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September 21, 2011
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Facebook Revamps News Feed, Annoying Users Facebook has gotten rid of its two-tabbed interface, integrating users' 'Top Stories' and 'Most Recent Stories' into one big News Feed.
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Google+ Social Networking Now Open to Everyone, New Features Added Google's Facebook competitor comes out of field trials; offers new features, including group video chat for Android phone users, better search, and better text messaging.
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Blockbuster Plans September Surprise for Netflix The company hopes to take advantage of the Netflix backlash by unveiling what it calls "the most comprehensive home entertainment package ever."
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Poker Site Ran Massive Ponzi Scheme on Players Poker players' money was used to finance a 'massive Ponzi scheme,' alleges Manhattan U.S. Attorney.
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Facebook Redesigns: A Long History of Pointless Backlashes The latest outrage over its redesign is just one of many backlashes that Facebook has endured, none of which seem to accomplish much.
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B&N's Nook Heads to Radio Shack as Holiday E-reader Battle Looms The Nook and Nook Color will go on sale at Radio Shack on October 3.
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Patent Madness! A Timeline of the Android Patent Wars Every week seems to bring new lawsuits revolving around software patents allegedly being infringed upon by Android smartphones and tablets. Here's a look back at some of them.
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Why Hackers Don't Need to be Smart Cyber criminals have used the same technologies and tactics for years, but companies keep failing to defend against them
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Verizon Sets HTC Rhyme's Price, Launch Date HTC is emphasizing the Rhyme's design materials, curves and size, as well as its three colors: Clearwater, Hourglass and Plum.
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Google Faces Anti-Trust Accusers Expedia, Nextag, and Yelp Wednesday Can Google stand by its' "do know evil" pledge? A number of leading Internet firms will testify at a senate hearing Wednesday that the answer is no.
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Apple iPhone 5 Release Looms, iPhone Trade-Ins Skyrocket It appears that users believe the early October rumor date for the release of the iPhone 5 and are trying to sell their older iPhones now to have cash to buy the new one.
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AT&T Unveils Global Text Messaging Plans AT&T is offering its Global Messaging plans for $30 per month for 200 messages or $50 per month for 500 messages.
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Adobe Flash Player 11 Will Have an Eye on Gaming The final versions of Flash Player 11 and Air 3 will be released in early October, and the new version of Flash comes with a hardware-accelerated 3D rendering engine.
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Microsoft Looks to Join Apple as World's Biggest App Censor Microsoft says the only apps allowed to run in Windows 8 will have to be downloaded from Microsoft's own app store.
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Meet the Diablo III Public Beta, Officially Live Now Blizzard surprise-launches the Diablo III public beta, including full access to the hack-and-slash roleplaying game's first act.
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Many People Still Don't Know Windows Phone 7 Exists Windows Phone 7 is slowly gaining market share, but a whopping 45 percent of consumers have no idea what it is.
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Internet Privacy: Cookies as a Weapon In November 2009 the European Parliament approved a directive on Internet privacy that, among other things, required user opt-in before websites could install...
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A Look at Pandora's New Web Interface After years of the same Flash-based interface, the Internet radio service takes advantage of HTML5 to give users a faster, slightly more appealing experience.
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Tetris Is Back Again, This Time on 3DS Unsurprisingly, Nintendo's latest handheld is set to receive its own special version of Tetris, featuring more game modes than ever before.
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T-Mobile Won't Get iPhone 5 This Year, Exec Says If you're holding out for the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile, be prepared to continue waiting.
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