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June 7, 2012
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Google Beefs Up Maps as Apple Breakup Nears Google's Mapping team goes offline with mobile Google Maps, shows off backpack-sized Street View contraptions, and wows with new 3D fly-over technology.
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LeakedIn Web App Checks for Compromised LinkedIn Passwords A New York-based web developer and his colleagues have built a web-based application for people to see if their LinkedIn password has been compromised.
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Virgin Mobile to Sell Prepaid iPhones Virgin Mobile begins selling the iPhone without a contract starting June 29 with service plans starting at $30 a month.
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Microsoft Will Update Windows Update to Stymie Flame-like Attacks Microsoft today announced it will issue an update to its Windows Update to prevent copy-cat hackers from duplicating Flame's feat of infecting fully-patched PCs.
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Mitt Romney Email and Dropbox Accounts Reportedly Hacked The Hotmail and Dropbox accounts of US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney appear to have been hacked.
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Mass. Teen Gets Year in Jail for Fatal Texting Crash A judge in Massachusetts ordered a teen driver to one year in a county correctional center for texting while driving that led to a fatal crash.
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Hard Drive Prices to Remain High Until 2014 A new report from IHS iSuppli states that drive prices that skyrocketed after flooding in Thailand will remain high for the next couple of years.
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TechHive: How to Download Your Photos From Popular Sharing Sites This guide will cover batch-downloading images from Facebook, Google+, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa Web Albums, SmugMug, Photobucket, Shutterfly, and Snapfish.
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LinkedIn Password Breach Spawns Spam Campaign The spam campaign is trying to take advantage of LinkedIn users worried that their passwords were among the 6.46 million posted on the Internet.
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TechHive: Doing the E3 Shuffle Its the smaller meetings and the chance encounters that really make the show worth seeing. Here is one reporter's journey.
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Microsoft: 600 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold A passel of PC users appear to be happy with Windows 7 but that version isn't even the Windows operating system with the most users.
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WWDC 2012 Preview: What to Expect from Apple Apple's WWDC 2012 will include purported refreshes to almost the entire Mac lineup, Facebook integration for iOS, Siri integration for the iPad, as well as sneak peeks at iOS 6.
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Samsung, HTC Spar with Apple Over Sales Injunction Cases Both companies have said that Apples requests are without merit and that their devices are not infringing on patents.
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Samsung Gets Serious About Linux with $500K Investment As a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, Samsung gets a seat on the board and more control over its primary weapon in its battle against Apple.
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Looking for a Job? Good News: IT Hiring Is on the Rise, Dice Says Salaries for tech professionals are also up this year, according to a recent survey.
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A Tribute to the TV Remote Control: Past, Present, and Future A look at the history of remote controls, some of the coolest remotes out now, and what's ahead for changing the channels on your TV.
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Microsoft to Run Linux on Azure After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service.
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E3: Hands On with the World of Warplanes Game World of Warplanes brings airborne arena payer-versus-player combat with mid-20th century aircraft and hopes to duplicate the success of the popular game World of Tanks.
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Global Mobile Phone Shipments Slowing Down Smallest increase in three years predicted by research firm IDC as interest in non-smartphones starts to cool.
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Online Banking's Weak Security Link: Customers Criminals know how to overcome banks' security, and now focus on customers who are not PC security-savvy, says security firm.
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Google Beefs Up Maps as Apple Breakup Nears Google's Mapping team goes offline with mobile Google Maps, shows off backpack-sized Street View contraptions, and wows with new 3D fly-over technology.
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LeakedIn Web App Checks for Compromised LinkedIn Passwords A New York-based web developer and his colleagues have built a web-based application for people to see if their LinkedIn password has been compromised.
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Android Phones: Which Companies Do the Best Job With Android Updates? Are you choosing a new Android phone? We evaluate which carriers and manufacturers have the strongest track record for delivering Android updates.
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Free Desktop App DoubleTwist Syncs Your Tunes 'Twixt PC and Phone Android users, alleviate your iTunes envy with DoubleTwist, a free desktop app that syncs your media to your phone.
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What Separates Business Routers From Consumer Routers? Small-business owners shopping for a new router should avoid the flashy new 802.11ac models. Heres why.
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Chrome OS Grows Up The latest incarnation of Google's Cloud OS works much more like a Windows or OS X machine, though still with some quirks.
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