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Amazon's latest Prime gambit: Kindle book lending

The Kindle lending program may just be one part of the kitchen sink Amazon plans to toss into its Prime subscription service.

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Gaining a Web 2.0 Presence Quickly and Easily

Adding a web 2.0 presence to your company will bring you closer to your audience and offer a more interactive, dynamic experience. In this short video, you'll learn how to develop and implement a web 2.0 presence quickly and easily.

'Batterygate': Apple's deathly silence, more transparency needed?

Apple finally made contact with the outside world over the battery bug in iOS 5. Issues over the company's silence and transparency have been called into question.

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HP doubles down on business tablets with $699 Windows-powered Slate 2

Like Dell, HP is hoping that is can compete better with the iPad in a corporate setting, rather than on consumer store shelves. It's just announced an updated version of its Slate business tablet that runs Windows 7 and features a slew of improvements.

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New House of Representatives bill may strangle the Internet or nerf the First Amendment

If you love your Internet, you must read this article. Congress is once again mucking around with our rights, and it ain't good.

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How HP doomed the TouchPad to failure

The HP TouchPad was one of the shortest-lived mobile products ever produced. HP doomed the TouchPad to failure, either intentionally or through sheer incompetence.

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ARM's big (and little) plans to go beyond smartphones

ARM already owns smartphones and tablets, but the company has even bigger things in mind. At its annual developer conference last week, ARM and its customers talked up plans to push the low-power...

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EU and U.S. in first joint cyber security stress-test exercise

The EU and U.S. will today stage a joint cyber security stress-test, to strengthen international critical infrastructure.

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How Apple's Siri really works

How does Apple's Siri really work? A SmartPlanet article lays out how voice recognition on a smartphone really works, step by step.

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Will Google's blind faith in the algorithm doom its future?

Google search has been having a tough year. It's Panda update has had a difficult time targeting content farms and has accidentally affected a lot of good stuff.

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The top iPhone 4S accessories (photos)

So your shiny new iPhone 4S finally arrived. Now it's time to outfit it with some killer accessories, from cases and chargers to headsets and speaker docks.

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Verizon's 4G/LTE Motorola Droid Razr arrives November 10

The ultra-thin Motorola Droid Razr is coming to Verizon, but will you be able to tell the 4G/LTE phone from its slightly older brother, the Droid Bionic?

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News & Blogs

 

British MPs to mobile operators: 'Stop fighting over 4G auction'

 

Microsoft: Hey, we're supporting Apple's iOS, too

 

Judge allows Sprint suit against AT&T, T-Mobile merger

 

Does information technology create or destroy jobs? Or is this even the wrong question?

 

Smartphone sales surge with younger demographics (survey)

 

EPEAT-registered green IT gear doubled in past 12 months

 

Kodak issues panic warning over digital camera sales slump

 

HP looks to set new standard for datacenter density

 

German regulators accuse Facebook of tracking users' cancelled accounts

 

Apple to developers: Sandbox those Mac Apps



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United States CIO: Innovation is an endless resource

Speaking Tuesday at a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., the country's Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel discusses innovation in the federal IT landscape. He says cybersecurity concerns should not be used as an excuse not to innovate.

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