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July 7, 2011
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Facebook-Skype Video Calling: A Getting-Started Guide Activating Facebook's video calling service is pretty straightforward, but in tests a slight hiccup was found that may prove frustrating to some users.
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Anonymous Attacks Turkish Websites Again Hacker group Anonymous said late Wednesday that its Antisec movement hacked and defaced Turkish government websites, in protest against new Internet filtering
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Apple's App Store Tops 15 Billion Downloads: Eat Your Heart Out Google! Apple: 15 billion App Store Downloads, but Could Google Have 50 Billion Next Year?
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How Google + Will Affect SEO for Your Website Googles new social networking site will change how we search and what we find. What impact could it have on your company's Website?
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Facebook's 'Awesome' Video Chat -- Yawn Facebook gets a feature Gmail's had since 2008, but the feature wars are on, and users could be the winners.
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Motorola Droid 3 Roars in with New Features Motorola's newest offering has a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 16 GB of storage and an 8-megapixel camera that records 1080p videos. The phone also runs Gingerbread.
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Facebook's Video Chat: First Tests Produce Buggy Results Facebooks video chat could be a killer app, but only if the social networking giant works out the kinks.
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Group and Mobile Video Chat, Telephone Calling Likely Coming to Facebook The three men from Facebook and Skype who are most responsible for the social network's new video-chat features answer PCWorld's questions about the launch.
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Google+ Reopens Invite Process The invitation process had been shut down late last week because of 'insane demand' from people eager to try out Google's new social network.
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iPhone 5 Rumor Rundown We've been guessing this year, trying to piece together what the next iPhone will look like. Here's what we think we know so far about Apple's next device.
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Apple Denied Injunction on Amazon's Use of Appstore A California court denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction on Amazon.com's use of the term 'Appstore' in a trademark infringement case.
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Facebook Video Calling vs. Google+ Hangouts Skype-powered video calling finally puts Facebook on par with Google Talk, but let's see how it measures up with Google+ Hangouts.
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Apple Developing Fixes for Dangerous iOS Vulnerabilities The problem affects iPhone, iPad and some iPod touch models, an issue that the German government warned could be used to steal confidential data.
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A Mouse Can Infect Your Network Analysis: "Trojan mouse" was just a hint -- almost any hardware device that can be plugged into a computer can compromise its security
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Next iPhone: Thinner, Lighter, Better Camera, Report Says Details continue to slip out about the next-generation iPhone, including a manufacturing push for a third-quarter release.
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Xbox Live Goes Offline Briefly No hackers, but no launch of the Xbox Live's cloud service, either, as gamers deal with a brief outage of Microsoft's service.
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Gateway Revamps NV, ID Laptop Series Both series have been updated with USB 3.0 for faster connectivity and feature second-generation Intel processors or, in the case of the NV55 Series, AMD's A-Series 'Llano' processor.
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Sid Meier's Civilization World (Beta) Goes Live on Facebook 2K Games and Firaxis launch Civilization World on Facebook, but at first blush, it doesn't feel ready for prime time.
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Video Chat Will Never Take Off Until We Have Standards No one wants to have several different windows open to communicate. And, in communication, interoperability is key.
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Here's a Switch: Laptops to Eat into Tablet Sales What post-PC era? A researcher suggests the ultraportable laptop might prove mightier than the tablet.
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