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September 13, 2010
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Google Instant: 2 Doubts Speed? Accuracy? Not so much, but occasionally amusing.
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Apple iPad Already Long in the Tooth The first-generation iPad, despite its innovations, is an old-timer.
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New Nokia Exec's Biggest Challenge: Shipping With new challengers on the horizon, Nokia has a brief opportunity to reassert itself.
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11 Infamous Software Bugs Celebrate 'Debugging Day' by remembering these monster problems from the past.
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YouTube Goes 'Live' with Streaming Experiment Google's YouTube division says it will offer live Web programs as an experiment over the next two days.
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Adobe Illustrator Goes HTML5 Analysis: Adobe unveils an add-on pack for its Illustrator vector-drawing package that turns the software into an HTML5 authoring tool.
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Anti-US Hacker Takes Credit for 'Here You Have' Worm A hacker critical of the U.S. war in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the 'Here you have worm.'
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Adobe Blocks PDF Exploit with Microsoft's Help One of Microsoft's enterprise tools can stop exploits of zero-day hole in Acrobat and Reader, Adobe says.
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Why is Google So Condescending? Analysis: Recent comments by Google's top PR guy and even its CEO make me wonder whether the company understands how such comments do far more harm than good.
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FCC Paving the Way to "Wi-Fi on Steroids" The FCC will vote next week to make the broadcast TV spectrum white space available for public use in next-generation "super Wi-Fi" technologies.
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HP Buying ArcSight for $1.5 Billion UPDATE: Hewlett-Packard looks to integrate ArcSight's security software with its own monitoring tools.
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Acer Reportedly Developing Dual-Touchscreen Laptop Ready to give up a physical keyboard and mouse or trackball? Acer is apparently experimenting with the concept.
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Google Apps Marketplace: Good Start, Long Road Ahead Six months after launching its Google Apps Marketplace, Google is pleased with the project's progress but acknowledges it has much bigger expectations.
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Google: Android Froyo OS Is Hot, Fragmentation Remains Google has released a breakdown of Android releases running on active smartphones. Here is a progress update on the Android army takeover.
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Is Google Too Smart for Us? Google's debut of its Instant "predictive search" product last week rubbed some people the wrong way.
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Apple Slates China IPad Launch for Friday Apple today announced that it will sell the iPad in China starting this Friday.
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Is Microsoft Helping Russia Crack Down on Dissidents? Microsoft is helping the Russian government crack down against dissidents under the guise of anti-piracy efforts, according to a report by The New York Times.
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iPods Overtake Traditional Prized Possessions Forget the wedding ring; portable media players and other digital gadgets are treasures for the Facebook generation, a survey reveals.
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Is Google Killing the Economy? A new report suggests that Google's pervasive and growing monopoly of the Web is a danger to privacy and security, and threatens both the economy and the job market if left unchecked.
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Japan Launches Its First GPS Satellite Japan launched on Saturday the first of a planned series of satellites that promise to improve the accuracy of satellite navigation services in the country.
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