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October 6, 2010
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Skype's Android App: A Disappointing Debut Analysis: Skype's first stab at Android is a convoluted mess of unexplained options and unreasonable restrictions.
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New Droid Pro Leads Motorolas Enhanced Android Smartphone Lineup Motorola introduces the Droid Pro to challenge RIMs BlackBerry in the corporate market; emphasizes Androids evolution to the mainstream.
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iPad, Tablets Cannibalizing Laptop, Netbook Sales Laptop sales dropped 1 percent in July and August 2010 and tablets are now eating away at higher-end and less-portable laptop sales.
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iPhone Gets Google Goggles: First Look After a year of availability on Android phones Google Goggles visual search app is now available on the iPhone.
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Facebook's Event: Last-Minute Rumor Round-Up A Skype partnership, more Places, a site redesign and the persistent Facebook phone rumor are the things people are buzzing about ahead of Facebook's event today.
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What You Did in Dragon Age: Origins Matters in Dragon Age II BioWare dishes on importing save games from Dragon Age: Origins in its upcoming sequel, Dragon Age II.
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T-Mobile to Launch Prepaid Data Plan The mobile carrier will offer three plans that customers can select, ranging in price from $10 for a week to $50 a month.
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Why the Mac Still Matters to Apple Apple is now selling nearly as many Macs in some quarters as it once sold in an entire year, partially because of Mac OS X, partly because of the company's focus on user experience, partly because of the success of the iPod and the impact of the iPhone and iPod touch.
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What Should ISPs Do about Bot-Infected Users? It's time for ISPs to wake up to their responsibilities and cut off bot-infected users.
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Nielsen: iPhone 4 Fails to Stave Off Android Invasion According to Nielsen research more people bought Android-based smartphones than iPhones making the Android OS the mobile platform to beat.
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5 Strange Ways iPhones Die: Insurer Hears it All What do toilets, beer and elevators have in common? They all send many iPhones to their death, says consumer electronics insurer Worth Ave. Group, which shared some unfortunate tales of iPhone disaster.
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Why Apple TV Will Eat Google TV's Lunch Forget about Google TV. Apple's got five secret weapons that will help it pull the plug on Google TV.
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Browser Market Share is in the Eye of the Beholder Browser market share numbers vary widely depending on the source, so which numbers are right and how are you supposed to make any sense of the information?
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Common Gadgets May Be Affected by Shortage of Rare Earths Shortages of raw materials known as rare earth metals may move gadget prices, manufacturing jobs, recycling projects and even pollution round the world
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Motorola Launches Droid Pro in Android Flurry Motorola introduced the Droid Pro, an Android smartphone aimed at the BlackBerry market, on Tuesday in San Francisco.
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HP Confirms WebOS Smartphones Coming Soon An HP exec ended months of rumor and gossip about the demise or future of WebOS--confirming that HP will launch new WebOS smartphones in early 2011.
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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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