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December 30, 2010
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2011: The Year of eSports Ever wonder how people get paid to play video games? Find out why professional gaming, or 'eSports,' will be big in 2011.
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Top 10 Dumbest Tech Moves of 2010 Among this year's award winners: Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, and the CIA
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Skype Adds Video-over-3G Capabilities to Its IPhone App Skype has updated its free iPhone app, adding the ability to make video calls over 3G mobile networks. The updated app is available for download from Apple's app...
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Goodbye Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye? Analysis: The Internet, as we once knew it, will be under renewed attack next year.
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Computer History Museum to Highlight Storage Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby.
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Microsoft Office 365 Beta: Useful and Frustrating Microsoft Office 365, a suite of business-focused, cloud-based applications that was recently released in beta, is actually a repackaging and updating of various Microsoft offerings -- optimized for the cloud.
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How You Know When Its Time to Switch to Linux If you're considering giving Windows the boot here are 10 signs the time is right to give Linux a try.
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Microsoft Co-Founder Revises Patent Suit: Targets Android, iTunes, and Facebook 'Like' Feature Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has revised his patent infringement lawsuit against 11 technology companies
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15 Mobile Apps that Will Matter in 2011 Whether your platform of choice is iOS, Android, or something else, these are the mobile apps you'll be talking about next year.
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Facebook was Most Visited, Searched for Website in 2010 Facebook accounted for 8.93 percent of all US visits between January and November, according to Experian Hitwise.
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True Love vs. Six Days A developer made a game about her grandparents' 70-year marriage using actual documentary techniques. It's a game you'll probably never play -- but here's why it's important.
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PSP, Pokemon Dominate Japanese Sales Charts in 2010 According to data compiled by ASCII Corporation, Pokemon Black Version and Pokemon White Version for DS and the PSP were the best selling software and hardware in Japan this year.
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Video Calling Hits Skype for iPhone The iPhone version of Skype we wanted all along is finally here: one that does video calls.
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Skype Explains Service Outage, Post-Mortem Skype's CIO Lars Rabbe on Wednesday offered a frank assessment of the recent 24-hour lapse in its Internet telephony service.
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2010: The Year In Tech 2010 proved to be a busy year for the world of technology as continued innovation brought forth new products as well as controversy.
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Android Mobile Malware Has Botnet-like Traits Hackers target Google's Android with a malicious application that harvests personal information.
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Skype Blames Buggy Windows Software, Swamped Servers for Outage Skype Wednesday blamed last week's outage on a combination of overloaded instant messaging servers, buggy software, and the failure of its "supernode" infrastructure
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Then and Now: How Technology Has Changed Our Lives Advances in technology have fundamentally changed these 11 aspects of everyday existence.
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EFF: Government Wants to Know if You Send Any Money Overseas The EFF opposes new rules proposed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network that would pry into users' privacy if they send any money overseas electronically.
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2010: Best Tales From the Tech Trenches The tech pro faces many career challenges and even a humorous situation or two.
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Six Downloads to Improve Microsoft OfficeAnyone who uses Microsoft Office will agree on two things: It's a powerful collection of applications, and it needs improvement. These six programs bring Office a lot closer to what it should be. Three of them work across multiple Office applications, improving the much-loved--and much-hated--ribbon-based interface. The other three are application-specific, giving Outlook, Word, and Excel additional capabilities that Microsoft either didn't think of or didn't bother with.
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