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August 31, 2010
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Why Intel's Infineon Buy Is a Smart Move The purchase will help Intel become a player in the mobile market, one analyst says.
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Samsung's Galaxy Tablet Is Verizon-bound, Report Says Samsung will partner with Verizon Wireless on its upcoming Android-based Galaxy Tab tablet, according to reports.
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Bite-Sized iPod Nano Evidence Grows Rumors of tiny square-shaped iPod Nano are becoming more convincing by the day.
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iPad Gets AutoCAD Along With Mac Apple signs a deal with Autodesk to bring the popular AutoCAD design program back to the Mac along with support for iPad and iPhone.
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Microsoft: Xbox 360 S The Best Box We've Ever Built Microsoft's Senior Director of Xbox Product Management talks about the internal makeup of the company's Xbox 360 S in part two of our interview.
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Gmail Priority Inbox Puts Focus on What's Important Gmail Priority Inbox intuitively sorts incoming e-mail to organize messages based on importance and enable users to filter frivolous e-mail and improve productivity.
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MySpace Hands Over Updates To Facebook MySpace now allows you to share your MySpace content and status updates with your Facebook and Twitter accounts
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Google Buys SocialDeck Mobile Game Firm Google continues start-up shopping spree by buying mobile game developer SocialDeck.
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What's Important in Your Inbox? Gmail Thinks It Knows Priority Inbox aims to put your key emails at the top of your inbox so you can more easily find them.
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Clearwire Tries for Coolness With Pay-As-You-Go 4G Clearwire's attempt to be hip in its marketing propaganda feels forced and undercuts a great pay-as-you-go 4G service.
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Hurricane Earl May Test IT Teleworkers Power outages caused by Hurricane Earl, now swirling in the southern Atlantic, may pose a problem to IT telecommuters.
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E-Reader Price Wars: Kobo Tries to Keep Up Borders drops the price of its Kobo e-book reader to $129 fueling a price war.
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Desperately Seeking Desktop Data Six products that can help you quickly dig up that key nugget of information.
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Verizon Gets Bing Android App Microsoft and Verizon have teamed to offer a Bing mobile application exclusive to the Android operating system.
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Xbox Live Price Hike: A Higher Cost for Microsoft Microsoft says it's raising the price of Xbox Live Gold, effective November 1.
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Google Priority Inbox: Why I'm Not That Impressed Google's latest attempt to tackle e-mail overload has promise, but I don't think it will be the greatest thing to hit e-mail since, well, Gmail.
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Microsoft to Build Giant Data Center in Virginia Microsoft plans to build a large data center in Virginia.
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Google to Roll out E-mail Prioritizing Feature in Gmail Google plans to begin rolling out on Tuesday a new e-mail prioritizing feature in Gmail to address e-mail information overload.
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Huge Spamming Botnet Injured but Still Alive A botnet responsible for a significant amount of spam has been crippled but may reconstitute itself in a matter of weeks, according to vendor M86 Security.
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Intel Expands Beyond Processors with Buying Spree Intel's acquisition of the wireless unit of Infineon and security vendor McAfee just in the past couple weeks illustrate a strategy to expand the scope of products and services associated with the Intel brand beyond PC processors.
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