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Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP

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August 5, 2010
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Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP Microsoft is trying its hardest to kill the operating system Windows XP, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, putting many XP users at risk.
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Google Wave Failure May Help Google Me Succeed Lessons learned from the failure of Google Wave may help engineers at the company come up with a far better social networking offering to take on Facebook...
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Microsoft Sets Stage for IE9 Beta Microsoft on Wednesday updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build...
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BlackBerry Torch: The Initial Verdicts RIM's BlackBerry Torch smartphone gets scrutinized by leading tech voices on the Internet. Here is what they have to say.
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Nexus One no more? Think Again The Nexus One will have a second life as Google's official Developer Phone, allowing Android developers to buy the phone directly from Google, unlocked and not tied to a carrier.
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Survey: Most iPhone 4 Users 'Very Satisfied' According to a new survey, the iPhone 4 isn't getting as high of ratings as the iPhone 3GS did--but they're still pretty darn high.
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Blackberry Torch 9800: Try Again, RIM RIM is turning its spotlight on the Torch's OS update because the hardware is generally business as usual.
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Android Invasion Has Begun: 200K Droids Activated Daily Google is touting the success of its Android mobile operating system claiming 200,000 of the phones are being activated daily.
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Calling BlackBerry Users: Who's Spying on Your E-mail? A day after RIM debuted its latest entry in the it's-not-an-iPhone-but-an-amazing-facsimile contest, the BlackBerry Torch 9800, it got a kick in the keister from Saudi Arabia.
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Whos Calling? Android App Promises True Caller ID For the first time on a mobile phone, true caller ID is available. No more guessing whos on the other end of the line.
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Google Wave Is Dead: Now What? Google says it will wind down support for its collaboration tool Wave by year's end. But what's going to happen to the technology that went into the ambitious Google product?
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Fold Proteins, Help Cure Diseases in Foldit Video Game Gamers bring 'citizen science' to bear on complex scientific questions by solving protein-folding puzzles in a free online video game.
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11 Free Linux Apps Your Business Needs Now You don't need to shell out big bucks for software. These free apps are great alternatives to popular software for Windows and Mac OS X, for any small business using Linux.
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Batman: Arkham City Announced, Coming in 2011 Details are scarce, but Warner Bros. says the sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum will feature all new villains and ship sometime next fall.
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Google Axes Wave Google says it will wave goodbye to its online collaboration tool Wave, citing weak user adoption.
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