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9 Reasons to Switch from Facebook to Google+ Can Google+ steal users from Facebook? Yep. There are good reasons to switch from Facebook to Google+, ranging from ease-of-use to respect for data privacy.
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Google Launches Its Google+ Social Networking Service Google says its new service is a dramatic rethinking of traditional social networking paradigms where, Google says, there's no good way to define our various types of friendships, and share information accordingly.
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Google+ vs. Facebook: See How They Compare In Google+, the search giant offers a serious competitor to Facebook. Here's how the two social networks stack up.
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Gmail Gets a Google+ Makeover A refreshed Gmail interface is slowly rolling out in conjunction with Google's introduction of Google+.
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Get on Google+ With This Invite Exploit A workaround allows Google+ users to invite anyone even though Google is being stingy with doling out invites
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Facebook Promises 'Awesome' Product News Next Week Speculation focuses on mobile apps or a response to Google's latest social networking venture.
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The HP TouchPad's Best Feature Is Linux WebOS brings yet another variant of the open source operating system into the hands of the masses.
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Facebook Fatigue Could Help Google+ Are users finally ready to jump ship from Facebook?
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Google's Patent Loss Hits Android, Analyst Warns Losing the bidding war for Nortel's patents to Microsoft is a blow to the Android developer community.
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Apple Plugs Phishing Hole on Developer Site Hackers alerted Apple to a flaw that could have allowed phishing attacks against Mac OS X.
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RIM 'Open Letter' Tells All Anonymous author paints a picture of stagnation and failing leadership as company falters; RIM rebuts claims.
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Can Google+ Dethrone Facebook? Analysts say it won't be easy for Google+, the new social network from Google, to lure users away from Facebook, the world's largest social network.
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Smartphones: A Majority of the Phones Sold in the United States Sales of the smarter phones rise to 55 percent of the market, up from 34 percent a year ago.
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Counterfeit Bitcoins Caused Price Crash, Exchange Reveals Customers are urged to change their passwords in the wake of a hacker intrusion that manipulated the digital currency.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 30: What I Learned from 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux Today is the final day of the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux project, so I reflect on what I learned over the past month, and sum up the experience.
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Google+ Invites are Hot Commodity: Watch Out for Scams People are doing anything to get into Google's new social network--even exposing themselves to spam.
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EU Rules Reduce Price of Mobile Roaming, but Problems Remain New European Union rules came into force on Friday reducing the cost for consumers of using mobile phones abroad.
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Free Downloads to Make Use of PC Idle Time Stepping away from your PC? Don't let it stop working for you--or for a lofty purpose. These eight freebies do everything from backup to scientific research, all while you're not looking.
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KDDI Offloads Traffic on Cellular Network Through Wi-Fi Japan's KDDI is installing more than 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots that smartphone users will be connected to automatically for data services, offloading traffic from...
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Lego Robot Designs Cool Pancake Shapes, Impresses Not Only Kids Make use of that box of Lego bricks and get cooking with Pancake Bot!
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Google+ vs. Facebook: See How They Compare In Google+, the search giant offers a serious competitor to Facebook. Here's how the two social networks stack up.
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