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Is Sonys PSN Welcome Back Enough? Did You Already Buy an Xbox 360? Sony Japan apologizes for lengthy PlayStation Network outage, says PSN and Qriocity will be back in part this week, but is it too little, too late?
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Why Do Android Tablets Tank, While Android Smartphones Surge? The iPad, for all its merits, may not be Android tablets' real competition
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Tweeting Osama Bin Laden Takedown Pushes Techie into Spotlight A Pakistani IT consultant's Twitter feed explodes after it's discovered he live-tweeted the raid that took down a supervillian.
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Google Tracks You Too, Internal E-mails Show The search giant is also interested in its users' location -- sometimes to improve signal, sometimes to sell ads.
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Apple's Popular Apps Not Exclusive to iPhone: Analysis Think you have to buy an Apple iPhone to get all the great apps? Our analysis shows that you can get top apps on any smartphone.
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Starbucks Customers Targeted by Laptop Thieves Beware abandoning that handbag or iPad while fetching a latte -- items at coffeehouse tables are becoming prey for thieves.
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Time Inc Gives Free iPad Access to Print Subscribers Apple's change of policy allows publishers more control over revenue from digital editions.
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IE9 Fails to Save Microsoft's Browser Share March updates of two prominent browsers haven't stopped the slippage of either Microsoft's or Mozilla's entries, new Web usage data shows.
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Apple's iCloud Service Spotted as 'Castle' Ties to MobileMe suggest "Castle" will be much more than Apple's online music service, storing a variety of your digital stuff.
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Jobs Escapes Carbonite iPhone Case Apple has no sense of humor about Steve Jobs' brief role as Han Solo.
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RIM's Blackberry Fights for Relevance RIM refreshes the Bold smartphone and unveils the Blackberry 7 OS and a couple of key apps for the Blackberry Playbook tablet.
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Osama Bin Laden's Death Key Topic on Internet People go online in volume to get information and discuss Osama bin Laden's death.
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Bin Laden's Villa Lacked Internet, Phone Service Intelligence officials say a lack of Internet and telephone service at a Pakistani compound was a key reason to suspect Osama bin Laden was hiding there.
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RIM Pulls a Zombie out of the Hat RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook could have been good but, well, it just isn't.
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Osama Bin Laden's Small Town Hideout Gets Google Maps Treatment A community of Google Maps users are commenting on Abbottabad, Pakistan and what is believed to be the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed.
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Gamewatch: Thor God of Thunder, MotorStorm Apocalypse Check out the latest PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and handheld video games shipping the week of May 2, 2011.
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Cisco Jumps Into Portable Data Center Market Cisco Systems launched its first containerized data center on Monday, coming late to the party but offering some unique management features.
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30 Days With...Google Docs Today, I am kicking off a new project. Each month I will take on a new technology or tool for 30 days, and I am starting "30 Days With..." by tackling Google Docs.
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Kissing Machine Is Real, Lets You Make Out via a Gadget The Kiss Transmission Device transmits kisses through a rotary tube. Ewwww.
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SAP Hopes Software Test-drives Lead to ERP Success SAP is hoping to make customers' ERP (enterprise resource planning) projects more successful with a tool that can visualize the application's ultimate look and...
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Is Sonys PSN Welcome Back Enough? Did You Already Buy an Xbox 360? Sony Japan apologizes for lengthy PlayStation Network outage, says PSN and Qriocity will be back in part this week, but is it too little, too late?
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