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February 6, 2011
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Hacker Heists Virtual Poker Winnings from Facebook Game A British hacker admits he stole 400 billion virtual poker chips worth somewhere between $285,000 and $12 million in real dollars.
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Will Apple Close the e-Book on Kindle? Analysis: Apple is modifying its licensing policy, raising doubts that e-books bought elsewhere will be readable on Apple devices.
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Facebook Must Explain Privacy Practices to Congress Analysis: Congressmembers say they want answers regarding Facebooks data disclosure.
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Sony Profits Fall with TV Prices Stiff price competition in the flat-screen TV market and the strong Japanese yen hurt profits at Sony in the last three months of 2010.
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iPad 2.0: What to Expect Analysis: Chip, camera, connectivity . . . we already have quite a bit of insight into this unannounced update.
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Apple May Shake Up Mobile Payment Trends The huge installed base of iPad users could disrupt the mobile payment industry with too much love, analysts say.
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Hackers Free iPhones from App Store The Chronic Dev Team releases the GreenPois0n jailbreak tool to let any Apple device running the latest iOS firmware to load apps sans App Store.
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Microsoft Bing: Powered by Google? Analysis: Google has accused Bing of stealing its search results. It's fight time in the search world.
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Verizon Cracks Down on Bandwidth Hogs Wireless data users will go on a diet, but Verizon notes it's purely a coincidence that the iPhone is joining its network next week.
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The Tech Behind This Year's Super Bowl As the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers take the field this weekend for the 45th Super Bowl, millions of eyes will be on the gridiron. Behind the scenes though is a vast IT infrastructure to make sure everything runs smoothly.
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Could Future Processors Use Lasers? New Research Makes it Possible Researchers at UC Berkeley have figured out how to place nanolasers on silicon, opening the doors to new, more powerful processors.
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Synthetic Blood Vessels Are Here (Almost) Synthetically grown blood vessels can not only save your life but they can also be stored for over a year at hospitals.
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Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry Don't tell cybercriminals we're in a global recession. Business is good and the future is bright for cybercrime.
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GeekTech Podcasts: Color-Changing Plants and Meat-Flavored Drinks Join the GeekTech crew and get our take on the recent Macworld Expo, bomb-detecting plants (huh?), and more on this week's episode of the PCWorld Podcast.
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