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August 7, 2010
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Why Android App Security Is Better Than for the iPhone Apple's paternalistic approach can't compete with the openness and user control enabled by Google's Android mobile operating system.
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HP's Mark Hurd Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Investigation HP's CEO is stepping down after the company investigated a sexual harassment complaint against him.
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Net Neutrality: What's the Price? Analysis: Talks by Google and Verizon raise worries among net neutrality advocates even as the FCC shifts its stance.
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Windows Phone 7 Apps: Third-Party Early Birds Arrive After seeing rough drafts of Windows Phone 7 apps -- developed by name-brand companies and some less familiar faces -- I feel cautiously optimistic.
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Google Boosts Social Net Tools with Slide Buy Slide Acquisition gives Google new expertise, energy and weapons against Facebook.
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Net Neutrality: What's Really Going on? The week has been filled with contradictory reports about the FCC's plans regarding network neutrality, and second-guessing players' motivations.
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Microsoft Scrambles to Squash Bug in Windows Kernel An unpatched vulnerability in the Windows kernel driver is being investigated after a security researcher reveals its existence.
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Mark Hurd: Reviewing His HP Tenure A sexual harassment claim prompts the CEO quits after five years of rebuilding Hewlett-Packard's name; how has he changed the company, and what may change now?
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Notebooks Push Asia Pacific Sales Spurt The Asia Pacific PC market sees strong growth, IDC analysts report.
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RIM May Have Cut Deal With Saudi Arabia, Say Reports Research In Motion has reportedly come to an agreement with Saudi Arabia; that could have repercussions in other countries
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Browser 'Privacy Modes' Not So Private After All Researchers have found that "privacy mode" fails to purge all traces of a Net surfer's activities.
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App Market Stars: Apple IOS, Android Android apps are gaining fast on iPhone's selection, but together they dominate the mobile software market.
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'Private Browsing' Not So Much Web browser add-ons compromise the security of so-called "private" modes, security researchers find.
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Prepare for Data Tsunami, Warns Google CEO Google CEO Eric Schmidt says an explosion of data is coming -- and we're totally unprepared to handle the deluge. Here's why he's right.
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Time to Give Up on The Beatles on iTunes John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, dashed hopes The Beatles music will be available as digital downloads via Apple's iTunes music store anytime soon.
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Where Does HP Go From Here? Hurd's abrupt departure as CEO amid a sexual harrassment scandal leaves HP with a variety of unfinished acquisitions and grand plans, but with no leader to provide the strategic vision.
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Google's Biggest Bombs and Bungles Sure, Google Wave is the latest casualty, but the search behemoth has terminated a number of services over the years.
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Google: 129 Million Different Books Have Been Published Google estimates about 129 million books have been published, and it plans to digitize them all
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Alleged RBS WorldPay Hacker Extradited to US The U.S. has extradited one of the alleged leaders of the $9.4 million RBS WorldPay hack
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The Most Underrated Video Games of This Generation Here are 17 current-gen video games that should have been bigger hits.
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