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Keyboard dock, other iPad accessories will be MIA on April 3
The launch of the WiFi iPad is only a couple weeks away, but only two of the advertised accessories will be available on that day. The rest have been delayed until May, and one seems to be missing from the store altogether.
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Owe Someone Money? Just Bump Your Phones
PayPal's new iPhone application promises to make it easier to exchange money without cash or checks.
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Death and social media: what happens to your life online?
When someone dies, what becomes of their user accounts and profile? Ars examines the policies of some of the most popular social media services to see how and under what circumstances friends or family can access (or delete) a deceased user's account.
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Bloggers Turn to New Branded Viewer to Embed Documents
Web publishing startup DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers.
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Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 Shed Beta Tag-See [vid]
Check out a video introducing Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 Now.If you're a user of Opera Mini, chances are you've already switched from Opera Mini 4.2 to Opera Mini 5, .................................
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Report: Facebook Beats Google For Web's Most-Visited Site
It's official -- playing Farmville and tagging friends in photos (and consequently untagging embarrassing photos of yourself from your friends' photos) has become more popular than actually trying to find things on the internet.
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Nexus One is a Complete Flop Compared to iPhone/Droid
Flurry compares sales of Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid over their first 74 days, in which Apple sold 1 million units.
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Platform Preview gives Web developers first taste of IE9
Microsoft has released the Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview for Web developers to start playing around with Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft is promising to update it approximately every eight weeks with the latest IE9 builds.
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Netflix Watch Instantly streams to Windows Phone 7 Series!
We just got a quick at Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series, one of the third-party apps Microsoft's showing off here at MIX10, and it looks... well, very Netflixy -- it's red to the bone. Unlike other mobile Netflix apps, this one's got Watch Instantly support and it looks great -- a real testament to the capabilities Microsoft's slinging.
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Google appears to drop censorship in China
Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.
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Twitter announces @anywhere platform for websites
Twitter has announced its '@anywhere' platform for websites,which allows site visitors to Tweet and follow from sites including Digg, Amazon and eBay.
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It's Time For One Data Plan to Rule All Our Gadgets
If you buy a 3G iPad, you'll be able to purchase data, month by month, from AT&T. Neat! But you already pay for unlimited data access on your iPhone, also from AT&T. So why not have one plan, for everything?
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Eye Popping Pics of Cyborg Animals from Photoshop Contest
The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could create the coolest robotic animals on the web.
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Secret Document Calls Wikileaks ‘Threat’ to U.S. Army
Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site.
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FCC Tasks ISPs To Put The Pedal To The Metal At 100Mb
We're talking about a policy that would task ISPs with putting 100Mbps speeds in place at 100 million American homes within the next decade. Broadband providers are concerned with the cost associated with the FCC's proposal, but should they be? According to ABI Research, global broadband service revenue is expected to exceed $210 billion in 2014.
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Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson
At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.
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Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released
The Amarok team is proud to announce the release of Amarok 2.3.0.It brings many goodies like a new toolbar and a new more integratedfile browser.
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Windows Phone 7 apps have to be approved by Microsoft
We just got out of a meeting with Microsoft's Todd Higgs, who dropped a little bombshell on us: the only official way to get apps on a Windows Phone 7 Series device will be to download them from Windows Phone Marketplace.
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Dead iPad battery? Apple not replacing, just sends new iPad!
Check out the company's opening line: "If your iPad requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee." Hear that? REPLACE. Better back up your iPad data before sending off into the land of no return!
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Google CEO: Social Information Will Produce Better Decisions
Google's chief executive looks forward to a revolution in video conferencing and discusses augmented reality applications. He also discusses the possibilities of web once the standard is raised to 4G.
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