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October 9, 2010
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Facebook Groups Prank Shows Problem with Default Opt-In I assume Mark Zuckerberg isn't really a member of NAMBLA, but the prank of adding him without his consent is a poignant example of what's wrong with Facebook Groups.
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Mobile Internet Will Rule Within 5 Years, Analysts Say Researchers offer surprising forecasts for the fate of smartphones, netbooks, tablets, Android devices, and Windows in an increasingly mobile world.
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3D TVs At Top of 'Hype Cycle' Big surprise, according the 2010 Hype Cycle report 3D TVs have reached record hype levels.
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Quarantine PCs to Fight Botnets, Microsoft Says Head of Microsoft chief suggests a strategy to stop the spread of botnets over the internet.
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World of Warcraft Subscribers Hit 12 Million The population of players of this game exceeds the combined residency of several countries.
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Yahoo Lays out Road Map for BOSS UPDATE: Yahoo's BOSS platform, which lets external developers build custom search engines on top of the company's search infrastructure, will shift to a paid model.
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Apple Heads off iPhone 'Glassgate' Apple is reportedly working behind the scenes to avert another wave of iPhone 4 complaints, this time about breaking glass panels.
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What You'll Pay For In-Flight Wi-Fi Wireless Internet access can make a long plane trip fly by. Here's what connecting to the Internet on domestic flights will cost you.
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Apple iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Tool Expected Sunday A member of the Chronic Dev Team has tweeted that the heavily anticipated greenpois0n Apple iOS 4.1 jailbreaking solution will be released 10/10/10.
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Yawn, Another Subscription iTunes Rumor Rumors that Apple is getting set to launch a music subscription service for iTunes have surfaced yet again.
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Google to Disconnect GOOG-411 Service The 3-year-old service is positively quaint when stacked against Google's newer, more sophisticated voice-search tools for smartphones.
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Hot Phones for the Holidays 'Android for everybody' is the theme of this holiday season, with a barrage of affordable and entry-level smartphones launching on all four carriers. A few high-end phones were unveiled at this fall's CTIA show as well, including the latest T-Mobile MyTouch and the Motorola Droid Pro.
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Gamers Fight for First Amendment Rights Analysis: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a California law restricting video game sales. Here's what's really at stake.
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WiMax: Goodbye and Good Riddance With Sprint pulling out of its Clearwire partnership over WiMax, there's now a chance for a unified 4G technology rollout in the U.S.
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Facebooks Promising, Infuriating New Groups Feature Despite Facebook's glowing promise of "more control," the new Groups feature fails to do exactly that.
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AT&T U-Verse Due for Xbox 360 It's not official, but apparently AT&T is readying release of a U-Verse update that supports the Xbox 360 (with a hard drive).
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Windows Phone 7 Launch: Microsoft's Credibility and Challenges Microsoft's mobile ambitions are riding on the new Windows Phone 7 handsets being released Monday.
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Hurry Up and Wait for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expecting StarCraft II's followup sometime next year? Brace up, because it sounds like we probably won't see Heart of the Swarm until 2012.
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Facebook's Busy Week: a TV appearance, Pushing Privacy, and Swatting Spam The movie doesn't tell this story -- Facebook execs had a full schedule this week with new features, policies, and challenges.
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IBM to Turbo-charge More Servers With Accelerators IBM is adding new servers with specialized chips to accelerate certain applications.
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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?
RealPlayer Beta   146867 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Audio Players
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