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Tech Conference Bloopers: 7 Stories of Snafus and Slipups

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February 8, 2011
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Tech Conference Bloopers: 7 Stories of Snafus and Slipups Onstage falls, wardrobe malfunctions, and romantic disasters -- cue our real-life blooper reel from tech conferences around the world
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Desktop Virtualization: Confusion Over Software Licensing When Dataprise Inc., an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualization project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualization's dirty little secret: No one -- including vendors -- seems to know how to license the software.
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Android Outranks IPhone in Latest ComScore Data Google's Android outranked Apple's iPhone in total smartphone subscribers in the U.S. at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, according to survey
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AOL Buys Huffington Post, Kills Quality Content AOL is back, baby. And by "back," I mean back to being ridiculous. Its latest move: buying The Huffington Post for an astounding $315 million.
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iPhone 5: A GSM/CDMA World Phone? iFixit discovered that the Verizon iPhone has a Qualcomm dual-mode GSM/CDMA chip, prompting questions about whether Apple will make its next iPhone a GSM-CDMA device?
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Google Doodle Takes You 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Google celebrates Jules Verne's birthday by paying homage to the late author of the classic '20000 Leagues Under the Sea'
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Digital Equipment Corp. Co-founder Ken Olsen Dies at Age 84 Kenneth Olsen, the computer industry pioneer who co-founded minicomputer maker Digital Equipment Corp., died at the age of 84 on Sunday.
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Google Doodle Journeys to the Center of Jules Verne An interactive doodle atop Google's search page honors the 183rd birthday of science fiction author Jules Verne.
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The Future of Computing: Ten Competing Visions You think the iPad's cool? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Android Fragmentation Will Get More Complicated Honeycomb will arrive for tablet this spring and is expected to further splinter the market by launching Android 2.4 to try to bridge the gap between phones and tablets.
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Sprint's Kyocera Echo Treads Dangerous Waters The dual-screen device might seem impressive at a glance, but it also runs the risk of being a cheap gimmick, or more appropriately, a one-trick pony.
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Will Anyone Really Pay $800 for Android-powered Motorola Xoom Tablet? The Motorola Xoom, the much anticipated Google Android 3.0-based tablet unveiled during CES last month, will sport a price tag of about $800 and be available on...
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Firefoxs Development Cycle to Get Faster Mozilla expects to release four major revisions of the browser by the end of the year.
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HP TouchSmarts: A New Slant on Computing The desktops' stands can now fold backwards, letting you use the display in traditional upright orientation or push it down to a sixty-degree angle for easier pointing.
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Is iOS Game 'Smuggle Truck' as Controversial as it Looks? Forthcoming iPhone and iPad game Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration takes aim at touchy US border issues and draws the ire of bloggers.
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What a Girl Wants: 25 Techie Gifts for Valentine's Day There's still plenty of time to shop for your Valentine, and you don't even have to leave your desk to buy one of these 25 tech-inspired gifts.
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No Legend of Zelda in Nintendo 3DS Launch List? Nintendo rolls out its March 25, 2011 3DS games launch list, conspicuous as much for what's on it as what's not.
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iPhone 4 Newbies: 10 Essential Tips and Tricks Are you lined up to get the Verizon iPhone 4 when it debuts this week? Here are a few tips on how to dodge the number one killer of iPhones, extend battery life, manage apps and more.
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Sony PlayStation Phone Launching at MWC Sony Ericsson will officially unveil its highly anticipated 'PlayStation phone' at Mobile World Congress this year.
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IPad Tablet Domination to Continue The iPad will remain the dominant tablet device until 2015 at least, according to iSuppli.
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Kyocera Echo for Sprint: First Impressions We got our hands on the Kyocera Echo tonight in New York City and while the dual-screen design impresses, the lack of 4G and a dual-core processor might hurt its chances of being a real threat in the smartphone world.
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