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PlayStation Network Down For a Day (or Two)

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April 22, 2011
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PlayStation Network Down For a Day (or Two) Sony is currently investigating the cause of a network outage.
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Apple's iOS Location-Tracking Headaches: 5 Questions OK, Apple; the tracking secret's out. Now it's time to talk.
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A Market for iPads, Not for Tablets The iPad is selling like gangbusters because of the Apple-ness of it, not because of the tablet-ness of it.
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iPhone 5: What We Think We Know Sifting through the conjecture, we can piece together a logical (if fuzzy) picture of the next generation of iPhone.
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Affordable 3D Gear: From HDTVs to Camcorders to Graphics Boards Take the 3D plunge without busting your budget by choosing from these affordable HDTVs, cameras, graphics boards, and camcorders.
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Samsung Matches Apple Patent Challenge with Countersuit Samsung's suit follows Apple's accusations last week that Samsung copied features of its iPad, iPod and iPhone.
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Valve Wont Provide Steam Sales Data: Should We Care? Valve says it won't provide Steam sales and calls the idea of sales charts 'old'.
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Sprint Spits Fire at AT&T-Mo FCC Filing AT&T filed documents with the FCC today seeking approval of the companys planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, and Sprint had some harsh words about it.
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Earth Day Report: Top 10 Tech Power Suckers Some of the most interesting tech devices don't exactly go easy on power consumption. We don't have a problem with that.
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Amazon Readies an Android Tablet Analysis: A device could ship as soon as summer, reports suggest.
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Droid Charge on Verizon LTE Goes on Sale April 28 Verizon Wireless and Samsung announced that the Droid Charge, Verizon's second LTE smartphone, will go on sale April 28 for $299.99 with a two-year agreement.
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iPhone Location Tracking: Just a Bug? The iPhone tracking snafu may be the result of a simple error.
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Amazon Gets 'Black Eye' From Cloud Outage Analysts say downtime hurts Amazon, and cloud computing.
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Greenpeace Chides Apple for 'Dirty Data' Apple's new $1 billion data center in North Carolina is a power hog, the environmental group charges.
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Apple iTunes Cloud Service Nearing Release, Report Says Apple appears closer than rival Google when it comes to launching a cloud-based music streaming service.
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Apple is the Worst Environmental Offender in Tech, Says Greenpeace Greenpeace slams Apple over cloud computing facility claiming the company is the worst environmental offender in tech.
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Security Firm Founder Kaspersky's Son Reportedly Kidnapped in Russia Several news services are reporting that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs, has been kidnapped for ransom in Russia.
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Defense CIO Wants to Speed Adoption of Cloud, Mobile Technologies U.S. Department of Defense CIO Teri Takai intends to move the agency's IT in a more mainstream direction to help speed adoption of new technologies.
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The History of Atari Computers Atari hasn't always been all about gaming. From the late '70s to the early '90s, the company produced a series of interesting and unusual desktops and laptops, including one that had a starring role in 'Terminator 2.'
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Feds to Use IT Buying Power to Push Green The U.S. government has been urging green IT practices in its operations, consolidating data centers and offering telecommuting. Now it wants to go a step further.
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