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July 18, 2011
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Big Brother Creep Out: 7 Ways US Govt. Invades Brains With increasing frequency it seems agencies of the government are looking to tap into the public conscientiousness to gather information.
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Still Waiting for the Low-Voltage MacBook Air Hints are slipping out about backlit keyboards, Thunderbolt ports, hefty flash storage, and ultra-low voltage Intel Sandy Bridge mobile processors.
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Toshiba Thrive Tablets Comatose, Owners Say Owners complain Toshiba's tablet has an annoying bug preventing the device from "waking" after going into sleep mode.
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Activision Files Complaint Over ModernWarfare3.com Publisher of Modern Warfare series takes aim at owners of ModernWarfare3.com parody site, claims owner has no legitimate claim to domain name.
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Adobe Acquires Electronic Signature Company EchoSign Adobe Systems said on Monday that it has acquired EchoSign, a web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation, for an undisclosed amount.
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12 Top Tech Rumors We Hope Will (and Won't) Come True When tech rumors fly, we either say "Want!" or "Don't bother." See whether you agree with our take on the probability of each of these 12 rumors involving the Microsoft Kinect, Google Chrome OS, Windows 8, iPhone 5, and other products.
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All Postini Features Will Move into Google Apps Postini's Google Message Security will still be offered as a standalone product, but security features will migrate to administrative controls in other configurations.
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Microsoft Boosts Outlook-to-Hotmail Security The new Outlook Hotmail Connector supports HTTPS, a protocol that encrypts all traffic between the e-mail client and the Windows Live Hotmail service.
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Healthcare IT Faces Deadline on New Medical Codes A new federally mandated medical coding system requires a massive overhaul of healthcare IT systems.
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10 Hard Truths IT Must Learn to Accept Unsanctioned devices, compromised networks, downtime -- today's IT is all about embracing imperfections
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iOS 4.3.4 Patches Jailbreak Exploit& And Is Immediately Jailbroken iOS 4.3.4 was released on Friday, fixing the PDF exploit used by JailbreakMe. Less than 12 hours after its release, 4.3.4 was jailbroken.
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Two Flying Cars Seek Road Approval; Future Finally Here Companies on opposite sides of the US are bringing drivable planes from sci-fi to real life.
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Apple iPad, Day 17: The Wonder That Is AirPlay Using the iPad to replace my PC doesn't have to be all business, so today I am looking at the uses and benefits of streaming content from my iPad with AirPlay.
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