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FTC cracks down on spyware sellerThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a with Florida spyware vendor CyberSpy Software, two years after for selling "100 percent undetectable" keylogging software.
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HP unveils network, storage gear to feed SMB demandHewlett-Packard on Wednesday introduced a variety of products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), a segment that worldwide spends an estimated US$234 billion per year on IT products, the company said.
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NetComm flags bullish 18 months aheadNetworking hardware vendor NetComm (ASX:NTC) is predicting a bullish 18 months ahead, forecasting a tripling of its revenues by the second half of 2011.
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Remains of the Day: Flurry backs down, dolphins step upLegos are good for more than just toys, and dolphins are poised to take over society as we know it. Oh, and I'm sure it's all relevant to technology somehow. It's the remainders for June 2, 2010.
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Chrome OS Strives to Replace Desktop CultureGoogle's Chrome OS is sometime later this year. The Web-centric, Linux-based, open source platform will offer a lightweight, cost-effective alternative operating system for portable computing. Eventually, Google plans to expand the scope of to take on Windows on the desktop as well--a goal that requires both a solid operating system and a significant culture shift.
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Google Maps for BlackBerry Gets a BoostGot a BlackBerry for your business? Getting around is about to get a lot easier.
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Yojimbo's new Sidekick gets data onto mobile devicesYojimbo users who want to take their data with them can now do so with a little help from a sidekick. That's the name of a new feature has added in the latest version of its information manager.
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Google’s week in review: Google TV, Pac-Man, Android and more acquisitionsWhere to start? Google aired new initiatives left and right at its Google I/O developer conference, such as Google TV and the Android 2.2 OS, but also made plenty of other headlines good and bad.
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Apple Store author and model Isobella Jade plans iPhone appModel and author is planning to produce her first iPhone app, encouraged by the success of her memoir Almost 5'4": Confessions of an Unconventional Model. Newly published in the UK, Almost 5'4 was uniquely written on the Macs at a New York Apple Store. "I wrote over 300 pages of my manuscript on a 17" iMac. I was totally without an Internet-connection," Jade tells Macworld. " I didn't have the ability to check my email so casually as I do now on
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Babeorella for iPhoneFor those unfamiliar with the science fiction classic "Barbarella" (the naming rights of which we may assume didn't want to pony up for), the film was a comparably bold and uncomprising creative venture inspired by a naughty French comic book. In this iPhone sci-fi brawler, you play as , a buxom, halter-topped hobgoblin with a nonetheless striking resemblance to Jane Fonda. The story is self-effacingly simple: Our "titular hero" (their pun, not
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Cisco takes wraps off home TelePresenceIt's not just Google who has taken the leap into consumer appliances. Just the day after the search company launched the Google TV, Cisco has announced trials of a consumer version of its TelePresence videoconferencing system according to a Reuters report. The company has also announced that TV channel ESPN will be using Telepresence to transmit World Cup football from South Africa.
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FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES: Canon Female Photojournalist AwardSubmissions are still open for the and for the tenth competition to find 2010's Canon Female Photojournalist of the year award.
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HDTVs: Best Places to BuySince a large HDTV is one of the bulkiest and most expensive electronics purchases you can make, you'll want to make the right choice from the get-go. Prices online tend to be lower than those at brick-and-mortar stores, but we did find some attractive in-store deals as well.
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Left out in the cold: Tech innovation favors the richTechnology innovation is something anyone can undertake these days. Or so we are told.
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Our Research Methodology: Best Places to BuyIn selecting retailers for this story, we consulted Dealerscope's most recent (March 2010) annual study of the . Of the top 20 companies included in Dealerscope's rankings, we eliminated the retailers that lack a national presence (such as the California-based ), the sellers that are brand-specific (such as Dell and Apple), the businesses that cater to a specialized market (such as GameStop), and the companies that charge membership fees (such as
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Remains of the Day: Steve Jobs e-mail with a URLWe play a little game of "what happened to the Microsoft employee?" And everybody seems to want to know what Steve Jobs is thinking. Here are the remainders for Friday, May 21.
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Securing your Facebook privacy settingsOne wonders if Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Facebook executives are wishing they could declare a do-over right about now, dating back to late April. That’s when Facebook held its developer summit and unveiled —and that also raised a number of among Facebook users. Since then, Facebook has been the subject of what seems like a daily drumbeat of headlines about its privacy policies, whether it’s users or pundits advocating for .
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Silicon Replacement: Gallium Arsenide?(GaAs), an expensive but highly efficient semiconductor, is being studied by researchers at the to develop more efficient [than silicon] and surprisingly cheaper devices including solar cells and infrared cameras. This semiconductor can potentially increase speeds of computer chips making your computing experience more enjoyable.
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SolveigMM Video Splitter Cuts Big FilesAny video editing tool must be immediately compared to my personal favorite, the well-reviewed ($15). By comparison, (30 Euros, feature-limited demo) is esoteric and difficult to use. I ran numerous trials with a sample video file, attempting to make it smaller, split it up into individual pieces, and so on. Eventually, through trial and error, I figured it out.
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The Best and Worst of Research CallsEver wonder which electronics store has the best product selection and the tech-savviest staff members? I--and a fellow researcher--spent the better part of four weeks talking to sales associates at retailers across the country to figure it out.
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