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Amazon Cloud Hit by Real Clouds, Downing Netflix, Instagram, Other Sites Severe storms wiping out power to 2 million people in the eastern US cause an outage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia.
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Mobile Privacy Standards to Be Discussed at Government Meetings Industry stakeholders, rights groups, and Internet marketers will discuss privacy issues involving consumer data on mobile devices.
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Has Google Done Enough to Keep Android Phones Up-to-date? Jelly Bean? Most Android devices are still running Gingerbread! Android fragmentation reaches new levels.
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HP's First Window 8 Tablet Will Target Businesses, Not Consumers Hewlett-Packard's first Windows 8 tablet will be a business-oriented slate running an x86 CPU, not a consumer product running Microsoft's upcoming Windows RT operating system, the company has announced.
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Chrome Rockets to Top as No. 1 Free App in iTunes It's getting decent reviews from users, although a big complaint is the browser now available for iPhone and iPad is slower than Apple's Safari.
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Sabayon 9: One Linux Distro, Three Desktop Flavors Currently at No. 14 on DistroWatch's page-hit popularity rankings, Sabayon Linux recently got a major upgrade.
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Where to Buy the Nexus 7 Tablet Google's Nexus 7 tablet will be available online and from brick-and-mortar retailers.
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Reports: FTC Investigates Google Over Motorola Patents The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's Motorola Mobility unit to determine whether it is stifling innovation in the mobile market by...
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Happy Birthday, Google+ -- Are We There Yet? Google's latest venture into social networking has been around for a year now, and it hasn't taken over the world but it does encompass all things Google.
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No Sales of Galaxy Nexus in US -- for Now After Apple wins another injunction banning the sale of a Samsung product, will Galaxy S III be Apple's next target?
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Google Sharpening Analytics' Tracking of Mobile Applications Google is readying a new set of Analytics usage reports designed specifically for mobile applications.
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Linksys Firmware Upgrade for Wi-Fi Routers Angers Some Users Some users of new Wi-Fi routers from Cisco's Linksys division complained this week that the company automatically updated the routers' firmware and pushed them...
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Five Tips to Keep Apps From Failing No business today that depends on online customers and processes to keep the lights on can afford an application meltdown.
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Report: Apple Wins Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus A California court has granted Apple an injunction against Samsung over sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphones in the U.S.
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Paint-On Lithium-Ion Batteries Put Your Walls to Good Use Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface.
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Microsoft's Yammer Buy Raises Questions About NewsGator's Future When NewsGator Technologies decided to play in the nascent enterprise social collaboration market a few years ago with a product that worked only with...
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Paving the Way to Abandon BlackBerry I'd love to see RIM survive, and for BlackBerry to remain as one of the major mobile platforms, but it seems increasingly less likely with each passing quarter.
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Robotics Starter Kit Helps You Build Your First Bot, Just Needs Your Code (And Funding) Need a bit of help coming to grips with the hardware element of your robotics endeavor? Let this Kickstarter project help you!
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Rice University Develops Spray-on Battery Prototype Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a prototype spray-on battery that could allow engineers to rethink the way portable electronics are...
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Seven Practical Steps to Help You Run Your On-Premise Cloud Like a Business Long regarded as "just" technology providers, IT organizations now are routinely called on to leverage infrastructure advances and virtualization in order to drive efficiencies, improve performance and transform business functions throughout the enterprise.
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Amazon Cloud Hit by Real Clouds, Downing Netflix, Instagram, Other Sites Severe storms wiping out power to 2 million people in the eastern US cause an outage of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia.
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Mobile Privacy Standards to Be Discussed at Government Meetings Industry stakeholders, rights groups, and Internet marketers will discuss privacy issues involving consumer data on mobile devices.
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Google Nexus Q Hands-On Review: The Buggy Streaming Story The Nexus Q has some pretty neat media streaming features, but is way too expensive--and the preview release is just plain buggy.
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Google Nexus Q Media Streamer: First Impressions, Part 1 Google's response to Apple TV and a slew of media streamers is a Magic 8 Ball-sized sphere that you can control only with an Android device.
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Google Android Jelly Bean OS: A Test Drive We went hands-on with some of Jelly Bean's cooler features. Is this OS upgrade worth all the hype?
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