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Windows 8's Metro UI: 7 Things You May Just Hate

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Windows 8's Metro UI: 7 Things You May Just Hate The brightly colored, interactive tiles of Windows 8's Metro interface are fun and innovative. But they can also be frustrating and completely unintuitive to use.
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Google Expands Android App Size from 50MB to 4GB Android apps were free to exceed the size limit before, but developers had to host the data on their own.
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48 NASA Laptops Stolen in Two Years: A Case for Better Encryption Practices It's not only businesses that need to worry about laptop security.
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AT&T Urges Customers to Upgrade from 2G AT&T has been working to either acquire or free up more spectrum for its LTE network. It has plans to use some of its current 2G spectrum for LTE deployments.
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Report: eReader Sales Down -- Way Down Place Amazon's Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire side by side. Which display looks more dynamic and compelling?
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Admiration for Apple: What Goes Up Must Come Down? Although voted the most admired company for the fifth year in a row, Apple has had plenty of downs in its history. Is it headed for another?
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The Best Places to Sell Your Old iPad The iPad 3 may launch this week. Sell your old iPad using one of these tech buyback services.
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Adobe Patches Flash Player for Second Time in 20 Days Adobe today patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player and told IT administrators to apply the update within 30 days.
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Amazon Cuts Cloud Prices, Again Amazon's price reductions vary based on geographic location and the type of service being used.
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Downloader of 25 Billionth App Announced by Apple Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China was the person to download the 25 billionth app from the App Store, Apple has announced.
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