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10 Biggest High-Tech Cover-Ups: Shut Up and Act Like Nothing's Wrong

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10 Biggest High-Tech Cover-Ups: Shut Up and Act Like Nothing's Wrong The list of tech companies that made business mistakes and didn't address them immediately includes Amazon, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, and Sony, among others.
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Mac Users Hit by First Rogue Antivirus App The threat has been named OSX/MacDefender.A and the scam is identical to the large numbers of scareware scams faced by Windows users on a daily basis.
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Hey Twitter, Don't You Dare Ruin TweetDeck TweetDeck loyalists hope the application's new owner, Twitter, won't mess with the way the software and service works.
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Coming Soon: A Faster Firefox for Linux Users Starting with Firefox 6, Mozilla's browser for the open source operating system will feature performance on par with the Windows version.
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New BlackBerry Bold: The Good and the Bad RIM really tried to strike a balance on its latest smartphone, but still came up short in some important aspects.
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