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September 7, 2011
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RIM BlackBerry Smartphone Forecast: Grim, With Hope on the Horizon U.S. popularity for RIM products wanes. Will RIM lose the smartphone war to Apple and Google?
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Netflix Quitters Turning to Blockbuster Streaming Service? Blockbuster's new streaming movie service, launching in October may soak up Netflix quitters upset over recent price hikes by Netflix.
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Amazon's New Look May Offer Clues About Tablet Amazon.com's redesigned website has a lot more white space, the messy left-hand sidebar is gone and the search bar is enlarged for touchscreen fingertips.
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HP Announces Seven New All-in-One PCs Hewlett-Packard said its new all-in-one rollout was the company's 'largest investment in the all-in-one desktop PC market to date.'
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Quad-Core Android Tablets Expected in Time for Christmas Nvidia's CEO says manufacturers are working on tuning and performance and their designs, adding that smartphones powered by the chips aren't expected until next year.
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Tivo Premiere Elite Loaded with 2TB of Storage Space Tivo's newest DVR has four tuners, meaning four shows can be recorded simultaneously while watching a fifth.
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Carol Bartz Fired as Yahoo's CEO Bartz, CEO of Yahoo since 2009, is replaced on an interim basis by Tim Morse, the company's chief financial officer.
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A Game of Thrones: Genesis Gets Release Date Game designer Cyanide release five new screenshots, slaps a release date on first official A Song of Ice and Fire video game adaptation.
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Google Takeout Tool Now Archives Voice Data Use Google Takeout to get a downloadable backup file of information from your Google Voice, Google+, Buzz, and/or Picasa accounts.
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Microsoft Says Windows 8 Ribbon is Here to Stay Microsoft's Windows Live president responded to feedback he received by making it clear that while he understand why some people might not be happy about the ribbon, it's not going anywhere.
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Intuit Announces QuickBooks 2012, Salesforce Add-on The latest version of QuickBooks offers new CRM, reports, inventory, and invoicing features.
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Halo 4 Creative Director Quits, Citing Halo Fatigue Ryan Payton didnt disclose specifics about the popular Xbox 360 shooters next sequel, and his comments play into the idea that Halo has run its creative course.
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If You Use It, Mobile Malware Will Come IT people who try to secure mobile devices in a big company face three big conceptual problems.
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Social Location Services Not Catching Fire in the U.S. Adults in the United States don't appear to be interested broadcasting their presence at a local cafe, nightclub or city park on services such as Foursquare or Gowalla.
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Danger! Hackers Can Pwn Your Car Cars are becoming more technologically advanced with each passing year, but the more your car relies on software the more it is vulnerable to having that software exploited as well.
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Countdown to Ubuntu 11.10: The First Beta Version Arrives Just one more beta version is slated to appear before 'Oneiric Ocelot' makes its widely anticipated debut next month.
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Researchers Develop 'Duplex' Wireless, Double Your Mobile Broadband Fun Rice University researchers develop an duplex antenna allowing devices to upload and download data on a single frequency.
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Acer Iconia Tab A100 7-inch Android Tablet, $326 B&H is selling the 7-inch, 32GB Acer Iconia Tab Android tablet for only $326--no tax or shipping fees.
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Do Passive 3D TVs Trade Quality for Comfort? Some claim 3D TVs that use cheaper, lighter, passive polarized glasses produce lower image quality. DisplayMates Ray Soneira says no, and we agree.
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Never Mind the Lawsuits, HTC Is on a Buying Spree Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has been on a buying spree to reshape its business and help defend against lawsuits, though it remains to be seen if the strategy...
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RIM BlackBerry Smartphone Forecast: Grim, With Hope on the Horizon U.S. popularity for RIM products wanes. Will RIM lose the smartphone war to Apple and Google?
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Six Big Windows 8 Features for Small Business Here's a sneak peek at how Windows 8 is shaping up to serve users at work.
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Hands On With Sony Tablet S: A Tablet That Goes Beyond Basics Now offering a slate for presale, Sony is fashionably late to the Android tablet party--but its gamble may just pay off.
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