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May 13, 2011
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Overpriced Tech Gadgets Only a Crowned Head Can Afford Gold-plated BlackBerrys, alligator-skin iPad cases, and $3000 HDMI cables are among the extravagances in our roundup of luxury tech gadgets that no real person can afford.
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Facebook-Google 'Cold War' Suddenly Gets Hot Facebook's surreptitious public relations campaign against Google shows how intense the competition has become between the two companies
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Google's Great Chrome-Based Angry Birds Giveaway Want the first batch of Angry Birds levels free? Google's happy to oblige, and it's added exclusive 'Chrome-inspired' levels, too.
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Experts on PSN Hack: Sony Could Have Done More Experts told PCWorld that Sony wasn't as prepared as it could have been.
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Google 'PageRank' Bully Pleads Guilty to Harassment, Fraud Prosecutors expect Vitaly Borker will spend at least five years in prison for his unscrupulous business practices.
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Fallout from Facebook's Google Smear Scandal Facebook's move will further damage relations between the two tech giants, which are increasingly fighting for dominance of the online advertising space.
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Netflix Arrives on Android, Kinda Sorta The official version is confined to iOS and Windows 7, but scout around to find Android options for Netflix on the fly.
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Facebook Backstabs Google, and You Lose What does Facebook's anti-Google smear campaign mean for users?
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Samsung to Show Off 2560-by-1600, 10.1-Inch Display Could Samsung's high-resolution tablet be destined for use in the next version of the iPad?
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Limewire Pays the Price for Piracy with $105 Million Settlement This is the last of the major peer-to-peer music sharing programs to succumb to copyright infringement lawsuits.
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Alibaba Transferred Alipay Ownership Without Yahoo Approval UPDATE: The unilateral move is a sign of continuing tension between the two companies.
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Facebook, Twitter Need Corporate Security Policies Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter open threats to sensitive corporate data that businesses need to deal with aggressively.
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Will 'Groupon Fatigue' Doom the Daily-Deals Business? Confession: I can't find e-mail from my family among all the deal offers I get. And I spent $149 and saved $45. How smart am I?
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Businesses to Microsoft: Please Make Skype Easier to Manage! Skype voice and video has tended to trigger IT security angst, and now that Microsoft has bought Skype, some observers are hoping the service will be easier to manage in a business setting.
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First 7-Inch Android Honeycomb Tablet Expected from ViewSonic The ViewPad 7x will be the first 7-inch tablet to run Android Honeycomb 3.0, according to rumors.
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Sonys PSN Outage Letter to Publishers Leaked, Adds Nothing New Letter claimed to be from Sony to publishing partners suggests the company's telling everyone the same story.
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Windows 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls Data released today by Microsoft showed that Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by more than 30% during the second half of 2010, even as the infection rate of the 10-year-old Windows XP fell by more than 20%.
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Obama Pushes Cybersecurity Plan Cybersecurity proposals submitted to Congress this week contain little that was new or unexpected.
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Companies Explore Private Virtual Worlds Alternatives to Second Life provide security while boosting productivity.
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Is Your Domain Safe From Seizure for Copyright Infringement? A group questions the government's process for shutdowns, but corporate sites are likely protected under safe-harbor provisions.
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Overpriced Tech Gadgets Only a Crowned Head Can Afford Gold-plated BlackBerrys, alligator-skin iPad cases, and $3000 HDMI cables are among the extravagances in our roundup of luxury tech gadgets that no real person can afford.
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Facebook-Google 'Cold War' Suddenly Gets Hot Facebook's surreptitious public relations campaign against Google shows how intense the competition has become between the two companies
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Blast Pics Over E-mail With PhotoRocket Handy app PhotoRocket offers one of the easiest ways around to share photos via e-mail.
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New Panasonic Lumix Cameras: Tiny and Touchscreen-Controlled The interchangeable-lens Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 and ultraslim Lumix DMC-FH7 offer touchscreen controls to go along with their compact sizes.
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Essential Boot Disk Program Parted Magic Also Tests Memory Handy and free Live Linux distribution Parted Magic lets you edit virtually any partition type and a whole lot more.
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The 10 Best Free Hard Drive UtilitiesMost users are satisfied with the hard drive utilities that ship with Windows--especially the more powerful partitioning and defragging tools found in Windows Vista and 7. Since you're reading this, though, you're obviously not a "most" type of user. Here are our favorite free utilities for partitioning, monitoring, and optimizing hard drives (as well as a few inexpensive for-pay alternatives). Despite some high-end features, they won't bust your budget.
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