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Windows 8: More App Store Evidence Surfaces Microsoft appears to be adding an app store to Windows 8, but plenty of questions remain when it comes to Microsoft's app strategy.
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Apple Seeks Ban on All Galaxy Smartphones, Tablets in EU In its case against Samsung Electronics in the Netherlands, Apple is demanding an extensive ban on all Galaxy series smartphones and tablets
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HP to Spinoff of Personal PC Business, Say Reports Hewlett-Packard is considering spinning off its personal-computer business and buying software maker Autonomy for $10 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg.
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Can the Obama Administration Fix Your Identity Management Problems? The White House pledged to work with industry to establish an "identity ecosystem" of approved processes and technologies to foster some kind of new way to issue digital credentials to end users, whether consumers, business and the federal government.
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Google Doodle Celebrates Fermat's Last Theorem Google's latest Doodle pays homage to the mathematician's last theorem.
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Minecraft Developer Wants to Settle Lawsuit With Tournament Notch is challenging Bethesda to a Quake tournament in order to keep the rights to the name of his upcoming game, Scrolls.
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Facebook, Yahoo to Test 'Six Degrees of Separation' Theory Participants in Yahoo's 'Small World Experiment' will use their Facebook contacts to send a message to a randomly selected target.
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Ubuntu's Next Unity Begins to Take Shape Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth outlines some of the key desktop changes we can expect to see in Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot.'
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NYC Wants Pay-By-Phone Parking Meters Plans are underway to let drivers pay parking meters by cellphone, eliminating the need for the search for loose change.
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Latest BlackBerry Bold Earns Lackluster Reviews Reviewers agree that Research in Motion's latest phone is thin and beautiful, but they also say it's overpriced and still no match for its iPhone and Android rivals.
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On Linux's 20th Anniversary, Recounting Past Slights From Microsoft On the 20th anniversary of Linux, the free operating system's biggest proponents threw a party to celebrate its success and scoff at attacks.
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Apple Tops Mobile PC Market Share Apple climbed to the top of the mobile PC sales ladder, based largely on the strength of its iPad sales.
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'Shady RAT' Report Called Alarmist, Flawed Eugene Kaspersky, also known as the 'Virus Pope,' is the latest security expert to attack McAfee's report.
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'Related' Browser Add-On: Handy, But at Cost to Privacy Google's latest Chrome and IE browser extension makes finding related Web content a snap but the privacy trade-off is high.
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Google's Motorola Mobility Buy Raises Android Issues Can other handset makers trust Google for fair treatment if the software maker owns a hardware vendor?
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Android Users Only Have Love for Top Apps, Study Finds The top 10 Android apps claimed 43 percent of the average user's daily mobile app time, and the top 50 Android apps take up 61 percent of the average user's time.
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Dropbox Cloud Was a Haven for Data Thieves, Researchers Say Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers.
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Zynga Sued for Alleged Patent Infringement Agincourt Gaming claims the maker of FarmVille is infringing on its intellectual property.
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IBM Brings Brain Power to Experimental Chips IBM has created prototype chips that could mimic brain-like functionality, which the company said is an "unprecedented" step forward in creating intelligent...
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Games Won't Redeem Google+ Rather than dangling the same old Facebook games to lure users, Google should take better advantage of its rich portfolio of apps and service.
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