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April 28, 2010
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Motorola Droid Still Leading the Android Pack It may no longer be the hot phone du jour, but Motorola's Droid appears to still be leading the way when it comes to Android devices.
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HTC Cuts Licensing Deal with Microsoft for Android Phones HTC inks deal with Microsoft on patents for Android phones in a possible defensive move against Apple lawsuit.
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Halo: Reach Live-Action Trailer Teases Spartan Birth Halo: Reach gets a dose of live-action in Microsoft and Bungie's preview of things to come in the buildup to next Monday's multiplayer beta.
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Sneak a Peek at BlackBerry's Next OS RIM releases a video that teases us with software that features a touch-friendly, iPhone-like interface, but offers few concrete details.
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5 Ways Facebook Should Improve User Privacy With lawmakers calling for changes to the social network's privacy policies, here are a few things Facebook could do to ease their concerns.
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Google Finds Fake Antivirus Programs on the Rise Fake antivirus software is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, with its creators using clever methods to fool users into installing the programs.
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PowerPoint Makes You Stupid, Says Military Intel U.S. Army discovers PowerPoint can create "the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control." But not everything is "bullet-izable."
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Gizmodo Versus Apple: It's War Over the iPhone Prototype It's looking like war between Apple and the state of California, on one side, and Gawker Media on the other.
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Microsoft Takes Aim at Android With Patent Portfolio in Hand Microsoft on Wednesday said it has signed a patent agreement with HTC regarding its Android-based smartphones.
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Google: Adobe Flash Support Coming to Android 2.2 Later this year, Google's mobile operating system will offer official Flash support, exec notes in an interview.
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Apple WWDC 2010: Five Things To Watch For This year's WWDC will take place in early June. What kind of surprises might Apple have in store?
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Apple Lawsuit Fails to Slow HTC Smartphone Sales HTC fared better than expected in the first quarter and forecast a record-breaking second quarter, showing Apple's lawsuit failed to hurt its business.
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ICANN Approves First Four Internationalized Country Domains ICANN has approved the first four IDN ccTLDs, country-code domain names written in non-Latin script.
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Google Buys Widget-Maker, Labpixies Google makes its eighth acquisition of the year: widget-maker Labpixies.
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Firefox Lands on Android Mozilla has released a "pre-alpha" version of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox for phones running Android 2.0 or above.
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New Storm Worm May Not Last Long A new variant of the Storm worm has emerged, but it does not appear to be as well-designed as its older relative.
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McAfee Debacle Shows Why Malware Defense Must Evolve The flawed McAfee update illustrates why a new model for defending against malware is necessary.
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Google Apps Sync for Outlook Gets Mixed Reviews Nine months after Google daringly launched a sync tool to link its hosted Apps collaboration and communication suite with arch-rival Microsoft's Outlook PC...
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AOL Profit and Revenue Nosedive in Q1 AOL's revenue and profit tumbled in Q1, as the Internet company continues to struggle with its transition to an online ad-based business.
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Diary of a Mad McAfee Antivirus Victim As if McAfee's bad antivirus update last week wasn't bad enough, some customers were none too happy with how the security vendor's tech support handled the situation.
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