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Start-up opportunities abound in wake of Facebook IPO Clearly Facebook is a dominant player in social media, but start-ups targeting niche audiences and mobile device access still have a chance to stand out.
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Startup opportunities abound in wake of Facebook IPO Clearly Facebook is a dominant player in social media, but startups targeting niche audiences and mobile device access still have a chance to stand out.
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ADzero bamboo phone, green and beautiful (photos) After spotting a university student's concept bamboo phone online, one company is making the green smartphone a reality. See photos of the ADzero here.
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Dying for a Nokia Lumia 900? Preorder it at a Microsoft store If you don't want to deal with the hassle of signing up with AT&T, you can reserve your Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone at one of Microsoft's 15 retail stores.
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Dying for a Nokia Lumia 900? Pre-order it at a Microsoft store If you don't want to deal with the hassle of signing up with AT&T, you can reserve your Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone at one of Microsoft's 15 retail stores.
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Survey: Apple phone support still on top, but slipping According to a new study, the overall quality of Apple's technical support by phone has declined significantly between 2010 and 2011.
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From Dell hell to Genius Bar: A customer service journey How Apple made Rafe a fanboy by selling him a fleet of unreliable, broken machines.
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Tokyo store's female android looking for love Takashimaya has rolled out a Geminoid robot to greet shoppers for Valentine's Day. Will she find love?
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Windows Phone 8 details reportedly leak On tap for the next version of Microsoft's smartphone platform: support for different processors, screen sizes, microSD storage, NFC, business support, Windows 8 integration, and more.
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Security concerns on Apple's FileVault decryption via FireWire Since the news of Passware being able to decrypt FileVault over FireWire connections, Mac users might be concerned about the integrity of the security on their computers.
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Google now scanning Android apps for malware New service scans apps for malicious code or behavior and bounces them if they are suspect.
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Tiny monitor tracks vital signs sans skin contact The 2-inch-wide sensor, which tracks heart rate, respiration, and movement, is non-invasive and wearable.
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Tweet in Morse code with Tworse Key A brilliant hack lets you post to Twitter using Morse code. Learn how to make your own tweeting telegraph key here.
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Facebook goes quiet, comes alive again Multiple reports of slow loading and even no loading suggest that Facebook is experiencing problems. What might it be?
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Hackers stole data from VeriSign in 2010 VeriSign discloses in quarterly SEC filing that hackers stole data in successful attacks, but doesn't say what data was stolen.
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Courts have likely killed DVD-copying media servers Remember Kaleidescape's attempt to sell a server that let you copy your DVDs for personal use? Sounded like a good idea to help keep DVDs alive, but eight years on, Kaleidescape suffers another defeat in court.
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Courts have likely killed media servers that copy DVDs Remember Kaleidescape's attempt to sell a server that enabled people to copy their DVDs for personal use? Sounded like a good idea to help keep DVDs alive but after 8 years in court, Kaleidescape suffered another court defeat.
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Apple calls iMessage bug debacle an 'extremely rare situation' The issue with Apple's iMessage that puts one user's account on another device doesn't have a fix in sight, but the company has weighed in on what happened to one user, saying it was "extremely rare."
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Apple calls iMessage bug story an 'extremely rare situation' The issue with Apple's iMessage that puts one user's account on another device doesn't have a fix in sight, but the company has weighed in on what happened to one user, saying it was "extremely rare."
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Startup Secret No. 30: You and your puny mind You may think you've got a big idea. It's not big enough.
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Facebook's IPO filing: Top 10 surprises There was a flood of facts, figures, and other details that came out of Facebook's IPO filing. Here's what you should focus on.
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Why we'll never find an exoplanet like Earth Evidence that plant life was a primary force that shaped Earth's surface is laid out in a new issue of Nature Geoscience. Because of that, the chance we'll find a similar world with a surface like our planet's is very small.
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Adobe: Here's why Creative Cloud is worth $600 a year The subscription to Adobe's software, services, and social features will arrive later this year, and the company is showing new attractions.
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Will Windows 8 ARM devices offer a limited desktop interface? The latest scuttlebutt from the Verge suggests that tablets and other ARM-based devices running Windows 8 may move beyond the Metro UI to provide some type of desktop interface.
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Remember that rumored February iPad 3 event? Make it March Did you have your hopes up for an iPad 3 debut this month? That rumor may have well been put to rest by its original source, who now says March is when it's all going down.
