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Is the PlayStation 3 More Popular than the Nintendo Wii?
Product Reviews - 1 hour ago
The Sony PlayStation 3 games console aims at a totally different gamer than the Nintendo Wii but today PS3 Daily ask the question “Is the PlayStation 3 More Popular than the Nintendo Wii?
A preview of the E3 game convention Dallas Morning News
Game console sales in slo-mo San Jose Mercury News
Gamasutra - GameSpot - InformationWeek - BetaNews
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BBC News
Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears
Reuters - 3 hours ago
By Kenneth Li and Eric Auchard NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A US judge's order to Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc (VIAb.
• YouTube Ordered To Release User Data Washington Post
Viacom vs. YouTube: Beyond Privacy BusinessWeek
InternetNews.com - Los Angeles Times - San Jose Mercury News - San Francisco Chronicle
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OverTheLimit.info
Firefox 3 Boosts Browser's Market Share Over 19%
InformationWeek - 7 hours ago
Gains came mostly from users upgrading from Firefox 2, while only a small portion came at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Firefox Users Most Secure on Internet, Study Reveals CRN
Does Your Browser Need an Expiration Date? PC Magazine
Computerworld - BetaNews - Inquirer - TechNewsWorld
all 146 news articles

Washington Post
More drunken driving arrests, fewer fatalities so far this holiday ...
San Jose Mercury News - 11 hours ago
More people have been arrested statewide for driving under the influence and less fatal crashes occurred the first day of this year's holiday weekend than in 2007, according to the California Highway Patrol.
CHP July 4th holiday stats so far San Diego Union Tribune
CHP urges travelers to play it safe this weekend Times-Standard
Charlotte Observer - The Associated Press - San Francisco Chronicle - KOGO
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ABC News
Microsoft Hopes Office Subscription Plan Will Counter Free Software
InformationWeek - 12 hours ago
Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor to help it fend off threats from Google, IBM, and others that are offering free desktop productivity suites.
Microsoft to Offer Office, Security Suite Subscription For $70 a Year DailyTech
Microsoft Equipt: The beginning of the next-generation of Microsoft TG Daily
CNET News - CRN - Reuters - Wall Street Journal
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CNET News
Sony Wants to Make Blu-Ray More Interactive.
X-bit Labs - 7 hours ago
by Anton Shilov Just in case customers were sure that Blu-ray disc (BD) profile 2.0 was the final one for the format, Sony Corp. said that it would be glad to add further features would add features that will further differentiate Blu-ray from DVD, ...
Sony's Stan Glasgow talks TVs, Blu-ray CNET News
Toshiba Doesn’t Give In, Might Add Internet Connectivity To DVD ... eFluxMedia
Financial Times - RedOrbit - Television Week - Hard OCP
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dBTechno
AT&T finalizes pricing plans for iPhone 3G
Afterdawn.com - 4 hours ago
A week before its US launch on July 11th, AT&T has finally announced the finalization of its pricing plans for the upcoming iPhone 3G.
AT&T rolls out new iPhone plan VNUNet.com
What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th? ZDNet
Ars Technica - CNET News - InformationWeek - CRN
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The Money Times
MSFT’s acquisition of Powerset is not about search
ZDNet - 13 hours ago
The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants’ search capabilities.
Microsoft’s growing threat Fort Worth Star Telegram
Powerset Grab Shows Microsoft's Commitment To Search InformationWeek
ReadWriteWeb - Inquirer - Mediapost.com - eFluxMedia
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Digitaltrends.com
Apple cuts price of high-end SSD MacBook Air by $500
Computerworld - 14 hours ago
By Gregg Keizer July 4, 2008 (Computerworld) Apple Inc. has quietly reduced the price of its most expensive notebook by $500, cutting the cost of the upper-end MacBook Air to $2598.
Apple Drops Price Of MacBook Air InformationWeek
Apple slices $500 off its price for MacBook Air Los Angeles Times
CNNMoney.com - TechSpot - Digitaltrends.com - Denver Post
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China Daily
First Results From Messenger's Mercury Flyby
Slashdot - 14 hours ago
Several readers noted the special section in Science, published today, with results from Messenger's flyby of Mercury last January.
