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IBM Turns 100: Some Perspective

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June 17, 2011
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IBM Turns 100: Some Perspective IBM celebrates its 100th birthday this week. In tech years, by our estimation, that makes the company approximately 4,976 years old.
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Beware of Cell Phone Radiation Scams, Warns FTC FTC says phony shield scammers are looking to prey on worried consumers
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Apple Delays MacBook Update, Waits for Lion Apple apparently wants to nudge us toward iCloud with its next hardware models.
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Symantec Uncovers Bitcoin-Stealing Trojan Online digital currency is increasingly the target of pirates and digital thieves.
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Copyright Grinch Pulls 'Friday' YouTube Video Its Friday, without Rebecca Blacks YouTube video. Here's why, and where you can turn.
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LulzSec Steals, Shares Logins in Latest Hack Followers of LulzSec on Twitter openly claim to have used the leaked data, which could open these individuals to criminal prosecution.
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4 Tips on How to Use Facebook Legally to Conduct Background Checks As more people create Facebook profiles (500 million and growing), and sign on other social media sites, hiring managers find new ways to vet prospective employees.
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Facebook Crafts an iPad App "Project Spartan" is no Trojan, just an HTML 5 view of Facebook optimized for iOS.
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Apple Gets Chintzy With Back-to-School 'Deal' This year's promotion offers only a gift card for apps with purchase of certain Macs, instead of pushing iPods as in the past.
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Wanted: A Kinect App Store Analysis: The beta SDK is out, but Microsoft still doesn't make it easy to find and download these creative Kinect PC apps.
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Claim: Wii U Games Now Shown at E3 Because of 'Underclocked' Hardware Consulting firm claims Wii U third-party games weren't shown at E3 2011 because the hardware wasn't up to snuff.
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Am I the Only One Who Likes Physical Android Buttons? Google is reportedly doing away with physical buttons on the next version of Android.
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U.S. Department of Defense, NASA Seek Ideas for Starship Travel The U.S. Department of Defense and NASA today issued a call for papers to help in their quest to ensure that humans can start interstellar space travel.
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Research Tackles Powering the Virtual Data Center Virtualization makes power management more complicated, but one researcher says he has the solution.
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Microsoft Rings Alarm Bell on Fake Windows Support Calls Microsoft today warned that scammers have taken to the phone lines to dupe Windows users into putting malware on their machines or paying for worthless help.
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Google, MIT Get PCs and Smartphones in Sync An MIT computer science grad student and a Google researcher have joined forces to build software that makes it a lot easier to move open tasks and apps between smartphones and PCs.
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Play Your PS3 and Xbox On The Go While it's hardly a handheld device, the Gaems G155 Portable Gaming System is ideal for gamers who want to take their consoles away with them.
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Apple's Lion isn't for Everybody The refreshed Mac OS X will become available next month, but not all customers will be able to take advantage of its features.
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