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Amazon's 7-Inch Tablet Reportedly $250; Could Challenge iPad

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Amazon's 7-Inch Tablet Reportedly $250; Could Challenge iPad With a competitive price and Amazons wealth of content, the new device could put a dent in other manufacturers tablet sales -- maybe even Apples.
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Google, in a Season of Changes, Trims Products The company plans to shutter a some products and merge others, following leadership changes, a push into social networking, plans for a major acquisition.
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Nook Color 2 Coming This Month? Digitimes reports that Barnes & Noble will debut its second-gen Nook Color this month.
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Did Police Impersonators Try to Get Apple's iPhone Prototype Back? Phone number left by reported police investigators apparently leads to Apple employee.
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The Most Annoying Teams in Madden NFL 12 (And How to Beat Them!) Review: You'll be seeing a lot of these teams when you hop online to play Madden 12. Here's what makes them so annoying, as well as a few ways to turn the tables.
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Running Windows on a Mac: Lion vs. Windows 7 Shootout Analysis: Love Apple hardware but hate Mac OS X? Running Windows on your Mac sounds like the perfect option.
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Ex-Employee Wiped Financial Data While At Bikini Bar At the Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, you can get burgers and beer served to you by cute waitresses wearing denim shorts and bikini tops.
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British Police Nab Men Believed Linked to HBGary Data Breach The arrest is part of an ongoing investigation into computer break-ins and distributed denial of service attacks by hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.
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Sony's Head-Mounted Personal 3D Viewer Sony is offering a head-mounted display as an alternative for consumers who dont want to buy a 3D TV.
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17 Great Laptop Accessories for Your Dorm Room Ready to go back to school with your brand-new laptop? Be sure to bring along some of these useful and practical accessories.
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Tablet War Is Heating Up...for Second Place There are more tablet options out there than I can name, and they are all engaged in an epic battle for dominance of second place--a distant second place behind Apple's iPad.
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Windows Phone 7, Day 2: One 'Mango' Coming Right Up Good news! A 'Mango' smartphone is on its way, so the 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 series will examine the upcoming major upgrade to the Microsoft mobile platform after all.
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Can Tim Cook Fill Steve Jobs' Shoes? Other Heirs to Superstar CEOs As Apple insider Tim Cook steps into Steve Jobs' role, here's a look at how other successors to tech giants fared.
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A Hidden Security Threat: Beware the Office Multifunction Printer You may not think of a printer as being a major security threat, but researchers have found easy methods that hackers can use to gain access to your data.
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WikiLeaks Leak of Its Leaks Puts Sources at Risk WikiLeaks finds itself on the other side of the fence now--as victim whose data has been leaked to the public. It's response is self-defeating and puts innocent people at risk.
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Delphi, C++ to Goose Desktop Apps In an attempt to enliven staid business applications, development tools vendor Embarcadero has updated its RAD Studio IDE (integrated developer environment) for...
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Sony Shows 3D Images With Glasses -- Without the TV Sony's Personal 3D Viewer, introduced at the IFA consumer electronics show, will offer consumers an alternative to 3D televisions and will be available by the...
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Internet Clothing Seller Charged With Wire Fraud The owner of a defunct online clothing retail operation has been arrested and charged with wire fraud for allegedly overcharging customers by more than US$5...
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