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MTV inaugurates all-digital awards show

MTV's new awards show will be called the OMAs and it's scheduled for April 28. By the way, the "O" in OMAs doesn't stand...
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Motorola Xoom tablet almost rivals iPad

It’s an old pattern by now. Phase 1: Apple introduces some new gadget. The bloggers and the industry tell us why it’ll fail. Phase...
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Apple introduces iPad2 on March 2

If you are thinking of buying an iPad, you may want to hold off a bit. In an article about iPads in the enterprise published...
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South Korean Internet goes even faster

South Korea already claims the world’s fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the...
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Apple faces new antitrust scrutiny

US antitrust enforcers have begun looking at the terms Apple Inc. set this week for media companies who want to sell their content on...
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Obama hosts tech leaders at White House dinner

For technology spectators, a dinner on Thursday evening with President Obama and a dozen Silicon Valley executive seems like a scene straight out of...
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Apple creates app subscription service

Apple Inc. laid out a new subscription service and broad rules cementing its power as gatekeeper for most of the digital content sold through...
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Clinton addresses Internet freedom

Days after Facebook and Twitter added fuel to a revolt in Egypt, the Obama administration on Tuesday announced a new policy on Internet freedom,...
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Facebook downplays role in African uprisings

With Facebook playing a starring role in the revolts that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, you might think the company’s top executives would...
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Apple develops less expensive iPhones

Apple Inc. is working on the first of a new line of less-expensive iPhones and an overhaul of software services for the devices, people...
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Netbook sales fall as iPad-like tablet sales rise

Remember the Last Big Thing in computing? You’ll be forgiven for having forgotten it was the netbook — a small notebook computer with a...
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WikiLeaks founder accused of dodging sex questions

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continually avoided interview requests from Swedish authorities who wanted to question him about allegations that he sexually abused two women...
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Facebook finds larger California campus HQ

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is moving its more than 2,000 employees — and 600 million friends — to a new campus in Menlo...
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Egyptian prison releases Google executive

In a tearful, riveting live television interview only two hours after his release from an Egyptian prison, the Google executive Wael Ghonim acknowledged Monday...
Television, a real health hazard!

Television, a real health hazard!

British doctors have recently ruled on the effects of watching television. Television addiction, which is separated from factors like smoking and high blood pressure,...
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Dating site uses Facebook profiles sans permission

How does an unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data...
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Internet service fully restored in Egypt

The Internet is available again in Egypt, after the country cut access to the Web for a week amid mass unrest. After a long stretch...
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iPad-exclusive newspaper ‘The Daily’ debuts

The first news "publication" created expressly for Apple Inc.'s hot-selling iPad tablets is due to be unveiled Wednesday — and with it a bold...
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Bing caught copying Google search results

Google has weathered criticism in the past that it has copied some features of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, like background images. Now it has...
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Wikipedia contributors reveal gender gap

In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure. But another...
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Google adds Gmail ads

Google’s display ads, or ads with images, have been showing up across the Web and even in Times Square. Now they are bound...
Facebook, the new health hazard…

Facebook, the new health hazard…

A group of scientists have recently put a forward a theory that seeks to prove a correlation between some ailments and social networking sites...
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Yahoo fires 140 employees

Yahoo disclosed plans on Tuesday to layoff around 140 employees in the latest in a series of job cuts. The reduction comes a month after...
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Pope blesses social networking, with warning

Pope Benedict gave a qualified blessing to social networking Monday, praising its potential but warning that online friendships are no substitute for real human...
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Digital sales peak in shrinking music market

After another year of plunging music sales, record company executives are starting to contemplate the unthinkable: The digital music business, held out as the...
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Apple posts unexpected $6 billion holiday profits

Apple made record profits and record revenues in the run-up to Christmas as shoppers bought more Macs, iPhones, and iPads than analysts predicted. The company...
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Google laptops give browser all the power

Think about how little you may use your personal computer’s hard drive anymore. Unless you keep a music or video collection, or store your...
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iPhone 5 will feature complete redesign in 2011

This summer, Apple is expected to launch its next iPhone, and new reports describe it as a "completely redesigned handset" as well as a...
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Facebook trading plan excludes US investors

Investors from outside America will be able to take part in the private placing of Facebook shares. In a statement the investment bank cited "intense...
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Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is taking a medical leave of absence, a year and a half after...