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The Blockbuster Set-top Box Has Arrived (PC World)
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PC World - Blockbuster has officially entered the "battle of the boxes" with the launch of its new set-top box yesterday. The box will serve movies to TVs over the Internet and is going against Netflix's set-top box solutions (Xbox, Roku...
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Nokia to Pull out of Japanese Handset Market (PC World)
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PC World - The world's largest cell phone maker is pulling out of one of the world's biggest cellular markets. Nokia said on Thursday that it will stop developing handsets for NTT DoCoMo and Softbank Mobile, effectively ending a push tha...
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Cartoon Network Game "Ben 10" Tops 2.5 Million Sales (PC World)
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PC World - If you've never heard of Ben 10: Protector of Earth, welcome to the club. If I said "Steven Seagle," that might raise some eyebrows, except that I mean Steven T. Seagle, the American comics, TV, film, theater, video game, and ...
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Estonian ISP Cuts off Control Servers for Srizbi Botnet (PC World)
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PC World - An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts.
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Indians See Mobile Phones as a Necessity in Economic Crisis (PC World)
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PC World - India's mobile services market continues to be buoyant, despite the global economic slowdown that has hit the Indian economy.
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Mumbai Terrorism, Worm Warning, Holiday Woe (PC World)
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PC World - A wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai late Wednesday dominated the news this week, with bloggers and people using Twitter helping to get information to families and friends of those affected. Multinational tech...
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HTC's Real IPhone Rival Stands Up: the Touch HD (PC World)
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PC World - High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of smartphones that use Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, launched the Touch HD handset in Taipei on Wednesday, a 3.8-inch touchscreen mobile phone that more closely match...
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UK Bans Apple 3G IPhone Advertisement (PC World)
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PC World - The U.K.'s advertising regulator banned a video advertisement for Apple's 3G iPhone, saying Wednesday that the ad exaggerates the phone's speed and is misleading.
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Used PCs Sought for Windows XP (PC World)
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PC World - Some used PCs are being purchased not for the hardware but because people want to get their hands on a copy of Windows XP, according to industry analysts and hardware suppliers.
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In-Flight Wi-Fi Aboard the Virgin Party Plane (PC World)
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PC World - On a flight from San Francisco to San Francisco that seemed loosely based on the Snoop Dogg film Soul Plane, Virgin America demoed its Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service this past weekend amid a cabin full of Web celebrities. (And, ...
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Wall Street Beat: Clouds Loom for IT Despite Holiday Break (PC World)
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PC World - The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is bringing momentary relief to weary IT investors, but forecasts of flat sales or absolute declines for semiconductors, mobile devices and online commerce mean that it will be a while before the ...
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EFF Berates Apple Over Open-source ITunes Project (PC World)
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PC World - Apple's attempt to quash an effort to help the latest iPods and iPhones work with non-Apple software such as the Linux operating system is out of line, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday.
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How Microsoft plans to make its mark in CRM (CNET)
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CNET - Microsoft Dynamics CRM has become a key product for the company, according to CRM division general manager Brad Wilson--and it's an area the software maker plans to invest in further.
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Wii Sales Pass 7 Million Units in Japan (PC World)
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PC World - As the second anniversary of the launch of Nintendo's Wii approaches sales of the console have passed the 7 million mark, according to figures released on Wednesday.
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Could it be a Blue Christmas for Blu-ray? (PC World)
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PC World - This holiday buying season is going to be the first big market challenge for Blu-ray. This will be Blu-ray's first holiday season as the unquestioned HD format leader, but with the economy in the state that it is, will it be a...
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