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February 12, 2010
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Google Buzz: 5 Tips for Power Users To really get buzzing with Google's new tool, learn to format and organize all that Buzz.
Microsoft to Update Windows Phones Monday An update to its Windows Mobile software is expected at the Mobile World Congress event.
US Video Game Sales Plummet in January, PS3 Sales Up New Super Mario Bros Wii topped Mass Effect 2 in January game sales, while only the Xbox 360 and PS3 saw year-over-year console unit growth.
GPS: A Stalker's Best Friend Watch out for common ways that a creeper can follow you by using the same GPS devices you love so much.
Apple Offers $10K in Music for 10 Billionth iTunes Download Apple celebrates its latest "milestone for music" with another giveaway.
Prescreen Your Date Before It's Too Late Have a hot date lined up? Do a little background research before the first rendezvous to eliminate surprises--and to figure out if they could be 'the one.'
Google Maps Labs: A Fun New Google Tool Google now has a home for launching beta tools and services for Google Maps.
Google's Big Fiber Play: What Gives? The motivation behind Google's latest experiment  to build ultra high-speed broadband networks  remains a mystery. But here are five different possibilities.
Microsoft Ends War on Macintosh with Office 2011 The new Mac Office replaces the much-despised Entourage with a real version of Microsoft Outlook. Business Mac users rejoice!
Aardvark Gives Google Valuable Business Tool Google's acquisition of Aardvark is intended to raise the bar against Facebook and Twitter, but the real winner will be Google's business customers.
EFF, Library Groups Argue Against Autodesk Appeal The EFF and library groups urged an appeals court to uphold a ruling regarding secondhand software sales.
Beating Google Buzz, 10 Tips for Facebook Facebook has both its own problems and a new challenge from Google. Here's how the #1 social network should respond.
Microsoft Pulls Patch that Causes Blue Screen of Death Tuesday's security updates apparently included one that brought down some Windows XP systems.
Researchers Find Huge Weakness in European Payment Cards Millions of payment cards throughout Europe have a flaw that could allow criminals with a stolen card to enter any random PIN to complete a transaction,
What Google Gets from Aardvark's Ask-A-Friend Service Hot on the heels of launching its Google Buzz social networking feature, the search giant snaps up Aardvark, a startup that routes users' questions to their social network. There's a pattern here, folks.
Twitter Application Grader.com Hacked Grader.com's Twitter service was hacked Thursday, causing users to send spam messages to their followers.
Google Buzz: Not Even as Private as Facebook? Some folks may not mind that their exact location in Google Buzz can be broadcast to anyone who happens to look in  but I certainly do.
Adobe to Rush out Another Critical Reader Patch Adobe patched a critical Flash Player issue Thursday and said it will issue a fix for Reader and Acrobat on Tuesday.
Study: Yahoo's Search Slide Continues, While Bing Climbs Yahoo's share of U.S. search queries continues on a downhill slope, according to comScore.
Video Site Veoh Bankrupt, Heads Into Liquidation Veoh Networks is bankrupt and its assets will be sold off to repay creditors, the company's top executive announced Friday.
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BioShock 2: A Sequel that Surpasses the Original It doesn't continue the original's plot or even build on it, but this harrowing story one-ups the original's memory-quest-with-a-twist.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
Most Popular Download Introductions of January 2010As 2010 began, PCWorld.com site visitors didn't forget their tried-and-true software--but they plunged into new programs as well. The popularity of backup programs and system utilities suggests that some readers made New Year's resolutions to back up and clean out their PCs. Photo-processing software did well, too; perhaps that means a memorable holiday season. Whatever the reasons for downloading these programs, one thing remains clear: Free software is always a hit.
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