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 Amazon's Android App Store: Steve Jobs Just Doesn't Get It Amazon may be days away from launching its Android app store -- and despite what a certain turtlenecked CEO may say, that's fantastic news for the Android platform. Share:   |  Tech Killers: Challengers That Have Tried to Beat Hugely Successful Competitors The tech industry has a long history of latecomers taking on dominant products and services. Think Microsoft Zune versus Apple iPad, Google TV versus Apple TV, Mozilla Firefox versus Internet Explorer. We look at some notable clashes of the past decade. Share: | Duke It Out: Android vs. iOS vs. Win Pho 7 The past year has been a remarkable one for smartphones, with the meteoric rise of Google's Android OS, the restart of Microsoft's mobile strategy with its much-ballyhooed release of Windows Phone 7 and the continuing success of Apple's iPhone. Share: | With Rustock, a New Twist on Fighting Internet Crime For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world's worst spam botnet offline? Share: | 10 Things to Drool Over in Firefox 4 Speed, simplicity, privacy, security and HTML5 support are among the features that promise to make Mozilla's new browser a winner. Share: | Experts See Wide Use of Flash-hard Disk Hybrids by 2016 A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard disk drives... Share: | Japanese Chip Makers Begin Recovery After Devastation Some Japanese chip makers are starting to pick themselves up and resume operations in the earthquake and tsunami-torn northeast. Share: | Will iPad 2 Supplies Be Hurt by Japanese Quake? The Apple iPad 2 may be another victim of the Japanese earthquake, warns a technology research firm. Share: | Apple: Blaze Study on iPhone 4 Browser Performance 'Flawed' Apple on Thursday disputed independent tests by Blaze Software that showed the Android-based Nexus S smartphone browsed the Web 52% faster than the iPhone 4. Share: | Anonymous: Why Does the Air Force Want to Create Phony Online Identities? The international collective known as Anonymous is trying to figure out just what the U.S. Air Force wants with software that can create and manage phony personas. Share: | Unboxing the Nintendo 3DS Portable Gaming Console Can't wait until March 27th to check out the Nintendo 3DS? See it for yourself in our unboxing video. Share: | Remote-Controlled Nanoparticles Target Cancer Researchers at a Canadian university are using nanotechnology and a tiny remote-controlled magnetic sphere to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly to where they need to go. Share: | AMD's Llano Could Heat up Chip War With Intel The chip war will heat up as Advanced Micro Devices prepares PC processors to rival Intel's Sandy Bridge chips, which have already started appearing in laptops... Share: | iPhone 5 May Get iWallet NFC Functions After All Lacking a clear standard, Apple said to be adapting its own version of NFC, allowing users to link payments through iTunes when waving the phone in front of a dedicated NFC reader. Share: | Yahoo to Sell Delicious Soon, Reports Say Nothing is certain, but Yahoo is apparently shopping Delicious around, so you might want to back up those bookmarks. Share: | The Cloud Forces Name Change on VoIP Company A small VoIP company has had to change its name after being threatened with legal action over its use of the word 'cloud' in its name by European Wi-Fi network The Cloud. Share: | New York Times Paywall: A Small Change That Seems Big The Free ride is over. The New York Times Co. says it will put up a paywall at NYTimes.com starting March 28. Share: | RIM Details Cloud-Based BlackBerry Enterprise Service Research In Motion (RIM) detailed its upcoming, cloud-based BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) for users of Microsoft Office 365. Share: | RSA's SecurID Security Breach: What Should You Do? RSA suffered a sophisticated cyberattack in which attackers obtained some type of information about its SecurID product. Share: | HTC ThunderBolt Launches as First LTE Phone Sales of HTC's ThunderBolt smartphone kicked off Thursday, but it isnt clear that faster speeds it offers on Verizon Wireless's LTE (Long Term Evolution)... Share: | |  | | Downloads: Editor's Collection | | 10 Must-Have Free DownloadsSome software is so good that you just have to download it. Unfortunately, often you have to pay for it after you try it out. But every once in a while, a must-have program is totally free. 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