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August 2, 2010
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Droid Does Froyo: Your Guide to This Week's Android 2.2 Upgrade Verizon's Motorola Droid is finally getting its Froyo fix this week. Here's a quick refresher on what you can expect once Android 2.2 invades your phone.
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Let the Samsung Galaxy Tablet Hype Begin Here's what we know so far -- but Samsung hints of an announcement soon.
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Hackers Update iPhone Jailbreak App The latest version of software that allows iPhone owners to install applications not approved by Apple has been released.
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AT&T, Verizon Want to Replace Your Credit Cards Smartphone payment options with the help of RFID tags are in the works worldwide.
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Twitter Reaches 20 Billion Tweets On Saturday the 20 billionth tweet was sent over Twitter.
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Social Media Changes Old Web Habits Is swapping e-mail passe and killing time on Yahoo old fashion? Nielson study suggests e-mail is out of date as we spend more time Facebooking and tweeting.
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Browser Wars Enter a New Round Analysis: It's been a long time since the race for best browser was this close. Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are all really good.
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Microsoft Rushes Unscheduled Patch for Shortcut Flaw Microsoft is issuing an out-of-band patch for the shortcut flaw in Windows in response to a rise in attacks--but users stuck on Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2 are on their own.
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7 Strangest Facebook Apps Facebook has been branded by many as a notorious waste of time, and welcoming these seven apps to its collection certainly hasn't helped its reputation. From photo-altering apps to random name generators, Facebook's Application Directory is chock full of absurd add-ons.
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Apple Yanks iPhone 4, Smartphone Antenna Videos Apple's videos of competitive antenna tests tried to show that competing smartphones have antenna issues, too.
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New Linux Kernel Borrows Google Packet Speeding Tech Linus Torvalds releases version 2.6.35 of the Linux kernel
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Take Advantage of Increased Time Spent on Social Networking Nielsen reports that Americans are spending more time on social networks. Businesses need to capitalize on that trend to communicate effectively with customers.
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The Web-Based iOS Jailbreak Tool- How Does It Work? Hot on the heels of the U.S. Copyright office declaring jailbreaking smartphones legal, a new web-based iOS jailbreak tool has surfaced. The new tool makes the jailbreaking process leaps and bounds simpler than past PC-based tools. JailbreakMe.com works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. But how does it work?
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Internet Explorer 8 Continues to Lead All Web Browsers The latest Net Applications browser market share stats show Internet Explorer continuing to rebound globally, led by the success of Internet Explorer 8 which is the number one Web browser over all.
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Meet the Man Who Helped Lamo Turn in Manning, the Wikileaker The man who helped Adrian Lamo turn Wikileaks source Bradley Manning into authorities calls Lamo a 'Patriot.'
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AVG Uncovers New Data-stealing Mumba Botnet Researchers at AVG have uncovered a botnet that has been harvesting personal information that uses the latest version of the Zeus malware.
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How New Technology Is Rewiring Our Brains Touchscreens. TiVo. The Undo button. These new technologies and others have changed the way we interact with the world.
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Study Reflects Weak Server Spending This Year Server spending remains weak despite expectations of server budgets opening up, research firm TheInfoPro said on Monday.
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Chinese Online Game Law Requires Real-name Registration Online gamers in China will have to begin registering with their real names due to new government regulations that took effect on Sunday. b
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Droid Does Froyo: Your Guide to This Week's Android 2.2 Upgrade Verizon's Motorola Droid is finally getting its Froyo fix this week. Here's a quick refresher on what you can expect once Android 2.2 invades your phone.
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