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Apple to Sell IPhones in Wal-Mart Stores This Month — A A A — Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second mass-market retail chain to start selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone, with two store representatives saying the world's largest retailer will carry two models of the Web-surfing handset this month.
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$99 Wal-Mart iPhone Seems Unlikely — Last week, Boy Genius Report cited an unconfirmed source that Wal-Mart may begin selling a 4GB iPhone for only $99. Based on available Wal-Mart training materials and advertising (pictured above) we've received, however, it seems that this rumor is unlikely.
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The iPhone is coming to Wal-Mart and will be cheaper — by $2 — The current hottest iPhone rumor is that it will be available in Wal-Mart stores this month at a discounted price. New information suggests both of those may be true — sort of. — While various blogs have been reporting …
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Internet watchdog considers censoring Amazon US over Scorpions image — The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is reviewing its decision to list as “child pornography” the image on one version of the album “Virgin Killer” by the rock band The Scorpions hosted on Wikipedia …
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Yahoo Moves Ahead With Layoffs on Wednesday: The Sad Details — While there are layoffs all over now, as evidenced by the dismal jobs reports last week, the long-planned Yahoo (YHOO) layoffs will definitely be taking place Wednesday. — The layoff number was announced by its (eventually outgoing) …
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Link by Link: The Freedoms That Technologies Help Bring — AMONG international outrages, depriving citizens of personalized maps seems far down on the list. — Still, that was the condition put on the introduction of Apple's 3G iPhone in Egypt. The government demanded that Apple disable …
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PlayStation fiends finally get a second life — Escape the relatives this Christmas by losing yourself in Sony's long-awaited virtual world — The annual battle of the consoles that takes place every Christmas will heat up this week when Sony launches its own version of Second Life for the PlayStation 3.
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The Way We'll Watch — Coming soon: DVDs that let you chat with friends watching the same movie. Kiosks that burn movies while you wait. Super-crisp movies in theaters. And more. — Get ready for a lot more ways to catch a movie. — Hollywood studios and tech companies are rolling …
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Would You Pay Money to See Your Favorite Site Ad-Free? — Mike Vorhaus on Digital Communications — Since the early days of the web, consumers have been complaining about banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and all sorts of advertising. We constantly hear from consumers and from those who design websites …
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SugarCRM Adds Hooks to Cloud Data Services — Commercial open-source CRM (customer relationship management) vendor SugarCRM said Monday it will give customers the ability to plug in feeds from third-party data sources like the business social-networking site LinkedIn.
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Mobile data: Be careful what you wish for — The consensus around the industry seems to be that mobile data is starting to take off. Text messaging is still the leading data function, accounting for about 65% of total data revenue, according to Informa (link).
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The Online Customer Is Spending Less — For all the significance attached to Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season on the day after Thanksgiving weekend, this year's numbers were hardly inspiring. Chase Paymentech's Cyber Holiday Pulse Index reported …
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Understanding HP Lab's Twitter Research — Left: The famed HP Labs think tank in Palo Alto. — A few months ago, I spent an entire day with the HP Labs group in Palo Alto, they're responsible for the R&D and innovation that goes into their thousands of technology products on the market.
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Storefronts in Virtual Worlds Bringing in Real Money — Want to walk a mile in Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes? It'll cost you 50 cents. — In a down economy, that might be an affordable luxury to a teenager or twentysomething hanging out in a virtual world like Gaia Online …
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Netflix Arrives on TiVo Today — Hot on the heels of a system software update, and as promised, TiVo Series 3, HD, and HD XL subscribers who also partake in an unlimited Netflix plan will be able to stream a wide variety of video content at no additional cost:
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Changes in Customer Service — Steve Swasey, VP of Corporate Communications, here to let you know about some changes in Customer Service. — For those of you who watch movies instantly on your PC or Mac, you may have noticed our player is much easier to install and use now with Silverlight.
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Atari's Centipede crawls onto the iPhone — When I was growing up, the local roller rink in my hometown had the classic arcade game Centipede. I remember it well because unlike some of my friends, I was really bad at it. And now I can be bad at it once again — on my iPhone.
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HP updates desktop virtualization software — HP hopes to widen the use of its desktop virtualization products with new software that will improve video playback and allow the use of USB peripherals such as Webcams, the company announced Monday. — HP is also rebranding its desktop virtualization suite …
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Twenty 9th Graders from Georgia Take On Google — The Digiteen Dream Team, a group of passionate ninth graders who have been using Google's Lively as part of the Digiteen Project, are planning to protest this Wednesday against Google's decision to close down its virtual world environment, Lively, at the end of this year.
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Adults and Video Games — Amanda Lenhart Sydney Jones Alexandra Rankin Macgill — More than half - 53% - of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online
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Computer scientists find audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack — The Carnegie-Mellon University team behind the reCAPTCHA service is continuing to expand its effort to mix basic security and useful work. CAPTCHAs are the distorted text that helps various online services ensure that the entity opening …
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