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June 26, 2011
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* Our Top Stories
For Wi-Fi, PCs and Macs are Now a Minority
Tablets and mobile devices rule the Wi-Fi networks.
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LulzSec Says Goodbye with New Data Dump
In what it says is its final act of mayhem, hacker group LulzSec
publicly unloaded a trove of documents containing a significant
amount of compressed data.
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Managing Applications Is Like Managing a Baseball Team
We're three months into the Major League Baseball season and the
Philadelphia Phillies have the best record in baseball. The
Houston Astros have the worst.
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Cyberthugs, Run as Fast as You Can: FBI Is On a Victorious Roll
The FBI has come out with cyberguns blazing, blowing away bad
guys in cyberspace, and scoring major white hat wins.
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Game Over: Five Reasons the iPhone 5 Will Dominate
When the iPhone 5 finally arrives, it will be like 2007 all over
again, and smartphone rivals will be left scrambling and trying
to catch up to Apple's dominance.
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Mozilla Mulls Firefox 3.6 Retirement, Too
Mozilla is planning to retire Firefox 3.6 from support, but won't
put the 18-month-old browser out to pasture until August at the
earliest.
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The 10 Best Nintendo 3DS Games
Nintendo's 3DS line-up is finally starting to show some teeth, as
Zelda 3D and Dead or Alive sky-rocket to the front of our
countdown. Let's count down to Number 1.
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Sony Hacker Said to Land Facebook Job
George Hotz, the hacker who pioneered jailbreaking the iPhone and
was sued by Sony after publishing the PlayStation 3's root keys,
reportedly has a job at Facebook.
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Google Fights Perception it Doesn't do Enough to Support Gays
For Gay Pride month this year, search terms such as gay, lesbian
or transgender appear with a rainbow swooping down from and
curling around the search bar.
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Is Microsoft Blowing Smoke When It Says It Won't Be Hurt By the
Cloud?
Does cloud computing represent a big opportunity for Microsoft,
rather than a threat?
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Orlando Tries out 600 Chromebooks
The city of Orlando, Fla. has deployed 600 Chromebooks to
employees as part of a pilot project and the early verdict is
that they're low maintenance devices.
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iPhone 5: Weekly Rumor Roll-up
The summer solstice has passed and the iOSsphere is heating up
with new and newly recycled iPhone 5 rumors.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 25: Tracking Personal Finances
One of the things I rely on my PC for is managing my personal
finances, so I need to find a tool for Ubuntu Linux that can
replace the Quicken software I use in Windows.
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LulzSec Calls It Quits After 50 Days of 'mayhem'
The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its
campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites
and that it was time for it to...
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/2861919/65384175/215281/0/
Testing Tablet Displays and The Future of Digital Photography On
PCWorld Podcast #118
We talk the dark side of tablet displays and the potential for
Lytro's "light field" digital camera technology to revolutionize
digital photography in this week's episode of the PCWorld
Podcast.
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Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2011
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For Wi-Fi, PCs and Macs are Now a Minority
Tablets and mobile devices rule the Wi-Fi networks.
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LulzSec Says Goodbye with New Data Dump
In what it says is its final act of mayhem, hacker group LulzSec
publicly unloaded a trove of documents containing a significant
amount of compressed data.
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