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May 1, 2012
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Facebook Wants You to Donate Your Organs Facebook adds organ donor to your Timeline and helps you link to local organ donation resources.
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Puppet Masters of the Internet When these ten guys pull the power strings of the Internet, everyone jumps.
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Skype Investigates Tool That Reveals Users' IP Addresses Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue.
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Microsoft Is Taking a Closer Look at 'Racy' Apps on Marketplace Microsoft will from now on be paying more attention to the icons, titles, and content of apps on Marketplace, and expects them to get more subtle and modest in the imagery used.
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TechHive: Reality Check: How E-Readers Can Fight to Stay Alive The e-reader is one of those rare niche gadgets that can and should have a place in our tech lives.
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Apple Responds to Tax Dodging Allegations Apple claims that it is 'among the top payers of U.S. income tax' and also that it is among the top creators of American jobs.
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BlackBerry Music Gateway Uses NFC to Stream Audio The BlackBerry Music Gateway can be hooked up to your home stereo or car audio system via a 3.5mm auxiliary input or RCA connectors.
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Oracle, Google Trial Heads to Jury Oracle sued Google about two years ago, arguing that its Android software infringes Java patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems.
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Google Street View's Wi-Fi Snooping Engineer is Outed The Times says it uncovered Marius Milner's identity through a former state investigator who was involved in a separate inquiry into Street View.
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Intel's Ivy Bridge Chips Appear to Run Hotter Than Sandy Bridge Chips When Overclocked Several tests find Ivy Bridge processors to run much hotter than second-generation Sandy Bridge chips when significantly overclocked.
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Samsung Grabs Biggest Share of Smartphone Market in First Quarter of 2012 Samsung overtook Apple for the smartphone leadership position, according to estimates by IDC.
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Flashback Culprits Could Be Making $10,000 a Day Off Infected Macs Symantec spells out the malware's money-making mechanism: click fraud.
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What Makes a Good Password? Sound advice against the use of bad passwords has been around for decades. Yet I still find people electing to use passwords like pa55w0rd and login123 as if they'd never heard about password cracking programs.
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Lies, Spies, and Wi-Fi: Google 'Fesses Up Google admits it knowingly gathered sensitive data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Street View and did nothing to stop it. The FCC fine: Pocket change.
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Barnes & Noble Deal Signals New Microsoft Savvy The deal with the maker of the popular Nook ebook reader shows that Microsoft, like Apple, understands that ecosystems are the key to success.
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RIM Offers Peek at BlackBerry 10, Alpha Hardware Research in Motion released a video during its BlackBerry World conference that shows a device and software that are an extreme departure from RIM's lineup.
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U.K. ISPs Must Block The Pirate Bay; Can It Happen in the United States? U.S. service providers have agreed to a six-strikes plan that culminates in suspension of a user's Internet access for repeat infringements.
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Now with More RAM, the 'Vivaldi' Linux Tablet Is Almost Ready Originally known as the 'Spark,' this fully open $265 device will soon ship with a full 1GB of RAM.
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Busting CIO Myths Close examination finds that some of the beliefs that CIOs hold dearest about their role in the enterprise may not stand up in the real world.
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Two Cloud Myths Busted: Lock-In and Locked Up When it comes to technology dependency and risk of legal compliance, the cloud is just like everything else.
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