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December 12, 2011
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Verizon Galaxy Nexus Found Early at Best Buy, Verizon Some lucky shoppers were able to buy the Verizon Galaxy Nexus ahead of the phone's official release.
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AT&T, DOJ File Motion to Halt T-Mobile Proceedings AT&T has asked a judge to put on hold the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit to block its merger with T-Mobile USA while the two companies decide whether to move forward with the deal.
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Quad-Core Phones: What to Expect in 2012 Revolutionary a year ago, dual-core mobile processors are now standard; next, chipmakers say, quad-core processors will support mobile multitasking comparable to the performance of a desktop computer.
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Amazon Vows to Fix Flaws in Kindle Fire Amazon promises to update the Kindle Fire's software before Christmas in answer to early customers' complaints, but not everything can be patched.
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US Immigration Services Blasted for Domain Seizures Web activists, senators question the broad action of "In Our Sites" in confiscating a broad range of Internet sites in the name of security and copyright protection.
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Beware the Spread of Weaselware Analysis: Microsoft move to extend the kill-switch, vendor-meddling, customer-paternalization policies of mobile devices to desktop software is a win for weaselware.
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Clickjacking Attacks Possible Despite Framebusting Protection The so-called framebusting mechanism implemented in browsers to help websites prevent clickjacking attacks doesn't live up to expectations, Google reports.
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FTC Mails out Refund Checks for Buyers of Scareware The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun to mail refund checks to computer owners who purchased so-called scareware from vendors who allegedly used deceptive ads.
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Apple's Mac App Store Tops 100 Million Downloads The Mac App Store serves a different customer than its better-known iOS sibling, but it's doing well enough to get rivals' attention.
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Holiday Buying Guide: Perfect Gifts for Gamers Satisfy the gamers on your list with these hot holiday gifts.
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Green Monday Raises Red Flag for Online Shoppers With gift-giving holidays fast approaching, shopping inertia turns into anxiety and online shoppers rush to get their presents into the shipping channel.
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Bye-Bye Avatar: Modern Warfare 3 Takes $1 Billion Record Modern Warfare 3 racks up $1 billion in sales in less time than James Cameron's megabucks 3D film.
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Samsung Breaks the Ultrabook Mold with 14-inch Series 5 Ultra Laptop Samsung enters the Ultrabook race with two models, with one sporting an optical drive.
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Legislation would Allow Netflix to Reveal Your Viewing Habits on Facebook Is the pending amendment to the Video Privacy Protection Act a blow to your privacy, or the first step to easily sharing video streaming?
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10 Top Holiday Deals forTablet, Laptop, and Desktop Bargain Hunters Holiday bargains are still out there for PCs, desktops, and tablets. Here is a list of ten deals worth checking out.
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Firefox Gains Weight, Challenging Its Developers Now too big to be built on 32-bit Windows, the popular browser forces Mozilla developers to look for alternatives.
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Quad-core Smartphones With High-res Screens Will Take Over in 2012 Competition in the smartphone sector will remain cutthroat in 2012, as vendors will improve performance using LTE, high-resolution screens and quad-core...
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Hitach GST Begins Shipments of a 4TB Disk Drive Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, three months...
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Three Bulgarians Arrested in Connection With Phishing Scheme Against US Banks Bulgarian authorities have arrested three men on charges of being part of an international cybercriminal gang that targeted U.S. bank customers.
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SAP Gets Into the Social Analytics Game With NetBase Partnership Taking a cue from rivals such as Salesforce.com, SAP on Monday announced a partnership under which it will resell and support social media analytics software from NetBase.
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