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50 Billion Reasons Why Facebook Is Not Worth $50 Billion It seems Facebook, the social network personally endorsed by God, is now worth more than eBay, Yahoo, and Time Warner -- all without selling a single share to Joe or Jane Public.
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The Day of the Password Is Done With so many Web sites demanding passwords, no one, but no one, can really be expected to remember all the ones they need.
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AMD's Fusion Processors to Go Into $200 Laptops After years of talks and demonstrations, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday started shipping Fusion processors for netbooks, laptops and small desktops priced...
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Facebook Profile Helps to Catch a Thief A savvy service station manager caught a TV thief by sending him a friend request.
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Android Tablets: Five Ways to Catch up to the iPad Sales of Android tablets are well behind the iPad's, so these moves could help close the gap.
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Galaxy Tab Won't Get Honeycomb: Report Google's tablet-optimized operating system will reportedly require a dual-core Cortex A9 processor to run properly, which the Tab lacks.
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HP Announces Fusion Netbook With LTE Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced a netbook with some cutting-edge mobile broadband and graphics technologies that could make it the most powerful netbook.
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Hackers Get to the Root of Sony's PlayStation 3 Has the PlayStation 3 been fatally breached? A German hacker group claims it now has the keys to Sony's console kingdom.
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Internet Explorer Loses Largest Share in Two Years Google's Chrome was the prime beneficiary of IE's slide, as the browser reached the 10% milestone.
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Apple: iPhone Alarm Bug Squashed--or Is It? Apple says the alarms will function normally today, but users aren't totally convinced.
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Microsoft TV vs. Google TV: Showdown at CES Microsoft is expected to announce a new Windows-based set-top box using Windows Media Center, and Google TV will be featured on new Vizio models.
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Lenovo Intros Consumer Laptops and Desktops by the Dozen at CES Lenovos product rollouts at CES 2011 will also include new IdeaCentre PCs that could help to reimagine the all-in-one category by adding fresh features for TV watching, gaming, and 3D entertainment.
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Battle For the Newsstand: Google vs. Apple vs. E-readers Google appears to be readying a newsstand application that would make Android smartphones and tablets more competitive with the iPad and other e-readers.
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How Goldman Sachs Will Guard Facebook's Privacy The financial firm's special 'investment vehicle' is likely to draw attention from the SEC.
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Is Sony Preparing for the Extinction of the DVD? Sony is embedding exclusive features such as script searches and video sharing into its iTunes movies.
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Best Buys Buy Back Bonanza Best Buy is reportedly prepping the launch of a program called Buy Back that lets you pay an upfront fee for the ability to return a product 6 months later for up to half the purchase price.
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Facebook, Loaded with Cash, May Take on Google There's been a growing rivalry between the two companies, as both are at the top in their field and both want to dominate the social Web.
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Motorola Mobility Completes Spinoff Motorola Mobility completes its spin-off from Motorola.
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It's Tablet-Palooza at CES 2011 Prepare yourself for a deluge of new tablet PCs at CES 2011 as the industry preps to do battle against Apple's iPad in the year ahead.
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China Mobile to Begin 4G Network Trials in 6 Cities China's largest mobile operator has been given the go-ahead to start large-scale tests of its fourth-generation (4G) mobile network technology in six Chinese...
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