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

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May 6, 2011
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10 Biggest 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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Why You Shouldn't Take a Pay Cut to Telecommute A recent survey shows that more than one-third of IT professionals would take a 10 percent pay cut to work from home.
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Google-Skype Deal Could Create Communications Powerhouse The rumored joint venture would have the features, and users, to out-compete Microsoft in cloud collaboration market.
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Natty Narwhal: the First Linux for Newbies? With its new Unity interface, Ubuntu 11.04 taps the mobile world for a way to help Windows users across the divide.
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Netflix Fires Call Center Worker for Stealing Data Netflix fires a call center worker for stealing credit card numbers from customers of the online movie service.
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Stop the Cloud, I Want to Get Off! While every business is rushing to the 'cloud,' I find myself wishing for the days of good ol' local access.
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RIM Improves Social Networking for Consumers and Businesses It wasn't too long ago when mega-social-network Facebook was only an experimental service used by a group of Harvard students. And Twitter was just a word used...
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Hands-On: 4 Remote-Desktop Services Remote access to your home computer can be quick and easy.
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LastPass Alerts Users About Potential Master Password Breach LastPass, an online password management provider, is forcing its users to change their master passwords after detecting what it described as a "traffic anomaly."
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What Should Twitter Do With TweetDeck? Here are three things Twitter should keep in mind to maintain the dominance of its microblogging service.
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Users Tripped up by Unofficial Win Phone 7 Update Tool Microsoft engineers working on Windows Phone 7 said they're too busy right now to fix a problem caused by an unofficial update tool.
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PlayBook Security: How RIM Aims to Keep Work and Play Separate One of Research in Motion's biggest challenges in a world of the iPhone and Android has been how to keep its products fun and fresh while maintaining the high level of security its corporate users have come to rely on.
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EMC's Iomega Launches NAS Storage Line for Smaller Businesses Iomega launched a new series of desktop and rack mountable NAS devices aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses and remote offices, with a price tag for the...
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