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December 23, 2011
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GoDaddy Faces Boycott Threat From SOPA Opponents Internet domain registrar GoDaddy is facing a boycott threat after it figured in a list of supporters of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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HTC EVO View 4G Tablet Gets Honeycomb at Last HTC EVO View 4G owners get a bonus holiday gift today in the form of an Android 3.2 Honeycomb update.
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Mozilla Re-Releases Firefox 9, Backs Out Fix Causing Crashes A day after it shipped Firefox 9, Mozilla quickly released an update after backing out a bug fix that was causing some Mac, Linux and Windows browsers to crash.
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Report: Google to Pay Mozilla $300M Annually in Search Deal To Google, Firefox is reportedly worth $300 million/year for the next three years.
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Why RIM Should Not Sell the BlackBerry Brand--and Why It Should Rumors about a potential sale of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) have been circulating for months.
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Tech Community Lashes Out at GoDaddy Over SOPA Support Boycott effort grows as consumers and businesses threaten to switch domain hosting services unless GoDaddy drops support for legislation.
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Did Smartphones kill the Point-and-Shoot? 2011 may go down as the year the point-and-shoot camera market died, as smartphones replace cameras and camcorders for on-the-fly photography, study shows.
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Republic Wireless Scraps Data Restrictions The $19-per-month carrier gives its users early Christmas present in a policy change.
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Razer Delays Gaming Laptop -- But Sweetens Release Gamers get good news along with delayed shipment: Razer Blade gaming laptop can get SSD and a snazzy mouse for free.
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The (Not So) Great Holiday 2011 Xbox LIVE 'Oops' Ready to kick back with your Xbox 360 over the holiday weekend? Not if you're one of the users barred from accessing Microsoft's Xbox LIVE network due to a glitch.
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For 2012, Power-Efficient Servers Could Get a Shot in the ARM A fundamental change in server architecture could be on tap as companies look to cut data center costs with the help of ARM processors and more.
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Last-Minute Tech Shopper Gift Guide Use our last-minute tech gift guide to find great digital gift ideas that you can get to any friend or relative almost immediately.
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Inventor of SecurID: 'Windows 8 Picture Password is Fisher-Price Toy' The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token.
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Guy Proposes to Girlfriend With Memes, Geek Girls Green With Envy Check out this adorable marriage proposal, using Internet meme placards. It might be the best thing you see all day.
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Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' Will Power New PC Line Hardware maker CTL kicks off its new Ubuntu family with a 14.1-inch notebook that's available now.
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Batman: Arkham City Adds New Skins, Fresh DLC There's a whole lot of awesome new stuff available for owners of Batman: Arkham City, one of our favorite games of the year.
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Amazing Tech Changing Business Around the World Want a robotic security guard? Better set up shop in Korea. Here are technologies you'll encounter on business trips abroad--some a sign of things to come to the U.S., but others far out of reach.
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Hackers Abuse PHP Setting to Inject Malicious Code Into Websites Attackers have begun to abuse a special PHP configuration directive in order to insert malicious code into websites hosted on dedicated and virtual private...
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Breaks Half a Million Sales in Japan Final Fantasy XIII sequel sells half a million in Japan despite evidence of waning interest among gamers. We researched critical and fan impressions to bring you the full story.
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Kinect Hacked to Weigh Astronauts in Space A group of European Scientists hack a Kinect to measure weigh astronauts in space just by looking at them.
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GoDaddy Faces Boycott Threat From SOPA Opponents Internet domain registrar GoDaddy is facing a boycott threat after it figured in a list of supporters of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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HTC EVO View 4G Tablet Gets Honeycomb at Last HTC EVO View 4G owners get a bonus holiday gift today in the form of an Android 3.2 Honeycomb update.
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