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November 3, 2010
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Violent Video Game Ban Could Set Dangerous Precedent Should the government regulate sales of violent video games? The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the issue -- and its decision could have a serious impact on the future of First Amendment rights.
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Cops: Hacker Posted Stolen X-rated Pics on Facebook A California man has been charged with breaking into Web mail accounts and posting sexually explicit photos to Facebook.
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FCC Dishes Tips to Overcharged Verizon Users The Federal Communications Commission does not want you to pay $1.99 for that GB of data you never used.
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How a 42-Year-Old Porn Might Screw Video Games As the Supreme Court grapples with the legality of selling violent video games to minors, a dissent from 1968 seems as relevant as ever.
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Google Pays Cash to Hackers for Finding Web Security Flaws Google is trying to boost security through a program that pays hackers for discovering exploits in its popular Web services such as Gmail, Blogger, YouTube, and Google.
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Google Invites Hackers to Break In The online giant kicks off an experimental program that allows security researchers to find bugs in its site
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Googles Bug Bounty Program: Barbarians at the Gate Google will reward hackers who find vulnerabilities using scripting language or injecting code onto a Web page in its top Web applications
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Live Video: Facebook Mobile Event Is Mark Zuckerberg going to announce a Facebook Phone? Find out immediately with this live video feed from the event.
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Apple to Triple iTunes Song Previews to 90 Seconds Apple hopes the move will boost sales, but some record labels might pull their music from the store because the increase is an opt-in service.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Zombie Arcade Mode' Slips Out Another secret Call of Duty: Black Ops feature slips out before the actual game does.
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Facebook Dragon Age Game Will Unlock Dragon Age II Swag Play BioWare's Dragon Age Legends on Facebook in February, reap the rewards in March when Dragon Age II ships.
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Android Swamps iPhone: First in U.S. Market, Second Worldwide Android phone sales top the U.S. market and trail behind Nokia worldwide.
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Google Settles Buzz Lawsuit With No Payout to Gmail Users Google announced Tuesday that it will settle in a class-action lawsuit brought against it regarding Google Buzz.
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Gartner: Social Media Is Vital to Online Business Strategies Understanding customers and their context is crucial for developing a successful online strategy, Gartner has said.
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Steve Jobs Has No Plans for USB 3.0 on Macs Apple's boss wrote in an e-mail that the company doesn't see "USB 3 taking off at this time."
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Live Update: Facebook Mobile Event While Facebook has not given details about the announcement, the press invite suggests that the social networking giant is preparing to announce the extension of its platform into the mobile space.
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T-Mobile Gets Tough With Competitors Over 4G The wireless provider's latest campaign proclaims itself as the largest 4G network in the nation -- even though one industry group wouldn't consider it a 4G network at all.
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Facebook Tightens Control of Social Web with Bing, EA Deals The social networking giant has control of all the major social game companies -- and that's a lot of money rolling in, given Facebook's 30 percent slice of the profits.
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Change Your StarCraft II Name for Free, Just This Once Blizzard rolls out one-time free name change to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty players.
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Violent Video Game Ban Could Set Dangerous Precedent Should the government regulate sales of violent video games? The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the issue -- and its decision could have a serious impact on the future of First Amendment rights.
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Cops: Hacker Posted Stolen X-rated Pics on Facebook A California man has been charged with breaking into Web mail accounts and posting sexually explicit photos to Facebook.
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