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Techie Toilet Ships in April

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April 17, 2011
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Techie Toilet Ships in April Flush away a few grand on Kohler's Numi, the luxurious throne for the well-heeled.
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Patent Law and Disorder: The Trolls Are At It Again Walker Digital is playing our patent system like a fiddle with its lawsuits against Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more
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Apple Slapped with Class Action Lawsuit Over In-App Purchases Apple sued by angry parent for pushing Smurfberries and other game currency.
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Why Google Doesn't Want the iPhone to Die Google has a vested interest in seeing the iPhone succeed.
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Digital Threats Jumped in 2010 Last year saw a daily average of 1000 new compromised sites, according to a newly released 2010 Threats Roundup report by Trend Micro.
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Worldwide PC Shipments Slip in 2011 HP stays number one during what is typically the slowest quarter of the year, analysts say.
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RIM Counters PlayBook Critics A splashy sendoff highlights apps, versatile roles as the PlayBook heads to stores next week.
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Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building for First Time A pair of remote controlled robots entered a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday morning for the first time.
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10 Ways to Blow Your Tax Refund on Tech Uncle Sam wants you--to buy stuff. Oblige him by investing in super HDTVs, great gaming PCs, helpful robots, or other gadgetry.
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Quantum Teleportation Is a Reality For the first time ever, scientists teleport a complex set of quantum information from one point to another.
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Mac OS X: Make Snow Leopard (and Other Cats) Roar Like Lion With a second preview version now in the hands of app developers, Apple's next generation of Mac OS X (Lion) appears to be on track for release this summer.
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A Federal Budget That's Right for You? In choosing among the 2012 proposals on the table -- Republican ones, Democratic ones and bipartisan ones -- company fortunes hang in the balance.
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Look Out for the 256GB Thumb Drive and the 128GB Tablet Intel and Micron have announced advances in memory technology that should double flash memory capacities in a range of devices including thumb drives and smartphones.
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Toshiba Self-Encrypting Hard Drive Has Promise Toshibas self-encrypting hard drive offers robust security features, yet it may be overkill for small businesses.
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Common Bleach Element Brightens OLED Displays Researchers figured out a way to improve the quality of OLED displays by using small amounts of chlorine.
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Can AMD Ever Beat Intel? AMDs processors are often a bargain, but can it once again make a processor that is flat-out better than Intels? Will the Athlon vs. Pentium days ever return?
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White iPhone Expected Within Weeks New reports have surfaced that Apple will start shipping the white iPhone 4 within a few weeks, finally bringing the seemingly endless wait to an end.
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Paper Plastic Rescuing the Environment With Every Page Your next laptop could be made of paper--sort of--with the development of paper alloys.
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Techie Toilet Ships in April Flush away a few grand on Kohler's Numi, the luxurious throne for the well-heeled.
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Patent Law and Disorder: The Trolls Are At It Again Walker Digital is playing our patent system like a fiddle with its lawsuits against Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more
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