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November 16, 2010
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Facebook Messages: The Worst Thing That Ever Happened Your inability to delete messages, no subject lines, and non-Facebook friends e-mailing you are some of the reasons why you should run as fast as you can away from this service.
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Lenovo IdeaPad U260: Weight of a Netbook, Power of a Laptop Lenovo dubs U260 'world's first 11.5-inch ultra-portable consumer laptop.
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The Beatles and iTunes: Making Sweet Music Together Beatles' albums are priced at $12.99 each. Individual songs cost $1.29, same as the highest price tier for best-selling tracks from other artists.
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Cloud Storage Free-for-All: Will Others Match SugarSync's Giveaway? If you're interested in backing up and sharing files in the cloud, here's what you can expect to get for free from five of today's providers.
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Instant Jam is No More The Facebook game let you play your existing music library for free, either on a PC keyboard or with a guitar controller.
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TiVos New Pricing: Cheaper and Pricier  and Definitely More Confusing TiVo is responding to competition from Apple TV, Roku and others with a holiday offer that brings the price of a TiVo box from $299.99 down to $99.99, except the offer isn't as simple as that.
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Microsoft: Kinect Topped 1 Million Units in 10 Days Xbox 360 motion sensor sells upwards of 1 million units in preliminary 10 days since November 4 launch.
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Verizon's First WP7 Phone May Be the HTC Trophy Various tech Web sites reported Monday that the HTC Trophy will be Verizon Wireless' first WP7-based smartphone.
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Android 2.3 Will Do Mobile Payments and Lots of 'Bump' Google CEO Eric Schmidt says smartphones will soon support bump technology and mobile payments.
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Facebook's New Message System Supports Online Office Docs Microsoft's Office Web Apps will be integrated with the new Facebook messaging.
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The Beatles and Apple: The Long And Winding Road Songs from The Beatles could debut on iTunes today, putting an end to one of the most popular Apple-related rumors, and a complicated history between the band and Apple.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab: Carrier Prices Compared Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T are selling the same device, but there are pricing differences across the board over the tablet's upfront and data costs.
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Google Chrome Tops 'Dirty Dozen' Vulnerable Apps List The Google Chrome browser has earned the dubious distinction of being named the most vulnerable application on the "Dirty Dozen" list of 12 applications with the...
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Mobile Providers Form New Digital Wallet Venture AT&T, Verizon Wireless T-Mobile USA, announce a new digital wallet service allowing subscribers to pay for groceries and other retail items using their phones.
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Lee Sheldon -- Ding! Gratz! Remember that game design professor at Indiana University who used experience points instead of grades to run his classes? He's at Rensselaer Polytechnic, now.
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Does iWallet iPhone Mean Apple vs. PayPal? It looks like Google is preparing to to join the iWallet battlefield, but will PayPal endure this new war?
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Cloudy Future on the Horizon Next year will see further inroads into cloud computing, according to a survey by Quest and a prediction from Forrester.
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Microsoft Lync: What You Need to Know Microsoft this week will launch Lync, the latest version of its unified communications and collaboration platform.
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Kinect: 1 Million Sold Microsoft announced today that it broke the 1 million unit sale mark with Kinect 10 days after launch. Only 4 million to go before 2011 starts.
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Cisco Announces Virtual Desktops for Video Collaboration Cisco today unveiled two virtual desktop devices, more efficient virtualization software, and more affordable videoconferencing endpoints.
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