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June 15, 2012
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Reported Yammer Acquisition Seen as Beneficial for Microsoft If Microsoft buys Yammer, as unconfirmed press reports indicate, Susan Gautsch hopes the Yammer team won't lose the qualities she has appreciates.
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Hybrid Drives Already Passe, as SSD Sales Skyrocket Hybrid drives, which combine NAND flash with spinning disk, are selling like molasses compared to SSDs and SSDs with cache, according to IHS iSuppli.
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Senator's Legislation Takes on Telephone Bill Cramming New legislation in the U.S. Senate would outlaw most third-party charges on wireline telephone bills in an effort to combat unauthorized billing.
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Thunderbolt Finally Reaches PCs With New Acer Ultrabook Thunderbolt ports have reached Windows PCs with Acer's Aspire S5 ultrabook, expanding the availability of the technology beyond Macs.
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Can Microsoft Crack the Tablet Market? On Monday Microsoft tries again to crack the tablet market with its own slate, according to reports. Can it succeed?
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Apple's New Laptop Heralds 'Air-izing' of All MacBook Pros Apple's new Retina MacBook Pro is a harbinger of future changes to the company's laptop line, analysts said today.
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Nook Passes Fire in Web Traffic in June The Barnes &Noble Nook tablet's Web traffic overtook that of the Kindle Fire for the first time in early June.
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(Video) Google's Eric Schmidt to Boston University Class of 2012 Commencement address by Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman, to the Boston University Class of 2012 (May 20, 2012).
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Sony Debuts New Android 4.0 Xperia Miro and Tipo via Facebook Campaign Japanese electronics maker Sony has announced two new smartphones - the Xperia Miro and Xperia Tipo - both running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
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Fast Networks Key to New Apps, Says White House Fast food franchises have a larger presence in many communities than next generation, high-speed gigabit networks, a fact the White House says it's attempting to address.
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Reddit Bans Major Publications for Allegedly Spamming And/or Cheating Reddit, a popular link-sharing and discussion site, announced this week that it has begun blocking content from entire domains.
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Have LinkedIn's Security Woes Permanently Damaged the Social Network? After last week's breach of the LinkedIn site, analysts are debating whether the attack will cause long-term damage to the social network.
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Vizio's Ultrabook PCs: Real MacBook Air Rivals, at Last? Vizio's combination of low prices, high-end materials, and solid specs on these Ultrabooks will likely make a big splash in the Windows PC market,
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Android Tablets Beating Out iPad in Business and IT: Report A shift is afoot in the global tablet market, IDG Connect's survey data suggests.
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Vizio Enters PC Business, Ships Ivy Bridge Systems Starting at $898 Vizio, known for its TVs, entered the PC business Thursday, announcing new laptops and all-in-ones that all start at the same price, $898.
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Microsoft Schedules Two Major Mystery Media Events Next Week Microsoft will host media events in Los Angeles on June 18 and in San Francisco on June 20. Best guesses so far focus on Windows 8 RT tablets and/or Windows Phone 8 announcements.
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Affordable Intel Ivy Bridge Core i3 Processors Coming in Late June By the time back-to-school shopping begins, we should have our pick of budget Ivy Bridge laptops and desktops.
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Apple to Introduce 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display in October, Report Says The purported next-generation 13-inch MacBook would have a screen resolution of 2560 pixels by 1600 pixels, and feature MacBook Air-like qualities.
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Free Game Friday: A Game About Your Morning Coffee and An Absolutely Insane Platformer In This week's roundup of free games we've got a low-rez puzzle game and a platformer about breaking out of an insane asylum.
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What's the Price for Secret Access to US Gov't Supercomputers? $50,000 A grand jury indictment unsealed on Thursday against a 23-year-old American man highlights the extent to which U.S. government computer networks are under siege...
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