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Microsoft Joins Patent Review Group to Avoid Costly Litigation Microsoft has become the first member of a crowdsourcing service designed to challenge and invalidate specious software patents sometimes used in expensive lawsuits brought by so-called patent trolls.
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Sprint, Others Ask FCC to Deny AT&T Deal for T-Mobile Sprint Nextel and thousands of consumers have filed requests for the U.S. FCC to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA.
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AMD Finally Enters Tablet Market With New Chip Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday broke its silence around its tablet strategy, announcing its first low-power chip designed for these devices.
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Acer to Launch Tablet Running Intel's MeeGo Acer will launch a 10-inch tablet at the end of this year using both Intel's Atom processor and its mobile operating system MeeGo.
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Forget Angry Birds, This App Could Save Your Life There are lots of great apps out there for productivity, entertainment, and information, but few--if any--can actually save your life like this one can.
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MSI Gives Sneak Peek at $299 10-inch Enjoy Tablet Taiwan's Micro-Star International showed two new Android-based tablets at Computex this week that appear much sleeker than the WindPad tablets it has unveiled in...
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Malware Spikes, Spam Plummets, Says Report A new report from McAfee says spam is low, but malware is at a record high, and mobile malware is a quickly rising threat.
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Chrome Marches On While IE Continues Downward Spiral Latest browser market share numbers show Chrome steadily gaining ground, while IE continues to lose overall market share.
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Google Offers Launches Test in Portland Google Offers, Google's answer to Groupon and its entrance into the popular online coupon market, will begin a test run in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday, the...
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India Issues New Security Rules for Phone Operators India has relaxed some of its security rules for telecommunications operators and equipment suppliers, after earlier rules that required equipment makers to...
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IT Workers' Mobility Hindered by Incomparable Qualifications CIOs would hire more foreign IT workers if they could more easily compare qualifications
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Cyberattacks Can Justify Armed Response, Pentagon Says Physical attacks can be a legitimate response to some cyberattacks, the DOD says.
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HP, Juniper Win as Switch Sales Drop During Q1, Says Canalys Though price competition and a weak public sector made the first three months of 2011 difficult for Ethernet switch vendors, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks...
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