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Feds Threaten Apple's Control of iPhone and iPad

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Feds Threaten Apple's Control of iPhone and iPad If Apple is forced to change its developer agreement, will customers suffer? Of course, they will. Who wants generic Flash apps?
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Google Editions: Bringing E-Books to Your Browser Google wants to bring your digital book reader into the cloud. Here's a look at the company's upcoming e-bookstore and what it could mean for you.
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5 Reasons Why Google Chrome Will Crush IE In Browser War From a zero market share prior to 2009, Google's Chrome has cornered 6.7 percent of the browser market. Here's what makes Chrome so hot.
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Medal of Honor Reboot Dated, New Trailer Released Electronic Arts locks in a fall 2010 release date, debuts a new trailer for its upcoming answer to Activision's Modern Warfare 2.
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What the Heck is Dragon Age Origins: Darkspawn Chronicles? BioWare's high fantasy roleplaying game for Xbox 360 and Windows may have a new expansion in the offing, but it's anyone's guess what 400 MS Points will bring.
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Deals of the Week This week's deals include a powerful Canon point-and-shoot camera and the Nintendo Wii console.
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Apple's Near Field Plans Mean iPhone Will be 'iWallet' Apple's iPhone seems on course to finally open up the market for RFID-based, highly secure, paperless payments.
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Google Chrome 5 Beta: The Top Five Features Google is touting the speed of its latest browser release, but the Chrome 5 beta offers plenty of other attractive features.
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Adobe Flash Shows Up on Mysterious Android Tablet Forget about the iPad: Adobe shows a mysterious Android-based tablet capable of running Flash flawlessly.
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Googles E-Book Store: Five Burning Questions Google Editions, coming this summer, will offer a different take on the e-bookstore. But will it be different enough?
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Apple: the New Microsoft? The potential antitrust probe into Apple's business practice sounds very familiar.
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Blogger Tests Limits of iPad's Unlimited Plan A blogger downloads over 30GB of data in two days to see if AT&T's unlimted data plan for the iPad really is unlimited.
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Intel Digs Deeper Into Tablet Market With Moorestown Intel on Wednesday announced the Moorestown chip for tablet computers.
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Facebook Bug Exposes Private Chats A Facebook bug allowed people to see their friends' chat sessions.
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New Chrome Beta Proves Seriously Speedy The new beta of Chrome for Windows is nearly a fifth faster than its more stable sibling, but still lags behind speed leader Opera, benchmark tests show.
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Fast-Spreading Worm Targets USB Drives A crafty new P2P worm appears to be spreading quickly among users of a range of popular file-sharing programs.
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Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 Family to Get Android 2.1 in Q4 Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro will all get an upgrade from Android 1.6 to version 2.1 during the last three months of 2010.
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15 Fictional Heroes of Geek Without being handsome, muscular, or extroverted, these fictional geeks still managed to become heroes.
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Microsoft Kin Phones to Go on Sale Thursday at Verizon Microsoft is set to begin competing more directly with Apple in mobile phones when pre-orders of its two new feature phones begin at Verizon Thursday.
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Microsoft Spindex Puts New Spin on Social Networking Microsoft FUSE Labs introduced Spindex, a new social networking tool, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
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