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November 2, 2010
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Facebook 'Mobile' Event Nov. 3: Will a Facebook Phone Surface? If Facebook is announcing a phone this week, what will it be and will it fit into a crowded mobile market?
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Will WP7 Live up to Microsoft's 'Really' Ads? AT&T and T-Mobile will start selling Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones on Nov. 8, a date Microsoft recently began promoting in clever, if questionable, TV ads labeled, 'Really?'
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Surprise! Your Facebook Data is for Sale And not just to advertisers -- some app developers are selling Facebook's user info to data brokers. Where will it end?
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Wish List: Top 10 Games for PlayStation Phone The games we'd like to see most on Sony's new headset.
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Apple Seeds iOS 4.2 to Developers The update, which will hit iPhones and iPads soon, will bring include several enhancements including AirPrint, AirPlay and in-page Safari search.
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iSuppli's Galaxy Tab Teardown Finds $205 in Parts The price is roughly $60 less than the iPad, mostly because of its smaller, cheaper 7-inch display.
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Living With Apple's 11.6" MacBook Air The Air is the closest thing to a netbook that Apple has ever released, but it doesn't reflect any backpedaling on any of the netbook-bashing that the company has indulged in.
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Android Revolution May Overwhelm BlackBerry Twice as many new smartphone users chose Android over BlackBerry in the third quarter, another sign of Android's growing market power, and Research In Motion's dramatic decline.
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Microsoft Kinect In-Game Lag Problems Solved? Game and film procedural animation pioneer claims its module for Morpheme middleware tour can make in-game lag times 'not a problem'.
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Is Time Running Out for the TV Remote? Nope. Until battery life is a non-issue for smartphones, they won't be ideal as remote controls and they won't be able to replace the remote unless all TV users have one.
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Twitter's Promoted Tweets to Poison User Timelines Twitter's initiative will annoy users, choke already-spam-muddled user timelines -- and make a lot of money. Of course, the true cost will be to users' enjoyment.
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Attack Ads--Not Just for Politicians Politicians went on the offensive--and sometimes the extremely offensive--this election cycle. For people in tech, it's familiar turf.
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Ditching your Mobile Contract when Cell Service Drops Off For one T-Mobile customer, relocating to a no-service area should not mean having to honor a cellular contract.
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Yes, Violent Video Games are Protected by the First Amendment Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case involving California's blocked attempt to ban video game sales to minors, and if common sense prevails, it should uphold the verdicts of the lower courts that ruled the law unconstitutional.
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Blekko, an Interesting First Draft of a New Way to Search the Web New search engine opens to public in beta stage.
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New Website Helps You Find Out If Political Tweets Are 'Truthy' Truthy.com, whose name was inspired by comedian Steven Colbert, searches thousands of political tweets daily and tries to pinpoint how new memes or concepts--whether true or false--originate and replicate.
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Gamewatch: Goldeneye 007, Kinect for Xbox 360 Check out the latest PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and handheld video games shipping the week of 11/1.
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What's Wrong With Microsoft's Xbox 360 Dashboard Update? The latest Xbox 360 dashboard update is live, but a few claim they can't download it, and indie games developers are livid about a radical change to Xbox Live's games marketplace.
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Want Michael Jackson's Sequined White Glove? Ubisoft plans to bundle a select number of specially made sequined white gloves with upcoming Wii dance game Michael Jackson: The Experience.
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Google's Chrome Smartbooks Have Already Lost to Apple's MacBook Air Google may have just been beaten to the punch by Apple in the race to offer consumers a slick, lightweight, and cloud-centric laptop.
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: October 2010This October, our reviewers must have floated from place to place like falling leaves; they certainly liked mobile software. They gave the thumbs-up to a BlackBerry call minder and an iPhone data helper. When at the desk, they kept connected to the world outside with cloud storage and the Web. Video conversion struck a chord, as did security.
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