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Office 2013 on a Tablet vs. Touch-Friendly Competition

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Office 2013 on a Tablet vs. Touch-Friendly Competition Microsofts new Office apps and services will make its tablets well-armed for business. Will the competition be able to keep up?
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Nokia's Q2 Smartphone Sales Fell 39 Percent, as Loss Widens Nokia reported a 39 percent year-on-year drop in the number of smartphones it sold in the second quarter, to 10.2 million, while its net loss more than trebled.
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Who Wants to Be in the PC Business? Not Dell Have you noticed that it's just not so cool to be in the PC business these days? Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, said this week that the "new Dell" really isn't in the PC business anymore.
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Can the U.S. Patent System Be Saved? Getting people to agree on the problems, let alone the solutions, is no easy task.
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YouTube Adds Face Blurring for Protesters, Worried Parents YouTube has added a face blurring option to the site's built-in photo editor. When users apply the option, YouTube tries to detect and blur all faces automatically.
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Photos of the Earliest Known IPad Prototype Emerge In 2010, Steve Jobs revealed that the iPhone was inspired by tablet prototypes. Photographs of those prototypes have now been discovered.
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Apple Steps Up Effort to Stop a Free In-App Purchases Hack, Report Apple is reportedly cracking down on a hack that lets iOS users trick the App Store into giving them in-app purchases for free with an attempt to more easily identify users and devices involved with the exploit.
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Windows 8 Release Date is October 26 Windows 8 has an official release date of October 26, 2012.
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Massive Botnet is Brought Down, Curtailing Flow of Pharmaceutical Spam Grum, the world's third-largest botnet, was reportedly responsible for 18 percent of all spam, or 18 billion spam messages per day.
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Mozilla Closes Security Hole in Firefox's New Tab Window Banking and other information from secure sites will no longer be displayed for all to see.
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Voice Over LTE Explained: Better Voice Quality Coming Soon to Your 4G Phone What exactly is VoLTE (Voice over LTE)? In ten quick questions, we explain it, telling you how it works, when it may arrive, and why you might want it.
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Sales of Windows Phone 7 Lag, Creating Problem for Nokia and Microsoft Since Windows Phone 7 is essentially a dead end, the mobile platforms popularity is unlikely to improve in the coming months before Windows Phone 8 arrives.
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Intel: More Than 40 Touchscreen Windows 8 Ultrabooks Coming Additionally, Ultrabook laptops sales are doing well, Intel's CEO says.
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Dell's New Ubuntu Linux Laptop Is Coming This Fall Following an overwhelming response to its developer-oriented beta program, the company will move the project 'from pilot to product' in a few months, it says.
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Apple Ordered To Admit That Samsung Is No Copycat A British judge orders Apple to post notices on its U.K. website and in British newspapers that Samsung didn't rip off the iPad design.
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Victim of Half-Million-Dollar Cybercrime Tells Tale of Fighting Back Michelle Marsico's two-year ordeal ends with lawsuit settlement
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Black Hat: Hacking Iris Recognition Systems What if iris scans could be faked for real via a simple printed image to fool iris recognition systems?
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Great Open Source Map Tools for Web Developers A rich ecosystem of free maps, free data, and free libraries give developers excellent alternatives to Google Maps.
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AT&T, Verizon Shared Data Plans: 5 Things to Consider If you're thinking about switching to a shared data plan, here are a few things to consider those plans.
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Why You Shouldn't Train Employees for Security Awareness If there's one myth in the information security field that just won't die, it's that an organization's security posture can be substantially improved by regularly training employees in how not to infect the company.
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