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Apple Bans the Word 'Android' From App Store

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February 6, 2010
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Apple Bans the Word 'Android' From App Store Apple has apparently forbidden a developer from using the word "Android" in his App Store description. Has the company's notorious need for control gone too far?
iPad Hype Turns Off Buyers, Survey Shows Those who'd buy and those who won't have both increased in number since Apple's tablet unveiling.
5 Facebook E-mail Features I'd Like to See Word is that Facebook's Project Titan is full-blown e-mail for the social network site -- here's how Facebook could do e-mail right.
Microsoft Patches Coming Tuesday: Brace Yourself The record number of vulnerability fixes will also require system reboots.
Google Ocean Showcase: Dive into Your Desktop New multimedia tours feature some of the Earth's hottest surf and dive spots, important shipwrecks, large underwater mountains and vast canyon systems running along the seafloor.
Facebook Launches New Look for its 6th Year On its 6th birthday, the social networking site begins rolling out a redesign for its home page.
Apple Will Reject Apps Using GPS for Location-Aware Ads The boycott of GPS-inspired ads coupled with acquisition of an mobile ad service hints of Apple's own plans.
Apple iPad Has Spot for MacBook Camera An Apple Certified Macintosh Technician discovers a camera from a Unibody MacBook fits the space.
IBM Details World's Fastest Graphene Transistor IBM demonstrates a 100Ghz graphene-based processor.
Patent Office to Review VoIP Patent The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP.
Chinese Man Gets 30 Months for Fake Cisco Sales A Chinese man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in U.S. prison for selling fake Cisco routers.
Malicious Firefox Add-ons Installed Trojans Two experimental add-ons previously available through Mozilla's add-on site installed malware on victim PCs.
AMD Aims for GPUs in Mainstream Servers Starting 2012 AMD wants to put more GPUs in servers starting in 2012.
How Scott Brown LOLed All the Way to his Senate Seat The upset victory of Republican Scott Brown, running for the seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, was due in part to an online strategy that relied heavily on social media.
Twitter to Major Tom: NASA Lets Public Tweet Astronauts NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is taking questions via Twitter for the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour, which is scheduled to launch Feb. 7 on its mission to the International Space Station.
Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search Microsoft is planning to stop releasing Linux and Unix versions of its enterprise search platform.
After China Pull-out Bluster, Will Google Backtrack? Is Google backing away from its promise to stop censoring search results in China and exit that market if necessary?
Energy Star for Data Centers Coming in June The Environmental Protection Agency hopes to launch an Energy Star for data centers program in June, officials said this week.
Dell Loses Appeal in Defective Laptops Lawsuit A class-action lawsuit alleging Dell of manufacturing and selling defective laptops will go back to trial.
Indian Pleads Guilty in Overseas Stock Hacking Scheme An Indian national pleads guilty to charges related to the overseas hacking of online brokerage accounts.
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