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July 24, 2012
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Google Doodle Honors Amelia Earhart The fitting tribute comes just a day after the first U.S. woman to fly in space -- a modern-day Earhart in her own right -- lost her battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Apple Wants Billions from Samsung in Patent Case A high-profile patent lawsuit between the companies goes in front of a California jury next week.
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YouTube Asks Users to Post Real Names in Bid to Clean Up Comments It remains to be seen whether this move by Google will clean up the discourse in the comments section.
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Lenovo IdeaTab S2110 Now Available Online Starting at $343 The 10.1-inch tablet runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.5GHz processor.
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Apple's Siri-ous Mistake By restricting Siri to iPhone 4S and the new iPad, Apple has widened the market opening for Google Now and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
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Too Busy for that Software Update? Survey Says: Join the Club Most consumers need to see an update prompt between two and five times before downloading and installing the software, according to this new report.
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Online Privacy: Americans Want It, and They Want It Now. So Why Can't They Get It? A new survey by Truste claims 94 percent of people care deeply about online privacy. Unfortunately, none of them are in the online advertising industry.
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iPhone and iPad Security: 5 Often-Overlooked Settings Take a few minutes now and enable these settings; you'll be glad you did.
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Windows 8 Features That Will Benefit Businesses The new OS will be released October 26. Here's how businesses will benefit from upgrading.
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Android's Piracy Problem Drives Dead Trigger Price to Zero Zombie-shooting game Dead Trigger is now free, thanks to piracy.
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Amazon Opens up About Its Cloud Security Practices, Joins CSA Registry Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering.
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Microsoft-Skype Snooping Accusations Push All the Paranoia Buttons Hold the phone, Internet, before deciding whether Microsoft has engineered a backdoor to allow Skype wiretaps.
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DocSync Tackles Document Scatter If you want easy iPad access to documents on your computer, the web, and the iPad itself, DocSync can help.
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Apples iOS 6 Removes Password Prompts for Free Apps Hurray! Apple is ditching the password requirement for downloading free apps with the release of iOS 6, according to numerous reports.
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