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• Gartner lays out Top 10 strategic technologies
  Kathryn Edwards
  Nov 20 2009

  At this week's Gartner Symposium in Sydney, the analyst firm presented its top 10 strategic technologies for 2010. Gartner senior analyst and mobile guru, Nick Jones, presented the strategic ...

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• Torture tests: Stylus Tough 8000 camera and XP3 Quest phone
  Chris Holt and Sarah Jacobsson
  Nov 20 2009

  The Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 point-and-shoot camera and the Sonim XP3 Quest rugged phone are supposed to be tough. How tough? We decided to find out. In this video, we take the Olympus camera and ...

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• AT&T's Anti-Verizon Ad Is a Stinker
  Jared Newman
  Nov 20 2009

  For some reason, Luke Wilson is taking AT&T's side in the 3G coverage wars, appearing in a new ad (see video below) that retaliates against Verizon Wireless' stinging assault. The ad arrived ...

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• Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and advertising is coming soon
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 20 2009

  Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I’m taking some notes as we go. The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more than $4 million a year, but ...

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• Got Extra USB Drives? Updated Pogoplug Puts Them to Use
  David Coursey
  Nov 20 2009

  Have some extra USB hard drives you'd like to put to a good use? How using them to create an Internet storage cloud for your company, yourself, or your family? Though marketed primarily as a ...

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• Five Reasons the Google Chrome OS will Flop
  Tony Bradley
  Nov 20 2009

  Yesterday Google hosted a press event at its Mountain View campus to reveal a first glimpse at the Chrome OS. The excitement around the operating system has led to rampant rumors and speculation, ...

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• Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed
  Jared Newman
  Nov 20 2009

  Google's Chrome OS doesn't signal the apocalypse for Apple and Microsoft, but that doesn't mean the operating system won't succeed when it arrives next year. Just like the Chrome Web browser, ...

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• Happiness on Facebook Cuts Canadian Woman's Health Care
  Brennon Slattery
  Nov 20 2009

  Facebook can be a dangerous beast. As social media evolves -- and the freedom of the Internet diminishes our self-censorship -- many have run into situations where Facebook has landed them in ...

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• Ballmer: Windows 7 Sales 'Fantastic'
  David Coursey
  Nov 20 2009

  Excitable Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer actually had something to be excited about at yesterday's shareholder meeting, where he announced that Windows 7 sales are "fantastic." "Since launch, we've ...

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• Google Adds Captions to YouTube Search
  Jacqueline Emigh
  Nov 20 2009

  In a step to make YouTube videos more accessible to deaf people as well as to anyone else searching for videos online, Google has launched an automatic video captioning service. Captioned videos are ...

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