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October 14, 2010
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DHS Scoured Social Media Sites During Obama Inauguration for 'items of Interest' A rights advocacy group is expressing concern over what it contends was an overly broad surveillance of social networking sites conducted by the U.S...
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8 Things We Still Hate About the Web The Web has evolved dramatically since its beginnings, but we still see sites pulling the same obnoxious stunts that annoyed us in 1994. Here are some of the main offenders.
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AOL May Join in Bid for Yahoo, Report Says The Wall Street Journal reports that AOL may be exploring ways to buy Yahoo.
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Tango Knocks Twitter, Skype and Facebook Off Their Perch The social networking giants lost their lead after an unprecedented run-up from newcomer Tango, a new free mobile-to-mobile video calling service that launched last month.
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Bing Getting Social with Facebook Bing is aligning itself with the social networking site Facebook to get the edge on mutual enemy Google.
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Verizon Wireless Gets the iPad, Sort Of Verizon Wireless stores will begin selling Apple's iPad on October 28, but without 3G inside
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Opera to Launch Full-Fledged Android Browser Opera Mobile for Android will feature hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom functionality. It is slated to arrived within a month.
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15 Fun and Freaky iPhone Mods These modifications of various Apple mobile devices reflect impressive amounts of ingenuity, skill, and--in some instances--leisure time.
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Apple's 'Back to the Mac' Event: A Wish List Rumors and speculation will be flying heading into the event, but you should at least expect an update to iLife and iWork and a new MacBook Air.
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T-Mobile Lowers Data 'Cap' to 5GB T-Mobile says it will begin slowing down data speeds after a user hits 5GB, starting Friday.
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Facebook Lands in Skype 5.0 for Windows The latest version of Skype for Windows PCs is available and it includes some important new features such as group video calling, automatic call recovery and Facebook integration.
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Ghoulish Gadgets: Cool Halloween Tech Some would say that Halloween is not a techie-type holiday. To those people I, and the creative (read: demented) makers of these gadgets, say "Boo!"
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Yahoo Shares Surge on AOL Buyout Rumors Speculation is rampant but Yahoo seems no more in the mood to be acquired than it was back in 2008, when it foolishly spurned a $50 billion offer from Microsoft.
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Bing Gets Facebook-ized Bing's relationship with Facebook is intriguing in part because it's leveraging all those Like-button clicks which, until now, have had an impact only on the sites with the buttons and on Facebook itself.
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Google's Promotion of Mayer Puts Location Front And Center Location services are the next big thing on the Internet and Google has already stumbled big in that area.
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This 'Sext' Has Not Been Brought to You by Apple Apple's new patent may stop you from sending sexy texts over your iPhone, but will it really work?
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The iPad -- I'm Only Sort-Of Impressed Anyone who was worried that the iPad might replace a notebook or netbook needn't be so concerned - at least for now. The iPad is, first and foremost, an iPod - leaving a big zone of opportunity for business-oriented tablets.
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Medal of Honor Reviews Lukewarm, EA Spins Reception Video game publisher says day one sales of rebooted modern-day military shooter are "great," sidesteps lower-than-expected popular site review scores.
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Gran Turismo 5 Delay Explained with Apology PlayStation 3 racing mega-series creator explains why the most anticipated and waited for racing game in history won't be out on November 2 after all.
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Apple is the Biggest U.S. PC Maker. Really? Apple shipped 1.9 million PCs in the U.S. in the last quarter, compared to HP's 4.5 million and Dell's 4.3 million. Now add a conservative estimate of 4.5 million iPads and that puts it in the lead by a mile.
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: September 2010September is a time for change, even when it comes to software. PCWorld reviewers reveled in an Android-friendly update to a venerable media player and a network manager with a new free version. They even found new ways to lay out photo pages, organize e-book libraries, and set up virtual machines. Couldn't your PC stand a little freshening up?
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