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Windows 8 Heads to PC Makers, But Questions Remain

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August 2, 2012
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Windows 8 Heads to PC Makers, But Questions Remain If the world is going to embrace the changes in Microsofts Windows OS theres a few issues the company will have to address first.
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Sharp Says iPhone 5 Screens Headed to Apple, Report President of Sharp said publicly his firm was shipping iPhone screens to Apple later this month setting off a fresh round of iPhone speculation.
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Tweet from a Commodore 64? We Do That and More to Celebrate the Beloved PC's 30th Birthday Our intrepid computer historian uses the Commodore 64 to tweet, visit websites, and do other PC tasks invented long after the famous gaming computer launched three decades ago.
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Google's Android 4.0 Being Ported to $25 Raspberry Pi PC Developers are porting Google's Android 4.0 OS, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, to the Raspberry Pi PC, which starts at US$25 and is the size of a credit card.
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Dropbox Gets a Black Eye in Spam Attack Efforts to mature into a more enterprise-ready service take a hit.
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Microsoft Surface RT vs. Surface Pro: Which Tablet Will You Want? Will big-ticket apps be ready for the two different Surface models when they launch? Which version looks to be the better deal? And will Microsoft's radical gambit in producing its own tablet hardware succeed?
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Judge Sides With HP, Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software to Itanium A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers.
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iPad Helps Push Apple to Lead Global Market With 19% Share of PC Shipments The iPad has boosted Apple back to the top of the market, helping the company achieve an estimated 19 per cent share of worldwide PC shipments.
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Apple Asks Court to Sanction Samsung by Ordering in Its Favor Apple has requested a court in California to sanction Samsung Electronics in a patent infringement dispute by granting judgment in favor of Apple..
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Chrome Up, Chrome Down in Browser Share Battle Google's Chrome lost usage share for the fifth time in the last seven months, while Mozilla's Firefox gained share for the second consecutive month.
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Google Street View Lands at Kennedy Space Center Googles largest special collection of Street View photos features 6,000 panoramic views of NASAs historic site for its space-faring missions.
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Google Play Grows Up: New Developer Policies Will Clean Up Google's App Store Google Wednesday introduced new developer policies, designed to clean up the Google Play store.
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Guild Wars 2 Final Beta Weekend: PvP We take on other beta players in the PvP areas of one of the biggest MMO titles of the year.
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Chrome 21 Debuts with New Video and Audio API, 26 Bug Fixes With this new release, Google's browser takes its first step towards implementing the WebRTC real-time communications standard.
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Def Con: How to Hack All the Transport Networks of a Country I did not do it! I just downloaded a torrent I found when I was looking for porn, stated 24-year-old Alberto García Illera at the beginning of his Def Con presentation called How to hack all the transport networks of a country.
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RIM Unveils Its New 4G BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Is this new PlayBook RIM's last hurrah in the tablet competition?
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Google Brings Google Wallet to the Cloud Google Wallet now has a cloud-based version and new security features.
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Project Monitors Price of Stolen Credit Card Data in Real Time A new security project is monitoring in real time the price of stolen credit-card data sold in underground forums.
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Google Cracks Down on Misleading, Intrusive Apps in Play Store Android apps that provide what Google deems a "poor user experience" will be banned.
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