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Breaking down the Facebook IPO Pinterest ties with Twitter and Google for referral traffic, HTC cures security bug, and Facebook reveals finances in its filing to go public.
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MetroPCS resuscitating $40 plan for 4G LTE smartphones The no-contract carrier is bringing back a low-cost unlimited plan it quietly killed off last year.
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Social video sharing app ShowYou goes deep with v3.0 With the third version of the critically acclaimed app, users will be able to drill down and see more of the videos their friends are sharing--and what their friends' friends are watching.
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'Green' solar cell is made from plants To make super cheap solar cells, MIT researchers look to commandeer the process of photosynthesis in plants.
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Zuckerberg's challenge: Sticking with 'Hacker Way' As Facebook's revenue--and employee base--doubles and triples, it will be increasingly hard to just iterate and maintain the "Hacker Way."
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Dell taps former CA chief to head new software group John Swainson, former CEO of software company CA, has been named as president of Dell's New Software Group, to focus on selling software to the enterprise crowd.
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Facebook's IPO filing evokes excitement, but more questions As expected, Facebook showed off some impressive financial and usage figures. But some on Wall Street are left wondering how the company plans to make money off its extraordinary large user base.
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Facebook's IPO: What Wall Street still wants to know As expected, Facebook showed off some impressive financial and usage figures. But some on Wall Street are left wondering how the company plans to make money off its extraordinary large user base.
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Zynga shares soar on Facebook IPO The social gaming company's shares have risen well over 10 percent as investors find value in its relationship with Facebook.
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Comcast expands Internet access for more poor families The cable provider is enhancing its Internet Essentials program to provide more options for low-income households.
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Apple nabs Xbox marketing manager for App Store Robin Burrowes, who used to head up Microsoft UK's product marketing, is now handling App Store marketing for Apple.
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Google must pay $660,000 for offering Google Maps for free The plaintiff, Bottin Cartographes, says Google's free business model is undercutting competitors that offer mapping services at a price.
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iPhone users grabbed 6 million free apps a day in December For the third straight month, Apple has seen an increase in the number of top free apps downloaded from its iPhone store day day, according to stats from Fiksu.
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Facebook's biggest winners look to rich payday Here are some of the individuals and firms that stand to make the most from Facebook's IPO, from Accel to, of course, Zuckerberg.
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Chevy Volt sales take a hit Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt electric cars start slow in 2012, with Volt sales apparently impacted by a now closed safety investigation.
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HTC patching Wi-Fi password leak on several smartphones Certain HTC smartphones may expose Wi-Fi passwords due to a bug. The company is addressing the problem through a regular update and a manual patch.
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As losses mount, Sony's Hirai faces 'toughest challenge' Sony saw revenue slide by 17.4 percent during the fourth quarter--its fiscal third quarter--and posted a net loss.
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Coming off $2B loss, Sony's Hirai faces 'toughest challenge' Sony's troubling fiscal third-quarter performance comes just a day after the company announced it is replacing its CEO Howard Stringer with Kazuo Hirai on April 1.
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Cocoon now sheathes you in IE, too Cocoon extends its protective casing for you and your Internet habits to Internet Explorer users in a new beta. Along with IP address masking and anonymous browsing, you get secure Wi-Fi, e-mail on-the-fly, and antivirus scanning.
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon on track for Voice over LTE The company has hooked up with Ericsson to enable support for both voice and data on LTE "4G" networks.
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Does Facebook have a mobile problem? The social network sees big opportunity in getting its service on millions of mobile devices, but it also sees big risks.
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Facebook's days of hypergrowth may be over There's not much left for Facebook to conquer from the perspective of user engagement. But as a business, Facebook still has bright days ahead.
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Pentax poised to reveal high-end, compact K-01 camera The compact camera has a mirrorless design that can use Pentax's K mount SLR lenses, according to retailer B&H. It also has a relatively large sensor.
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Facebook's plea to Zuckerberg: Be gentle, be wise Post-IPO, Mark Zuckerberg's control over Facebook and its board of directors will border on the absolute. It's good indeed to be the king.
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Mac OS X 10.7.3 supports new crop of compact cameras The Lion update supports raw images from eleven cameras--of which six are compact interchangeable-lens models from Olympus, Nikon, and Sony.
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BitTorrent Live attracts steady stream of interest Bram Cohen forever altered file-sharing when he invented the torrent protocol 10 years ago. Now, he and his company, BitTorrent, are poised to revolutionalize live streaming.
