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August 12, 2010
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Android Big Winner as Smartphone Sales Increase 50 Percent Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users increased by about 50 percent during the second quarter, and Android was the big winner.
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Sprint to Launch Samsung Epic 4G August 31 Eager customers can make "reservations" online starting Friday to guarantee delivery of their own Samsung Galaxy S by month's end.
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The Unsolved Mysteries Behind Mark Hurd's HP Dismissal Hurd's sudden departure from HP was intended to avoid a PR fallout. But several facets of this story have yet to be explained.
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Apple's Verizon iPhone Prototype is Ready for January, Report says The iPhone may embrace CDMA, but that doesn't guarantee Verizon gets a monopoly, pundit posits.
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Chrome Beta 6: Simple, Speedy and Full of Add-Ons Newest beta of Google's browser adds autofill, syncing, and interface changes.
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Sony Planning PSP Phone, Android 3.0 Gaming Platform? Sony Ericsson may be planning to release an Android 3.0-based phone with PSP gaming capabilities.
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Apple Becomes Most Hated Brand on the Internet Where are Apple fanboys now that Apple -- according to Brandwatch -- has become the most reviled brand on the Internet?
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Will Apple TV Become iTV? The set-top box may be getting a new life running iOS applications and producing 720p HD video output.
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Dell Streak Arrives Friday -- Then What? Streak opens a Dell campaign for mobile prowess, bolstered by Thunder and Lightening.
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Blockbuster Takes Aim at Gamefly The real test for the service will be availability of new games, which has always been a problem for Gamefly -- but Im skeptical that Blockbuster can do better.
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Is Google Plotting to Overthrow Facebook? After piecing together bits of information, industry watchers suspect Google will attempt to wrest the social networking crown from Facebook.
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Dry-Erase Jenny: The 'HOPA' Is a Hoax Millions of people around the Internet believed the story of a 'real-life' young woman who quit her job through a series of dry-erase messages.
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Plastic Logic Kills Que E-Reader After multiple delays, its decided that the fast-evolving e-reader market has rendered the Que obsolete before it ever shipped.
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Update iOS Now, Malicious Attacks Coming Soon The exploit code used in the JailbreakMe hack has been made public, making malicious attacks imminent, and increasing the urgency to apply the iOS updates from Apple.
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21 Signs You've Been Spoiled Rotten by Technology Do you complain loudly if the Wi-Fi on the airplane fizzles out? Gripe if a YouTube stream falters? Own an HDTV bigger than your couch? If so, you might be spoiled by technology. Read on for more warning signs.
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US Broadband Victim of Vicious Circle The Internet industry is fighting efforts to expand broadband and enforce net neutrality, and a recent study shows that support for the National Broadband Plan is waning, but the United States needs to stay the course in spite of the opposition.
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AT&T Loves the Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Pitch The new network neutrality framework would leave wireless broadband virtually unregulated.
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Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug that could give spammers user names and photographs.
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Five Reasons You Don't Need the Dell Streak The Dell Streak hybrid tablet-smartphone will make you pay more for less and look foolish.
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Researchers: A Rubik's Cube Can Be Solved in no More Than 20 Moves No matter how difficult the puzzle may seem, researchers have found that any Rubik Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less.
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