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9/7/2010 7:10:06 AM

1 - Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-president
2 - Polls Show Netizens Oppose Craigslist's Censorship
3 - Will Samsung’s Galaxy Tab be Pricey or Cheap? Maybe Both
4 - Secret Copyright Treaty Draft Leaked After Washington Talks
5 - What to Expect From Apple's IOS Updates
6 - IBrainstorm for IPad
7 - Harman AKG Releases Quincy Jones Signature Line of Headphones
8 - Swedish Authorities Step up Battle Against File-sharers
9 - Apimac Brings Personal Database Solution to OS X
10 - E.U. Could Investigate Chinese Subsidies to Modem Makers
11 - Presented By:
12 - The Real Reasons iOS 4.1 is Important
13 - What's Behind Craigslist's Self-Censorship?
14 - Vehicle Camera Watches the Road for Stray Pedestrians
15 - Success of Samsung Galaxy Tab Doomed by Carrier Contracts
16 - Former Google China Head Invests in Chinese Startups
17 - Microsoft Claims Silverlight Beats HTML5
18 - Mark Hurd May Take Job at Oracle, Report Says
19 - Hands on with Samsung's Galaxy Tab Tablet
20 - Apple Ramps Up iPad Production
21 - Google Privacy Practices Blasted
22 - "iCulture" Gives Apple a Tactical Advantage
23 - Apple TV: Honey, I Shrunk the iPod Touch
24 - Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Code Ready for Fall Release
25 - Apple vs. Google: Who's Fudging Android Activation Data?
26 - Craigslist Adult Services Section Shut Down
27 - GoGear Connect Plays Music and Movies, Runs Android
28 - iOS More Popular Than Android Online
29 - Aiptek I2 Shoots 3D Video on a Budget
30 - Fake Antivirus Software Uses Ransom Threats
31 - GameStop Blocks Medal of Honor from U.S. Bases
32 - Tablet Wars at IFA in Berlin, 3D Cameras, and More
33 - Chrome Version 6 Marks Browser's 2nd Birthday
34 - Huawei Readies Android 2.2 Smartphone
35 - Did E-mail and the Internet Kill the 9-5 Workday?
36 - Presented By:
37 - Android Snags More of Apple's Market Share
38 - Duke Nukem Forever Promised in 2011
39 - Is Apple's Ping a Haven for Spammers?
40 - Bless These Gadgets
41 - Investigators Find Famous DJ's Credit Card Details for Sale
42 - Texas Conducting Antitrust Review of Google
43 - Disk Storage Still Bouncing Back, IDC Says
44 - Google Settles Privacy Lawsuit Over Buzz
45 - Early Ping Reviews Strike Sour Note
46 - IBM Code Unfetters Virtual Workloads
47 - Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere
48 - Apple's Latest IPods: What You Need to Know
49 - Rounding up the New iPod Touch and iPod Nano Cases
50 - Shorten URLs With an Automator Service
51 - To Watch 'Avatar' on 3D Blu-ray, You’ll Need a Panasonic TV
52 - Consumer Watchdog Thinks Google's Schmidt Is a Data Perv
1 - Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-president

Mark Hurd has been appointed co-president of Oracle.

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Mark Hurd - Oracle - Oracle Corporation - Larry Ellison - Hewlett-Packard

9/7/2010 4:20:08 AM

2 - Polls Show Netizens Oppose Craigslist's Censorship

An overwhelming majority of online users are opposed to Craigslist's self-censorship measures banning the adult services section of the site.

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Craigslist - Censorship - United States - Prostitution - Web Design and Development

9/7/2010 12:40:00 AM

3 - Will Samsung’s Galaxy Tab be Pricey or Cheap? Maybe Both

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is Going to be Pricey. Or Cheap. Or Maybe Both

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Samsung Galaxy Tab - Samsung - IPad - Galaxy Tab - Android

9/6/2010 10:00:00 PM

4 - Secret Copyright Treaty Draft Leaked After Washington Talks

The latest leaked draft of the secret ACTA copyright treaty sets out some fundamental principles -- and then offers to change them to match the negotiated text

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Copyright - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - United States - Intellectual property - acta

9/6/2010 8:10:07 PM

5 - What to Expect From Apple's IOS Updates

Small point updates to its mobile operating system often give Apple the chance to smooth the edges of its major releases, while adding a few smaller features...

