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May 27, 2010
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Man Infects Himself with (Computer) Virus In order to showcase the vulnerabilities that bionic implants have, a British scientist infected himself with a computer virus.
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Sony to Bolster PSPgo Sales with Free Games Sony will offer 10 free full-game downloads to anyone registering a PSPgo after April 1, 2010.
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Facebook Beefs Up Privacy With Three Big Changes Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed three big changes to how you will be able to manage your privacy.
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Facebook's Privacy Changes: Are You Satisfied? After a few weeks of intense criticism, Facebook is redoing its privacy settings in a major way.
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OLPC's Negroponte Says XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming in 2010 OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte said that the XO-3 tablet will debut this December, two years ahead of schedule.
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Pakistan Partially Unblocks Access to YouTube Pakistan has relaxed a blanket ban on YouTube, allowing Pakistani Internet users access to all but a few objectionable videos on the site.
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Acer Makes Handheld Push With New E-reader, Android Tablet Acer showed off a prototype tablet device and an e-reader at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.
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Foxconn Plans Safety Nets, May Raise Pay After 12th Suicide Foxconn has put in place a number of plans to deal with a growing problem of suicides at its factories.
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Barnes & Noble eReader Comes to the iPad The iPad version of B&N's eReader (please don't call it the Nook!) is good enough to compete with the offerings from Amazon and Apple.
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Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' Hits a Nerve, FCC Says A new survey commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission has found that nearly one in five American consumers have been subject to sudden and unexpected rises in their monthly cellular phone bills.
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Why Do We Trust Google More Than Facebook? Google has a lot more data on us than Facebook, but there's nary a fuss.
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Norton Plans to Go Beyond the PC Symantec announces plans for Norton Everywhere, which will bring its security software to a variety of devices, such as smartphones and set-top boxes.
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Facebook Privacy Fixes: Your Guide to the Newest Changes After feeling intense heat from its users regarding recent changes to its privacy policy, Facebook introduced new settings today. The streamlined settings are...
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Sophos: Scientist Infected With Virus Is Just Scaremongering Security vendor Sophos has slammed a technology experiment, which saw a British scientist infect himself with a computer virus, as "scaremongering".
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Move Over, Microsoft: Apple is Now Tech's Bad Boy Remember the days when Microsoft was seen as the alpha predator of the tech world? Now, it seems, Apple has taken over.
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Downloads: April 2010The reviewers and bloggers of PCWorld see a great deal of software every month. In April, their favorites ran the gamut from the useful to the delightful--and a few that fit both descriptions. From encryption to syncing, from printer utilities to desktop tidiers, from problem-solvers to puzzle games and even a Commodore 64 emulator...here are the month's favorites.
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