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Can Facebook and Google+ Coexist?

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Can Facebook and Google+ Coexist? The two Internet giants are going head-to-head in a social networking battle, but cooperation could be the key to their survival.
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20 Million Google+ Users May Exist by the Weekend The estimate is based on Census Bureau data and the belief that nearly 10 million people have signed up for the service, and that Google won't restrict them from inviting their friends this week.
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How Google+ Ends Social Networking Fatigue Google+ isn't just another social network. It's the one place to consolidate all of your social activity.
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Meet the New Copyright Cop: Your Internet Service Provider Watch out, torrent fans: ISPs have teamed up with the RIAA and MPAA to fight file swapping and throttle your Net connection
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10 Google+ Tips for Beginners You just got your hands on a Google+ invite--but what next? Check out these 10 tips to get you started on Google's new social network.
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Poor Coding Should Be a Felony Are you responsible for horrible code that's allowed millions of user accounts to be compromised? Go directly to jail
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Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military Email Addresses, Continues Assault on Government Contractors Military email addresses, passwords, and some other data from military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton are exposed by the hacker group Anonymous.
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Microsoft Wants Windows XP Shoved Out the Door Microsoft is pressuring customers to ditch the 10-year-old operating system and upgrade to Windows 7 because Microsoft will stop supporting XP on April 8, 2014.
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Free ID Theft Protection Offers Grow: Are They Any Good? Sony, Comcast, and your local bank are now offering free identity theft protection. Should you trust free services with your identity?
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Real or Fake? 10 Big Celebrities on Google+ Wondering when celebrities would start discovering Google+? They already have. Or have they? Here's a look at 10 famous personalities that claim to be using the site.
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Firefox Leaps Ahead With Versions 6, 7, and 8 As Mozilla works on its strategy for businesses, the next versions of its Firefox browser are looking better and better.
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Poor Prospects for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 EA's video game tie-in to the final Potter flick may be worst of the lot, say reviewers.
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Windows 8 in April 2012? Could Be. Microsoft has a huge incentive to get this thing out the door -- not so much for its PC business, but for tablets, where it's not yet really in the game and won't be until Windows 8 is available.
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Spotify's US Debut: Why You Should Care Spotify is being hailed as a major challenger to Pandora, Rhapsody and Grooveshark, and its biggest one-up over the competition is its ability to play tracks on-demand.
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iPhone and iPad Security: 4 Tips to Stay Safe While waiting for Apple to fix the Jailbreakme.com 3.0 vulnerability, follow these four practices to avoid being bitten by malware.
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Lenovo's IdeaPad U1 PC-Tablet Hybrid: It Lives The U1 has reportedly arrived at the FCC for approval -- a decent indication that it might graduate from trade shows to retail shelves.
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Android to Offer Better Tablet Optimization for Smartphone Apps Although one of the big knocks on Android tablets has been their relative dearth of native apps, that could be about to change.
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Apple iPad Love-Fest: No End in Sight Apple iPad owners have largely been happy with their tablet computer purchases from the start, and surprising new findings from a University of Missouri survey shows that satisfaction levels keep going up.
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iRiver Story HD: First Dedicated E-Reader for Google eBooks: The launch of a $140 dedicated eBooks reader puts Google's store more directly in opposition to the Nook and Amazon's Kindle. The iRiver Story goes on sale July 17 at Target.
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Microsoft Yanks Security Site Search After Scammers Poison Results With Porn Microsoft on Saturday disabled the search tool on its Safety & Security Center after attackers poisoned results with links to pornographic URLs.
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20 Million Google+ Users May Exist by the Weekend The estimate is based on Census Bureau data and the belief that nearly 10 million people have signed up for the service, and that Google won't restrict them from inviting their friends this week.
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How Google+ Ends Social Networking Fatigue Google+ isn't just another social network. It's the one place to consolidate all of your social activity.
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