Monday, 23 August 2010

Technology's Biggest Myths

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August 23, 2010
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Technology's Biggest Myths Expensive cables are better! Defragging speeds up your PC! Refilling ink cartridges ruins your printer! We put these and nine other claims to the test to find the truth behind tech's tallest tales.
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Tablets: Real and Rumored A quick look at tablets on the market today and several that might be available soon.
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Motorola's Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess Motorola threatens websites hosting the Froyo update before it supplies the official version to impatient customers.
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Apple Patent Could End iPhone Jailbreaking An Apple patent application, filed earlier this year but posted online could put an end to jailbreaking iPhones, iPod touches and iPads reports claims.
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Apple iTV Gets Apps in September, Says Digg Founder Apple reportedly is revamping its TV entry to bring it into the family of iOS-powered products.
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Facebook Places: Does it Have the Location-Sharing Secret Sauce? Comparing rival location-sharing services -- their goodies, gotchas, and user gripes.
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Is Chatroulette Cleaning Up Its X-Rated Act? The controversial webcam-powered chat service is on hiatus with the promise to return with a mystery redesign.
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Who Leaked Halo: Reach Early? Microsoft Did Halo: Reach has left the building prematurely, and the hacked copy now circulating on file sharing sites was initially distributed by the least likely culprit.
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Neverwinter Nights Reborn as Online Roleplaying Game Atari announces online roleplaying version of D&D Neverwinter Nights series coming exclusively for PCs in 2011.
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Kindle 3 Ships This Week: Are You Getting One? Amazon's refreshed e-reader is smaller, thinner, and easier to read -- and has more rivals.
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Twitter Tips: How to Get Retweeted Do some words in your tweets increase the odds that others will share your content? Yes: Check out this new tool.
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Adobe Reader Gets Critical Patch Users are urged to update the Reader PDF software with an 'out-of-band' update that fixes two vulnerabilities.
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HP Offers $1.6 Billion for 3PAR, Tops Dell's Offer Hewlett-Packard has offered to buy 3PAR, a vendor of virtualized storage systems, for US$1.6 billion in cash, topping a bid of $1.15 billion made by Dell.
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Third Time's a Charm: iOS 4.1 Will Finally Fix iPhone 4 A message from Steve Jobs iPhone confirms an iOS update is coming soon, and rumors suggest that it will finally fix the proximity sensor issue in the iPhone 4.
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Five Ways the Apple Patent Will Improve iPhone and iPad Security Paranoid conspiracy theories about disabling jailbroken devices aside, the recent Apple patent application reveals a variety of innovative remote security capabilities that IT admins can put to use for monitoring and protecting iPhones and iPads.
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HP or Dell: Which Way Should 3PAR Go? HP has outbid Dell for 3PAR, starting a bidding war for the cloud storage company and challenging the 3PAR board to determine which company is the better suitor.
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Don't Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive Oracle has apparently declared war on open source software, and the widely popular office productivity suite could be its next target.
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Intel Releases Faster Dual-core Atom Netbook Processor Intel on Monday released a dual-core Atom N550 processor, which will bring better performance to netbooks.
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Aluratek's E-reader Cracks the $100 Barrier The price of an e-reader from Aluratek has dropped to under $100, escalating the price war between makers of e-readers.
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Researcher Arrested for Alleged Voting Machine Theft Police in Mumbai arrested a security researcher on Saturday who has investigated security problems in electronic voting machines.
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Technology's Biggest Myths Expensive cables are better! Defragging speeds up your PC! Refilling ink cartridges ruins your printer! We put these and nine other claims to the test to find the truth behind tech's tallest tales.
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Tablets: Real and Rumored A quick look at tablets on the market today and several that might be available soon.
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