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August 11, 2011
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LinkedIn Makes Marketing Shills of Its Members by Default Here's how to opt out of LinkedIn's use of your personal information in ads that appear on the business-oriented social network.
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Gizmodo Not Charged in Apple iPhone 4 Prototype Purchase Gizmodo gets off scot-free, but the guys who found the iPhone 4 in a bar in 2010 and sold it to the gadget blog are charged with misdemeanors.
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HTC to Announce New 'Beats' Phones for Sound Junkies A line of phones that come with Dr. Dre's Beats high-end headphones could be in Best Buy this fall.
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LinkedIn's Privacy Slip-up Draws Legal Scrutiny LinkedIn might have broken European law by changing privacy settings for its members without proper disclosure, legal experts assert.
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HTC Invests in Dr. Dre's Beats Company for Better Smartphone Audio The HTC investment is part of a move to improve the audio on the Taiwanese smartphone maker's devices.
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Google+ On Track to Rival Facebook Within a year, Google's newest social network will be second in popularity only to Facebook, researchers predict.
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UK Considers Cutting Off Twitter, BlackBerry During Riots Civil rights groups object to some British police tactics to contain riots; hackers warn RIM to not cooperate.
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Walmart to Exit MP3 Business on August 29 After 7 years, Walmart quietly shuts down its online music store.
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Intel Gives Ultrabooks a $300M Investment Boost Intel on Wednesday said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and light laptops.
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Twitter Tweaks Site to Give Users More Info Twitter rolls out two new features intended to help users find out what's happening on their network that they'll be most interested in.
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Positive Trend in Malware: Rootkit Developers Killing Each Other's Code For the second time a malware variant comes back to kill its parent and take over its zombies
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Next for Nintendo: A Leap to Apple's iPhone? As 3DS sales disappoint, investors putting pressure on Nintendo to move into smartphone market.
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Gamefly's PC Game Rental Service: Is There Really an Audience? The PC gaming digital distribution world is certainly getting crowded.
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Maps on the iPad I have a thing for maps. And maps on the iPad? Talk about enthusiastic.
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Clearwire Names New CEO Clearwire's COO moves up to the president/CEO post with the first task of financing an LTE network after its recent focus on WiMAX.
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New App Designed to Show You What Your Friends Really Think of You Use this app to receive push notifications of your biggest social networking failures.
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Broadband Bytes Have Lost Their Bite DSL, cable, fiber, or wireless -- bytes/sec are no longer meaningful measures.
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Play Mario Forever With HTML5 Infinite Mario Can't get enough Mario? Then you need a Mario game that goes on forever. Enter the newly-HTML5ified Infinite Mario.
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Two Charged in Sale of iPhone 4 Prototype News website that bought the lost phone won't be charged, but two face misdemeanors for misappropriation of lost property.
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Mobile Phone Eavesdropping Made Easy: Hackers Crack GPRS Encryption How creepy would it be if it were easy to snoop and intercept all those texts, emails and photos you send over your mobile phone?
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