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Verizon: Say So Long to Unlimited Data Verizon says it's axing its unlimited smartphone data plan. Should you be worried?
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Yep, Looks Like Sony's Been Hacked Again Sony subsidiary So-Net admits someone broke into its Internet service and made off with virtual currency worth upwards of $1,200.
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Microsoft Links Fake Mac AV to Windows Scareware Gang Microsoft said this week that it has evidence of a link between the fake security software now plaguing Mac users and a hard-charging family of similar...
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Google Android Barrels Ahead of Competitors Android has further consolidated its status as the leading global smartphone operating system, according to data released by both Gartner and the Millennial...
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Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps How did Microsoft win over the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina for an Office 365 migration?
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L.A. Noire Causing PS3s and Xbox 360s to Overheat? Is Rockstar's post-WW2 Los Angeles-based crime saga making game consoles a little hot under the collar?
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Is Lifting Facebook Photos Like Stealing a TV? An Australian reporter found himself arrested after writing about how private Facebook photos can be made public by hackers. No joke.
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iPhone Manufacturers Said Gearing up for Next Gen Reports from Taiwan suggest that Apple is planning to begin manufacture of the next-generation iPhone -- to be called the iPhone 4S -- in August.
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Sony's New Woes: Phishing Site Found on Server Although the discovery on a Thai server is not tied to the recent, huge PSN attack, it seems Sony has been hacked again.
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Samsung's E-Reader Screens Boast 16.7 Million Colors When will impressive electrowetting displays appear on tablets or Kindles?
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Barnes & Noble, Amazon Push Ahead With Dedicated E-Readers Valued for their lower cost and single-function, e-readers continue to hold a niche&for now.
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Playboy Unloads Wares on the iPad The adult magazine skips past Apple's ban on sexy apps and makes archives available through iPad for a fee.
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Exchange Online Having Downtime Problems Again UPDATE: The hosted version of Microsoft's e-mail system ran into technical problems again, the latest in a series of downtime and performance hiccups.
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Missed E-mail Reminders Plague Google Calendar Users take to comment boards to complain about Google Calendar.
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PlayStation Network Users are Fed Up, But Not Ready to Jump Ship Sony PlayStation Network users love to grouse about recent problems, but sales are still strong for PS3 consoles and games and consumer rhetoric is starting to sound conciliatory
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PlayBook: New Details on Bridge, Bluetooth Security Research In Motion's (RIM) popular BlackBerry PlayBook tablet may not ship with native e-mail and personal information management (PIM) applications just...
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Five Linux Distributions Get a Fresh Boost With several new releases and an affirmation of commitment, the outlook for the free and open source operating system just got even better.
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Kindle E-books Top Print Books Sales on Amazon It happened. Amazon says e-book sales have surpassed physical book sales on Amazon.com.
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Amazon Trade-in: The Best Deal for Selling Used Gadgets? Here are the best, worst and missing deals in the competitive market for used electronics.
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Microsoft Blasts Intel's Talk of Windows 8 as Misleading, Inaccurate Microsoft today called comments made by an Intel executive about the next version of Windows "inaccurate" and "misleading."
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