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Ultrabooks Buying Guide: Purchase an Ultrathin Laptop Now or Later? With superthin Ultrabooks available now and another wave expected in the next few months, here's how to decide which svelte laptop to buy--and when to grab it.
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Kindle Fire Hack Installs Ice Cream Sandwich A hacker has released what is being dubbed as a pre-alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Kindle Fire. The hack is still a little buggy.
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Razor-qt: A New Linux Desktop Alternative Similar to KDE, this Qt-based desktop environment offers Linux users a new open source choice.
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Mozilla's Three Big Bets to Keep the Web Open Google's latest agreement with Mozilla will ironically fund three new areas of competition between Google and Mozilla.
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Sony Releases PlayStation Vita Bug Fix Before U.S. Launch Users have reported various crashes and gameplay lag, as well as sudden device freezes.
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GoDaddy, Rival Trade Accusations Over Domain Name Transfers Namecheap had accused GoDaddy of delaying domain transfers to discourage its customers from leaving the service.
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Dazzlepod Offers Stratfor Customers a Way to Check on Anonymous Hack A website allows Stratfor customers to determine whether their e-mail addresses were compromised in the data breach.
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Uncovering Tech's Most Peculiar Product Codenames Tech companies go to painstaking lengths to keep new products confidential with "secret" product codenames. Here's an insider's look at some of the most unusual codenames.
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Spire Program Ports Siri to Jailbroken iOS Devices Spire is not burdened by copyright issues, according to its developer, and appears to be free of piracy.
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5 Business Tech Resolutions for 2012 You can scramble to keep up with technology, or you can use technology to give your business a strategic advantage over your rivals. You decide.
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Official Zelda Timeline Revealed: A Link to the Past and the Future and the Other Future Nintendo has published an official Zelda timeline that ties all the games together using a convoluted time travel story. But even though it's canon, is it actually any good?
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Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and Others to Set up LTE Chip Joint Venture NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile...
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This Portable GameCube is What We Really Wanted For Christmas Another handheld take on the Nintendo GameCube has debuted in the underground modding community, and it even comes with its own music video.
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The Cloud, Day 19: IT Department Included Yes, the 30 Days With the Cloud saga continues. After a bit of a holiday hiatus, the series is back in gear and taking a look at the backend support that comes with using cloud services.
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How 4G Will Change the Way We Drive When automakers and wireless providers finally figure out how to develop and sell a 4G-connected car, our whole relationship with cars will change.
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PCWorld's Favorite Downloads of 2011 At the end of another year, PCWorld reviewers name downloads and Web programs we liked so much we just kept on using them.
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