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Nokia and Yahoo Team Up: Does Anyone Care?

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May 25, 2010
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Nokia and Yahoo Team Up: Does Anyone Care? Nokia and Yahoo are teaming up to take on Android and Apple in the mobile phone realm. Is there anyone out there who's actually excited about this? Anyone? Hello?
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Halo: Reach Locks In September Launch Microsoft's sci-fi shooter prequel will debut September 14, amidst suggestions the game's multiplayer beta fell short of expected participant totals.
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Facebook CEO's Privacy Promises: What's Missing Facebook's privacy pledge is incomplete if it doesn't address nagging opt-in vs. opt-out issues
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Facebook Caves to Privacy Pressure: 'Simplified' Controls Debut Wednesday Social network looks to make up for its latest privacy debacle by introducing new privacy settings as soon as Wednesday.
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Soluto Utility Shrinks PC Boot Times, Fixes Problems New Soluto utility optimizes PCs for fastest start-ups and keeps working to fix PC problems.
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No Simple Solution to Foxconn Suicides Two recent suicides of employees at a Chinese electronics manufacturer present a harsh reality to the company and its American tech partners, which include Apple, Dell, and HP.
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Internet Speedtest Results Going Public The operator of Speedtest.net is set on Tuesday to start providing statistics from its Web-based Internet measurement tool for free to consumers.
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Dell Streak Tablet Coming This Summer Dell also says its mini tablet will get an upgrade to the newest, Flash-capable version of Android later this year.
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Yahoo Buys Indonesian Mobile Internet Company Yahoo has bought Koprol.com, an Indonesian mobile location-based-services Web company similar to Foursquare in the U.S.
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Twitter Gets Serious About Getting Paid Micro-blogging site bans third-party ads in an effort to protect its Promoted Tweets platform.
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Google's Pac-Man Freaks out Firefox Users Google's celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man last week flooded Mozilla's Firefox support forum with complaints about siren sounds and offbeat...
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Report: Microsoft Plans Reshuffle to Fight Apple, Google With Apple and Google winning over consumers with cool new smartphones and slick tablets, Microsoft has realized it's time to fight back.
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Deeper Windows Phone 7 Details Continue to Surface More details emerge about Microsoft's revamped Windows Phone 7 OS, as hackers and programmers dig deeper.
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Sales of Laptops Grew by 43 Percent in Q1, Says Gartner Shipments of laptops rose by 43.4 percent in the first three months of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to Gartner.
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Microsoft can be Winner in War between Apple and Google Microsoft can take advantage of rivalry between Apple and Google to expand its dominance in key areas.
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Wal-Mart Slashes iPhone 3GS Price to $97 The price of Apple's 16GB iPhone 3GS will be cut to $97, according to reports, paving the way for the unveiling next month of next iPhone model.
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Nokia and Yahoo Team Up: Does Anyone Care? Nokia and Yahoo are teaming up to take on Android and Apple in the mobile phone realm. Is there anyone out there who's actually excited about this? Anyone? Hello?
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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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