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5 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone - and 5 Reasons Not

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5 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhone - and 5 Reasons Not It's easy to jailbreak your iPhone to run non-Apple approved applications. Here are 5 reasons why you might want to and you might want to think twice.
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New BlackBerry Torch Fires Up RIM's Smartphone Lineup RIM's Torch 9800 sports a slide-out keyboard, touchscreen, and is the first BlackBerry to run 6 OS.
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5 Reasons Facebook Has Us More Out of Touch Than Ever We may spend plenty of time perusing social networking sites, but that doesn't mean we're all social butterflies.
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BlackBerry Torch 9800 Slider Gets Official on AT&T RIM's BlackBerry Torch is touchscreen slider style phone that sports a revamped mobile OS.
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Stupid Mobile Tricks: 7 Stories of Smartphone Horror If the word "smartphone" has ever struck you as ironic, you aren't alone. Thank your lucky stars these horrors didn't happen to you
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Reality Check On Those 'Data-Mining' Android Apps The truth about those 'data-mining' Android apps is a bit more mundane than recent headlines would suggest.
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RIM to Battle Apple With New Phone and Tablet, Say Reports What does RIM have up its sleeve for Tuesday's press conference? It is expected the company will unveil a new tablet and phone to compete with Apple's mobile offerings.
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What Android's Impressive Growth Means for You Android sales best iPhone sales and what's it like in a world where Android phones have gone mainstream?
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Jailbreak Your iPhone and Use FaceTime Over 3G Using FaceTime over 3G with a jailbroken iPhone only uses three megabytes of data per minute--what are you waiting for?
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As Smartphone Growth Skyrockets, Which Brand Will Dominate? Nielsen is predicting that smartphones in the U.S. will finally become more popular than feature phones by the end of 2011. If these devices continue to experience this phenomenal growth, which brand is headed for smartphone domination?
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Microsoft Office for Mac Lands in October  at Lower Price Home and Student edition will cost $119 for a single license and $149 for a family license; Home and Business edition single license will cost $199, down from $399.
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Android Bests iPhone In Popularity Contest - For Now A recent study shows that Android-based phones are more popular than the mighty iPhone. But RIM BlackBerry beats them both.
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iPad, MacBook Sales Make Apple No. 3 in Portable Devices Apple emerges as the current number three seller of portable computing devices after HP and Acer if you want to include iPad and MacBook sales.
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StarCraft II Sales Tops 1.5 Million Copies in 48 Hours Blizzard's PC-exclusive real-time strategy sci-fi sequel debuts to record retail sales in first two days of availability.
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RIM's 'BlackPad' Tablet: Why It'll Succeed, Why It Won't Rumors have it RIM BlackBerry will announce a 'BlackPad' tablet device Tuesday at a press event in New York City.
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Apple's Safari Browser Makes Meaningful Gains In Browser Wars Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser may be the market share leader, but Apple's Safari browser is making real gains in the browser war.
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Apple iPhone Gets a Web App Store Websites and services that use Web apps in lieu of native iPhone software get a storefront of their own: OpenAppMkt.
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Is Linux Really Harder to Use? Linux may feel different for first-time users, but it's definitely no more difficult than more popular operating systems, such as Windows.
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Social Media Devours Our Time Online, Says Nielsen Study If data from Nielsen is to be believed, checking e-mail is no longer the primary pastime of the online user.
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Is Apple's iPhone Factory Churning out Verizon iPhones? Apple's iPhone factory owner, Foxconn, has set up a temporary workshop in inland China as it "prepares to build a permanent plant nearby to make iPhones for Apple."
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