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February 19, 2011
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Your New Facebook Friend Might Be A Spy The war between security firm HBGary and Anonymous reveals a new tactic: using fake social network profiles to gather information.
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Tech Luminaries Dine with President Obama The Silicon Valley's who's who in tech met with President Obama to break bread and talk jobs, innovation, and international trade.
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Rovio Working on Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 has certainly gotten its share of publicity lately, considering the deal Microsoft made with Nokia. But now let's get to the really important news: The best-selling, time-wasting, addictive game Angry Birds will finally be coming to Windows Phone 7.
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Apple's Subscriptions Service Upsets the Cart Analysis: The 30 percent cut on digital content sold through iTunes is freaking out some publishers and media developers, but it may ultimately be a healthy move.
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Watson Beats Jeopardy's Best: What's Next? Analysis: Watson and its successors may usher in a new approach to computing, as it contains many disparate techniques to create a "thinking" machine.
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Broadband Falls Short in U.S. Two U.S. agencies release the country's first national broadband map, revealing big gaps in service and goals for the future.
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Microsoft-Nokia Deal Behind the Scenes Analysis: The partnership almost broke down, until Microsoft sweetened the offer just days before deadline.
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Apple "Blowing It" With App Subscription Scheme, Analyst Says We know that Apple's mobile application subscription scheme is unpopular with publishers, but now analyst firm Forrester's CEO is panning it too.
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Twitter Blocks UberTwitter and Twitdroyd Twitter blocked two apps on Friday for violating rules.
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Jennings Explains Jeopardy Loss to Watson And 'Know Your Meme' explains his comment in Final Jeopardy
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IBM's Watson Brain Similar to Human's IBM's Watson supercomputer has 80 percent of the processing power of the human brain.
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NASA Tamps Down Massive Solar Flare Impact Hype NASA says massive solar flare will produce pretty skies, but little else.
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Who is Anonymous' Commander X? Not This Guy A San Francisco man was named by HBGary's Aaron Barr as the ringleader of Anonymous. Not so, says Ben de Vries.
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Motorola's Entries Entice Analysis: Xoom boosts Android, and Atrix may be the mightiest smartphone yet.
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Google Ups Speed of Chrome 10 Google has released the first beta of Chrome 10, touting the new version's faster JavaScript engine.
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Microsoft on Windows Flaw: Don't Worry Microsoft is downplaying the threat posed to Windows users by a recently-revealed vulnerability, saying an exploit is unlikely.
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UberTwitter Bows to Twitter's Pressure, Changes Name Twitter whacks UberTwitter so hard it's changing its name to UberSocial after suspension.
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Tablet Fever Rages at MWC Several major trends emerged at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Heres what lies ahead for tablets.
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Do Wireless Providers Crimp Mobile Security? Do wireless service giants such as AT&T and Verizon wield their power to effectively stand in the way of mobile-device security?
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China's Huawei to Reverse Controversial Deal for 3Leaf Chinese network equipment supplier Huawei has reversed its stance and has accepted a U.S. panel's recommendation to voluntarily divest from a business...
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Your New Facebook Friend Might Be A Spy The war between security firm HBGary and Anonymous reveals a new tactic: using fake social network profiles to gather information.
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Tech Luminaries Dine with President Obama The Silicon Valley's who's who in tech met with President Obama to break bread and talk jobs, innovation, and international trade.
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10 Great Error Messages A good computing day is an error-free day. Unfortunately, those are rarer than we would like. Have you seen any of these funny and original error messages lately?
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