Smallest planet shrinks in size BBC News
Mercury Revealed: Smallest Planet Is Further Shrinking eFluxMedia
Los Angeles Times - Baltimore Sun - Examiner.com - dBTechno
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New Survey: Vista Cleans Mac OSX's Clock
PC World - 40 minutes ago
Apple fans have made much of the fact that the newest figures from Net Applications show that Apple's share of the operating system market has jumped almost 32% in the past year.
Study claims Windows usage market share could fall below 90% soon TG Daily
Mac's Market Share and the Cascade Failure of Windows The Mac Observer
Newmobilecomputing.com - OS News
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dBTechno
2K Games Has Four Devs Working On PS3 Bioshock
ChattahBox - 1 hour ago
Washington (ChattahBox) - 2K Games, the publisher of Bioshock, has revealed that they have four different developers working on the PS3 version of the game.
PS3 BioShock goes to Digital Extremes GameSpot
BioShock PS3 Being Ported by Four Studios Shacknews
Gamasutra - Next Generation - G4 TV - CVG Online
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eFluxMedia
Release Date For Midnight Club: Los Angeles Changed Again
eFluxMedia - 19 hours ago
By Dee Chisamera In March this year, Rockstar Games, a subsidiary of Take Two, moved the released date of Midnight Club: Los Angeles for PS3 and Xbox 360 for this September, but it seems like the developer is once more unable to deliver, ...
Midnight Club stalls again GameSpot
Midnight Club: LA resurfaces, looks ace CVG Online
1UP.com - Wired Blogs - Monsters and Critics.com - I4U
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Ontario Now
Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy
New York Times - 19 hours ago
By Saul Hansell The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home page, with a link to the company’s privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California ...
Google Bows to Pressure, Adds 'Privacy' Link to Home Page PC World
Ending tussle, Google adds privacy link to home page Los Angeles Times
Search Engine Land - TechCrunch - eFluxMedia - Digitaltrends.com
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ChattahBox
Study: Price, Not Availability Keeping Dial-Up Users From Broadband
AHN - 21 hours ago
New York, NY (AHN) - With broadband Internet in more than half the nations home, a new survey indicates most dial-up users remain with the slower technology by choice, rather than lack of availability.
Home Broadband Adoption Stalls Among Some Americans InformationWeek
Study: US broadband access up overall, but down among the poor BetaNews
InternetNews.com - Ars Technica - TechNewsWorld - VNUNet.com
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eFluxMedia
Teen Arrested for 'Cruelty to Child' Charge
ABC News - 22 hours ago
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES The muffled cries of an 8-month-old baby end a chilling YouTube video that has shocked viewers and resulted in the arrest of a teenager who wanted to show the world how "a baby can fly.
Shocking Baby Launch Video Lands Teen Behind Bars FOXNews
Teacher knew to blow whistle after seeing video WALB-TV
eFluxMedia - WJBF-TV - Tom's Hardware Guide - Albany Herald On-line
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ABC News
Where the iPhone Failed
BusinessWeek - Jul 3, 2008
In one sense, next week’s launch of the 3G iPhone marks a significant defeat for Apple. Of course, the original iPhone was a huge success in the US and the new version will not only boost sales at home but help Apple become a significant player in the ...
AT&T Stores To Open Early July 10 For 3G Apple iPhone CRN
Early iPhone adopter on fence about new one Seattle Times
VNUNet.com - Washington Post - Bizjournals.com - Ars Technica
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ABC News
Celebrity Passport Records Popular
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
By Glenn Kessler Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found.
US weak on preventing passport snooping Reuters
Passports of Rich & Famous on View ABC News
The Associated Press - CNN - McClatchy Washington Bureau - Nextgov
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eFluxMedia
Second Viva Pinata bash starts Sept. 2
GameSpot - 20 hours ago
Microsoft confirms North American street date for Rare's Xbox 360-exclusive party favor breeding sim; UK gamers to receive title Sept.
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise given a release date Xboxic
Viva Piñata 2 Scheduled For September 2 eFluxMedia
Shacknews - CVG Online - MundoRare
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CNET News
Netflix box by Roku to get more content providers
BetaNews - Jul 3, 2008
By Tim Conneally, BetaNews Released several months ago as a part of Netflix's increasing emphasis on all-digital content delivery, the Netflix set top box by Roku will soon be streaming content from other providers.
Netflix bringing more content providers to Roku box Afterdawn.com
Roku provides Netflix with content lifeline The Tech Herald
Wired News - CNET News - VentureBeat - Forbes
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