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August 8, 2011
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Comcast Offers $10 a Month Internet Option For Low-Income Families The new plan--dubbed Internet Essentials--will be available in September in the 39 states Comcast operates in.
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Disabling Windows Access Tool Invites Malware, Microsoft Warns Users who turn off the User Access Control (UAC) are needlessly putting their systems at risk, Microsoft reports.
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Are Google's Best Days Behind It? Analysis: Slowing product development, legal woes, and rising bureaucracy may signal trying times ahead for Silicon Valley's favorite company.
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iOS 5 May Get Text-to-Speech Function Screen shots of Apple's unreleased operating system reveal a microphone icon that hints of voice recognition functions.
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Hackers Use Frequent Flyer Miles as Currency The phenomenon is noted by the Kaspersky Lab, which also says the notorious banking Trojan ZeuS is being introduced into the smartphone market.
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4 Reasons Windows Phone 7 Will Beat iPhone and Android Analysis: Microsoft lags in the smartphone market now, but some analysts are bullish about the company's ability to steadily build its market share. Here's why -- as well as Microsoft's challenges.
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Seagate Offers Free Data Recovery Service with Hard Drive Purchase GoFlex Turbo hard drives come with two years of coverage under Seagate's SafetyNet service, which tries to recover lost data after equipment damage.
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Apple Opens iCloud to Developers People enrolled in Apples Developer Program can now transfer their MobileMe accounts to iCloud using Apples new portal: me.com/move.
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New iMac for Educational Institutions is Cheap--In More Ways Than One Note: This model of the just-refreshed iMac is not for sale to individuals.
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Shopping via Tablet Gains Fans Online shoppers increasingly prefer tablets to other mobile devices because of the ease of use, Forrester finds.
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Build Your Own Camera, Launch It Like a Grenade Meet the Firefly, a wireless camera that's shot 500 feet in the air by a grenade launcher -- and a hacker's dream.
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Apple iTunes Movie Re-Downloads Not Coming Soon, Report Says Apple still needs to negotiate deals with a clutch of movie studios before you'll be able to stream or redownload your iTunes movie purchases to any PC.
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5 Cool Tools for Cloud Management Cloud management tools are as varied as cloud uses. For this test, we chose five tools that each attack cloud management from a different perspective.
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Fear of Change Impedes Cloud Adoption for Many Companies A new study concludes that internal attitudes have to change for cloud projects to succeed. Here are some tips for how to encourage that inside your company.
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21 Great Free PC Games We collect the best and brightest games at a price you cant refuse.
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10-Year-Old Outs Security Flaw in iOS and Android Games 10-year-old girl finds time-based security hold in mobile and tablet games, tells all at DEFCON hacker conference in Vegas.
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Is Howard Stern Torrenting the Movie 'Super 8'? A copy of the movie is circulating on the torrents in advance of its DVD release, supposedly leaked by the celebrity.
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Defcon for Kids Raising a New Generation of 'Hackers' The Defcon Conference introduced a new track this year to expose kids age 8 to 16 to the world of hacking and teach budding security researchers how to think outside the box and find holes before the bad guys.
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Is it a Box of Girl Scout Cookies or $15 Billion in Graphene? Rice University scientists convert Girl Scout cookies, insect parts, excrement, and more into graphene; fail to spin straw into gold.
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HP Envy 14 Core i7 Laptop, $935 Pay only $935 for an Intel Core i7 version of HP's Envy 14, with a coupon code.
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Comcast Offers $10 a Month Internet Option For Low-Income Families The new plan--dubbed Internet Essentials--will be available in September in the 39 states Comcast operates in.
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Disabling Windows Access Tool Invites Malware, Microsoft Warns Users who turn off the User Access Control (UAC) are needlessly putting their systems at risk, Microsoft reports.
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