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Top 10 April Fools' Day Fake News Items for 2010 From animal translation, to Justin Bieber, to particle smashing; it's all fair game on April Fools' day on the Internet
Apple's iPad: The First Reviews Are In The biggest surprise from the first batch of iPad reviews? That there are no real surprises. Everyone's impressed.
Dangerous PCs: Users Blame Sudden Acceleration for Recent Spate of Injuries Emergency-room visits involving Windows-based computers mount, but industry sources point to user error as likely culprit.
iPhone OS 4.0 Said to Support Expose-Like Multitasking The growing buzz suggests the next refresh of the iPhone's operating system will borrow from the Mac OS's Expose function.
iPad Reviews: The Good, Bad, and Ecstatic Apple's iPad mostly impresses first reviewers with long battery life, intuitive touch interface, and speed
Chinese Knockoffs: Fake iPhones and Strange Sights at a Shenzhen Market An eye-opening walkthrough a major cell phone street market in the freewheeling city of Shenzhen, China.
It's Up, Up, and Away with EA's iPad Game Prices Two upcoming Electronic Arts iPad launch games will raise Apple's traditional App Store price ceiling by one-third.
Will Android Surpass the iPhone? New reports indicate that Apple's iPhone may not own a majority of the smartphone market anytime soon.
Official Netflix App Coming to Apple iPad Apple has given the okay to a Netflix app for the iPad, which will be available in the App Store as of April 3.
Deals of the Week We found great bargains this week, including an LG Blu-ray player and a Toshiba 55-inch HDTV.
YouTube Makeover Designed To Keep You Watching Cleaner UI was created to improve the site's stickiness, by getting visitors to watch more videos and (hopefully) never leave.
What Twitter's New Home Page Means For You Twitter rolled out a dynamic new home page this week. Here's a look at how it'll affect both veteran tweeters and first-time visitors.
Details of AMD's Six-core Phenom II Chips Leaked Online Details of AMD's upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 desktop processors have apparently leaked online.
Malicious PDF File Doesn't Need a Software Vulnerability A security researcher has found a way to run code on someone's computer without exploiting a software vulnerability in either of two PDF applications.
Yahoo India to Move Over 200 Search Engineers to Microsoft 200 engineers from Yahoo India are moving to a development center set up Microsoft in Bangalore
Will the Next iPhone Come in HD? Rumors claim that Apple is readying a new iPhone model, dubbed the iPhone HD, with a screen that offers twice the resolution.
New Application Could Make All Software 'open Source' Researchers are working on a new application called Prefab that could allow users full customization of proprietary software.
iPad Reviews: 5 Things We've Learned Most of the reviews are predictable, but buried deep in the text, we uncovered a few new tidbits of info about Apple's slick new device.
Amazon Loses E-Book Pricing War The world's largest online retailer has conceded to the demands of three major publishing houses and will not discount new best-selling e-books.
How the iPad Will Change Mobile Business Computing The initial reviews are in, and they illustrate why the iPad could potentially revolutionize mobile business computing.
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