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Google milks animated doodle mystery on Twitter (AP)
Date/Time: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:55:52 GMT
AP - For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.
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Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger (AP)
Date/Time: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:29:09 GMT

AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.

Craigslist urged to drop adult services worldwide (AP)
Date/Time: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:46:42 GMT
AP - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and national nonprofit organizations said Tuesday they want Craigslist to be "a model for good policy" and officially get rid of its adult services section globally.
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Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson)
Date/Time: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:19:43 GMT
Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out.
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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson)
Date/Time: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:58:20 GMT
Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research.
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Apple releases Safari updates (Macworld.com)
Date/Time: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:39:00 GMT
Macworld.com - On Tuesday Apple issued minor updates to its Safari Web browser with “improvements to compatibility and security”: Safari 5.0.2 for Leopard and Snow Leopard (OS X 10.5.8 or later) or Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) and Safari 4.1.2 for Tiger (OS X 10.4.11).
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HP sues ex-CEO Hurd over new job at rival Oracle (AP)
Date/Time: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:33:52 GMT

AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. is suing Mark Hurd, the chief executive it ousted last month, to stop him from taking a top job at rival Oracle Corp.

Android vs. IPhone Is No Easy Call (PC World)
Date/Time: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:50:00 GMT
PC World - Google's Android mobile operating system proved a formidable rival to the wildly popular iPhone in a recent real-world test.
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Red Bend Buys VirtualLogix for Mobile Virtualization (PC World)
Date/Time: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:00:15 GMT
PC World - Red Bend, a mobile software management company, has acquired VirtualLogix to stake its claim in the emerging field of mobile virtualization.
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Former State Department official to head 'Google Ideas' (AFP)
Date/Time: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:56:48 GMT

AFP - A former State Department official credited with helping bring social networking and other Web 2.0 tools to US diplomacy has been tapped to head a new division at Google called "Google Ideas."