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June 29, 2012
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Adobe Says No Flash Player for Android 4.1, Will Withdraw App No certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player will ship for Android 4.1, and on August 15 the player will no longer be available for download from Google Play.
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Google Nexus 7 Review Round-Up: Best $200 Tablet Available Initial approval doesn't preclude a wish list: Its tight integration with Google Play can't match Amazon's content selection and price for the competing Kindle Fire.
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Chrome for iOS: Not So Fast, Cool Features Chrome for iOS has some nifty new tools for syncing across devices, but delivers slower-than-Safari speeds.
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BlackBerry Fans: It's Time to Worry A delay in the release of BlackBerry 10 gives the competitors of the beleaguered RIM plenty of time to lure away jittery customers.
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Google Glasses Link Virtual, Real Worlds Glasses reportedly will ship to consumers about a year after the prototype Explorer Edition makes its way to developers.
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Use Google Now with Caution, Security Experts Say One security analyst suggests choosing a BlackBerry for work and an Android device for personal use.
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Rumor: 10-inch Kindle Fire Coming Both the 7- and 10-inch models are said to use a metal casing rather than the plastic body found on the first-gen model.
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Firefox Security Bug Not a Bug at All The New Tab feature exposes a user's travel to secure websites, but it draws the material from a source long present in the browser.
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Study: 86% of Top Websites Expose Visitors to Third-party Tracking Cookies How prevalent is the use of tracking cookies that get planted on your computer after browsing a website so it can keep track of what you're doing?
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Go Retro With Polaroid's New Instant Digital Camera Polaroid is bringing instant photos back (again) with its new Z2300 instant digital camera.
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WhiteHat Finds Website Security Has Drastically Improved Falling rate shows website managers more focused on plugging holes.
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ICANN Cancels Digital Archery Program, Has No Immediate Alternative The Digital Archery contest, devised by ICANN to determine which gTLD applications would be handled first, was canceled on Thursday.
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Legal Battle Over LinkedIn Breach Could Be Costly In addition to legal costs, the social networking site's brand could be hurt if the case is not settled quickly
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RIM Delays BlackBerry 10, Lays Off 5,000 Amid Plummeting Sales It's a a triple-dose of bad news from Research in Motion.
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Google Announces Google Drive for iOS and Offline Editing for Google Docs A version of Chrome for iOS also was announced during the second day keynote for the company's Google I/O conference.
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Best of 2012 CE Week A Look at the Coolest Products and Concepts Coming Out of This Year's CE Week.
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Cloud Adoption Pushes Storage Virtualization Storage hypervisors are increasingly being used to virtualize storage hardware to allow for disparate infrastructures to be centrally managed.
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The Long Death of Fat Clients Web development and open standards have triumphed, while the JavaFX framework is merely a last gasp.
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How NASA Helped Open-Source Cloud Computing Take Off The government agency famous for Tang and memory foam has also fostered the development of open-source could computing.
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Google Launches Chromebook Retail Push via Best Buy Google's Chrome OS-based laptops could now be on the shelves of a nearby Best Buy store.
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Adobe Says No Flash Player for Android 4.1, Will Withdraw App No certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player will ship for Android 4.1, and on August 15 the player will no longer be available for download from Google Play.
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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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