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December 19, 2011
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FAQ: Microsoft's New IE Auto-upgrade Scheme Explained Here are all your answers to Microsoft's new plan to auto-upgrade the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
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Google Wallet Ported to Galaxy Nexus, No Root Required Here's an easier way to hack Google Wallet capabilities onto Verizon's phone and shop wirelessly.
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Google+ Rolls out New Features this Week 'Volume control' for feeds, better notifications and improved photo handling are being added to the service.
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Nexus Tablet Expected Within 6 Months Google guns for Apple with high quality tablet, voice recognition rival, and more, Schmidt teases.
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Remote SMS Attack Can Force Mobile Phones to Send Premium-rate Text Messages Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw.
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Star Wars The Old Republic, One Day and Counting Star Wars The Old Republic went live last week exclusively for customers who preordered and finally hits store shelves for everyone else tomorrow.
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Adobe Grudgingly Accepts HTML5 As Flash gives way to open technologies, Adobe is retooling to support the new reality for developers.
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Why Microsoft Might Buy Nokia -- And Why Not Analysis: Here are 3 reasons Microsoft might want an even closer relationship with Nokia, and 3 reasons it shouldn't bother.
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Facebook Revamps Business Communications Social network adds private messages for pages, but shushes conversations between consumers and businesses.
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Square Enix to Reopen Hacked Site, Says No Private Data Lost The Japanese game maker shut down the Square Enix Members site for the U.S. and Japan last week immediately after finding unknown parties had accessed its server.
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Siri Helps Santa in Apple's Christmas iPhone 4S Ad Apple swings into Christmas gear with iPhone 4S ad that features Santa Claus recruiting Siri as his latest little helper.
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BT Goes after Google for a Piece of the Patent Pie Throw another log on the Android patent infringement fire. BT has filed a suit alleging that Android and a variety of other Google products and services violate its patents.
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BT Files Patent Suit Against Google British Telecommunications has filed a civil suit in a Delaware court alleging that some Google products and services including Android, infringe on 6 patents.
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Ransomware Creators Use Demo Version to Boost Their Victims' Confidence A new piece of malware encrypts images, documents and other files stored on infected systems and advertises a demo version of a paid-for program that can recover...
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Researchers Hack a DSLR Into a Hyperspectral Imager Scientists turn an ordinary DSLR into a hyperspectral camera using a frankenlens made of a diffraction gel, a 50-mm and 17-40-mm lens, and some PVC pipe.
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Professor Files Net Neutrality Complaint Against Verizon Wireless The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should investigate Verizon Wireless for allegedly blocking Google Wallet on a new smartphone available to the...
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Apple Supplier Pegatron Reports Explosion at Subsidiary in China Apple supplier Pegatron reported that an explosion occurred at a subsidiary company in China, with Shanghai authorities stating that 61 workers were sent to...
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Lenovo-backed Game Console for China Hit by Delays The launch of a Lenovo-backed video game system for China is being delayed again in order to make improvements to the product, according to a spokesman with the...
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Portal 2 Science Kit Has Talking, Evil Potato GLaDOS Even though you'll need to pay for your own potato, this Portal 2-themed science kit is a great way to teach kids about evil artificial intelligence and electrolytes.
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MIT to Open Source Educational Software As part of an initiative to expand its online course offerings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to release as open source the software it will...
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