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The Blippy Leak: How Credit Card Numbers Got In Google A social shopping site called Blippy inadvertently got its users' credit card numbers indexed in Google. Here's how it happened.
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Lost iPhone? Get Free Beer, Anyway Lufthansa is offering a free beer--and Business Class flight to Germany--to Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the iPhone prototype in a bar.
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YouTube Opens Rental Store The video site has quietly launched a streaming rental service, after some earlier experiments.
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Nook Software Update: The Good, The Subpar The latest update to Barnes & Noble's Nook is packed with new features, but there are some things that could be improved even further.
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Facebook's Plan to Rule the Web Analysis: Deconstructing Facebook's latest gutsy moves to infiltrate and influence your life.
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Silicon Valley Cops Investigate Lost 4G iPhone Charges may be pending in the case of the iPhone that was lost in a bar and then found on a blog.
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iPad Buyer 'Banned for Life' from More Purchases Student who bought iPads for international customers who can't buy them yet says Apple cut him off.
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Rumor: Cisco Wants to Come to the Tablet Party Could Cisco be working on a tablet aimed at business users? One Irish tipster seems to think so.
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Facebook to Get More Social, McAfee Crashes PCs The travel industry wasn't the only one affected by the volcano that erupted in Iceland. Mobile-phone vendors and suppliers adjusted shipping methods to get...
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Despite Age, NASA's Hubble Telescope Is 'Cutting Edge' NASA officials say the agency's Hubble Space Telescope remains an 'enormous technical feat' 20 years after it was launched into orbit.
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World Tech Update, Gates, iPads, and the Boston Marathon Bill Gates advocates for nuclear energy, iPads go on sale in Taiwan, and technology runs the Boston Marathon.
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Google Attempts to Lure Mac Users to Chrome Googles promises that Chrome is a faster way to browse the Web than with Safari or Firefox.
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Microsoft Yanks Back April Patch for Windows 2000 Microsoft retracts fix for Windows 2000 bug after finding 'quality issues,' but the company plans to reissue patch next week.
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Study: Net Neutrality Rules Would Cost Telecom Jobs A study suggests net neutrality rules would cost broadband industry jobs.
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The Blippy Leak: How Credit Card Numbers Got In Google A social shopping site called Blippy inadvertently got its users' credit card numbers indexed in Google. Here's how it happened.
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Lost iPhone? Get Free Beer, Anyway Lufthansa is offering a free beer--and Business Class flight to Germany--to Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the iPhone prototype in a bar.
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