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Thinking About Drinking? Smartphone Apps to Enhance Your St. Patrick's Day Experience

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Thinking About Drinking? Smartphone Apps to Enhance Your St. Patrick's Day Experience Use these Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Palm apps to locate the nearest pub, play beer pong, cure a hangover, or find a whole host of merrymaking activities.
Bethesda and inXile Partner for New Fantasy Epic The Elder Scrolls and Fallout roleplaying series publisher signs inXile's cooperative-play hack-and-slash Hunted: The Demon Forge, but there's a twist.
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BlackBerry Users Willing to Swap for an iPhone Almost 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch to Apple's iPhone, while a third would move to a Nexus One, new study reveals.
Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything You Need to Know Devices running the new OS won't be available until later this year, but Microsoft is already offering some insights about the new software.
SXSW: Twitter Announcement a Real Yawner There was a line to get out of the room during Evan Williams talk here in Austin.
Windows Phone 7: A Sneak Peek at the Apps Windows Phone 7 Series won't be out until the end of the year  meanwhile, whet your appetite with a look at some of the cool apps waiting in the wings.
Intel's New Xeon 5600 Chips Outperform Predecessors Intel on Tuesday launched the Xeon 5600 server processors, which are faster and more power-efficient than their predecessors.
Apple Quietly Fills in Some iPad Blanks A few critical details are appearing quietly on Apple's Website  but many questions remain unanswered
Meet Tim Bray, New Face of the Google-Apple Rivalry If there was any love left between Google and Apple, the newest Android developer likely killed it.
Dell Sues Five LCD Makers for Alleged Price-fixing Dell has filed a lawsuit against five LCD makers for allegedly colluding to fix prices for their products, a Dell spokesman said Monday.
Alex eReader Available for Pre-Order Dual-screen design proves useful, but also expensive.
Indian Security Startup Offers Free Software Indian security start-up offering software free to increase adoption; and make money on services
Opera Mini on the iPhone: First Impressions While the browser didn't seem particularly zippy, it offers plenty of features that make it an appealing alternative to Safari.
FCC's Broadband Plan: $15.5 Billion for Deployment The FCC is recommending that $15.5 billion be spent on broadband deployment in its national broadband plan, which will be officially unveiled Tuesday.
Smartphone Survey Only Tells Part of the Story A smartphone survey by Crowd Science yields interesting results, but like all surveys the data is tainted by its agenda, and the questions that weren't asked.
Baidu Stock Overtakes Google's for First Time on China Spat The stock price of Chinese search engine Baidu surged past Google's Monday, following reports from several news sources that the US giant decided to quit China
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Thinking About Drinking? Smartphone Apps to Enhance Your St. Patrick's Day Experience Use these Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Palm apps to locate the nearest pub, play beer pong, cure a hangover, or find a whole host of merrymaking activities. Bethesda and inXile Partner for New Fantasy Epic The Elder Scrolls and Fallout roleplaying series publisher signs inXile's cooperative-play hack-and-slash Hunted: The Demon Forge, but there's a twist.
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