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Windows Laptop Makers Can t Catch Up to the MacBook Air

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August 13, 2011
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Windows Laptop Makers Cant Catch Up to the MacBook Air Laptop manufacturers are struggling to compete with the MacBook Air, and by the time they do, it wont matter. Its not a manufacturing problem, its an attitude problem.
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Top 16 PC Game Mods You're not getting the real PC gaming experience unless you're playing with modifications. Read on for our favorite PC game mods of all time.
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Amazon CEO Invents Airbags For Your Cell Phone Never worry about dropping your device again.
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Android Tablets Grab 20 Percent of Market Share ABI Research reports Android tablets have nipped 20 percent of the tablet market share--but the iPad is still the big player.
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Security Researchers Give BlackBerry PlayBook Pass Mark The QNX operating system that will power future BlackBerry devices has been given a cagey thumbs up by testers commissioned to probe for weaknesses.
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Bay Area Transit Police Cut Mobile Service to Thwart Protest BART says it cut phone services out of safety concerns, but riders question logic of preventing emergency calls.
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Study Finds Android App-makers Careless With Some Data A lot of the software written for Google's Android mobile phones falls short when it comes to user privacy and security.
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Chromebooks Now do Windows Cisco's Citrix Receiver brings Windows desktops and apps to Chrome OS laptops.
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Consumerization of IT: Lessons for Enterprise Applications Analysis: IT is inadequately prepared to fully exploit the opportunity that all those consumer devices in the workplace represent.
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Sprint Cancels WiMax Version of BlackBerry PlayBook Sprint has decided not to offer a WiMax version of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the company said Friday.
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Samsung Anticipated, Will Fight Tablet Ban A patent expert says Samsung wasn't surprised at a German court's recent injunction to halt sales of the Galaxy Tab in most European countries, and is ready to fight the ruling.
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San Francisco Subways Decision to Halt Cell Phone Service Fuels Criticism With undeniably bad timing, the Bay Area Rapid Transit admitted it shut off subterranean cell phone service to prevent a protest. That has drawn the ire of civil rights advocates, who liken the action to what happened in Egypt
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Google+ Posts Will Appear on Google Social Search Results Google's move to start integrating Google+ users public posts into the search engines social search results is a smart move. It comes as Google continues to try to siphon users away from Facebook and other services
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Facebook Answers Google+ Games by Revamping its Own It's the battle of the network games, as Facebook overhauls its game offerings a day after Google launches games on its social networking site.
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Samsung's Popular Galaxy S II Due Out Before iPhone 5 The Galaxy S II is probably the strongest rival to the iPhone
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NAND Flash Can Verify a Device's Identity People who make, buy and sell flash storage could detect counterfeit products based on the unique "fingerprints" of the chips, using techniques being developed...
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Lenovo's New Portable Monitor Powered by USB Lenovo this week announced a 14-inch mobile monitor that works by plugging it into a laptop's USB port.
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Space Elevator Enthusiasts Face Unanswered Questions Attendees of a space elevator conference look for ways to build it.
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Google+, Day 9: Playing With Sparks Today I am taking a look at the concept of Google+ Sparks and trying to figure out whether they serve a useful purpose or not.
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Wall Street Beat: Tech Shares on Wild Ride U.S. stock markets edged up for the day Friday afternoon, but fears of an economic slowdown and concerns about the debt crisis in Europe caused technology stocks...
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