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For Wi-Fi, PCs and Macs are Now a Minority

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For Wi-Fi, PCs and Macs are Now a Minority Tablets and mobile devices rule the Wi-Fi networks.
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LulzSec Says Goodbye with New Data Dump In what it says is its final act of mayhem, hacker group LulzSec publicly unloaded a trove of documents containing a significant amount of compressed data.
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Managing Applications Is Like Managing a Baseball Team We're three months into the Major League Baseball season and the Philadelphia Phillies have the best record in baseball. The Houston Astros have the worst.
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Cyberthugs, Run as Fast as You Can: FBI Is On a Victorious Roll The FBI has come out with cyberguns blazing, blowing away bad guys in cyberspace, and scoring major white hat wins.
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Game Over: Five Reasons the iPhone 5 Will Dominate When the iPhone 5 finally arrives, it will be like 2007 all over again, and smartphone rivals will be left scrambling and trying to catch up to Apple's dominance.
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Mozilla Mulls Firefox 3.6 Retirement, Too Mozilla is planning to retire Firefox 3.6 from support, but won't put the 18-month-old browser out to pasture until August at the earliest.
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The 10 Best Nintendo 3DS Games Nintendo's 3DS line-up is finally starting to show some teeth, as Zelda 3D and Dead or Alive sky-rocket to the front of our countdown. Let's count down to Number 1.
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Sony Hacker Said to Land Facebook Job George Hotz, the hacker who pioneered jailbreaking the iPhone and was sued by Sony after publishing the PlayStation 3's root keys, reportedly has a job at Facebook.
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Google Fights Perception it Doesn't do Enough to Support Gays For Gay Pride month this year, search terms such as gay, lesbian or transgender appear with a rainbow swooping down from and curling around the search bar.
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Is Microsoft Blowing Smoke When It Says It Won't Be Hurt By the Cloud? Does cloud computing represent a big opportunity for Microsoft, rather than a threat?
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Orlando Tries out 600 Chromebooks The city of Orlando, Fla. has deployed 600 Chromebooks to employees as part of a pilot project and the early verdict is that they're low maintenance devices.
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iPhone 5: Weekly Rumor Roll-up The summer solstice has passed and the iOSsphere is heating up with new and newly recycled iPhone 5 rumors.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 25: Tracking Personal Finances One of the things I rely on my PC for is managing my personal finances, so I need to find a tool for Ubuntu Linux that can replace the Quicken software I use in Windows.
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LulzSec Calls It Quits After 50 Days of 'mayhem' The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time for it to...
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Testing Tablet Displays and The Future of Digital Photography On PCWorld Podcast #118 We talk the dark side of tablet displays and the potential for Lytro's "light field" digital camera technology to revolutionize digital photography in this week's episode of the PCWorld Podcast.
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