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May 22, 2012
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Zombie Facebook Profiles Thrive: Robot Blonds Invade Social Network Fake Facebook accounts are flourishing and the social network appears oblivious to the fraud.
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Are You Prepared for the EU's New Data Protection Regulation? Big changes are coming to data protection laws in the European Union. Are you ready?
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Google Seals the Deal on $12.5B Motorola Acquisition The merger allows Google to beef up its patent portfolio, as rivals Apple and Microsoft try to drag down Android device makers with lawsuits.
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Is Internet Explorer On the Way Out? Not So Fast! StatCounter has declared Google Chrome the king of all desktop browsers, but NetMarketShare disagrees. Turns out the two measurement firms measure very different things -- views and unique visits.
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Samsung Galaxy SIII Available June 1 from Amazon for $800 Users who purchase the unlocked version of the phone will have to make some compromises.
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Amazon's Android Appstore Allows Users to Test Apps on Phones Amazon has more than 5,000 Android apps ready to use the Test Drive feature, and it aims to make the entire Appstore catalog available.
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Sidecar Smartphone App: Share Data While Making a Phone Call When using the Sidecar app for Android- or iOS-based phones, users can share video, photos, location, and contact information while making a phone call.
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Gmail Gets an Improved Autocomplete Feature Gmails autocomplete feature will now include suggestions based on the content in your e-mail.
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iOS Vulnerable to Malware Attack, Security Firm Warns The Kaspersky security company claims that iOS's sizable market share makes it a tempting target for malware writers.
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Supreme Court Lets $675,000 Fine for Music Downloads Stand The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider the petition of Joel Tenenbaum, a former doctoral student at Boston University who faces a fine of US$675,000 for illegally downloading 30 songs.
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Fewer US Mobile Users Are Paying a Monthly Bill Traditional mobile phone plans are now on the wane in the U.S., but the country's biggest carriers are still bringing in more money and leading the world in revenue.
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Pocket Marvels: 40 Years of Handheld Computers From the first pocket scientific calculator through '80s organizers to today's tablets, check out 15 ingenious devices that have driven the handheld computing revolution.
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The Top 10 Games of 2012 (So Far) From Diablo III to Fez to Mass Effect 3, these are the best video games from the first half of the year.
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Mobile App Standoff: Web App vs. Native App For resources-strapped companies that want to get in the mobile app game, a Web app tuned for smartphones and tablets is a wise choice.
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Bye-Bye, BlackBerry: How to Transfer Contacts to iPhone or Android You're just one text message away from transferring your contacts to nearly any smartphone.
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New X1 DVR Interface Takes Comcast TV to the Cloud Xfinity TV on the X1 platform integrates interactive, customized apps, and social media features with Comcast's traditional video services.
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5 Tips for Social Business Adoption: How SAS Succeeded SAS needed a way to consolidate information repositories and wrangle millennials from using Facebook for work purposes. Here's how the business analytics company decided on and rolled out their enterprise collaboration platform, plus tips for success.
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'Liberating' Your Data from Google, and What That Really Means Google Takeout, which lets you download a copy of your Google presence, turns one year old next month. Does Takeout truly let you liberate your data from the search behemoth, and what does that mean, anyway?
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SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Into Orbit; Now Onward to the ISS This morning SpaceX successfully put the Dragon capsule into orbit and on course towards the ISS for a docking and exchange of cargo.
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Tokyo Opens World's Tallest Broadcast Tower Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcast tower, officially opened to the public on Tuesday.
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Zombie Facebook Profiles Thrive: Robot Blonds Invade Social Network Fake Facebook accounts are flourishing and the social network appears oblivious to the fraud.
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Are You Prepared for the EU's New Data Protection Regulation? Big changes are coming to data protection laws in the European Union. Are you ready?
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TechHive: Hands on With Bing's Social Search Feature While Google famously promotes items from its Google+ service in search results, Bing includes results from multiple social networking sites.
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Hands-on with the Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A A full-HD IPS display is the breakout feature of Asus new high-end Ultrabook.
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