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Google Wedding Planning

Google rolls out wedding planning site

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Google has launched a new site aimed to help handle some of the heavy lifting of wedding preparations.
Computing News
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AT&T begins monthly data caps for broadband Internet

AT&T's terrestrial data plans have followed in the footsteps of its mobile plans by doing away with unlimited data and adopting monthly limits.
Computing News
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Amazon (finally) apologizes for cloud services outage

Amazon has apologized for last week's catastrophic AWS outage and says it will be compensating customers with a credit on their accounts.
Computing News
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NPD: iPhone 4 remains top-selling smartphone, Android sales down in Q1

Apple, with help from Verizon, keeps its iPhone at the top of the sales charts for the first quarter of 2011. Android, meanwhile, sees its sales fall for the first time since 2009.
Mobile
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White iPhone 4 now available in Apple stores

Apple's white iPhone 4 is finally available for purchase. And Apple's VP has an explanation as to why it took so long.
Mobile
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Apple’s response to location-tracking controversy: “Apple is not tracking your iPhone”

With customers and heads of state demanding answers, Apple has issued a statement that explains why iPhones are recording location data.
Mobile
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News Corp. seeking $100 million for MySpace, bids expected this week

Six years ago News. Corp paid over half a billion dollars for MySpace. Now the company is hoping to sell the social networking site for $100 million -- and that might not be a bargain.
Computing News
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Nielsen: Android tops iPhone in desirability among consumers

According to a recent survey, Android now owns the hearts and minds of the smartphone-buying public.
Mobile
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Steve Jobs: Apple doesn’t track anyone

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has weighed in on the location-tracking controversy with a resounding denial and a finger pointed in the direction of rival Android.
Mobile
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South Korea, Europe investigating Apple over iOS location-tracking

As South Korea begins an investigation, the Wall Street Journal has revealed that 3G-enabled iOS devices continue to track and record locations even after location services are disabled.
Tablets Mobile
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U.S. Army readying Android for battle

The Army has decided - at least for now -- to use Google's Android to begin testing a smartphone framework which it hopes will be issued to soldiers by fiscal year 2013.
Mobile
Amazon AWS

Amazon experiencing troubles with cloud servers, Reddit and Quora among affected sites

An ongoing outage in Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure has crippled several popular social media sites.
Computing News
iPhone Encryption

How to encrypt your iOS device’s location data in four easy steps

With new privacy concerns raised about iPhone and iPad location data, we bring you a quick fix to help keep your backups secure.
Tablets Mobile
iPhone Tracker

iPhones and iPads secretly recording and storing users’ locations

iPhone users beware: researchers have found that your phone is tracking your movements and is secretly storing them on your computer.
Mobile
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T-Mobile brings free voice calls to Facebook

In spite of a pending sale to AT&T, T-Mobile is forging ahead by launching a new VoIP service that lets Facebook users place free calls.
Computing News
MobileMe

Apple ends MobileMe rebates, update appears to be imminent

Apple has stopped offering rebates for both MobileMe and iWork, prompting speculation that refreshes for both products are due soon.
Mobile
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Microsoft launches panoramic photo-sharing app for iOS

While it's not the first panoramic photo app to arrive for iOS, Photosynth is one of the few such apps that's free and that emphasizes photo-sharing.
Mobile News
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Google facing antitrust scrutiny in South Korea over popularity of Android

Google, already under antitrust scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe, is facing allegations of anti-competitive practices in South Korea involving the dominance of Android operating system.
Mobile
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Google now sending YouTube copyright violators back to school

Google will now make copyright violators watch a video and pass test as part of a new copyright rehabilitation program.
Computing News
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Bing makes up ground on Google, accounts for 30 percent of all searches during March

According to a new report Bing may be steadily closing the gap on Google. But can Microsoft's search engine continue to make inroads without making innovations?
Computing News
Flip Cams

Cisco planning to halt production of Flip cams, cut 550 employees

Cisco has announced that the Flip cams' days are numbered, just two years after the company paid over half a billion dollars for the product line.
Computing News
Google A Day

Google and The New York Times launch daily trivia challenge

Google has launched a new trivia game where Googling for the answers isn't just OK. It's encouraged.
Computing News
Google Street View Germany

Google mysteriously halts Street View in Germany

Google has decided to end its controversial photo mapping project in Germany, but photos already posted will remain online.
Computing News
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Study finds media addiction prevalent among college students

In an era where many refer to their phones as a "CrackBerry," a new study finds (perhaps not surprisingly) that media addiction runs high among college students.
Computing News
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Atari launches greatest hits collection for iOS

Atari has mined 100 titles from its archives and has served them up in a tidy Greatest Hits collection available in Apple's App Store.
Tablets Mobile
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Google adding malware warning system to Chrome

Google is planning a new malware warning system for Chrome 12 that will target specific files, instead of just potentially malicious websites.
Computing News
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Anonymous threatens Sony over PS3 jailbreak lawsuits

Anonymous has set its sights on Sony, claiming its lawsuits against the PS3 jailbreakers constitutes "unforgivable offense against free speech and internet freedom."
Gaming News
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PC sales off to slow start in 2011, ‘usurped’ by the iPad

A new analyst report suggests that tablet makers will have a very hard time keeping pace with Apple's iPad 2 moving into 2012.
Tablets Mobile
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Google pulls streaming music app Grooveshark from Android Market

Grooveshark still hasn't worked it out with the record labels and that may have cost it a spot in Google's Android Marketplace.
Mobile
FBI Note Coded

FBI crowdsources codebreaking to help solve murder mystery

The FBI wants the public to help it de-code two mysterious notes found on the body of murdered man.
Emerging Tech News
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Report: Google may be target of FTC antitrust investigation

Google may be soon be on the receiving end of an FTC probe which would be the tech industry's biggest such investigation since Microsoft.
Computing News
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Tickets for Apple’s WWDC selling for over $3,500 apiece on eBay

The iPad 2 isn't Apple's only hot item on eBay. Single tickets for June's WWDC are selling for double -- sometimes near triple -- their face value.
Computing
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Google launches regional domains for Tunisia and Iraq

Google continues its quest to cover 99 of the world's Internet users with the launch of google,iq and google,tn, covering the countries of Iraq and Tunisia respectively.
Computing News
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GoDaddy CEO’s elephant hunting video ignites controversy

GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons insists that his killing of an elephant in Zimbabwe was a good thing, but so far he appears to be in the minority.
Computing News
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‘Creepy’ app threatens the privacy of social network users

Creepy calls itself a 'geolocation information aggregator' and it should prove to be a hit among those with stalker tendencies.
Computing News
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Microsoft and Apple hire linguists to dispute ‘App Store’ claim

When the linguists begin weighing in, you know things are getting serious...
Computing
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Microsoft claims IE9 is the most battery-friendly Web browser

Microsoft's own study has revealed that its Internet Explorer 9 beats out the competition when it comes to energy consumption -- under certain conditions.
Computing News
New York Times Paywall

New York Times paywall proves easy to subvert

The New York Times paywall is up and running, but loopholes abound.
Computing News
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