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iPhone 4S pushes Apple into No. 3 spot for global phone sales Triple-digit sales growth in the fourth quarter propels the company up two spots in market share.
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Pinterest nearly equals Twitter and Google in referral traffic A new study by Shareaholic shows that Pinterest is the fastest growing site for traffic referrals, driving more than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined.
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Twitter yanks Reading Rainbow handle from squatter Reading Rainbow TV host LeVar Burton used his millions of Twitter followers to help overthrow the squatter who laid claim to the @reading rainbow Twitter handle.
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Apple tips chip spending scales in favor of wireless The popularity of Apple's handheld products like the iPad and iPhone is pushing the lion's share of chip spending to wireless, away from traditional computer-related spending.
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NASA spacecraft releases first video of moon's far side Equipped with a video camera, one of NASA's twin lunar spacecrafts reveals a rare glimpse of the far side of the moon.
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Facebook's IPO by the numbers: You like? Now we know all--OK, many--of the financial details Zuck wanted to keep secret. Check out the highlights and take our poll.
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Facebook: Mobile could be our worst enemy Company discloses that its mobile app use is growing but that its mobile app is for the birds.
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FileVault 2 easily decrypted, warns Passware Apple's FileVault 2 whole-disk encryption can be unencrypted within an hour, according to encryption and password-recovery company Passware.
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Facebook faces many threats, but none more than Google But Google isn't the only risk listed in Facebook's filing. The company cites an unhealthy dependence on Zynga, hackers, and foreign countries as potential risks.
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OS X 10.7.3 hits, promises to smash bugs, add new languages Apple's released the third minor update to Mac OS X 10.7 that brings a handful of bugfixes while adding new languages. The company also pushed out an update to Snow Leopard and Apple Remote Desktop.
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Facebook's big winners (photos) Now that the social network has filed to go public, see who will come up big in the IPO of the decade.
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Google fights back, says Microsoft has same data-sharing policy The Web giant responds to critical Microsoft ads, noting that the software giant has a similar policy regarding sharing consumer information across its services.
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Watch SpaceX test-fire its new engine...on the ground in Texas Elon Musk's SuperDraco engine makes those "Star Trek"-style thrusters a reality.
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Facebook's IPO filing tracks growth, features (charts) Facebook's IPO filing is chock-full of data, including numerous charts depicting user growth by region. CNET has pulled together some of the key data points from the massive document.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook has a 'social mission' Buried in Facebook's IPO filing is an investor letter from Zuck that outlines the company's goals and culture. Read it for yourself.
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Facebook files to go public, plans to raise $5B At long last, the social-networking juggernaut files for its IPO, opening up its once closely held financial and strategic details for public scrutiny.
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Facebook files to go public, boasts 845 million active users At long last, the social networking juggernaut files for its IPO, opening up its once-closely held financial and strategic details for public scrutiny.
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Facebook IPO: Social network makes its move roundup Silicon Valley and Wall Street had been watching since forever, it seems, for Facebook to go public. Now the IPO filing is finally upon us, and we're learning a lot about the social network.
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Where disaster recovery plans fall short (video) At NASA's Disaster Resiliency Panel, the director of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley explains how to build technologies that will make a difference for people and their communities when disaster strikes.
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Dubious Android apps may not be malware--just ads Verizon-affiliated ICSA Labs steps into the controversy over Android apps that Symantec identified as malware.
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Bass-heavy rap powers implantable medical sensors A microelectromechanical system out of Purdue vibrates enough to generate power when subjected to sounds in the 200- to 500-hertz range. After testing the device using hip-hop, jazz, blues, and rock, researchers find "rap is the best."
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What's for dinner? Well, what's your sign? On Valentine's Day, nothing is more romantic than a home-cooked meal for your sweetheart. But if you're stumped on what to prepare, how about turning to the stars and an online game that creates menus based on the combination of your astrological signs. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on the menu predictor from sister site Chow.
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Earphones know left from right even when you don't Figuring out which earphone goes in the right or left ear can be annoying, but researchers in Tokyo might have a solution.
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German court rejects Apple bid to ban Galaxy phone, tablet Apple's attempts at getting Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus smartphone banned from sale in the country have been rejected by a German judge.
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IT in the Toilet: Study shows cell phones big in bathroom We've had our suspicions, but now we know. A study from 11mark found that 75 percent of American mobile phone users use their phones in the bathroom to make calls, text, and play with apps.
