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February 8, 2010
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Google's Next Venture: Universal Translator It's not quite Star Trek, but Google is working on instant translation over Android phones.
Google's First Super Bowl Ad Shows its Softer Side The search firm's first Super Bowl ad emphasized its core mission amid some recent controversy.
Watch Out, Nexus One: Here's HTC's Incredible Phone Details and images are seeping out about HTC's forthcoming high-end Android phone.
Twitpics in Space A space station astronaut shares his stunning view of Earth sights via Twitter.
Canon EOS Rebel T2i Invites Upgrade from Point-and-Shoot The new digital SLR boosts both still and video capabilities, closing the gap with more advanced models.
Top Super Bowl Ads Everybody's got their favorites; here are our nominees for this year's standouts.
China Closes Hacker Training Site, Arrests Three Members Chinese police have shut down what they called the country's biggest hacker training Web site and arrested three people linked to the site, local media said.
PayPal Suspends Personal Payments to India PayPal temporarily suspends personal payments to and from India.
IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers IBM launched its latest eight-core Power7 processor on Monday.
Traveling With Laptops Could Get Tougher Proposed restrictions on batteries on flights could create a hassle for business travelers.
Too Many People Reuse Logins, Study Finds The recent Twitter hack raises the challenge of generating secure and unique passwords you can remember.
Facebook Dumps Microsoft Ads, Keeps Sleazy Advertisers Ever noticed how many trashy ads appear on Facebook? Would you want your company's ad in among them?
Early Windows 7 Testers Must Soon Upgrade or Backtrack Users who installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate must soon commit or find their way back to Vista.
Sharp, Samsung Settle All Outstanding LCD Patent Cases Sharp and Samsung have put nearly three years of battling over LCD panel and module patents behind them with a deal that ends all patent infringement disputes.
World of Warcraft Seeks Reapproval in China Gov't Tangle The China operator of World of Warcraft will seek new government approval for the game, dragging it further into a turf war between Chinese regulatory agencies.
Nokia Targeted in US Class Action Suit A class action complaint against Nokia alleges the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008.
X10 Fable 3 Reveal will Make Gamers 'Super Pissed Off' Peter Molyneux says he's terrified gamers will balk when he demonstrates undisclosed Fable 3 features at Microsoft's upcoming X10 games event.
BlueLock's Cloud Services Aim at Large and Small BlueLock, a hosted cloud computing service, rolled out four tiers of service aimed at large and small companies.
SAP Hits Reset Button With CEO Change Major changes for the better are coming at SAP following the departure of CEO Leo Apotheker, co-founder Hasso Plattner said Monday.
Apotheker Is out as SAP CEO Leo Apotheker has resigned as CEO of German ERP giant SAP effective immediately.
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