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May 30, 2012
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Diablo 3 Being Called "Big Pineapple" in China to Dodge Sales Ban Vendors on one of China's largest e-commerce platforms are resorting to calling the hit PC game Diablo 3 "Big Pineapple," which sounds similar in Mandarin...
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Fedora Linux 17 'Beefy Miracle' Makes Its Official Debut Offering more than 60 new features, this free new OS has much to offer business users.
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LibreOffice Gets a Huge Speed Boost Version 3.5.4 of the popular free productivity suite offers performance gains of as much as 100 percent.
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WikiLeaks Founder Assange Loses Extradition Appeal The U.K. Supreme Court ruled that Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden for questioning about allegations of sexual offenses.
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Chrome OS Update Adds Traditional Desktop Feel The problem Google faces is that its Web-centric laptops have not caught on with regular users in any significant way.
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Apple to Double Down on Secrecy as Alleged New iPhone Design Leaked Could it be a coincidence that Tim Cook gave his speech on the same day that photos of the purported new iPhone were leaked?
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Leaked iPhone Photos Show Bigger Screen, Aluminum Back The purported photos depict a device with bigger speakers that will presumably improve sound quality, and the headphone jack moves to the bottom of the iPhone.
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Samsung's Music Hub Service Brings 19 Million Songs to the Galaxy S III The music service will initially only be available on the Galaxy S III in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the U.K.
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Attacks on Iranian Oil Industry Led to Flame Malware Find The sophisticated cyber espionage malware known as "Flame" was discovered after computers within Iran's energy industry were wiped clean of data, a security expert said Tuesday.
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Chinese Version of Windows 8 Release Preview Leaked Online Based on screenshots posted by users and a brief preview video, the leak appears genuine and offers some improvements over the original Windows 8 beta.
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Samsung Refreshes Series 5 Chromebook, Announces Chromebox Desktop PC Samsung has refreshed its Series 5 Chromebook and announced the Chromebox, a desktop PC that runs Google's Chrome OS.
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Free Ebook Teaches You to Ace Every Presentation For a limited time, Amazon is offering this $26.99 Kindle book free of charge.
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The Open-Source Answer to Big Data Open-source source platforms for big data have exploded in popularity. And in the past few months, it seems like nearly everyone is feeling the fallout.
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The 18 Coolest Android Accessories Around Who doesn't love swag? We tracked down some of the coolest Android-themed knickknacks, gizmos, and fashion items around. Get ready to get seriously Googley.
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Security Startup Vaultive Tackles Cloud-Based Encryption Office 365 is the Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications and hosted versions of Microsoft's server products delivered and accessed over the Internet.
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Amazon Instant Video App Lands on Xbox 360 For users of Amazon's Prime Instant Video service, the wait for game console support is over.
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