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August 1, 2011
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Can We Avoid the Mobile Bandwidth Drought? Smartphones, our addiction to mobile apps, and broadband gluttony are all putting us on a path to wireless broadband scarcity.
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Black Hat Preview: Let the Electric-shock Craziness Begin Ready to power on next week, the annual Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas promises to be the high-voltage event
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Rumors of Sept. iPhone 5 Launch Now Shift to Oct. Internet buzz now pins the likely release date for iPhone 5, which has not officially been announced by Apple, from September to October.
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Rootkit Malware Roosts on Windows XP Systems Systems still running Windows XP also contain a huge reservoir of malware that is infecting other computers, a security researcher says.
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Hacker Arrests Escalate A timeline of the law enforcement crackdown on hackers this summer.
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Protect Your Data from Google's Hammer Analysis: When Google kills your account, what happens to your Android phone?
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Adobe's Edge Prepares for an HTML 5 Future Analysis: The multimedia tool acknowledges -- and prepares Adobe's path in -- a world beyond Flash.
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Foxconn to Rely More on Robots for Manufacturing The maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad plans to invest more in research and development and save on labor costs.
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How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google With Bing It's been an expensive battle, but Microsoft is moving beyond the features war with a new bag of tricks to challenge the search king.
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Best Buy's Insignia TVs do TiVo without the DVR Best Buys Insignia Connected TVs are compatible with TiVo DVRs and cable operators' provisioned DVRs for recording programs.
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Apple's Safari Grows Faster Than Chrome in July Apple's Safari last month posted its biggest increase ever in usage share, beating perennial champion Chrome in the gain game, Web metrics vendor Net...
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iPhone 5 September Launch Hinted by AT&T Vacation Ban An anonymous tipster suggests AT&T's "event blackout" may be in anticipation of the release of the next iPhone.
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Chrome Nibbles at IE, Microsoft Finds Silver Lining Chrome and Safari continue to gain ground as Internet Explorer and Firefox slide, but it's not all bad news from Microsoft's perspective.
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European Security Group Issues Warning on HTML5 The European Union's computer security agency is warning that standards under development as part of HTML5 are undergoing rewrites that may neglect important...
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Adobe Launches HTML5 Rich Media Editor Planting the seeds to potentially disrupt its own successful franchise in Flash-based animation, Adobe has released a preview version of a new application...
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Edge Keeps Adobe Relevant In a World without Flash Adobe isn't ready to abandon Flash, but it sees the writing on the HTML5 wall so it created Adobe Edge to hedge its bets and provide tools for developers no matter which platform they choose.
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HP Rolls out WebOS Software Update for TouchPad A webOS software update for Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet will be delivered over-the-air starting on Monday, a company executive said on Twitter.
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Anonymous Suspect 'Topiary' Charged Over DDOS Attacks The 18-year-old teenager identified by police as the spokesman for the hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security was charged on Sunday with five offenses and...
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SUPER iam8bit Art Show Re-Envisions 80s Video Games SUPER iam8bit, an art show celebrating retro 80s video games, begins August 11 in Los Angeles's Echo Park.
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Nokia Drops Letters for Phone Names, Goes to Just Numbers Nokia has decided that its one-letter naming convention plus a model number for its phones isn't keeping up with the times. The Finnish phone maker said in a...
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