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Verizon to Microsoft: Take Back Your Kins

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 13:20
Microsoft's Kin is dead, and Verizon just put the final stake in the heart of the tawdry technological affair. The company has opted to return all unsold Kin devices to Microsoft as of Monday. All online sales of the Kin One and Kin Two have been suspended, and Verizon is only offering accessories for either device at this point.
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RIM, HTC, Nokia want no part of Apple's "self-made debacle"

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:30
Apple's competitors are displeased at having their products singled out by Steve Jobs during Friday's press conference. Although they took a different tone in responding, they're unanimous on one count: this is Apple's problem, not theirs.
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As Facebook Users Die, Ghosts Reach Out

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 04:11
The world’s biggest social network has had trouble figuring out when one of its 500 million users has died.
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Android Tablets: What We Know...

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 14:40
We’ve rounded up what we know about upcoming Android tablets to see if any devices will give the Apple iPad a true rival.
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Rivals Hit Back at Apple Over 'Death Grip' Claims

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 14:20
Research in Motion, Nokia, and HTC hit back at Steve Jobs after he claimed that all smartphones have "weak spots" that could lead to the "death grip" problems witnessed on the Apple iPhone 4.
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Dennis Crowley has a clear sense of direction

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 11:00
Forget traditional social networking, the new holy grail for business is access to real-time data. In the digital world, the big question of 2010 is "Where are you?" After months of Twitter and Facebook asking everyone to update everybody on "What's happening?" or "What's on your mind?", the focus now is on our location at any given time.
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WD-40 Issues 1950s Style Collector's Can

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 00:30
Before there was control-alt-delete, there was WD-40: the liquid space-age remedy for machine-age problems. If you didn't own or couldn't identify the right tool for the job, there was always WD-40 and a hammer.
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File sharers targeted with legal action over music downloads

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 22:40
Lawyers for Ministry of Sound and other music labels are seeking compensation, threatening court action unless file sharers pay
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79 Places Google is Being Sued or Blocked (World Map)

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 06:30
When you're at the top of the heap, everybody watches you closely. Many people are sure to think you're in the wrong. If you're Google, that means you'll be the subject of lawsuits. All around the world.
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Google Buys Metaweb To Improve Results For Complex Search

Sat, 07/17/2010 - 00:24
Google moved to better its search results by acquiring Metaweb, a San Francisco based company that maintains a open database of
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The Meteoric Rise of CRAIGSLIST [Graphic]

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 14:20
Love it or hate it, Craigslist is a Big Deal on the Internet. It has become the de facto place to look for housing, used goods, jobs and adult services. It has been blamed for taking classified advertising business away from struggling newspapers and facilitating sex trafficking (as well as at least a few murders).
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Startup Boot Camp Illustrates Dearth of Women in Tech

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 08:40
When I first met Jessica Mah, she was a 17-yr-old girl schmoozing at a TechCrunch gathering a few years ago, talking about startups.Today, I have a notion about my initial skepticism: Gender profiling. If this had been a geek named Jesse maybe I'd be wondering if he might be the next Zuckerberg, instead of wondering if I should take him seriously
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No more vacation: How technology is Stealing our Lives

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 08:12
E-mail and smart phones were supposed to liberate us. So why does it feel like we never have any free time?
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BBC News - Broadband Britain rollout delayed by three years

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 02:20
The government says there is not enough money for a minimum service speed of 2Mbps broadband to be in place throughout the UK by 2012.
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Robocop Ran DOS... and other movie code decoded

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 00:40
Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than not, it comes from a Website, app, or startup screen from the real world at the time the movie was made
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An Open Letter to an Obvious Twitter Spammer

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 23:00
From what I know about you it is obvious that you are a misunderstood soul. The numbers don’t lie. You currently follow over 1,000 people on Twitter, yet you have only one follower (me) that has bothered to return the favor.
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New York Times Goes Nuts, Wants Govt. Regulation of Google

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 21:20
The New York Times wants the government to start regulating Google's search business.
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EU: Implementation of Net Surveillance Directive Is Unlawful

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 20:50
In a landmark announcement issued today, the data protection officials across the European Union found that the way that EU Member States have implemented the data retention obligations in the 2006 EU Data Retention Directive is unlawful.
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10 weird places your data gets stored

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 18:40
Cloud computing doesn't really mean storing your data in a cloud: it means your stuff's been stuck on a server in an enormous temperature-controlled room somewhere. That doesn't mean it has to be in a boring building, though: it could be down a mine, in something that looks like Dr Evil's control center or even off the coast of Suffolk.
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