Black Friday Reality Check: The Worst Busts of 2011

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Black Friday Reality Check: The Worst Busts of 2011 Not all Black Friday sales are what they appear to be. Here's a look at 10 Black Friday doorbuster deals that stink.
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Surrounded by Surveillance: Is Everything Spying On You? Depending upon who you listen to, GPS tracking shouldn't be your only concern when you are out and about on the streets.
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Computer Science is the Hottest Major on Campus Six-figure salaries and hipster images mean record applications at the nation's top comp sci colleges.
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The 10 Best PS3 Games GamePro's "Top 10" PS3 games sees Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3, and RPG smash-hit Skyrim join the list. But what didn't quite make the cut?
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Black Friday: Update Your Parents' Browser Day? Could Black Friday become the unofficial day to update your parent's browser? Some are hoping it does.
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Inside Facebook's Amazing Oregon Data Center Analysis: The 333,400-square foot facility has tens of thousands of servers but it takes only 55 people to run it.
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Unpatched Apache Reverse Proxy Flaw Allows Access to Internal Network A yet-to-be-patched flaw discovered in the Apache HTTP server allows attackers to access protected resources on the internal network.
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Microsoft Surface: Why it Didn't Change Everything Analysis: Surface was and is neat, but Microsoft didnt seem to be dreaming about it big enough for it to become a breakthrough product.
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Some Malls Tracking Shoppers Through Their Cell Phones This Holiday Season For some, Black Friday is now Track Friday.
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Apple Kicks Off Black Friday Sale Save some money today on an iPad, iPod Touch, MacBook, and iMac or accessories. Shop both online and in Apple stores.
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The First Microprocessor--The 40th Anniversary of Intel's 4004 Meet the first microprocessor and see what it was used for--from pinball machines to early electronic voting.
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Is 2012 the Year Android Invades the Enterprise? Analysis: For CIOs, the year 2012 will be one of huge opportunity and incredible risk as Android phones and tablets drive deeper into the enterprise.
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Motorola Releases Slightly Thicker Droid Razr-like Phone for China Motorola is bringing the concept for its Droid Razr smartphone to China's largest mobile carrier in a new handset, but has done so with a thicker casing.
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The 10 Best Xbox 360 Games Batman: Arkham City, Saints Row: The Third, and Skyrim break into GamePro's countdown of the best Xbox 360 titles.
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Samsung Appeals Against Galaxy Tab Sales Ban in Australia Samsung's lawyers begin an appeal against the ban on sales of the company's Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.
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London Wires up for 2012 Olympic Games While London's massive Olympic park is still very much a frenetic construction site, IT engineers are fine tuning the equipment that will be used to transmit video.
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Will Congress Crush Tech Spending? The failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach a deficit reduction agreement triggers automatic federal spending cuts beginning the next fiscal year, which will likely make a lot of government IT contractors nervous.
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Is the AT&T Merger With T-Mobile USA Dead? Given the FCC staff opposition to the proposed AT&T merger with T-Mobile USA, it's fair to ask: Is the $39 billion deal dead?
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Germany's Merck Wants Facebook Page Back Germany's Merck KGaA has threatened legal action after it said it lost its Facebook page apparently to rival Merck & Co. in the U.S., though it has yet to...
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