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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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• Infoaxe — a real-time search engine that doesn’t rely on Twitter
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 20 2009

  Infoaxe, which records your web history and make it searchable, just launched a public facing real-time search engine tapping the behavior of its more than 2 million users. Infoaxe is a fairly unique ...

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• You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
  Dan Tynan
  Nov 20 2009

  Vapor was in the air this week as rumors swirled around two products that exist only as pixels, not molecules: the Google Phone and the Apple Tablet. In its war over 3G ads, AT&T fired back ...

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• FCC: Internet program for deaf cheated out of millions
  Michael Cooney
  Nov 20 2009

  In court the Federal Communications Commission has charged 26 people with defrauding the agency of “tens of millions of dollars” from its program that lets people with hearing disabilities to ...

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• iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code
  Gregg Keizer
  Nov 20 2009

  iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show.The lawsuit, which was ...

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• BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Caught on Camera
  Al Sacco
  Nov 20 2009

  Here we go again; another Research In Motion (RIM) prototype device exposed on the Internetloooong before the BlackBerry-maker intended. This time around it's the upcoming BlackBerry Pearl 9100, or, ...

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• Nokia cuts research staff by up to 330 people
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 20 2009

  Mobile phone giant Nokia on Friday said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff. The changes are expected to affect up to 230 employees at Nokia's site in Oulu, Finland, ...

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