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Android Gains, Apple Wanes -- Oh Yes, Yet Again

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July 9, 2010
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Android Gains, Apple Wanes -- Oh Yes, Yet Again Don't look now, Apple fanatics, but Android's just made another noteworthy leap in mobile market share.
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Gmail Signatures Get Fancy with Rich Text Editor Now you can spice up that bland plain text Gmail signature with a company logo and some bold formatting.
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Google Resumes Street View Driving: More Trouble Looming? Google will continue to collect images for its Street Views mapping service despite privacy concerns that have not been fully resolved.
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Facebook Answers Claim by German Privacy Regulator UPDATE: Facebook faces a fine from a German privacy regulator for failing to obtain the consent of the people whose contact details it stores.
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YouTube Leanback: Hands On The new service offers an uninterrupted stream of full-screen YouTube videos in high definition, based on your YouTube preferences and movie rentals.
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Is Dells Streak a Jumbo Smartphone or a Tiny Tablet? At five inches, the Streak's screen is so expansive that its not clear upon first glance whether this device is a phone. It is (or can be).
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Google Slammed For Wi-Fi Breach of Lawmakers' Home Networks A consumer advocacy group says Google breached the wireless networks of lawmakers
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YouTube Mobile Rocks: And 6 More Great Mobile Web Apps If you like Google's YouTube Mobile Web app you're going to love these other 6 mobile Web apps that allow you to detour Android Market and Apple's App Store.
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Apple TV to Stream 99 Cent Shows, Sources Say According to reports, in order to compete more squarely with rivals Hulu Plus and Netflix, Apple TV is considering cutting the price of a TV show in half and allowing for streaming of content for the first time.
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Google Says China Has Renewed its Content Provider License The Chinese government has renewed Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, the company announced Friday in an update to an earlier blog posting.
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Hacker Cracks Pirate Bay, Exposes 4M Pirates Popular BitTorrent index, Pirate Bay, has been hacked and 4 million user accounts have been compromised.
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5 Next Steps for Apple An Apple watcher offers predictions of Apple's next move in mobile gadgets and more.
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Blizzard: Thou Shalt Be Anonymous No Longer World of Warcraft and StarCraft II publisher to forcibly reveal members' full names on its message boards.
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NSA's Cyberattack Alert Plan Draws Cautious Support The NSA wants to insert sensors in computer networks that would be programmed to alert officials to a possible cyberattack.
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Facebook Gobbles Nextstop The site of local resources invites users to download what they've built in light of its acquisition by Facebook.
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Fring Enables 3G Video Calls on iPhone 4 This free VoIP and video calling service lets you make free calls to anyone who also has the Fring software (even Androids).
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Why Google's Back in China, and Why You Should Care China renewed Google's Internet Content Provider license. But did getting China's approval required a concession that was too great?
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Borders' E-Book Store: From Browsing Titles to Reading Books Border's is the last major bookseller in the US to get their e-book house in order. Are they too late to carve out a niche? Possibly.
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Last Patch Tuesday for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 Next Tuesday will be a light one for security bulletins, but also marks a critical deadline for many organizations as Microsoft will end support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2.
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Android Might "Captivate" Disgruntled iPhone 4 Users With the clock ticking for upset iPhone 4 users to return the device for a full refund, AT&T may have a viable alternative in the Android-based Samsung Captivate.
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