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The Life and Times of Windows XP The first drama-filled decade of the operating system that wouldn't say die.
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Hands-On With the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 The Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 are powered by a 1.4GHz single-core processor and run the latest version of Windows Phone 7.
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Man Carves Smartphone Dock into Prosthetic Arm After being turned down by Apple, the British caterer worked with Nokia to design a dock that can go everywhere.
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Sony Buys Ericsson Out of Mobile Partnership for $1.47 Billion The move allows Sony to more tightly integrate its smartphones with its laptops, tablets and televisions.
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Netflix Gobbles Up One-Third of Peak Bandwidth Traffic in US Netflix accounted for more traffic this fall than it did during the spring, but these numbers were compiled before its price increase went into effect.
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10 Creepy Mobile Games Halloween is just around the corner, so why not scare the pants off yourself by playing one of these Android or iOS games?
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Google Maps Provides Street View-Look at Store Interiors One drawback to the service is that it's part of Google Place Pages, so images are not fully integrated with standard Street View.
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich: No Update for Nexus One Google says the Nexus One is "too old" to be updated.
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Nokia Shows Off Flexible Device With Kinetic Display To interact with the Nokia kinetic device, you hold it with two hands and flex the entire gadget, including the screen.
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Target.com's Second Site Crash Could Become E-comm Nightmare For the second time in six weeks, Target's Web site crashed Tuesday, and that is scary news for any major retailer heading into the holiday shopping season.
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2011 Tech Industry Graveyard WebOS, Cisco Flip camera, Google Labs, and the rest: Here's a list of IT companies, technologies, and ideas killed off or headed for the end of life.
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Cisco Refocuses on Wi-Fi, Video After Killing Flip Video Camera Cisco Systems' Home Networking Business Unit will keep both its Linksys brand and its place in the parent company as Cisco.
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RIM Faces Possible Class Action Suit Over BlackBerry Outages Research In Motion faces a possible class action lawsuit over recent outages in its BlackBerry services earlier this month.
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Lawsuit Accusing Yelp of Extorting Businesses is Dismissed Yelp had been accused of manipulating its online content to reward advertisers and punish non-advertisers.
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Nintendo Takes $927 Million Loss, Far Worse than Original Forecast Nintendo reports massive fiscal third-quarter hemorrhaging, forecasts substantial annual loss.
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The Ugliest Laptops Ever Made Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Yeah, right. Take a look at 12 of the most unsightly portable PCs ever created (plus one bonus pick).
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Tablet Sales Overtook Netbook Sales in Q2 2011 Netbooks are dying.
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Pick the Right Mobile Ad Network for Your Company Android has 56 percent of mobile ad impressions, while Apple has 28 percent. Yet there's more to know when deciding where to spend your ad budget.
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Zscaler Offers Lookup of Abusive IP Addresses Cloud security company Zscaler is offering a web tool businesses can use to check whether their IP address is being used for spamming or DDoS attacks.
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Dropbox Adds File-Sharing Service for Work Groups Dropbox for Teams starts at $795 annually for five users and offers 1TB of storage. It also comes with phone customer support and gives IT shops control to add or remove users.
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Free Halloween Fun: Themes, Screen Savers, and Fonts to Ward Off the Holidays

It's that time of the year again, when days get short, nights get long, and Christmas seems just over the horizon. Perhaps Halloween is Nature's way of slowing the inevitable slide to the holidays. If you're planning a Halloween party instead of making your holiday gift list, how about printing out invitations in a Ghoulish font? And if you're busily hanging up paper ghosts and spider webs, don't neglect your computer: We've got several free wallpapers and desktop themes to choose from, including a festive Day of the Dead theme and mutant zombie-jack-o-lantern wallpaper.

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