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December 23, 2011
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Trojan Cons Victims with Fake Trial BitDefender warns of a new ransom-style Trojan that scrambles its victims' data before offering them a trial version of a fix.
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Stop SOPA! A Plea from the Inventors of the Internet Congress seems to be taking its cues from industry lobbyists when it comes to pending SOPA legislation, but hopefully it will take into consideration a letter from Internet luminaries begging it to reject this bill before it kills the thing they're ostensibly trying to protect.
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Why RIM Should Not Sell the BlackBerry Brand--and Why It Should Rumors about a potential sale of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) have been circulating for months.
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FAQ: Microsoft's New IE Auto-upgrade Scheme Explained Here are all your answers to Microsoft's new plan to auto-upgrade the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
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How Facebook Can Hurt Your Credit Rating Analysis: Bank on it -- Financial institutions are checking social media profiles to identify credit risks. It's time to ditch those deadbeat friends.
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Microsoft Lowering Its Profile at CES After 2012 Microsoft will have a keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show for the last time in 2012, although it will continue to participate in the giant...
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SOPA Hearing Delayed, Likely Until Early Next Year A hearing to debate and amend the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives has been delayed, likely until early next year.
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Ready for a New Linux Desktop? Meet Mint's 'Cinnamon' A fork of the GNOME 3 shell, this new software is meant to add another intermediate option between GNOME 2 and GNOME 3.
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6 Job-Hunting Tricks for a Web 2.0 World If you're sitting in your office right now, take a glance at the co-worker on your left and then at the co-worker on your right. Chances are one of them is looking to leave the company. Or perhaps it's you.
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AT&T Kills $39 Billion T-Mobile Deal AT&T has scrapped its plans to purchase rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA in the face of opposition from two U.S. agencies.
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A Rivalry Emerges As Apache Asserts OpenOffice Plans One day after Apache targets a first-quarter release for OpenOffice 3.4, German Team OpenOffice.org rolls out 'White Label Office 3.3.1.' Is another fork in the works?
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Why Social Tech's Real Value Is Inside the Business Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way -- and use inside the business is where the most value can be gained.
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Firefox 9 Promises Speed, Adds Support for Lion and Android Built to be as much as 30 percent faster than Firefox 8, the release also brings Mac OS X Lion support and an Android version that's optimized for tablets.
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LinkedIn Eyes Growth in Asia Pacific in 2012 Professional social networking company LinkedIn started its Singapore office about 7 months ago and is set to double its staff there next year.
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Eight Signs Your Business is Tech-Illiterate Do you still own a PDA or a pager? How's your dot-matrix printer holding up? If you have a sincere answer to those questions, it's time to upgrade.
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Microsoft Bails From CES Tech Trade Show After 2012 Microsoft today announced that next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will its last as an exhibitor.
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Inventor of SecurID: 'Windows 8 Picture Password is Fisher-Price Toy' The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token.
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House Committee Postpones Action on SOPA The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has postponed further debate on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
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Amazon's Private Clouds Get More Advanced Networking Features Amazon Web Services has introduced Elastic Network Interfaces, which are attached to instances in a private cloud to allow for more flexibility.
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Timeline: The Birth and Death of the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger In retrospect, it's not hard to see why AT&T thought its proposed $39 billion merger with T-Mobile would sail through with relatively no issues.
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