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iLike Debuts Full-Song Playback, with a Catch
iLike, a social music discovery service, is celebrating it has surpassed 30 million registered users today by offering a new feature: full-length song playback via Rhapsody.
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Site Claims to Sell iPhone Apps at Half Price
Apple iPhone owners hungry to install popular applications for their phones on the cheap might want to use caution when considering buying and downloading iPhone Apps from anyone besides Apple, according to numerous people expressing concern about the Web site -- iPhoneApps.
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Facebook Charges German Site is an Illegal Knock-Off
Facebook filed court papers on Friday against German social network StudiVZ for copyright infringement.
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Time Wasters: $500 Stereo Cables, Baseball Switch-Hitters, and Amazing Photos
It's a joke -- April Fools, probably -- and it's exquisite.
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AT&T; Pulls Free WiFi Offer Hours After Making It, Again
Just hours after AT&T advertised free nationwide access to AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone users today it canceled the offer saying it made a mistake.
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Facebook Beacon Watches You Online No Matter What
Originally the Facebook Beacon feature, which allowed Facebook to track your online purchases and post info on those purchases to your news feed, garnered a fair bit of controversy forcing Facebook to make the feature an opt-in only feature.
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AT&T; Lets iPhone Users Surf Its Hotspots Free, Again
UPDATE: 1pm ET
AT&T pulled the Web page that advertised free nationwide access to AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone users.
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"I'm Empty" Say's Brother's Inkjet Cartridges (But They're Not!)
"I'm out of ink. Feed me a new cartridge." That was what my Brother 640CW multifunction printer demanded recently.
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iPhone App Maker Gets Hit With Major League Cease and Desist
Major League Baseball is crying foul over an Apple iPhone App called Baseball that it says infringes on MLB trademarks.
Recent Columns
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Going Mobile with Windows Live Mesh
Microsoft's new, networked file synchronization service can keep your files in order across multiple devices.
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Have You Fixed Your Company's DNS Servers?
Here's a quick test to see if your company's DNS servers, which guide all Internet traffic, are at risk from a major flaw disclosed last week.
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Solid State Drives Accelerate into Market
Solid state drives are about to make solid improvements in price, performance, and power usage.
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Major Sites Fall Victim to Web Hijack
Here's a check to see if your site might have been invisibly rigged by this latest wave to attack visitors.
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WordPress 2.6 Supports Version Tracking, Google Gears
The latest version of the popular blogging software offers new features that make managing and editing posts easy, online and off.
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San Fran Admin Takes Over City Network
A city employee reportedly locked everyone but himself out of a new multi-million dollar city network. Here are some suggestions for protecting your company's infrastructure.
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Lenovo Offers Oops Insurance
Smaller businesses may benefit from Lenovo's new package of next-business day warranty repair, accidental laptop damage coverage, and Internet backups.
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Norton 2009 to Speed Up Malware Screening
Symantec has built more than 300 speed and performance enhancements into its forthcoming security products, now in public beta.
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Sales Reps Tapped as Most Recession-Proof
Seems counter-intuitive, but according to a ranking from a job-matching site, experienced sales reps have been in the most demand over the past eight months.
Downloads: Freeware, Shareware and Software to Buy
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SpeedUpMyPC 3
SpeedUpMyPC - the award winning utility software that ensures your PC is automatically optimized for maximum performance in just a few easy clicks.
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Ad-Aware 2008 Free
Remove spyware and protect your privacy with this popular free anti-spyware program.
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Spybot Search & Destroy
This anti-spyware program is free, provides proactive protection, and is largely effective.
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CCleaner
Remove useless files from several applications, including Microsoft apps.