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Google Street View has got off lightly

Google deserves more than a slap on the wrist for its Wi-Fi-snooping Street View cars – our privacy needs protectingGoogle is facing legal investigations around the world into its Wi-Fi-snooping Street View cars. But after cursory consideration, the UK’s information commissioner has forgiven the company this illegal interception in return for a promise to do [...]

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Samsung Predicts 1 Million Galaxy Tab Sales In 2010

Thanks to what the company is calling a strong consumer response, Samsung has announced that they expect to sell more than one million units of their forthcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers before the end of 2010."We have received a very…

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iOS 4.2 release date likely by Nov. 7: Apple support document

A support document posted in response to numerous reports over a Daylight Saving Time bug in iOS 4.1 points to a probable iOS 4.2 release date, by Nov.

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Are Neutron Stars Too Weak To Power Gamma-ray Bursts?

Black holes could produce the enormous energies of a burst, but not neutron starsA gamma-ray burst is an immensely powerful blast of high-energy light thought to be generated by a collapsing star in a distant galaxy, but what…

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Moving data to a new PC

Mark Lavender’s Vista laptop has run out of hard drive space. How can he move stuff to a new model running Windows 7?I am running a laptop with Microsoft Vista. I replaced the original hard drive with a bigger one, but that is nearly full. If I were to buy a new laptop with an [...]

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James Bond 007: Blood Stone review

PS3/Xbox 360/DS/PC; £29.99-£49.99; cert 16+; Bizarre Creations/ActivisionOh. Oh dear. In the same week that nostalgia buffs finally get their hands on the Wii (and DS) revamp of GoldenEye – the first-person shooter that pretty much started it all – the rest of the gaming world has to rely on Blood Stone for their Bond-related jollies. [...]

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Asustek to join tablet parade with new models in January

Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc is set to start selling its first tablet computers in January next year, joining other tech rivals to compete with Apple Inc in the fast-growing market.

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Facebook: Conquering the world

Facebook’s head of mobile business, Henri Moissinac, gave some tantalising insights into the firm’s mobile aspirations when I interviewed him at the Planet of the Apps conference in London yesterday. At one point he described Facebook’s very telling vision of the direction of consumer web behaviour, saying that “people used to search the web but [...]

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Holographics flicker into life in Arizona

Long anticipated by science fiction, real-time holographic communication and ‘telepresence’ are finally within our graspIn Star Wars, Princess Leia records a 3D hologram of herself appealing for help from the Rebel Alliance in her epic battle against the Empire. The Emperor himself projects holographic messages to his henchman, Darth Vader. And, very soon, you too [...]

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U.S. Cellular will also pick up Samsung Galaxy Tab

Honestly, the carriers waiting to offer the Galaxy Tab may soon number to more than we can count on our fingers and toes put together. U.S. Cellular is also set to join the now not-so-exclusive band…

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harman kardon HKTS 60 boxed up for the home theater system

Harman Kardon has more to offer than just the harman kardon HD 990 and HK 990 solutions we reported today. The newly launched harman kardon HKTS 60 system includes a 200W-powered 8” subwoofer, four…

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Kindle Books to arrive on Windows Phone 7 via upcoming Amazon app

eBooks are not just staying put on eReaders anymore. The forthcoming Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 will allow users to ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ on any Kindle, PC, Mac, iPad, iPod touch,…

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Jambox is boombox reborn with Bluetooth

Aliph, the San Francisco company that brought style and better sound quality to Bluetooth headsets with its Jawbone series, has reinvented the boombox with the launch of its second major product.
The Jambox is a small, wireless speaker, with a minimali…

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How I Got a Do-Follow Backlink from a PR 10 Domain

So you are probably reading this post title thinking that this is too good to be true. Well it’s not! And I will prove it… Back in March of 2009, I came across a regular column on CNN: Small Business, called Website Remedies. This column…

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The Google Analytics Metrics That Help You To Monitor The SEO Progress And Also Calculate The ROI

Google Analytics cannot be ignored by any SEO or for that matter any web marketing professional. Google introduces this application which is offered for free by Google as – “ Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that g…

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