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January 30, 2012
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Root Your Android Phone: Tips and Tricks Sick of waiting for your wireless carrier to upgrade your Android phone's firmware? Here is how to do it yourself via rooting your phone.
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Megaupload User Data Could Be Wiped Out Thursday Megaupload users will likely see personal data stored on the troubled file hosting firm's service disappear later this week.
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Timeline Launch Nears, But Few Users Like it, Survey Finds Facebook's latest push for more sharing draws uneasiness and resignation among its users.
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Firefox 10 Launches Tuesday This update to Mozilla's browser disables incompatible add-ons; also shipping is a security update for Firefox 3.6.
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Samsung Refreshes Galaxy Smartphone The sleek, curved model has a 4-inch display and runs Gingerbread, but the Galaxy S Advance won't hit the U.S. for months.
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iPhone App Sneaks in Tethering. Act Fast! Quasidisk is promoted as a file manager and viewer, but the app can turn the iPhone into wireless 3G modem for laptops at no extra charge.
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Banks Team with Tech to Fight Phishing Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn and others are partnering with financial institutions as DMARC to educate customers about online scams.
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Kinect Inside: Asus Bakes Motion-Control Tech into Laptops Want to wave your arms or kick your legs in front of your laptop? Asus is working to make it so.
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How to Ditch Your CDs and DVDs and Go Digital Theres more than one way to rid yourself of your old DVDs and CDs. We round up the best options.
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New Open Tablet Will Come with Linux and KDE Preinstalled Priced at about $260, the 7-inch 'Spark' tablet will offer unlocked hardware and an open content store.
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Tilera Targets Intel, ARM With 36-core Server Chip Tilera on Monday announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from Intel in...
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Sundance DiGiovanni Speaks About The Future of Major League Gaming MLG co-founder and CEO Sundance DiGiovanni talks about the business of professional gaming, the 2012 season and how he hopes eSports will expand in the coming years in this exclusive interview.
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Sony's Glass-Plated TX200V Camera Stays Fashionable Even Underwater One of three new Cyber-shot cameras announced today, the waterproof TX200V packs a fast autofocus system and an OLED touchscreen behind a glass faceplate.
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Lenovo to Upgrade ThinkPad Tablet to Android 4.0 in Q2 Lenovo plans to upgrade its popular ThinkPad Tablet to the latest version of the Android 4.0 operating system in the second quarter this year, the company said...
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Industry Group Makes Fresh Push to Eliminate Phishing Companies such as Facebook, Google and PayPal are pushing for widespread use of a new technical specification, DMARC, that could make it harder for phishers to...
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McAfee Mobile 2.0 Moves Beyond Virus Protection Intel-owned McAfee has released Mobile Security 2.0, which allows users of Android-based smartphones and tablets to keep better track of what applications are up...
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This Tiny Electric Bike Delivers 80 Miles of Efficient, Eco-Friendly Travel Although it's a bit smaller than a normal bicycle, this box-shaped gadget can do road trips at a whopping 35 miles per hour.
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Microsoft Partner: Office 365 App Dev Model to Change, Expand External developers will be able to build much more sophisticated applications and tools for Office 365 once Microsoft releases the next upgrade of that...
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Pentaho Open Sources 'big Data' Integration Tools Under Apache 2.0 BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the...
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Root Your Android Phone: Tips and Tricks Sick of waiting for your wireless carrier to upgrade your Android phone's firmware? Here is how to do it yourself via rooting your phone.
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