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Apple - Operating system - Macintosh - IOS - IPhone

9/6/2010 7:50:07 PM

6 - IBrainstorm for IPad

Universal Mind bills iBrainstorm, its free iPad app, as a “creative collaborative tool.” The productivity offering aims to replace the whiteboard—or at least...

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Collaborative - IPad - Business - Servers - Apple

9/6/2010 7:30:07 PM

7 - Harman AKG Releases Quincy Jones Signature Line of Headphones

Quincy Jones is a legendary record producer and composer responsible for producing Michael Jackson’s Thriller album as well as the hit charity song “We Are the...

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Michael Jackson - AKG Acoustics - Record producer - Thriller - Headphones

9/6/2010 6:10:08 PM

8 - Swedish Authorities Step up Battle Against File-sharers

Swedish police have searched houses belonging to people suspected of illegal file-sharing in Stockholm, Haparanda and Östersund in the last two weeks.

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Stockholm - Swedish language - Swedish Police Service - Sweden - Filesharing

9/6/2010 5:50:10 PM

9 - Apimac Brings Personal Database Solution to OS X

If you’re one of those people who likes to keep their life organized (or, like me, one of those people who forget everything all the time), you may...

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Operating system - Alternative - OS-2 - United States - BlackBerry

9/6/2010 5:30:10 PM

10 - E.U. Could Investigate Chinese Subsidies to Modem Makers

The European Commission is considering opening a second enquiry to investigate if China is illegally subsidizing tech companies that produce wireless modems.

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European Union - European Commission - China - Business - Asia

9/6/2010 5:20:14 PM

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9/6/2010 5:20:14 PM

12 - The Real Reasons iOS 4.1 is Important

Apple is hyping new features like Game Center and iTunes Ping, but the reasons iOS 4.1 is crucial are related to finally resolving serious issues with the iOS 4 mobile OS.

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Apple - iTunes - Facebook - Operating system - iTunes Ping

9/6/2010 5:11:00 PM

13 - What's Behind Craigslist's Self-Censorship?

Could Craigslist's sudden move to dump adult services be a stunt the site's only option?

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Craigslist - Censorship - Stunts - Prostitution - Human Rights and Liberties

9/6/2010 4:41:00 PM

14 - Vehicle Camera Watches the Road for Stray Pedestrians

The Israeli company Mobileye Products has added a pedestrian and cyclist alert feature to its collision prevention device,

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Cycling - Mobileye - Shopping - Business - Consumer Goods and Services

9/6/2010 4:30:06 PM

15 - Success of Samsung Galaxy Tab Doomed by Carrier Contracts

The Samsung Galaxy Tab looks like a promising Apple iPad competitor, but being shackled to a wireless contract is a significant handicap that could cause the Android tablet to fail.

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Apple - Android - Samsung i7500 - IPad - tablet

9/6/2010 4:16:00 PM

16 - Former Google China Head Invests in Chinese Startups

Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google's China operations, is funding a dozen startups through a new business incubator he founded.

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Google - China - Kai-Fu Lee - Search Engine - Searching

9/6/2010 11:43:20 AM

17 - Microsoft Claims Silverlight Beats HTML5

Silverlight will offer a richer Web experience than HTML5, Microsoft says -- besides, the HTML5 spec isn't stable yet.

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Microsoft - HTML5 - Multimedia - Silverlight - HTML

9/5/2010 8:54:00 PM

18 - Mark Hurd May Take Job at Oracle, Report Says

Former HP boss Mark Hurd is in talks to take a job at Oracle, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing unnamed sources.

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Mark Hurd - Wall Street Journal - Hewlett-Packard - Oracle - Larry Ellison

9/5/2010 8:50:00 PM

19 - Hands on with Samsung's Galaxy Tab Tablet

Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet is an interesting piece of hardware crippled by the fact it mostly runs blown-out smartphone applications.

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Samsung Group - Smartphone - tablet - Android - Samsung i7500

9/5/2010 8:00:00 PM

20 - Apple Ramps Up iPad Production

Manufacturing plants have doubled iPad production since its launch, and Apple wants to push volume to 3 million a month during the holiday shopping season.

