Tuesday 14 December 2010

Tablet Wars of 2011: The Battle Looms

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December 14, 2010
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Tablet Wars of 2011: The Battle Looms The iPad rules the tablet world right now, but an Android army has begun its attack. Soon to join the fray are even more tablets, equipped with the Windows, WebOS, and Sugar operating systems. Here's what to expect in the year ahead.
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Gawker Hack Analysis Reveals Incredibly Weak Passwords The most popular password among nearly 400,000 exposed by the Gawker hack was "12345," according to a security firm's analysis.
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Next Generation GPS Gadgets Remember when GPS was used to deliver nothing more than simple driving directions? Those days are history.
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FBI Investigating Gawker Media Hack An FBI representative declined to comment on the investigation but Gawker's founder was scheduled to meet with federal authorities.
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Silly iPhone and iPad Rumors More unfounded speculation about the popular Apple mobile devices makes the rounds in the blogosphere.
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Why You Don't Want Tiered Internet Costs Tiered net neutrality plan maximizes costs at no real benefit to customers
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Seagate Debuts Fast Green Drive Seventy percent of the materials in the new drives can be recycled, and the drives use components low in halogen and have a super-low power consumption.
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15 Most Addictive iPhone Apps These apps are good for entertainment but bad for productivity.
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FEC Puts on Hold a Call to Allow Texting of Political Contributions Trade group's initiative is stymied, but likely to reappear with additional safeguards .
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Comcast Hopes to Slay Google TV with Xcalibur The new set-top video box will let users search for live, on demand and recorded television, offer social networking access, as well as a limited number of online videos.
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Ballmer at CES: Windows Slates, Windows 8? If Microsoft figures out a way to make Windows make sense on tablets, then I'll be impressed. After all, it's been trying to do so for a decade and has made pretty much zero progress.
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Five Fastest Color Laser Printers Speedy, cost-efficient laser color printers for offices and workgroups.
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Google's Chrome OS Doesn't Support Java Yet Google's prototype Chrome OS laptops do not yet support Java, and support for Flash Player 10.1 is being called a "work in progress."
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Android Market Gets Huge Overhaul, But is it Enough? The updates, which include improved merchandising of applications, will take effect before the end of the year and be applicable to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher.
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Espionage Act Makes Felons of Us All If you are not "authorized" personnel, but you have read, written about, commented upon, tweeted, spread links by "liking" on Facebook, shared by email, or otherwise discussed "classified" information disclosed from WikiLeaks, you could be implicated for crimes under the U.S. Espionage Act
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Elemental: War of Magic Attempts to Reinvent Itself Stardock aims to remake its critically panned Windows turn-based fantasy strategy game with a new patch list as epic as the game itself.
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Samsung to Sell Luxury Galaxy Tab for About $1,000, Reports Say Samsung this week will unveil a luxury version of its Galaxy Tab offering for about $1,000, according to reports.
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What to Do If Your Gawker Password Was Violated If you think your Gawker account has been compromised by this weekend's attack and you want to cancel it, you can't.
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Enjoys Day One Sales of $3.3 Million The third expansion for Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft surpasses first-day sales of the previous expansion pack.
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Best Buy Explains How to Get a Nexus S on Launch Day If you want Google's latest phone, then you'll have to get in line.
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Tablet Wars of 2011: The Battle Looms The iPad rules the tablet world right now, but an Android army has begun its attack. Soon to join the fray are even more tablets, equipped with the Windows, WebOS, and Sugar operating systems. Here's what to expect in the year ahead.
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Gawker Hack Analysis Reveals Incredibly Weak Passwords The most popular password among nearly 400,000 exposed by the Gawker hack was "12345," according to a security firm's analysis.
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