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Skype Confirms Android Version Leaks User Data Skype has acknowledged a 'privacy vulnerability' in its Skype for Android App that lets criminals gain access to personal information from smartphones.
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Risk Management in Cloud Computing The rewards of cloud computing can be tremendous if the risks are well managed.
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Chrome OS Nears Release, But Where are the Netbooks? Google's other operating system shows promise, but during its test period the iPad changed the mobile market.
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Play The Potato Sack, Help Release Portal 2 Late? Valve's alternate reality game may have backfired, teasing Portal 2's early release with a distributed computing spoof that's instead pushed it past the launch day's midnight hour.
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Google Video Swept Out in Spring Cleaning Surprise: Google suggests you switch to YouTube this month before it flips the off switch.
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Asus Says Transformer Tablet, Notebook Sold Out in UK Asus claims demand for its Transformer combo phone and laptop "has been far beyond expectations"
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Saying 'Apple Won't' is Always Dangerous Analysis: Apple will never make a TV? Here are a few other things pundits were sure Apple would never do.
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20nm Flash Chip Means More Mobile-device Features, Smaller SSDs Intel and Micron announced they have almost halved the size of their NAND flash circuitry, which will open up space in end products.
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iPhone 4 About to Be Most Popular Camera on Flickr &And it's not even a camera.
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Google Video: Good Riddance Google's "other" video-sharing site has been in limbo since Google acquired YouTube, and finally this month it will vanish.
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iPads Said Smuggled from UK (Back) to China Tourists are queuing up to buy the iPad 2 in Britain and then send them all the way back to China -- the country where they were made.
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Anonymous Hacker Claims He Broke into Wind Turbine Systems Claiming revenge for an "illegitimate firing," someone has posted screenshots and other data, apparently showing that he was able to break a 200-megawatt wind turbine.
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HP Plans Cloud Music Locker for TouchPad Tablet Expected online music service could beat Apple and Google offerings if it accompanies HP's tablet.
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Why Virtualized Hybrid Clouds Won't Happen Any Time Soon Even with the moves by virtualization giants, the virtualized hybrid cloud could be farther off than you think
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Comcast's Fast New Service Comes with a Catch Comcast's ultrafast, ultra-broadband "Extreme 105" 105 Mbit/sec service may not take you as far as fast as you'd expect.
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Gamewatch: Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, Final Fantasy IV Check out the latest PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and handheld video games shipping the week of April 18, 2011.
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The Face of Cyberwar Digital battles are likely to come as denial-of-service attacks and phishing rather than an attack on the power grid, a researcher says.
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iPad 2 at Best Buy? Blink and it's Gone The big box stores promoted iPad 2 availability today, but the shelves are largely empty already.
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Google's Big Android Blunder Google won't release Android 3.0, Honeycomb, until it has made it 'better.' This has ticked off pretty much every open-source professional out there
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Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens to the Public: Hands-On Tour Microsoft's Office 365 package for businesses is open for beta testing. Here's a tour of the productivity and communication lineup on the desktop, in a Web browser, and from Windows phones.
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