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November 22, 2011
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Top 15 App Accessories for iPhone and iPad Turn your iOS device into a pinball machine, a helicopter cockpit, or the ultimate TV remote with these imaginative combinations of hardware and apps.
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Facebook Phone? No Thanks A Facebook phone would entwine the social network too deeply into your life, privacy, and everyday tasks. No thank you!
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Microsoft to Deliver Windows 8 Upgrades Online Microsoft is also promising to reduce the number of clicks needed to install Windows 8.
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10 Black Friday HDTV Deals for 2011 HDTVs are getting big Black Friday discounts with prices starting at $80 up to $928 for 55-inch LED TV.
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NVIDIA Gives Glimpse of Ice Cream Sandwich on Transformer Prime Asus' tablet seems to be able to render 1080p video and run a graphics-intensive game called Riptide pretty flawlessly for at least a few seconds.
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New Xbox 360 Dashboard with Windows 8-like Interface Drops on December 6 Microsoft confirms release date for new Metro-style Xbox 360 dashboard and a slew of feature updates.
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Mobile Malware Crisis? Not So Fast Amid a rash of dire reports about a lack of security on smartphones, it's critical to maintain perspective.
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AT&T Reports Attempted Customer Data Hack AT&T today notified customers that there had been an "organized and systematic" attempt to hack into their personal account information.
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iPad Rivals Sold 1.2M Tablets in Last 10 Months HP claimed the top spot primarily by getting out of the market and liquidating its TouchPad tablet inventory by selling it at fire sale prices.
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Google Search App for iPad Adds Instant Previews Once you enter your search term, Google starts to display results instantly as you type, so theres no need to press the search button altogether.
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Facebook Shaves a Few Degrees Off 'Six Degrees of Separation' Theory The social networking giant says that any single person on earth is a mere 4.74 steps away from being introduced to any other person, instead of the believed upon six.
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Chromebooks Get Price Cuts for Holiday Shoppers Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Google, Acer, and Samsung are slashing Chromebook prices.
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Firefox for Android Will Get Its New Interface Tonight A native interface should improve the mobile browser's speed, responsiveness, and memory usage, Mozilla says.
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Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook Now Available Online Toshiba is billing the Ultrabook as the worlds lightest 13-inch laptop, and the claim holds true.
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Business Software Alliance Withdraws Support for Stop Online Piracy Act The United States’ Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would allow domain names seizures by U.S. authorities on copyright ‘infringing’ websites, has taken...
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Will You Check Your Work Email on Thanksgiving? A new survey from Xobni finds that a vast majority of Americans will interrupt their holiday festivities to check work email.
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Net Neutrality Is Too Regulatory, but Stop Online Piracy Isn't? Several Republicans in the U.S. Congress who voted this year to overturn net neutrality rules -- with most opponents arguing the rules would create the...
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HTC Dealt a Setback in Apple Patent War The ITC has dismissed a patent case from S3 Graphics against Apple--bad news for HTC, which is in the process of acquiring S3 Graphics specifically to strengthen its patent portfolio for its war with Apple.
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Small PC Makers Hiking PC Prices on Hard-drive Shortage The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem...
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Qualcomm's Mirasol Reflective Color Display Debuts on Korean E-reader Qualcomm's long-awaited Mirasol reflective color screen technology is on the market, in an e-reader that launched in South Korea on Tuesday.
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Top 15 App Accessories for iPhone and iPad Turn your iOS device into a pinball machine, a helicopter cockpit, or the ultimate TV remote with these imaginative combinations of hardware and apps.
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Facebook Phone? No Thanks A Facebook phone would entwine the social network too deeply into your life, privacy, and everyday tasks. No thank you!
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Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: Which Should You Buy? If you want an inexpensive slate, the new tablets from Amazon and Barnes & Noble are your best bets. We tested them head-to-head to see which one worked better for reading, browsing the Web, watching video, listening to music, and more.
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Task-Killer Apps: Will They Help or Hurt Your Battery Life? Lots of Android users say apps such as Advanced Task Killer help save a phone's battery life. Others are convinced that task killers use more juice than they save. The PCWorld Labs investigated.
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