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Google's Path to Google+ Took 7 Years The Google+ social network is the culmination of seven years of trial and error with over a dozen Google products and services
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4 'Awesome' Things Facebook Might Announce A new partner? Mobile advances? Here are some educated guesses about Facebook's plan to wow us on Wednesday.
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Android Pummels Apple and Blackberry in Smartphone Supremacy Race New Comscore data reveals Android is winning the U.S. smartphone horse race robbing a disproportionate amount of market share from RIM's Blackberry mobile operating system.
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Does Facebook Own Your Friends? If you're like me, you've got a lot of Facebook friends. But whose friends are they, really? Your answer may differ from Facebook's.
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Rumor: Windows 8 Preview Build May Arrive Next Week The start of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference may provide a peek at Windows 8.
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Google+ Vanity URL Shortener Crops Up More than 64,000 Google+ users have signed up for the service, giving us one indication of how big the Google+ test field is.
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Is Galaxy S II Headed to Windows Phone 7? The main obstacle is that the Galaxy S II doesn't match the existing Windows Phone hardware specification in terms of its processor and three dedicated buttons on the front of the phone.
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Google to Rename Picasa, Blogger, Reports Say Rebranding the Web services will bring them under one identity and prepare for their integration with Google+.
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Hacking Team Claims NATO Server Compromised The files were posted on the MediaFire file hosting site under the name "NATO Tomcat 5.5 Servlet Backup." NATO's press office hasn't responded to a call seeking comment on the matter.
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Galaxy Tab 10.1 Will Put Apps in Your Apps 'Mini Apps' are a collection of utilities that can be launched on top of other Android applications. These include a notepad, calendar, task manager, clock, music player and calculator.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- Just Not Your Password In the wake of a breach, researchers typically focus on the poor password choices of users, but reuse is a much greater threat.
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Live Blog: Facebook Adds Skype Video Calling; Ad Hoc Chat Service; New Chat Design Facebook says video chat rolls out today.
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Airfare Listings in Google Search Results? They Could Soon Appear A robust flight search service may be popping up on Google products shortly.
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'iPad 2 Plus' Rumors Gather Steam An analyst says Apple is requesting quotes from component suppliers for an 'iPad 2 Plus' that may have double the pixel density of the existing iPad and would launch in late 2011.
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Facebook Partners with Skype on 'Video Calling' Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is partnering with Skype on a new service called Video Calling and also announces Group Text Chat feature
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Beam Me Up, Ruckus The Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex Smart WiFi system is designed to be a stable, easy to manage and highly secure wireless networking solution for the enterprise.
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Privacy Groups Protest Proposed E-Verify Bill A proposal to force employers to use the federal E-Verify system to vet new and current workers has stoked widespread privacy concerns.
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PlayStation Network Redesign in the Offing? The 'PS4 in 2012' rumor may be ridiculous, but whispers of a revamped PlayStation Network may be slightly less so.
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Microsoft, Citrix Join VMware at Top of Gartner's Magic Quadrant It's getting harder for VMware to argue that it's the only game in town for big-time virtualization projects.
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iPad 2 Jailbreak Arrives At Last With JailbreakMe 3.0 Oh happy day! iPhone hackers release JailbreakMe 3.0, which promises to jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 and is the first jailbreak for the iPad 2.
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Google's Path to Google+ Took 7 Years The Google+ social network is the culmination of seven years of trial and error with over a dozen Google products and services
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: June 2011What's appealing in June? According to our reviewers, the same things that catch our attention year-round: system utilities, fun toys, and free stuff. From backup software to a music manager, a powerful PDF reader to a 3D sculpting tool, a CPU temperature monitor to a weather-displaying screensaver, many of June's favorites are freebies.
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