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HP TouchPad vs. Motorola Xoom vs. iPad: How They Stack Up

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February 10, 2011
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HP TouchPad vs. Motorola Xoom vs. iPad: How They Stack Up These three big tablets may look the same, but they have some important hardware and software differences.
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HP TouchPad Tablet Unveiled After much anticipation, HP shows off its first tablet using the WebOS operating system--and reveals its plans for WebOS on PCs and printers, too.
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Bing Searches More Accurate Than Google's, Study Finds Search engine Bing, and even Yahoo, are providing users with more accurate searches than their rival Google, according to a report out this week.
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Social Engineering: 3 Examples of Human Hacking Chris Hadnagy gets paid to fool people, and he's gotten pretty good at it over the years. A co-founder of social-engineering.org and author of Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Hadnagy has been using manipulation tactics for more than a decade to show clients how criminals get inside information.
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HP TouchPad: 5 Features the iPad Lacks The TouchPad boasts a better notification system, phone pairing and a resizable keyboard.
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Apple TV iOS Gaming Clues Spell Trouble for Xbox, PlayStation Look out Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, Apple may be planning a serious run on your set-top video gaming turf.
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AMD is Ahead -- Thanks to Intel's Sandy Bridge Woes -- But Not on Top AMD may be in a better position against Intel, but the real fight is against the mobile chip leaders
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Geekiest Marriage Proposals of All Time They say there's a lid for every pot. And when a geek has found his lid, there comes a time when he wants to take a soldering iron to it and make sure it's not going anywhere.
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New York Times App Tries to Invade My Privacy The NYTimes Chrome app displayed a Request for Permission window that was so blatant in its demands for full access to multiple aspects of my online life that I had to read it a couple of times to make sure I had it right.
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Bing Tops Google in Search Accuracy Both Microsoft's search engine and Yahoo's Bing-powered search outscored Google at getting users to visit websites.
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RIM PlayBook May Undercut HP TouchPad, Compete with iPad A Twitter user posted a screenshot of what appears to be an internal Office Depot webpage of the PlayBook, priced at $500 price tag, with a release date of late April.
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Microsoft's Executive Revolving Door Keeps Spinning In the latest round of Microsoft management shake-ups, Bob Muglia's replacement comes as a surprise to many.
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Sonos for Android is on Its Way Android phone owners will be able to choose local and Internet-based music and route it to one or more Sonos boxes in their home.
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AT&T Rolls Out Free Mobile-to-Mobile Calling The plan offers free calls to any mobile phone but calls to landlines, text messages will still be charged.
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Apple Warned by Newspaper Publishers Over iPad Subscriptions ENPA calls for 'freedom of choice of payment systems' for digital publications
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Valentine's Day Tech Gifts for Under $100 Flowers may last a week, but romantic technology could outlive even the relationship itself. If you truly want to impress your Valentine, rethink your gift strategy. Here are eight great gift ideas that won't break the bank.
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Facebook Phone: It's Real, and Official INQ revealed two Android phones featuring tight integration with Facebook, and HTC is rumored to be working on a more high-end Facebook phone, too.
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Steve Jobs, Like Youve Never Seen Him A YouTube video shows Jobs as a young entrepreneur who looks meek, nervous, and well, hairy.
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Mozilla Adds 'Do Not Track' to Newest Firefox 4 Beta The company plans to release one more beta, which it hopes to wrap up this weekend, before moving on to 'release candidate' builds that in turn will lead to final code.
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"iPod Classic is Dead" Rumors are Back Predictions on the demise of the iPod Classic usually dont come around until September, when Apple updates its line of media players, but the timings off now thanks to suspicious supply issues at major retailers.
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HP TouchPad vs. Motorola Xoom vs. iPad: How They Stack Up These three big tablets may look the same, but they have some important hardware and software differences.
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