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Apple - IPad - Morgan Stanley - Macintosh - Apple II

9/5/2010 7:37:00 PM

21 - Google Privacy Practices Blasted

Consumer Watchdog lampoons Google's CEO in a mega-ad questioning the search giant's privacy policies.

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Google - Consumer Watchdog - Privacy - Search - Search Engines

9/5/2010 6:05:00 PM

22 - "iCulture" Gives Apple a Tactical Advantage

The new iPod Touch is the latest example of how Apple hooks users into the iOS culture and the advantage Apple gains when users are familiar with the interface and invested in the apps.

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Apple - iPod - IPod Touch - Apple iPod - Peripherals

9/5/2010 5:22:00 PM

23 - Apple TV: Honey, I Shrunk the iPod Touch

Powering the new Apple TV with an A4 saves costs and space, and makes for a more profitable product.

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iPod - IPod Touch - Apple TV - Apple - Apple iPod

9/5/2010 5:18:00 PM

24 - Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Code Ready for Fall Release

Development tools ship this month, and the first handsets should soon follow.

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Microsoft Windows - Operating system - Microsoft - Windows 2000 - FAQs Help and Tutorials

9/5/2010 4:44:00 PM

25 - Apple vs. Google: Who's Fudging Android Activation Data?

"We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers," Steve Jobs jabbed at Google and Android on Wednesday. Google disagrees. Who's right here?

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Google - Steve Jobs - Apple - Searching - Search Engines

9/5/2010 4:00:00 PM

26 - Craigslist Adult Services Section Shut Down

The popular classified ad site swaps a "censored" sign into spot previously occupied by the controversial section.

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Craigslist - Classified advertising - Business - United States - Business Services

9/5/2010 10:59:00 AM

27 - GoGear Connect Plays Music and Movies, Runs Android

Philips introduced the GoGear Connect, a portable media player that runs Android 2.1

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Philips GoGear - MediaPlayer - Android - GoGear Connect - IpodTouch

9/5/2010 2:20:09 AM

28 - iOS More Popular Than Android Online

Apple's iOS mobile operating system has a market share nearly six times larger than Android's.

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Apple - Mobile operating system - Android - Market share - IOS

9/4/2010 9:20:00 PM

29 - Aiptek I2 Shoots 3D Video on a Budget

Aiptek introduced a pocket-sized 3D camcorder at IFA.

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Camcorder - Video - Aiptek - Handhelds - Windows CE

9/4/2010 7:10:10 PM

30 - Fake Antivirus Software Uses Ransom Threats

Beware refreshed Total Security malware, which freezes your system unless you pay up.

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Anti-Virus - MS Antivirus - Security - Malicious Software - Viruses

9/4/2010 7:00:00 PM

31 - GameStop Blocks Medal of Honor from U.S. Bases

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service decided to pass because of a multiplayer mode that lets players assume the role of the Taliban.

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Medal of Honor - GameStop - Taliban - Electronic Arts - Air force

9/4/2010 6:10:00 PM

32 - Tablet Wars at IFA in Berlin, 3D Cameras, and More

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Tab, while Toshiba introduces the Folio 100 tablet.

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Toshiba - Samsung Group - Android - tablet - Galaxy Tab

9/4/2010 6:00:00 PM

33 - Chrome Version 6 Marks Browser's 2nd Birthday

Newest version of the fast browser features more speed, security fixes, and cosmetics.

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Google Chrome - Browsers - Clients - WWW - Google

9/4/2010 5:16:00 PM

34 - Huawei Readies Android 2.2 Smartphone

The Google-branded device launches first in mid-October in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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Google - Android - Huawei - Searching - Search Engines

9/4/2010 4:48:00 PM

35 - Did E-mail and the Internet Kill the 9-5 Workday?

A recent survey indicates that the 9-5 workday and the 5-day workweek are both dead as workers no longer know when to disconnect and walk away.

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Workweek - United States - Labor - Social Sciences - Arts

9/4/2010 4:03:00 PM

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9/4/2010 4:03:00 PM

37 - Android Snags More of Apple's Market Share

While Apple's iOS is still the dominant player within the U.S. mobile market, it's been on a pretty steady roller coaster ride downward in terms of share.

