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August 19, 2011
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Windows Laptop Makers Can't Catch Up to the MacBook Air Laptop manufacturers are struggling to compete with the MacBook Air, and by the time they do, it won't matter. It's not a manufacturing problem, it's an attitude problem.
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Windows 8: More App Store Evidence Surfaces Microsoft appears to be adding an app store to Windows 8, but plenty of questions remain when it comes to Microsoft's app strategy.
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HP Lowers Financial Guidance With WebOS Shutdown After pulling the plug on its webOS phones and tablet computers Thursday, Hewlett Packard said it expected to be less profitable during its current fiscal quarter.
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Apple Offers Flawed Evidence in Lawsuit against Samsung Apple and its lawyers have -- perhaps inadvertently -- misled the judge of a German court by filing flawed evidence of the similarity between the iPad 2 and Samsung's Galaxy Tab.
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HP to Acquire Info Management Software Firm Autonomy After half a day of frenzied speculation from the IT industry, Hewlett-Packard has confirmed that it is acquiring information management software vendor Autonomy.
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Bug Bounties: Why Paying Hackers Makes You Safer Companies like Google and HP are paying big bucks to people who can find holes in their software.
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Firefox 6: Four Reasons Not to Upgrade Firefox 6 is here, which makes your version 5 browser obsolete. Here are four reasons you should avoid Firefox 6--and maybe abandon Mozilla's browser altogether.
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Windows Security Praised Analysis: Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says security firm Kaspersky.
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Ubuntu's Next Unity Begins to Take Shape Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth outlines some of the key desktop changes we can expect to see in Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot.'
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Inspector Gadgets: Windows 7 Gadgets for Monitoring Your PC These Windows desktop gadgets can give you a sneak peek inside the inner workings of your PC.
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On Linux's 20th Anniversary, Recounting Past Slights From Microsoft On the 20th anniversary of Linux, the free operating system's biggest proponents threw a party to celebrate its success and scoff at attacks.
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Outsourced and Fired, IT Workers Fight Back After rising tensions over a number of issues, including increased offshoring, laid-off IT workers file suit.
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Dropbox Cloud Was a Haven for Data Thieves, Researchers Say Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers.
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Google's Motorola Mobility Buy Raises Android Issues Can other handset makers trust Google for fair treatment if the software maker owns a hardware vendor?
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Firefox 6 Jumps on Stage Ahead of Schedule If you can't wait for the browser's official Tuesday release, it's already up on Mozilla's FTP servers.
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Why Microsoft Won't Buy Hardware to Compete With Googorola Chances are Microsoft will not retaliate against Google's 12.5 billion purchase of Motorola by acquiring a phone maker of its own, say industry analysts.
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Comcast Offers IPv6 in Michigan Comcast has added Michigan to its list of states - including Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Illinois and Florida -- where the cable ISP is offering services...
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Linux Foundation Releases Specification to Ease Licensing Headaches The Linux Foundation and FOSSBazzaar on Wednesday released a new specification to ease the pain of license compliance for open source software.
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XXX Pricing Set By Go Daddy, Businesses Bellyache About Domain Extortion Businesses of all colors are concerned the new XXX domain will force them to protect their brand by forcing the purchase unwanted XXX domains
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After a Frenetic London Riot, a Laptop Is Recovered When Greg Martin returned home last Wednesday morning after a night of intense rioting in London, his West End apartment had been ransacked.
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