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Analyst: TI to Sample Chip With New Arm CPU Next Year

2 hours 38 min ago
Texas Instruments could sample an OMAP5 chip based on Arm's latest Cortex-A15 processor design next year, an analyst said on Thursday.



Texas Instruments - Arm - Central processing unit - Hardware - processor
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Users Spend More Time on Facebook, So You Should Too

3 hours 14 min ago
Facebook has surpassed Google as the online destination where users spend the majority of their time, so businesses need to embrace Facebook as well.



Google - Facebook - Online Communities - Social Networking - ComScore
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Adobe, Google on Apple's App Store Changes: 'great News'

3 hours 18 min ago
The clarified App Store guidelines and rejection review board that Apple announced on Thursday are mostly being hailed as, in the words of Martha Stewart, “a...



App Store - Google - Apple - Adobe Systems - Martha Stewart
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Agendus Calendaring, Time Management App Comes to IPad

3 hours 18 min ago
Iambic has brought its calendaring and time management application, Agendus, to the iPad. Agendus for iPad provides the same functionality and features as the...



Time management - Business - IPad - Management - Education and Training
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Can Elop Make Nokia a Smartphone Contender?

4 hours 3 min ago
Microsoft's Stephen Elop is assuming the role of Nokia CEO--taking the strength of the Nokia brand and shaping its future to compete in the smartphone market against RIM, Apple, Google, and his former employer.



Microsoft - Apple - Stephen Elop - Nokia - Google
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Android Captures No. 2 Mobile OS Spot

4 hours 15 min ago
Despite Android's quick advance, a handful of major mobile OS players will jockey for position for several years, Gartner reports.



Gartner - Android - Mobile operating system - Apple - Symbian
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10 Tips for the New iPod Nano

4 hours 47 min ago
A step-by-step introduction to the new features of Apple's revamped iPod Nano.



Apple - iPod - ipodnano - Shopping - Digital Portable Players
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Google Instant: Criticisms and Controversies

4 hours 58 min ago
Who's left out and whose livelihood is likely to change with the launch of Google's newest search technique.



Google - search - Search Engines - Companies - Google Instant
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Windows Phone 7 Expected October 11

5 hours 24 min ago
Manufacturers already have the revamped OS, and now reports say Microsoft will unveil the first Windows Phone 7 Series handsets next month.



Microsoft - Operating system - Microsoft Windows - Window Phone 7 - Apple
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Windows XP: Your Last Chance to Get it. Really.

5 hours 39 min ago
Analysis: After repeated extensions, Microsoft is planning to pull the plug on Windows XP sales in October.



Windows XP - Microsoft - Operating system - Microsoft Windows - Dell
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Discover 1.1 Adds Offline Wikipedia Pages, More Fonts

5 hours 48 min ago
Cooliris released Discover on the iPad back in July as a unique, magazine-ified interface for Wikipedia. Now Discover is back with a big update that adds a...



Wikipedia - Cooliris - IPad - Open Source - Open Content
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FaceMan Brings Effects to IPhone 4 Front-facing Camera

5 hours 48 min ago
Remember the first time you ran Photo Booth on an iSight-equipped Mac? Those endless hours of posing in front of your Mac while Photo Booth's real-time effects...



Photo Booth - IPhone - Macintosh - Apple - ISight
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Hurd Set to Speak at Oracle OpenWorld

5 hours 58 min ago
Mark Hurd will appear at Oracle OpenWorld on Sept. 20.



Oracle - Oracle Corporation - Mark Hurd - Databases - Oracle OpenWorld
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Google Plans Research Center in France

5 hours 58 min ago
Google will open a research center in France in part to allay French concerns about the company's influence on culture.



Google - France - Research - search - Search Engines
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ARM 2.5Ghz Cortex A15 Pushes Envelope of Mobile Computing Power

6 hours 18 min ago
ARM unveiled a new quad-core 2.5Ghz Cortex A15 processor with vastly improved capabilities that will revolutionize what mobile computing devices are capable of.



ARM architecture - Mobile computing - Multi-core processor - ARM - processor
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Xbox 360 Powers Ahead, but Sun Setting on Wii?

6 hours 19 min ago
Microsoft's Xbox 360 takes the top spot in hardware sales, despite overall industry slumping led by lagging Nintendo Wii and DS sales.



Microsoft - Xbox - Video game - Nintendo - Wii
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Top 5 Social Network Disorders

6 hours 24 min ago
Analysis: Beware such social media maladies as Commentitis, Twambivalence or Unrequited Twitter Love.



Social media - Social network - Online Communities - Twitter - Business
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