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Messing With Google Street Views When people spot Google's Street View cars driving by, they do the darnedest things.
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Google+ Faces First Facebook Defense Facebook is expected to make its first comments about Google+ during a scheduled press conference to announce "something awesome" on Wednesday for Facebook
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Chrome Extension Imports Facebook Friends to Google+ Want to make the shift? This tool isn't fast, and Facebook might not like it, but it does the job (most of the time).
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15 Million iPhones Reportedly in the Works An online report says Apple placed an order with Pegatron, a Taiwan company, to build 15 million units of the next iPhone in time for a fall launch.
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Toshiba Unveils Glasses-Free 3D Laptop The Qosmio F750 can do simultaneous 2D and glasses-free 3D, and comes with a 15.6-inch display. It's expected to hit store shelves in August.
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Space Station Internet Too Slow for Gaming Canadian astronaut says space-based Internet roughly corresponds to dial-up speeds.
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Google+: 13 Questions to Ponder After almost a week, I'm beginning to form impressions of Google's new service -- mostly positive ones -- and even if I don't have all the answers, I have lots of questions.
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Why Should Anyone Buy the HP TouchPad Instead of the Apple iPad? Analysis: If the TouchPad doesn t take off--at least without significant software updates--it ll be because it failed to provide a coherent answer.
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San Francisco Giants Score Big with Ticket Sales Software The world champs install a ticket sales system that factors in featured players or special events to boost revenue by applying variable pricing.
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Cellphone, Cancer Link Dismissed in New Study According to the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's standing committee on epidemiology, the evidence is 'increasingly against' linking cellphones to cancer.
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Microsoft, China Search Deal a Win for Censorship Microsoft's deal with China may add some revenue to its bottom line, but it makes Microsoft a willing partner in abetting China's strict Internet censorship. The deal is wrong and Microsoft should abandon it.
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The Best of 'Damn You, Autocorrect' Smartphones try to predict or correct words in the text messages people type, sometimes with disastrous results. Here are some of the best text-messaging gaffes submitted to damnyouautocorrect.com.
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Bad IT Management Habits: Break Them Before They Break You Every worker develops a few bad habits -- maybe more than a few -- as the years on the job add up. IT pros are no exception.
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Apple iPad, Day 4: Hiccups and Pet Peeves We're only on day 4 of a 30 day series, but I already have a growing list of issues and pet peeves that make it hard to rely on the iPad.
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EU Upset by Microsoft Warning About US Access to EU Cloud Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union’s Data Protection Directive...
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Gaming Spending to Total $74B This Year, Gartner Says Worldwide spending on electronic gaming products will total US$74 billion this year, and be driven in the coming years by fast growth in mobile and online games...
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HP Touchpad Gets its First Homebrew Preware Patches Homebrew Preware patches land on the HP Touchpad for UI and functionality tweaks.
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Private Industry Group Leaps Into the Cybercrime Fight A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign on Tuesday to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs...
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Google Shuts Down Realtime Search, for Now Google has shut down its Realtime Search offering after its agreement to include Twitter results expired.
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HP Announces 'most Compact' All-in-one Laser Printer Hewlett-Packard announced its "most compact" multifunction laser printer, which prints documents from smartphones and tablets, the company said Tuesday.
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Messing With Google Street Views When people spot Google's Street View cars driving by, they do the darnedest things.
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Google+ Faces First Facebook Defense Facebook is expected to make its first comments about Google+ during a scheduled press conference to announce "something awesome" on Wednesday for Facebook
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: June 2011What's appealing in June? According to our reviewers, the same things that catch our attention year-round: system utilities, fun toys, and free stuff. From backup software to a music manager, a powerful PDF reader to a 3D sculpting tool, a CPU temperature monitor to a weather-displaying screensaver, many of June's favorites are freebies.
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