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February 11, 2011
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The Pitfalls of E-Book Buying: What to Look Out for Before You Purchase Easy downloads and convenient storage are the chief lures of a virtual library, but ownership has some irritating downsides that require your attention before you hit the e-book purchase button.
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Facebook's New Pages: A Hands-On Tour Facebook's pages are getting a facelift. Here's a quick tour of what's changing.
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Six Reasons Not to Buy the Verizon iPhone 4 Today is the big day; the Apple iPhone is finally available in the United States through a wireless carrier other than AT&T. Verizon Wireless's iPhone 4 smartphone can now be purchased in Apple Stores, Best Buys, Walmarts, and Verizon Wireless retail locations...while supplies last, of course.
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Nokia Partners With Microsoft, Adopts Windows Phone 7 Nokia will adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone OS, and partner with Microsoft in areas including mobile mapping, advertising and mobile apps
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Hands On with Verizon IPhone 4 A look at the pros and cons of the Verizon iPhone 4. A hands on first look.
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10 Ways Google Is the New Microsoft From the market dominance to the shrewd business practices to the ginormous size, it's getting harder to tell the difference between Google and Microsoft.
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Employees Have Free Speech on Facebook Employers: it's not legal for you to restrict what employees say about you on Facebook, or other Internet venues. So says the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), after settling a lawsuit with American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc.
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Microsoft and Nokia Partner on Smartphone Future Nokia and Microsoft join forces in race to beat Apple and Google in smartphone market.
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Chinese Accused of Huge Attack on Energy Sector McAfee blows lid on major cyberttack
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Geeky Jewelry for Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is coming up--do you have a gift yet?
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Blackberry Playbook to Run Android Apps, Report says Research in Motion might take a shortcut through the Android Market to make up for the Blackberry Playbook's app deficiencies.
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Microsoft's IE9 Web Browser Release Candidate: Feature Overview IE9's release candidate is now available--here's what's new.
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WikiLeaks' Assange Awaits Extradition Decision Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange put forth their final arguments before a British judge on Friday, seeking to block an extradition request from...
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Microsoft Suddenly Becomes a Mobile Behemoth Microsoft suddenly becomes a mobile behemoth --- Nokia chooses Windows Phone 7
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Steve Jobs 'Calling the Shots From Home' CEO Steve Jobs might be on a medical leave of absence from Apple, but he is staying closely involved in everything the company does, a report says.
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iPhone Nano Rumors Resurface: Apple's Answer to Android? Apple is allegedly working on building a smaller more affordable version of the iPhone, dubbed the iPhone Nano, named after Apple's popular iPod Nano digital music player.
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R.I.P. Guitar Hero Activision scuttles its Guitar Hero and DJ Hero franchises in surprise restructuring announcement, related studios and True Crime reboot among the victims.
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How NOT to Cut Code Like Facebook Facebook's shiny new, radical, "ground-breaking" Messages functionality is seriously, badly broken.
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Yahoo Preps 'Digital Newsstand' Yahoo has announced a "digital newsstand" called Livestand for tablet devices and cell phones that has been designed to deliver content from the company's various sites and online publications.
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Sprint Adds Customers, But Profits Remain Elusive Sprint is still having difficulty shedding its status as the sick man of the wireless industry.
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Twelve Free Fonts Make Custom Valentines Easy Feeling used by the merchandising nightmare that is Valentine's Day? Fight back by surprising anyone and everyone in your personal entourage with some custom font love and a little valentine savvy. With PCWorlds free font downloads, a little novelty sourcing, and a few nights before the big day, you can set the table for a love banquet.
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