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Verizon to Share User Location Data, Browsing History With Marketers Verizon has posted changes to its privacy policy stating that it will now share user location data, Web browsing history and demographic information with marketers.
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New Social Engineering Poll Reveals Which Scam Works Better Which tactic works best for a scamming social engineer?
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Developers Expect Much From Ice Cream Sandwich Android application developers have had to deal with multiple versions of the operating system and cope with customized interfaces, making their job difficult.
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Teaser Page Offers Sneak Peek at Motorola Droid RAZR If you're fast, you can catch a glimpse of Motorola's upcoming handset, scheduled to make its debut this week.
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Galaxy Nexus Set for Debut Tonight Sources say Verizon Wireless will be the smartphone's exclusive U.S. carrier and will put the device on sale sometime this month.
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Early iPhone 4S Problems It looks like Apple's latest handset still has a few bugs.
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Worried About Win 8 Secure Boot? So Is the Free Software Foundation The group urges PC users to sign a statement demanding that manufacturers keep the door open for alternate operating systems.
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Motorola Droid Razr Smartphone Comes to Verizon in November for $299 Motorola's newest thin and light smartphone will run on Verizon's 4G LTE network.
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Frequent Facebook Users Not As Worried About Privacy A survey found that 26 percent of respondents who use Facebook daily are "very concerned" about privacy, compared with 35 percent for weekly Facebook users and 39 percent for people who use Facebook less often.
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Batman Arkham City Launch Party Ground Zero Batman Arkham City debuted at midnight last night, and launches today in stores everywhere.
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Apple Stores Require iPhone 4S Shoppers 'Reserve' Phone Online Apple allows you to reserve your iPhone 4S purchase the night before online so the next day you don't have to find out your local Apple Store is sold out.
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Sun Was Close to Licensing Java Patents to Google for $28M Google and Sun Microsystems' discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its dispute with Oracle.
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Mac Notebooks May Get Scarce After Plant Shutdown MacBook Pro and MacBook Air supplies could fall as much as 40% if Apple doesn't replace the production ending in China, an analyst predicts.
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Top 5 Siri-Based Short Films Siri doesn't just say the funniest things, she's also driving a new genre of cinema.
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Dell, EMC Part After 10 Years The computer vendor is ending its decade-long reseller deal with EMC for its storage product lines.
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Sean Parker: Google+ Unlikely to Topple Facebook For Google+ to unseat Facebook as social networking leader, Google would have to deliver a steady stream of innovations and Facebook would need to let its site deteriorate.
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Microsoft PocketTouch Lets You Use Your Phone Through Fabric Microsoft says its prototype allows people to perform multitouch gestures on their smartphone while it's still in their pocket.
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Snag a 64GB Wi-Fi iPad Refurb for $399 Apple is selling its high-end Wi-Fi model for just $399.
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Google Wallet Now Takes Coupons An expanded Google Wallet adds coupon redemption and other features to its mobile payments capabilities.
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Net Monitoring Tool Now Ships With IPv6 Paessler AG has begun shipping a new version of its network monitoring tool that supports the next-generation Internet Protocol.
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