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Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool
(AP)
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Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown
(AP)
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Dell's enterprise challenge remains after 3Par
(AP)
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Able to unplug from work while you're on vacation?
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out. |
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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. |
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Bug found with Automator and iTunes 10
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - As youâ??re aware, Apple just released iTunes 10. With that release has come some changesâ??both expected and not so. |
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Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP
(AP)
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Rooted... A Month Before Release
(PC World)
PC World - The folks at Sera-Apps, a German group of Android developers, have not only managed to get their hands on a prototype of the Samsung Galaxy Tab a month before the device goes on sale, but they managed to root the device at IFA, the worldâ??s largest consumer electronics show being held in Germany. |
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IPad faces new tablet challengers
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Electronic giants Samsung and Toshiba each unveiled new tablet PCs running Google's (NMS:GOOG) Android OS that aim to tap consumer demand ignited by the Apple (NMS:AAPL) iPad. Samsung's Galaxy Tab features a 7-inch touch screen and WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Samsung said pricing will be $200-$300, depending on required 3G phone plans. Toshiba's Folio 100 features a larger 10-inch screen, but initially will only have WiFi connectivity. It'll be priced at $510. Apple rose 0.7% to 252.17. |
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Privacy in iTunes Ping
(PC World)
PC World - Ping is Apple's music-centric social network that is integrated into iTunes 10. From a privacy standpoint, it's pretty straightforward--as opposed to Facebook's multitude of privacy settings--but then again, Ping is also very limited as to what services it offers. In either case, here's a quick run-down of the privacy features present in Ping. |
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Google
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Google (NMS:GOOG) will continue to provide the search results on AOL's Web site under a new, five-year deal. The deal will put AOL video content on Google's YouTube site for the first time. AOL edged up 0.7% to 23.05. |
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NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
(Mashable)
Mashable - If you've seen Danny Boyle's movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA's mission to visit the Earth's Sun won't include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun's atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018. |
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Ping's scheme is to sell more tunes
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - Do we really need another social network? That depends on how you view the purpose of social networks. The biggest, Facebook, is great for monitoring, from a safe distance, what your old high school buddies are doing. But don't put Apple's new Ping service into the same category. |
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ArcSight posts higher fiscal 1Q profit
(AP)
AP - ArcSight Inc. said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit tripled as the cybersecurity software and services company's sales jumped 39 percent. |
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Disk Storage Still Bouncing Back, IDC Says
(PC World)
PC World - The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slowdown of 2008 and 2009, research company IDC said on Friday. |
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To Boost Security, Facebook Adds Remote Logout
(PC World)
PC World - Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts. |
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A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions
(PC World)
PC World - One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. Ubuntu is the one most people have heard of, but there are hundreds of others as well, each offering some variant on the basic Linux theme. |
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Malaysia to monitor Internet for 'harmful' blogs
(AFP)
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