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Free Software Activists to Take on Google With New Free Search Engine Free software activists have released a new peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others.
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15 Top Cyber Week Tech Deals Bargains continue online as retailers extend Cyber Monday deals during what is called Cyber Week.
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New Skyrim Patch 1.2 Fixes All Kinds of Stuff Bethesda patches Skyrim, fixes Xbox 360 texturing and PS3 performance issues, and tweaks the PC interface.
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Senator Vows to Topple Anti-Piracy Bill with StopCensorship.org Senator Ron Wyden threatens filibuster to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Feds Celebrate Cyber Monday With Crackdown on Counterfeiters Cyber Monday has been a busy day for everyone--shoppers, online counterfeiters, and the Feds.
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Lenovo Unveils New Tablets, Smartphone and Plans 'Smart TV' Lenovo unveiled three new tablets and a smartphone for the Chinese market on Tuesday and said it will launch a smart TV product in the first quarter of next...
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LG Nitro HD: AT&T's 720p 4G LTE Phone AT&T will finally have a phone for videophiles--the LG Nitro HD has a 720p, 4.5-inch screen with a pixel density similar to the Apple iPhone's.
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iOS 5.1 Beta Tips New iPhone, iPads And Next-Gen Apple TV Apple released iOS 5.1 beta to developers, who already unearthed reference codes for the next-generation Apple TV, as well the next iPhone and two new iPad models.
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Are DuckDuckGo's Bing Ties a Problem for Linux Mint? Mint's new default search engine shows an anti-open source bias, some have charged.
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How to Bulletproof Your Website Make sure your websites are up, highly available, and able to handle peak capacity this shopping season.
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RIM Plays to Its Strengths With BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Management Package BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will cover BlackBerrys and PlayBook tablets, and support competing mobile OSes, including Apple iOS and Google Android.
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Three out of 10 Americans Do Most Holiday Shopping Online As shoppers eagerly take advantage of Cyber Monday deals, a new poll shows that nearly three out of 10 Americans will do most of their holiday shopping online...
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Interest in Windows 8 Tablet Waning, Forrester Says Interest in tablets with Microsoft's Windows 8 is plummeting, Forrester Research said in a study released on Tuesday.
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Hackers Target IPv6 If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.
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iTether: iPhone Tethering With No Monthly Fee UPDATE An iPhone tethering app called iTether has landed in the App Store, promising to turn iPhones into portable modems with no monthly fees or jailbreaks required.
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Google Maps App for Android Adds Indoor Floorplans Disoriented at Minneapolis' Mall of America? Confused at Tokyo's Narita airport? Can't find the bathrooms at your local Ikea store? The Google Maps application...
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Tags, Scripts and Widgets Drag Website Loading Times Down With broadband speeds generally on the rise, why do some Web pages load so slowly?
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Rohm Builds Chip That Will Send Data at 30Gbps, Through Clothing, Paper Japanese component maker Rohm said it has developed an experimental chip that can send and receive signals at terahertz-range frequencies, which can carry data...
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Programming Languages Cannot Be Copyrighted, Says Senior EU Court Adviser The functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright according to the European Court of Justice’s senior...
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Video Calling Is Finally Catching On A new report indicates that video calling will explode by 600 percent between 2010 and 2015, bringing face-to-face calls to the mainstream for both consumers and businesses.
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Free Software Activists to Take on Google With New Free Search Engine Free software activists have released a new peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others.
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