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Roller coaster - Apple - Recreation - Theme Parks - Attractions

9/4/2010 4:00:00 PM

38 - Duke Nukem Forever Promised in 2011

Duke Nukem Forever gets a new lease in life, and even makes an appearance on the PAX show floor.

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Duke Nukem - Duke Nukem Forever - 3D Realms - United States - Gearbox

9/4/2010 3:20:00 PM

39 - Is Apple's Ping a Haven for Spammers?

Analysis: Apple's Ping is a new iTunes-based social network. Unfortunately, it's already beset with a very old problem: rampant comment spam.

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Apple - iTunes - Social network - Spam - E-mail

9/4/2010 1:00:00 PM

40 - Bless These Gadgets

Anglican church invites all to a blessing of the tools of their 21st century trades, agnostic of their operating system.

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Anglicanism - Christianity - Religion and Spirituality - Denominations - Anglican

9/4/2010 12:15:00 PM

41 - Investigators Find Famous DJ's Credit Card Details for Sale

UPDATE: Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's best-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.

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Armin van Buuren - Disc jockey - Trance music - Music - dj

9/4/2010 10:48:00 AM

42 - Texas Conducting Antitrust Review of Google

UPDATE: Texas joins the European Union and others with gripes against Google's practices; a coming of age or web bully?

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Google - Searching - Search Engines - Companies - Web search engine

9/4/2010 10:30:00 AM

43 - Disk Storage Still Bouncing Back, IDC Says

UPDATE: The enterprise disk storage market is continuing to bounce back from the depths of the recession, IDC says.

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International Data Corporation - Hardware - Storage - Information technology - Hewlett-Packard

9/4/2010 3:46:00 AM

44 - Google Settles Privacy Lawsuit Over Buzz

Google agrees to pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over privacy problems with Google Buzz.

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Google - Google Buzz - Class action - Searching - Search Engines

9/4/2010 3:02:00 AM

45 - Early Ping Reviews Strike Sour Note

Spam is already clogging Ping's boards, and many bloggers aren't thrilled with Ping's implementation.

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Apple - Spam - iTunes - E-mail - Social network

9/4/2010 1:00:00 AM

46 - IBM Code Unfetters Virtual Workloads

New IBM research shows a way to move live cloud deployments across different storage networks.

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IBM - Hardware - Mainframe - Operating Systems - Historical

9/4/2010 12:40:12 AM

47 - Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere

Apple scores a first: More people browsed the Net last month with its mobile operating system than used Linux to do so.

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Linux - Android - Mobile operating system - Operating system - Apple

9/4/2010 12:22:00 AM

48 - Apple's Latest IPods: What You Need to Know

The latest batch of iPods unveiled by Apple earlier this week are about to begin shipping, and this latest generation brings some pretty big changes across...

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Apple - IPod - IpodTouch - Steve Jobs - IpodNano

9/4/2010 12:20:12 AM

49 - Rounding up the New iPod Touch and iPod Nano Cases

An iPod event is always followed by some cases, and here are some of the highlights of the first batch.

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IPod - IpodTouch - IpodNano - Shopping - Digital Portable Players

9/4/2010 12:00:00 AM

50 - Shorten URLs With an Automator Service

Twitter and other online services have made shortening URLs a regular chore; such URLs are handy not only on social networks, but anytime you need to share links...

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Twitter - Social network - Uniform Resource Locator - Online Communities - Trending and Popularity

9/3/2010 11:50:09 PM

51 - To Watch 'Avatar' on 3D Blu-ray, You’ll Need a Panasonic TV

TV makers lock down these deals to convey the idea that 3D content actually exists, and Hollywood studios like the deals because they provide a guaranteed return on the 3D investment.

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Television - Avatar - Blu-ray Disc - Panasonic Corporation - Movies

9/3/2010 11:32:00 PM

52 - Consumer Watchdog Thinks Google's Schmidt Is a Data Perv

A consumer rights group has created a cartoon showing Google CEO Schmidt as an child-baiting ice cream truck driver and put it on a billboard in Times Square. Who's being evil here?

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Google - Times Square - Consumer Watchdog - Ice cream - Eric E. Schmidt

9/3/2010 11:21:00 PM

 

 


 

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