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August 4, 2011
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Top 5 Potential Cyber-Enemies for the United States McAfee reveals a huge hacking campaign against U.S. interests that points to China as the source, but other serious threats exist.
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Facebook's Planned News Feed Changes Should Worry You Facebook is making changes to its news feed to make advertisers more visible.
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Skype Finally Brings Video Chat to Most Android Phones The updated video chat software also includes support for Android tablets.
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Microsoft Announces "BlueHat" Contest for Better Security Solutions Microsoft offers $200,000 first prize to security experts who come up with significant solutions to fight malware and software vulnerabilities.
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Finally Declining? World of Warcraft Loses 300,000 Subscribers Blizzard's online roleplaying game loses nearly a million paying subscribers in less than a year, despite major new content launch.
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Microsoft Debuts Software for Homebrew Gadget Builds Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises to save time in prototyping new devices: a...
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The Mobile Bandwidth Drought: Carriers Respond AT&T addresses past performance issues, confirms problems with capacity.
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Apples Control of Laptop Materials May Make Ultrabooks Cheaper Thanks to a switch in materials, laptop manufacturers could lower the cost of their Ultrabooks.
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RSA Hacking Trail Traced to China Malware used in the attack against RSA Security earlier this year was controlled from China, according to a well-known botnet researcher.
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Mastermind Behind Fake Internet Explorer Study Steps Forward In a blog on the fake company's website, the perpetrator of the scam admitted the whole thing was a put-on that 'was all meant to be a lighthearted joke.'
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Leaked Verizon Document Reveals Key Smartphone, Tablet Launch Dates Release dates for Motorola's Droid Bionic, Samsung's Galaxy S II and LG's Revolution are in the document, along with hints of a new Samsung Galaxy Tab.
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Sarah Palin Hacker Moves to Halfway House David Kernell was convicted last year of breaking into to Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 presidential election.
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After Google Rant on Android Patents, Microsoft Tweets: 'Really?' In an escalation of Android patent battles, Microsoft said it urged Google's legal team to join Microsoft in buying up hundreds of Nortel patents, but Google refused.
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Google Exec Says Apple, Microsoft Waging Hostile' Patent Campaign Against Android Google's top lawyer on Wednesday accused Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and other rivals of using bogus patents to strangle Androids success.
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Zuckerberg's Sister Exits Facebook to Start Own Business Randi Zuckerberg served as Facebook's director of marketing for six years. Her largest contribution to the site was its live streaming video channel, Facebook Live.
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Black Hat: Routers Using OSPF Open to Attacks A researcher at Black Hat has revealed a vulnerability in the most common corporate router protocol that puts networks using it at risk of attacks.
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Google+: 5 Legal Issues for Businesses As Google+ attracts more users, businesses need to be wary of its implications within the enterprise. Here are five tips from a legal expert to help your company navigate the new Google+ waters.
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AT&T Cracks Down on Free Tethering and Hotspots Users report being kicked of their unlimited data plans for using free tethering apps and getting notices of automatic upgrades to their data plans.
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Five More Common Business Website Mistakes to Avoid To prevent potential legal issues, businesses with websites should avoid these problems.
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PlayStation Vita Will Miss U.S., Europe Holiday Seasons Sony's not calling its decision a delay but there's no guarantee that the PS Vita will launch in Japan in time for Christmas, either.
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