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October 20, 2010
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Verizon Tiered Data: Should You Switch Your Smartphone Plan? Verizon's new tiered data plan will reportedly offer a cheaper option for smartphone users. So is it worth making the switch?
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Zynga Hit With Lawsuit Over Facebook Privacy Breach Zynga, the company behind Facebook games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, was roped into a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday over alleged privacy violations.
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The Bell Tolls for Windows XP There are a number of IT trends users will see in coming years, but one that's expected to rise to the top will be the need to migrate off Windows XP and Office...
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Microsoft Takes Aim at Google Apps With Office 365 Microsoft ups its cloud game, but stops short of going all-in.
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CDMA iPhone Spotted in the Wild? A blogger has posted purported shots of a CDMA iPhone prototype that were taken "from a repair shop in Vietnam."
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Steve Jobs Talks Trash About Google's Android, Knocks Tiny Tablets Apple CEO Steve Jobs took shots at Google and rebutted claims by some analysts and developers that Android is a better bet for smartphones and tablets
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4 out of 5 Babies Prefer the IPad Report looks at the iPad as a tool loved by young and old alike.
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Schoolyard Bullies Branch Out Over the Internet The age-old, schoolyard threat of bullying has caught up to modern technology and recent history has shown that users with children may be missing clues to the threat posed by cyberbullying.
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Mozilla Quashes 12 Firefox Bugs Mozilla on Tuesday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a second patch for a "binary planting" problem in Windows that researchers publicized last...
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Palms Pre 2 Looks Nice, But WebOS Needs More HP's challenge is building phones that large numbers of people want to buy, but I wonder if the market hasn't already voted decisively against the Pre's smalllish case and slide-out keyboard design.
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72 Percent of Parents Monitor Their Kid's Facebook Page Nearly three quarters of parents monitor their child's social networking account, says TRUSTe.
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Sprint Launches Dell-made 3G/4G Netbook, Notebook Sprint Nextel Tuesday unveiled a Dell notebook and laptop computers that support WiMax 4G wireless networks.
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How 'Smart Antennas' Could Boost Wi-Fi Performance A question and answer session with Gonzaga University's Dr. Steven Schennum.
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Starbucks Launches Content-Rich Digital Network The network, which has partnerships with the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, magazines and other sites, is only available in Starbucks locations and could honestly turn into another reason to stop in for a latte.
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Verizon Sets Price, Release Date for Galaxy Tab Samsung's 7-inch tablet will be sold in Verizon stores for $600, starting November 11, and subsidized versions will not be available.
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Indie Developer Makes a Kindle Game Spry Fox has created Triple Town, which is supposedly the first Kindle game from an independent studio.
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Oprah Publicity Stunt Showers Audience With Kinect, Xbox 360s In another stand-up-and-scream promotional giveaway, talk show diva Oprah Winfrey lavishes Xbox 360s loaded with Kinect motion-sensor on her studio audience.
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Introspectr Indexes All of Your Web Activity The start-up is seeking to encapsulate every interaction, regardless of where it occurs, into a unified search engine.
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Violence Cut From Middle Eastern Games Two Middle Eastern companies announced a partnership today that would "introduce localised content" to Arabic-speaking regions.
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Windows Phone 7s Success Depends on Its Apps If Microsoft can hit the sweet spot between Apple and Google when it comes to app development and distribution, the Windows Phone 7 might become a huge hit.
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Verizon Tiered Data: Should You Switch Your Smartphone Plan? Verizon's new tiered data plan will reportedly offer a cheaper option for smartphone users. So is it worth making the switch?
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