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September 4, 2011
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Summer of Google: 10 Hot New Features From the Search Giant Some businesses embraced the relaxed pace of summer, but not Google. Check out how the search giant beat the heat and rolled out 10 new tools for shopping, tracking weather, and more.
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Customer Strolls Out Of Apple Store With Confidential Data A man inadvertently walked away from an Apple Store in Connecticut with a hard drive containing confidential information, according to a report.
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Liar Liar, Brain's Been Fired Analysis: What will happen when we can no longer lie?
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The Netflix Streaming Price Trap I'd love to cut back on my Netflix service like others are doing, but the streaming policy may actually force me to give Netflix even more money.
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Cops Helped Apple Hunt for Lost iPhone Details emerge in ongoing hunt for Apple's missing mystery device.
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Star Trek Online Goes Free Considering that the Federation doesn't use money, it seems somewhat fitting that Star Trek Online is going towards the free-to-play model later this year.
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Could the PS4 Really Be On the Way? Rumors are circulating regarding a possible successor to the PlayStation 3 within 18 months. Could there be any truth to them?
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One in Six Macs Runs OS X Lion One-in-six Macs now runs Apple's latest operating system, a Web metrics company said Thursday.
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Windows Phone 7, Day 3: Introducing Live Tiles You can instantly recognize a Windows Phone 7 smartphone by the distinctive live tiles interface that sets it apart from rival mobile OS platforms.
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PlayStation Scam Makes FBI Warning List Warnings have been posted online to beware of auction site phishing email scams in general and the PlayStation scam specifically, according to the FBI.
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Apple's iPad Good Classroom Helper, But Not Textbook Replacement A textbook cant do many of the things an iPad can do, such as show video of a bacterium in action or let a student create a blog post on a subject. But test scores don't show the devices teach fundamentals any better than old fashioned rote learning.
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Samsung Wipes Galaxy Tab 7.7 From Stand After Court Order Now you see it, now you don't: Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA)...
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Window Shopping Goes High Tech With Gesture Recognition German researchers have given a new meaning to window shopping. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute showed a...
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Multiplayer Gaming Goes Full Screen With LG TV Hoping to boost sales of its 3D televisions among gamers, LG showed off technology that lets traditional split screen multiplayer games be played full screen.
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Google+ Suggested User List Stirs Debate Some tech pundits and bloggers have complained the list would omit deserving people, create conflicts of interest for the people named and may foster racial stereotypes.
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