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T-Mobile says Sidekick data may yet return — T-Mobile said late on Monday that it may yet be able to recover Sidekick users' information that it had previously thought was lost as part of a massive server failure by Microsoft's Danger subsidiary. — “Recent efforts indicate the prospects …
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T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free
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Some Sidekick users report data has been restored
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Sidekick users share their horror stories
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Why Desktop Touch Screens Don't Really Work Well For Humans — Hewlett Packard refreshed their TouchSmart line of computers today. If you're not familiar with these, imagine an iMac all in one computer that has a touch screen, and you're most of the way there.
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HP brings touch to the mass market with new laptops and desktops — Hewlett-Packard is launching a series of new products today, including some long-awaited touchscreen laptop computers. — The highlight of today's 10 product introductions are laptops with multi-touch touchscreens that work …
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Disney's Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores — LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall. — At a time when many retailers are still cutting …
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Pepsi apologises for ‘sexist’ iPhone app — Pepsi has apologised for releasing an iPhone app that encouraged men to brag about their sexual conquests. — The AMP UP Before You Score app also provided phone users with chat-up lines for “getting lucky” with 24 different types of women …
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Shared folders and more in Google Docs — Today, we are happy to announce the updates to the Google Docs docs list that we promised in July. We're rolling out these update gradually, so they should be available to everyone soon. The biggest update is the introduction of shared folders …
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Apple acknowledges Snow Leopard data loss issue — For the past month, some Mac OS X users have been reporting their personal data missing after logging into their guest accounts, and Apple now says it's working on finding a fix. — “We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases …
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Dell offers more looks at its “ultra-thin” Adamo XPS laptop — Dell on Monday offered two new product shots of its upcoming Adamo XPS" ultra-thin laptop. The highly stylized laptop, which was unveiled in early September, is thinner than the Apple's revolutionary MacBook Air—under 10mm thick.
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Apple: Finding Even More Uses for iTunes — The online media store is already one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world. Here are some other things Apple might be able to sell via the Web — As Apple closes in on the release of a device usually described as a tablet …
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Browser wars redux: The top 5 contenders duke it out — With major new versions released this year, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari vie for the browser crown. — Computerworld - For browser fans, this is the best of times. The five most popular Web browsers …
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Ooyala gets $10M more for online video — Ooyala, a video startup founded by a group of former Googlers, has raised $10 million in a third round of venture funding. — The Mountain View, Calif., company sells its technology to companies that want to include video as part of their web content.
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Tim Berners-Lee Looks Back: the “//” in Web Addresses Was Unnecessary — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that the double slash, the “//” after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary.
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How Google Is Trying To Hold Up The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — You didn't think Google was going to take the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal lying down, did you? — The Mountain View, Calif.-based giant hasn't taken an official position on the proposed deal …
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Next Firefox can detect computer orientation — (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET — The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you're listing to starboard—and pass that information along to applications running in the browser.
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Who needs a key? IPhone app unlocks and starts car — A California company Tuesday will announce an iPhone application and car receiver that will enable users to lock, unlock and remotely start their car with the phone rather than the car's key fob. — The Viper SmartStart is the latest example …
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Woopra Officially Exits Beta — Well, the day has finally come. It simultaneously feels like its been both forever, and just yesterday, since we started developing Woopra. Today, I'm happy to announce the beginning of Woopra General Availability! — Let's talk a little about what that means.
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Apple immune to Windows 7 impact, analyst says — Analysis shows Mac sales typically climb after Microsoft unveils a new OS — Computerworld - Microsoft's introduction of Windows 7 later this month won't cost Apple any Mac sales, a Wall Street analyst said today.
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Unemployed? Blogging? Don't Put Ads On Your Site Or You Might Lose Your Unemployment Check — For quite some time, many people credited part of the rise of blogging to the fact that many folks in the tech industry found themselves out of work in the wake of the dot com bubble bursting.
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Sweden's Internet broken by DNS mistake — Last night, a routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain .se went seriously wrong, introducing an error that made DNS lookups for all .se domain names start failing. The entire Swedish Internet effectively stopped working at this point.
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Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended — A few months ago we received questions about the scheduled Mainstream Support retirement date for Office 2004 for Mac. While most customers have upgraded to Office 2008 for Mac, some have remained on Office 2004 in order to take advantage …
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Acer's First Windows 7 Netbook: Aspire One D250 — Acer has unveiled a new version of its Aspire One netbook running Windows 7 and plans to put it on sale simultaneously with the new operating system's debut next week. — The Aspire One D250 has a 10.1-inch screen, which is the same size …
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Ubuntu Linux adds private cloud backing — Canonical's upcoming server upgrade supports the Eucalyptus project's open source system for cloud implementation using hardware and software already in place — Canonical is touting private cloud capabilities in an upgrade to its Ubuntu Linux OS being announced on Tuesday.
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