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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Joins Uprising Against Apple App Store

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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Joins Uprising Against Apple App Store Walmart also attempts to buck Apple with the launch of its new Vudu web app independently of the App Store.
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Gartner: 94 Percent of New PCs Will Ship with Windows 7 in 2011 Apple may be grabbing PC market share, but Windows-based systems continue to dominate.
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Yesterday's Car Tech Today From the flying car to the in-dash record player, we look at yesterday's predictions of today's high-tech cars, and see just how right -- or wrong -- they were.
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Baseball Bat Sales Rise on Amazon UK While London riots, Amazon sees a huge spike in baseball bat sales in the United Kingdom. Are they being bought by rioters or concerned citizens? Surely not new MLB fans?
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Facebook Launches Mobile Messaging App The standalone chat app runs on iPhone, iPad, and Android, and answers the recent Google+ chat announcements.
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Apple Issues Lion Disk Disaster Recovery Tool Apple has released a utility that builds a Lion recovery disk on a USB flash drive, giving users a way to restore their Macs if the machine's hard drive fails.
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Why Anonymous Won't Destroy Facebook The video announcing the purported operation is far lower in production value than other Anonymous videos, leading me to believe that it's fake.
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Microsoft Security Patch Fixes 20-Year-Old Flaw A 1990s-era glitch that produced the "Ping of Death" is one of nearly two dozen vulnerabilities patched Tuesday in Windows, Office, IE and other applications.
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Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Lower Costs of Ultrabooks SandForce, the company responsible for the processors in many solid state drives, announced a breakthrough manufacturing process that should result in more affordable drives .
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3DS Price Drop Comes Early, Still Allows 20 Free Games Wal-Mart retail locations have started to sell the 3DS at its discounted price of $170.
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Toshiba's No-Glasses 3D Laptop About to Hit Stores Toshiba's Qosmio can play 3D Blu-rays and convert standard movies into a fake 3D effect, but it seems unlikely that there are teeming masses of people lining up for this technology.
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Apple Injunction Blocks Samsung Galaxy Tablet Sales in Europe A German court grants Apple an injunction that appears to block sales of the Galaxy tablet across Europe as shipments of the tablet reportedly are seized.
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Addicted to IT: Quitting is not an option Ever yearn for the simple life? Sure you have. But don't fool yourself into thinking you'll ever escape your cage of cables and blinking lights.
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Non-Apple Tablets Forecast to Overtake iPad in 2012 Analysts predict sales of non-Apple tablets will grow by 134 percent in 2012, overtaking the tablet that proved the market.
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IPad Could Lose Popularity 'If Other Devices Were Cheaper' Rival manufacturers to Apple's iPad tablet could increase their market share by dropping prices, but they will need to fight hard.
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3 Technology Trends Your Company Can't Ignore Technology is evolving--fast. Your company needs to stay on top of emerging trends to shape its future.
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Apple Drags Motorola into iPad Turf War Apple's complaint against Samsung indicates that it filed similar complaints against Motorola's Xoom tablet and a German company called JAY-tech.
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Search, Email Still Favorites Among Internet Users People are still doing what they've always done on the web: search for stuff and email each other.
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The Real Apple iPad Killer App? Reading Steve Jobs was wrong. People love to read on the iPad. Lets hope newspaper publishers dont ruin it for everyone.
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The IT economy vs. the rest of the economy Count yourself lucky to work in tech. But with no light at the end of the economic tunnel, it pays to keep your skills sharp.
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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Joins Uprising Against Apple App Store Walmart also attempts to buck Apple with the launch of its new Vudu web app independently of the App Store.
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Gartner: 94 Percent of New PCs Will Ship with Windows 7 in 2011 Apple may be grabbing PC market share, but Windows-based systems continue to dominate.
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