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June 4, 2010
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AT&T Data Caps, Customer Threats -- What Next? If AT&T is actively trying to get a bad rap, it's doing a great job. How else can you explain this week's one-two punch of promise-breaking data caps and corporate-issued customer threats?
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Facebook E-mail Leak Claims are Bogus Facebook deserves a lot of the mud flung its way, but this was a case of blog first, ask questions later.
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PlayStation 3 vs. Xbox 360 Price Fight, June 2010 We pit the Xbox 360 against the PlayStation 3 in our latest price roundup before E3 reshuffles things in less than two weeks.
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10 Top Firefox Apps Mozilla's underlying Web browser technology also runs non-browser applications -- Here are some favorites.
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Shogun 2: Total War Returns Series to Roots Sega announces Shogun 2: Total War and promises to "bring the wisdom of Master Sun Tsu" to its popular history-minded real-time strategy series.
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AT&T Response to CEO E-mails Leads to Backlash AT&T threatened to send a cease and desist letter to a customer who e-mailed the CEO.
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Alleged White iPhone HD Images Leak Online Images of an alleged white iPhone HD have surfaced online.
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Microsoft Cloud Service Deployed by Kentucky Schools The Kentucky Education Department ditches e-mail servers in favor of a Microsoft cloud offering.
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Android Tablets on Show by Foxconn, Hardkernel Foxconn and Hardkernel displayed 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet designs at Computex that used Google's mobile Android software.
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How to Get Rejected from the App Store Often puzzling, always frustrating, the list of reasons why developers are denied access to Apple's iPhone App Store grows ever longer.
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Google Is Ginormous: Why You Should Care Will Google ever be too big to trust with our secrets? The search giants business portfolio now spans health care, wireless, business Web apps, and social networks.
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How AT&T's Data Limits Affect You Mobile phone users, rival carriers and Internet content providers may all feel the impact of AT&T's new data pricing plan.
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Courts Allow Search of Gizmodo Editor's Computers After a month and a half of sitting around and determining whether or not Jason Chen's computers were protected from search by journalist shield laws, San Mateo county courts have allowed the investigation to proceed.
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Visa Launches One-time Passcode Cards in Europe Visa has launched a payment card that displays a one-time passcode, an additional defense against potentially fraudulent Internet transactions.
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AT&T's New Data Plans: a FAQ A guide to sorting out the new data plans and finding a good fit in an age without unlimited usage service.
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Google Relents, Will Hand Over European Wi-Fi Data In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks.
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Steve Ballmer: General-Purpose PC Isn't Going Away Microsoft's Steve Ballmer believes PCs will continue to evolve but will remain popular.
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