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• Facebook establishes dual-class stock structure
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 24 2009

  Facebook is establishing a dual-class stock structure, a move that could help pave the way to an initial public offering in the future. The company gave no time-line for such an offering and instead ...

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• The ghost in the machine: 3 disk imaging apps
  Frank Ohlhorst
  Nov 24 2009

  Historically, performing backups has been a tedious and time-consuming process fraught with limitations. While Microsoft has improved Windows' backup functionality in general, Windows 7 still misses ...

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• In depth with Apple's Snow Leopard Server
  Ryan Faas
  Nov 24 2009

  I've worked with various versions of Apple's Mac OS X Server for nearly a decade now. Each new release has brought major advances to the company's server software in terms of overall features, ...

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• Enable momentum scrolling for Magic Mouse in 10.5
  Rob Griffiths
  Nov 24 2009

  If you happen to have a new Magic Mouse running on OS X 10.5, you may be disappointed to find that it lacks a feature you get with Snow Leopard: momentum scrolling. Momentum scrolling is the ...

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• Facebook, Mobile Phones and the Future of Shopping
  Kim S. Nash
  Nov 24 2009

  At least 22 retailers have been driven into bankruptcy protection during this recession, including RedEnvelope and Eddie Bauer, or gone out of business altogether, like Circuit City. Blockbuster, ...

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• Windows 7 passes Mac OS X in market share race
  Gregg Keizer
  Nov 24 2009

  Windows 7 passed the 5% market share milestone last weekend, which put it, if only temporarily, above the total market share of all versions of Apple's Mac OS X, a Web measurement firm said ...

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• Apple iPhone Ad Succeeds Where AT&T Fails
  Jared Newman
  Nov 24 2009

  Apple's jumping into the battle that sees Verizon Wireless and AT&T flaming each other in advertisements, but unlike AT&T's recent effort to defend itself, Apple's new pair of iPhone ads are ...

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• Senators call for transparency in copyright treaty talks
  Grant Gross
  Nov 24 2009

  Two U.S. senators have asked President Barack Obama's administration to allow the public to review and comment on a controversial international copyright treaty being negotiated largely in secret.The ...

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• IBM cat brain simulation dismissed as 'hoax' by rival scientist
  Jon Brodkin
  Nov 24 2009

  IBM's claim that it has designed the first brain simulation to exceed the scale of a cat's cortex is being dismissed as "a hoax and a PR stunt" by a rival scientist.IBM researcher Dharmendra Modha ...

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• Google's Chrome OS is a work in progress
  Preston Gralla
  Nov 24 2009

  Google released its Chrome operating system last week to a great deal of hoopla and debate -- depending on your point of view, it was either the Next Big Thing or Much Ado About Nothing.In actuality, ...

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