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December 18, 2010
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Comcast vs. Netflix: Who's the Villain? Analysis: If customers streaming Netflix are overburdening Comcast, maybe the ISP needs to boost its bandwidth to match its promises.
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Can Google Chrome OS Save the Netbook? Using Google's web smarts and mobile technology, Chrome OS could breathe life back into the netbook.
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Facebook Claims $2 Billion in 2010 Sales Not long ago, the fast-growing social network was getting scrutiny about its need to develop a solid business plan -- so it got serious about ad dollars.
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Yahoo Won't Shut but May Sell Delicious Analysis: Fans are urged to "not panic" but be cautioned that Delicious data may find a new home.
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Word Lens: A Great Google Audition Analysis: Google should buy this real-time translation tool; their capabilities are complementary.
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5 Interesting Findings from iFixit's Nexus S Teardown Ifixit gets to work tearing down the much buzzed about Nexus S Android smartphone. We like what they found.
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Oracle, Bolstered by a Strong Quarter, Aims at HP With a net income rises of 28 percent, Oracle execs jab at competitors HP, SAP, Salesforce, and others.
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Verizon iPhone Could Sell Millions . . . If it Ships Analysis: It's high time to wonder just how many more iPhones Apple might sell with a brand new subscriber base of 90+ million users.
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The 36 Best iPhone Games We've sifted through the thousands of games and have settled on these 36 titles to enthusiastically recommend.
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Musical HTML and The Horror That Is The Headache Machine in Viral Views 13 What happens when you translate a Webpage's HTML code into music? Find out in this week's installment of Viral Views!
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Bring Your Own Tech to Work: Good or Bad For Hiring? CIOs are hearing a lot about bring-your-own-tech policies, but most still say no to the idea on security grounds. But would a change of heart yield a competitive advantage?
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HTC HD2 Hacked to Run Android (What Next?) Run Android on your HD2 and experience the delights the little green robot has to offer.
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Report: EU May Delay Intel's McAfee Acquisition European regulators are looking closely at Intel's planned McAfee acquisition and may hold up the deal with an investigation, according to a report published...
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12 Tech Survey Topics That Should Die in 2011 I receive a lot of promotional e-mails that blast "new," "game changing" and "dramatic" survey results that relate to technology. Most of them don't say much.
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Biggest Enterprise Resoruce Planning Disasters of 2010 No year in the IT industry would be complete without a number of high-profile ERP project failures. Learn what not to do from these massive wrecks.
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Bank of America Cuts Services for WikiLeaks Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation...
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Yahoo Backs Off Killing Delicious The social bookmarking site isn't going anywhere, but Yahoo doesn't see a fit for the service in the company.
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Paying Top Dollar for Tech Talent Pays Off As Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft demonstrate, there is no better competitive advantage than a talented workforce.
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Connecticut May Sue Google Over Wi-Fi Data Request Google has missed a deadline set by the Connecticut Attorney General's Office for turning over data that it says was collected inadvertently by its Street View...
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