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Android Invasion: The Next Phase Begins Android sales may be skyrocketing, but to quote the great Randy Bachman, "you ain't seen nothin' yet."
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Facebook and Islam: Culture Clash Is Just Beginning In Pakistan Facebook goes dark as uproar over 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!' erupts.
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Pakistan Extends Web Site Ban to Include YouTube A Pakistan regulator blocks YouTube after having blocked Facebook on Wednesday.
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Clicker Embraces the TV with Sofa-friendly Site Internet video aggregator Clicker has launched a version of its service aimed at those who surf Web from their couch.
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Three Cool Tools for Restoring Your Facebook Privacy None of them come from Facebook, naturally. Still, they'll help protect you until Facebook gets its privacy act together.
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Want to See What Final Fantasy XIV Looks Like? Square Enix unleashes a store of screens from its upcoming online roleplaying game, charting the beta's rather beautiful progress.
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Facebook Considers Censoring Content in Pakistan Facebook says its may consider making inaccessible to users some content that a Pakistani court and government found objectionable
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Google I/O: Will We Get to See Google TV? We've already heard about the Chrome Web Store and the new WebM video format. Next up: details on Google TV and Android 2.2?
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Five Ways Gmail Still Beats Hotmail Even with its flashy redesign, Hotmail still can't quite compete with Gmail. Here's why.
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Germany Launches Criminal Investigation of Google German prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation over whether Google broke data protection regulations when it collected fragments of Wi-Fi data.
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Google Chrome Web App Store: 5 Things You Should Know Google is not saying much about its Chrome Web Store, but here are 5 things we divine from what's public.
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Google Wave Opens Up, Finally Googles says that its finally letting everyone into Wave as part of its experimental Google Labs offerings.
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The Official Twitter iPhone App is Officially Here Tweetie gets rebranded as the new official Twitter app.
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British Government Adjourns Extradition Hearing for McKinnon The British government has canceled a court hearing for a hacker who hunted for evidence of UFOs on U.S. military computers.
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Goodbye, Tweetie, Hello Twitter for iPhone The official Twitter app for the iPhone looks and feels like the Tweetie app I loved, albeit with a few tweaks.
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Chrome to Open an App Store Service lets you find, download, install, and pay for Web-based services
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Non-U.S. iPad Users Get First Glimpse of Their App Store Apple has updated international versions of its iTunes store to include iPad apps.
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N-Trig Pushes Pen and Multitouch Input A new stylus technology from component maker N-Trig could bring styluses into the multitouch age.
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Pakistan Blocks YouTube, Other Sites Just one day after cutting off access to Facebook, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has set its sight on YouTube.
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