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March 5, 2011
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GDC: Minecraft Designer Says Piracy Isn't Theft Piracy isn't stealing, claims Minecraft creator Markus Persson, but his comments gloss over a bigger issue.
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HarperCollins Wants Libraries to Pay (and Pay...and Pay...) for e-Books Back in 1984, I wrote a book that sold to a lot of libraries. It stayed on the shelves for over a decade. If it had been an e-book published today by HarperCollins, there's a good chance it would have been off those shelves within a year. Or sooner.
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Microsoft Launches IE6 Deathwatch Microsoft today launched a deathwatch for its 10-year-old Internet Explorer 6 browser, saying it wanted to "see IE6 gone for good."
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Will Cloud Storage Hurt 64GB iPad 2 Sales? With consumers increasingly turning to cloud service providers for data storage needs, analysts say buyers might opt for 16GB or 32GB models instead of the 64GB model.
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Android App Could Slash Smartphone Data Bills A $9.95 Android app could save you a bundle on your monthly smartphone data plan.
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NASA: Technical Glitch Crashes $424M Glory Mission A rocket carrying a satellite designed to help scientists study the Earth's climate suffered a technical failure and may have crashed.
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Windows Tablets Delay: Disaster or Shrewd Move? Analysis: It sounds like Microsoft has decided that the best way to address the iPad is with a full version of Windows that's been thoroughly reworked for tablets.
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Samsung Hints of a Midsize Galaxy Tab The invitations are out for a March debut -- is it a Galaxy Tab sized between the 7- and 10.1-inch models?
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National Day of Unplugging is Here: Will You Pull the Plug? This weekend people will unplug their smartphones, laptops, and other tech in an effort to connect with family and friends...without the aid of technology or social networking.
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Grand Theft Auto Refresh Expected Hints suggest Grand Theft Auto V may well be on the way, but the vendor denies the claims.
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IPv6 on Home Routers: FAIL When it comes to IPv6 support, consumer home networking gear lags far behind other devices, like enterprise equipment and PC operating systems.
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iPad 2.0 will Help Apple Rule for Years, Analyst Says Rivals running Android won't effectively challenge Apple's tablet for at least four years, Ovum analysts predict.
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Wordpress Continues to Fend Off Attacks For the second day in a row, blog-hosting giant WordPress.com suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack that it was able to cut off quickly.
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Motorola Xoom: a Bargain at Sam's Club? Analysis: Offering a budget-priced tablet helps parry rival iPad's pricing.
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Android Beats iPhones, Blackberries for First Time Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the U.S. in the latest Nielsen Co. survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone.
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Mozilla Shows Off Web App Product in Bits and Pieces
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Microsoft Counts Down to IE6's Death A new website underscores Microsoft's determination to pull the plug on its Internet Explorer 6 browser.
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Security Manager: Malware Has 'Exploded' A report released earlier this year by Panda Security reveals just how sophisticated the business of cyber crime has become.
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Does Facebook Change the Messaging Landscape? Facebook recently announced a messaging product that promises seamless messaging, conversation history and a social in-box, nothing short of a new way to communicate, regardless of the channel -SMS, e-mail, IM or chat.
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Plug-in Free 3D Graphics for HTML5 Web Browsers The Khronos Group has released the final WebGL 1.0 specification to enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 Web browsers without the need for plug-ins.
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GDC: Minecraft Designer Says Piracy Isn't Theft Piracy isn't stealing, claims Minecraft creator Markus Persson, but his comments gloss over a bigger issue.
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HarperCollins Wants Libraries to Pay (and Pay...and Pay...) for e-Books Back in 1984, I wrote a book that sold to a lot of libraries. It stayed on the shelves for over a decade. If it had been an e-book published today by HarperCollins, there's a good chance it would have been off those shelves within a year. Or sooner.
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