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Facebook Launches Deals to Compete With Groupon Facebook is gunning for Groupon serving up deals to you and your Facebook friends.
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Google Crushes, Shreds Old Hard Drives to Prevent Data Leakage A new look into Google's data centers shows extensive security measures and the destruction of old hard drives to prevent leakage of customer data.
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Sony PlayStation Network Outage: Your FAQs Answered Sony hasn't given any definitive answers so here's a breakdown of the Great Sony PlayStation Network Outage of 2011.
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Need a Book on the Timex ZX81? Here's Where to Go Check out this geeky store in San Rafael, California.
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Sony's Android Tablets: A Look at the Newest iPad Competitors The Sony Tablet S1 and S2 will arrive this fall and run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb. They feature a dual-core processor will be able to play first-generation PlayStation titles.
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Cram Giant Amounts of Data Onto These Tiny Storage Drives and Cards These eight cutting-edge hard drives, flash drives, and cards can hold multi-gigabytes of data and yet still slip in a shirt pocket.
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Sony to Launch Two Android Tablets Later This Year Sony launching two models of Android tablets later this year
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eSports Update: IPL Sets a New Standard Less than one week into the Best of the West tournament, the IPL has raised the bar for North American eSports.
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Apple Drops Attempts to Trademark 'Pod' The company reportedly gave up on its seven-year battle earlier this month.
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Microsoft Shows Class in Disclosing Google Zero-Day Still stinging from a Google engineer's untimely disclosure of zero-day attack code, Microsoft leads the way for responsible disclosure.
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Sony's Tablet Reveal: Too Little, Too Late Sony didn't reveal a price or launch date, give a thorough explanation of what games will be supported and there's only scant evidence of the tablets in action, with prototypes safely trapped behind glass.
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Homer Simpson Comes to TomTom iOS App Homer will say things like: "Make a U-turn," "Ha ha, you've goofed," and, unsurprisingly "D'Oh!".
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Windows Phone 7 Beset by Waning Consumer Interest A recent survey by Nielsen suggests that fewer people are now interested in buying a smartphone with a Microsoft operating system than before Windows Phone 7 launched.
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Why Was Yahoo So Hot To Acquire iPhone App Maker IntoNow? Hint: Its the commercials, not the TV shows, that Yahoo finds most engaging.
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Sony to Launch Two Android Tablets Later This Year Sony launching two models of Android tablets later this year.
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Google and Apple: Smartphone Spies They know where you texted last summer and where you ate last night, thanks to location data on your smartphone. Who else are Google and Apple sharing your data with?
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Nook Color's New Software Makes It the Netbook of Tablets Barnes & Noble's Nook Color gets a software update that makes it more attractive than the Kindle.
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HTC Flyer Tablet Priced at $499; Best Buy Takes Pre-Orders HTC's Android-based 7-inch tablet will cost $499 for a 16 GB model with Wi-Fi, but there's no firm release date.
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First Mass Effect 3 Screenshots Released Want to see what Mass Effect 3 looks like? Mostly like Mass Effect 2, but if you're into gleaning story details, these two have tales to tell.
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iPhone, iPad Users Sue Apple Over Location Tracking Database Two Apple customers have filed a class-action suit, alleging that Apple violates federal law and enables stalking.
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