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January 21, 2012
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Google Nixes Photo Web App The photo editing website Picnik heads to the dark room April 19, as Google pushes its Google+ services instead.
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Is the SD Association Trying to Bully Eye-Fi Out of Intellectual Property? A blog post by Eye-Fi CEO Yuval Koren claims that the storage-card standards body has ignored its own processes in announcing a new Wi-Fi-enabled card spec, and that the proposed standard infringes on Eye-Fi's intellectual property.
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SOPA/PIPA: Down But Not Out (Yet) Despite some serious setbacks, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are still alive and still contain several controversial provisions.
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Using Libraries In the Age of eBooks Matt Hamblen's recent article on ebook borrowing illustrates the difficulties libraries are facing in the digital age. It's too bad, because libraries are an important resource.
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10 New Open Source Projects You May Not Know About Black Duck Software's 2011 'Rookies of the Year' list highlights up-and-coming newcomers.
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Mac Malware Threats Increase Security firm F-Secure has spotted 58 separate threats targeting OS X in the past nine months.
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HTC ThunderBolt is Free on Verizon For Limited Time The 4G LTE phone is free with a two-year contract through January 26, and Verizon is throwing in free shipping to boot.
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Microsoft Gives Details on Windows 8 Mobile Broadband Improvements Microsoft discusses a variety of ways in which Windows 8 does a better job than its predecessors at letting users manage connections to Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks,
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LG X3 Tease Shows Quad-Core Phones on the Horizon Quad-core smartphones didn't have a strong showing at CES, but now the teasers are starting to trickle in.
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Google+ Now Boasts 90 Million Users Say this for Google+: It no longer has fewer total users than MySpace.
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How to Cut Facebook News Feed Clutter You probably have a handful of Facebook friends who post too often, play too many games or share too many pictures.
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Beware of Fake Megaupload Sites The people behind Megaupload might be working hard to get the site back up, but so are scammers.
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NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months A Virginia judge has sentenced Matthew David Howard Smith, a founder of the NinjaVideo.net website, to 14 months in prison.
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Windows Phone Predicted to Displace iPhone Microsoft's OS could power 17% of the smartphones shipped in 2015, edging out Apple's iPhone for the second-place ranking behind Android, analyst says.
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FBI Busts Programmer for Stealing US Treasury Code The FBI said it arrested a computer programmer in New York this week and charged him with stealing proprietary software code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Google Kills More Services Google is continuing to weed out its services and on Friday announced it will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase and make changes to some...
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Making Sense of the New AT&T Data Plans AT&T is bumping up the bandwidth, and the prices for its wireless data plans. Do the new data plans make sense, or should you stick with the plan you've got?
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How MegaUpload Got To Be A Pirate Poster Boy Storage site has history of run-ins with the law.
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Rounding up CES 2012 on PCWorld Podcast #130 After an extended break, the PCWorld Podcast is back, wrapping up the products and trends we saw at last week's big CES show.
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Rallying Against SOPA, Yang Resigns from Yahoo, and Apple vs. Samsung On World Tech Update this week, protestors rally against SOPA and PIPA, Yahoo's Yang resigns, Sony teases a universal remote gadget, the heated battle between Apple and Samsung rages on, and more...
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