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Supposed iPad 3 debug data teases A6 chip, 4G data Apple's next iPad will feature a speedier processor and 4G LTE networking, according to photos published by Boy Genius Report of a purported debugging tool captured from a prototype device.
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Nobody wanted MegaUpload busted more than MPAA All the recent talk that the FBI cracked down on MegaUpload after being pressured by the music industry is just wrong. Nobody was doing more to prompt the federal government to act in the MegaUpload case than the film sector.
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Best Buy lines up smartphone deal for Super Bowl The electronics retailer hopes to use the big game to drum up mobile sales by offering a short-term deal with $50 gift cards for smartphone buyers.
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How Republican opposition derailed SOPA and Protect IP SOPA and Protect IP Act have finally splintered a Democrat-Republican alliance in favor of expanding copyright law that's been in place since the 1990s.
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SOPA copyright bill draws fire roundup The Stop Online Piracy Act is intended to target "rogue" Web sites, but critics say it'll knock the stuffing out of legitimate sites as well.
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Could smart Biomask regenerate burned faces? Intelligent biomechanical mask under development at the University of Texas at Arlington could regrow faces for soldiers burned on the battlefield.
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Redbox breaks ties with Warner Bros. over 56-day window The company didn't publicly say why it can't arrive at a deal with Warner Bros., but reassured customers that Warner Bros. movies will still be available.
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Redbox rebuffs Warner Bros., won't delay rentals for 56 days The company didn't say why it couldn't strike a deal with Warner, but reassured customers that movie selection won't be affected.
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Startup Secret No. 29: Who's your Robin? You need help. As in, a co-founder. Not to buttress your skills, but to set up a company culture that's more open to the exchange of ideas.
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Smartphone and TV sales trim losses for LG The South Korean electronics company sees its revenue drop but its net loss narrows due to higher sales of smartphones and HDTVs.
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Microsoft debuts Kinect for Windows, commercial SDK The software giant launches a version of its motion-sensing game controller for Windows, hoping to spark development of PC applications that use natural user interfaces.
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More photos of iPod Nano with a camera emerge Will the next iPod Nano once again sport a camera? Newly-released spy shots once again suggest Apple's experimenting with the idea.
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Redbox breaks up with Warner BlackBerry London details leak, Sony gets a new leader, and Redbox thinks a deal with Warner Bros. is a stinker.
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Google talking with China to keep Google Maps afloat The search giant is speaking with Chinese government officials about continuing to offer its Google Maps service in the country.
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WikiLeaks buying boat to move servers offshore? According to a report, WikiLeaks investors are working to acquire a boat to house the controversial site's servers and keep Julian Assange safe from prosecution.
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Rumgr is the iPhone app Craigslist should have built The new app from three former Zappos employees is designed to let people who have random things to sell post ads for them quickly, and for buyers to easily discover what's for sale around them. And Craigslist isn't even part of the equation.
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VW tries to out-Vader its last Super Bowl ad In its follow-up to the boy dressed as Darth Vader, VW this year features a dog trying to lose weight and a bar frequented by Vader himself. It is all a little odd.
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Microsoft playing up bad buzz about Google to reel in users The company is taking advantage of some of the concerns over Google's new privacy policy to convince people to use its own products and services.
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Google gets bad buzz, and Microsoft pounces--sort of Microsoft aims to exploit uneasiness over Google's new privacy steps by talking up its own services--but hasn't offered much but spin so far.
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Swedish high court scuttles Pirate Bay appeal Three of the men who founded The Pirate Bay have found out that the Sweden Supreme Court will not hear their appeal of fines and jail sentences imposed on them in 2010.
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Taiwan tablet ad misplays Steve Jobs halo effect A TV spot for the Action Pad in Taiwan features an actor dressed up as the late Steve Jobs, complete with halo, wings, and turtleneck.
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YouTube eyes subscription-based services for content providers CEO Salar Kamangar says YouTube could eventually allow content providers to offer subscription-based video.
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Mac OS X gets ZFS after all--but not from Apple Promising better data integrity, start-up Ten's Complement has released a new file system for Macs based on Oracle's ZFS. It's an approach Apple began but dropped.
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Mapping New York City's energy hogs Columbia University researchers create an interactive map of the energy use from New York City's buildings with the hopes of identifying potential efficiency improvements and shared on-site energy systems, such as solar.
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