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May 16, 2011
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9 Ways Microsoft is Winning!...and Losing! Microsoft has Tiger Blood.
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Netflix, Miramax Sign Deal -- Finally, Decent Programming Exhausted the decent content on Netflix Instant Watch? Stuck with low-budget horror sequels and straight-to-DVD dregs? Relief is on the way.
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15 Hilarious Amazon User Reviews Who knew Amazon product reviews could be so wacky, weird, and wildly funny.
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500GB Seagate Hard Drive Streams to 3 iPads The battery-powered external hard drive lets you stream video and audio content to three different mobile devices at once, making long car trips with the family a bit more bearable.
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Off to a Wobbly Start: Sony's PlayStation Network Lurches to Life The PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment are back, sort of.
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PlayStation Network and Qriocity Back for Users Outside Asia Millions of PlayStation users are once again able to shoot, fight and race their way through online worlds after Sony resumed online gaming service late Saturday.
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Samsung will Push Android Gingerbead to Galaxy Phone, Tablet Rollout to the Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab tablet begins in mid-May in the U.K., then on to the rest of the world.
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RIM Recalls 1000 PlayBook Tablets RIM says most of the affected devices are still in the distribution channel and haven't reached customers.
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Mozilla Plans to Kill Firefox 3.5 and Force Upgrades to New Browser Version Mozilla plans to push 12 million users of the aged Firefox 3.5 to a newer version next month by taking the unprecedented step of automatically upgrading their...
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Droid X2 may Arrive Next Week, But Don't Expect Fireworks The next-gen Droid X will deliver a much-needed spec boost, with a 1 GHz Tegra 2 dual-core processor, qHD display, and HDMI mirror mode.
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5 Issues in Lodsys' In-App Purchase Patent Claim The company wants third-party iOS developers to license its technology in order to implement in-app purchases in iPhone and iPad software.
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Chromebook: Are You Really Ready to Marry Google? Do you want to marry Google, as a computing partner that is? If you do, the new Chromebook might make sense. If not, don't even think about buying one.
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RIM's PlayBook Recall Touches Few Consumers Most of the approximately 1000 tablets being recalled are still in distributors' hands, RIM reports.
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5th-Gen iPhone Leak Shows New Edge-to-Edge Screen A design from a Chinese case-maker also shows changes to the camera/flash configuration.
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App Builders Eager to Taste Android 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Developers hope the upcoming Android release will resolve fragmentation issues.
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Just Out: An App Store for Rugged Mobile Computers A new Website features more than 100 mobile business applications from almost 30 independent software vendors that can be tested over the Internet on a rugged machine.
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Apple Offers Free Repairs for Quake-Damaged Gadgets Customers who need their Apple wares repaired as a result of the earthquake and tsunami in Northeast Japan can get their devices fixed for free.
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iPhone 5 Edge-to-Edge Screen: More Evidence Ad for case bolsters talk of an edge-to-edge display that would let Apple enlarge the iPhone screen while keeping the chassis the same size.
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HP Advances Next-gen 'memristor' Memory Technology HP scientists have made a small breakthrough in the development of a next-generation memory technology called memristors, which some see as a potential...
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Microsoft BPOS Outage Shows Danger of Trusting the Cloud Microsoft BPOS experienced sporadic outages last week, demonstrating why it's a bad idea to trust your business entirely to cloud services.
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