Google Honors 'Graveyard Guru' Charles Addams With Doodle

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Google Honors 'Graveyard Guru' Charles Addams With Doodle The Internet search leader is celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of the Addams Family creator with a Doodle featuring his creepy, kooky, mysteriously spooky characters.
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NetApp Becomes Latest Vendor to Raise Disk Drive Prices Two other enterprise-class storage vendors have also raised their hard drives prices in as many months, and Lenovo said it had run short of certain drives for its PC systems.
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Vizio to Enter PC Market with Laptops, All-in-One Desktops If Vizio can do what it did in the TV space, consumers looking for an affordable computer with powerful entertainment features will have more options.
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Power Bar Charges Your Magic Trackpad, Batteries No Longer Needed Looking for a green, cheap, and less annoying solution for charging your Magic Trackpad? Try out The Power Bar.
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Mandriva Linux Maker Could Face Bankruptcy in 10 Days A conflict among Mandriva shareholders is reportedly preventing a much-needed infusion of capital.
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Toshiba Readies 'Thinnest and Lightest' Tablet, Laptop for CES Mobile devices slim down by cutting out some expansion options in the entries expected to debut next week.
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Privacy Group Calls on FTC to Probe Facebook Timeline "Frictionless sharing" tool may violate pact with feds
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Nearly 1 in 3 US Households Owns 4 or More TVs A new study shows that Americans are still watching TV but more and more young people are finding it online.
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Cloud, Siri Keep iPhone 4S Hungry for Data A network management firm estimates that iPhone 4S users consume twice the data of as iPhone 4 users, and triple that of iPhone 3GS owners.
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7 Signs You've Outsourced Too Much IT Work Once an organization gets a taste of the benefits of IT outsourcing, the hunger for more naturally increases. But watch out.
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Lawsuits, Competition Weigh on Motorola The cost of patent lawsuits and a more competitive market weighed down Motorola Mobility's fourth-quarter financial results, the company reported Friday.
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Sizzle Turns to Fizzle: Managing CES Expectations The CES 2012 media circus has begun. As I prepare to head to Las Vegas to join the party, I am working to keep things in perspective and be realistic about my expectations.
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OLPC's XO-3 Tablet to Debut at CES One Laptop Per Child's XO-3 tablet is ready to ship after years in the making, and working units will be shown next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
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See Ya, CDs: Digital Music Sales Overtake Physical Media Sales of digital music in 2011 accounted for 50.3 percent of purchases, beating physical music sales for the first time.
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Casio Develops Technology to Send Data Visually Between Devices Casio has developed a new way to send information between smartphones and other gadgets, encoding it visually in small sets of flashing pixels that appear on the...
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Spock Meets The Woz Actor Leonard Nimoy, famed for playing Spock on the original "Star Trek" TV show and films, sat down briefly with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the Demo Enterprise event on Thursday night in San Francisco. Wozniak wowed him with the progress of machine translation technology.
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Surfers Remember Surfline.com Founder Sean Collins While more traditional surfers may grumble that surfline.com has changed the culture of surfing, thats exactly why others love it. Being able to know in advance which days will have good surfing on a favorite beach means people can plan ahead, take time off of work, and drive out to the beach.
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Sony Denies Report It Will Promote No. 2 Kazuo Hirai to Run Company From April Sony on Saturday denied a report that it has decided to promote the head of its consumer product division, Kazuo Hirai, to lead the company from April.
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Deceased Surfline Founder to Be Remembered Sunday Surfers around the world are getting ready to honor Surfline founder and president Sean Collins, who died December 26 from a sudden heart attack. He was...
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NetApp Becomes Latest Vendor to Raise Disk Drive Prices Two other enterprise-class storage vendors have also raised their hard drives prices in as many months, and Lenovo said it had run short of certain drives for its PC systems.
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