise to host the game forever for all to play.
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Silicon Replacement: Gallium Arsenide? Research could produce means to make electronics cheaper and more efficient.
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Sound ID 510 Bluetooth Headset: There's an App with That The first wireless headset with its own personalized iPhone app hits AT&T stores June 6.
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The Best and Worst of Our More Than 200 Research Calls After calling branches of six chain stores about dozens of electronics products, we recount some of our most memorable experiences with the sales associates.
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Seagate Reinvents the Hybrid Laptop Hard Drive The 2.5-inch Momentus XT is a hybrid HDD and flash design intended to speed past conventional hard drives.
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WWDC 2010: An Apple Wish List A 4G iPhone, tethering, iPad OS update and other expectations for the keynote.
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Facebook CEO Addresses Privacy Concerns Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged privacy shortcomings and promised to do better.
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Seagate Momentus XT Pairs SSD and HDD with Impressive Results Seagate delivers performance at a low price with hybrid SSD/HDD combo drive.
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Poisoned PDFs? Here's Your Antidote Embedded malware represents a new twist that makes PDF dangers even worse. Well show you how to stay safe.
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What Android Fragmentation Problem? The Android platform is getting upgrades so frequently that there are phones powered by multiple versions of the OS for sale all at once.
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Microsoft Edging Google out of iPad-like Devices MSI will launch a tablet PC with Windows 7 on board next week at Computex, instead of the Google Android tablet it displayed early this year.
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Four Reasons Momentus XT Hybrid Should be Your Next Drive The new Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drives offer some compelling benefits.
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A Novel Idea From Pandigital: an Android-Powered E-book Reader The Android-powered Novel e-book reader from Pandigital sports a 7-inch color LCD, access to Barnes and Noble's eBookstore, and costs less than $200. Will it take on the iPad?
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Yahoo, Nokia Tie up for Chat, Mail and Maps Nokia and Yahoo will work together on mail, maps and chat services.
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If You Have Multithreading in Windows Phone 7, Do You Need Multitasking? Exploring how WP7 handles multiple application threads.
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NY Times' Android App Makes a Mockery of iPad Version The New York Times released version 1.0 of its Android application and it's a great example of how newspapers can deliver content to mobile devices.
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Beware Attack by Rogue Facebook Apps Security researchers warn of Facebook app that carries 'Beach Babes' malware.
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Downloads: April 2010The reviewers and bloggers of PCWorld see a great deal of software every month. In April, their favorites ran the gamut from the useful to the delightful--and a few that fit both descriptions. From encryption to syncing, from printer utilities to desktop tidiers, from problem-solvers to puzzle games and even a Commodore 64 emulator...here are the month's favorites.
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