White House launches Recovery.gov
Recovery.gov, the site that will track how money from the stimulus bill is spent, went live Tuesday.
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Verizon CTO details 4G wireless deployment
Verizon's CTO talked about the company's plans to roll out its next generation network and names vendors it will use to build the new network.
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Scout launches low-priced, real-time market research
If you're comfortable doing your own thinking, you can get good market research data and sentiment analysis from Scout Labs and kiss your expensive consultants good-bye.
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ZTE debuts solar-powered phone
Created with Digicel and Intivation, the ZTE Coral-200-Solar is a sun-powered cell phone destined for emerging markets. It should be available in June.
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Google wins Street View privacy suit
Court dismisses case filed by Pittsburgh couple who claimed "mental suffering" when their house appeared on the popular map feature.
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Hulu pulls content from TV.com
NBC-News Corp. joint venture removes its programming from CBS-owned TV.com, according to sources.
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Facebook backs down on privacy terms
The CEO of the social-networking service says in a blog post that the company would return for now to its previous privacy policy.
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New service unmasks anonymous cell callers
TrapCall reveals the blocked Caller ID's phone number and, in some cases, the name and address of the caller.
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Facebook polls users on TOS update
The social network begins asking its users for their reactions to its recent terms-of-service change. The poll features live results.
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Microsoft connection looms in new Google lawsuit
TradeComet sues Google, claiming anticompetitive conduct. Maybe it's just happenstance but the company's law firm shares a history with Microsoft
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Photos: Windows Mobile 6.5 hands-on
Here's a preview of the next version of Windows Mobile, including IE Mobile 6 and Hotmail, shown off at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Get out of the Gmail loop
A recent update to a popular Firefox plug-in breaks Gmail, but fortunately the fix is simple.
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EPIC readying federal complaint over Facebook privacy policy
Privacy advocacy organization claims that the social networking service's new policy should be returned to its previous language.
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Google Docs now gives you validation
Google Documents and Spreadsheets gets a little better with a new data validation option that will keep you and your collaborators from filling in the wrong types of data.
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Piper: Q2 Mac sales on pace to decline
Based on one month of data, Mac sales could decline on a year-over-year basis for the first time since 2003 unless Apple has new products up its sleeve, according to Piper Jaffray.
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Congress may expand federal authority over energy infrastructure
Congress will soon try to address the regulatory issues that may set back the stimulus bill's attempt to jump-start the use of smart grid technology nationwide.
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Symantec debuts Norton Online Family
Norton Online Family aims to educate parents about their children's online usage, using a re-imagining of familiar parental control tools and introducing some innovative new ones.
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Earnings preview: How will HP weather the storm?
The PC makers' broad portfolio of products and services should mean a ray of sunshine for an otherwise gloomy PC market.
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Overlay.tv gets an API, labs sandbox
Overlay.tv has a new site geared towards developers. One of its first results is a YouTube uploader that lets you add overlays on top of your videos.
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How to involve enterprise IT in open source
The secret to greater involvement by enterprise IT in open-source development may well be better measurement of its benefits.
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New exploit targets IE 7 hole patched last week
Windows users are being urged to get the latest Microsoft security update or risk getting attacked via a hole in IE 7 that can be exploited to install a backdoor.
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Silicon Valley jobs dip, green tech grows
Silicon Valley jobs drop 1.3 percent in December and the region's per capita income fell last year for the first time since 2003, according to a recently released Silicon Valley economic report. But green tech jobs continued to rise.
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Freescale harvests energy from small solar panels
Chipmaker shows off a low-voltage "booster" that gets usable electricity from low-energy power sources like small solar panels, electromagnetic radiation, and waste heat.
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Bill backs payment to musicians for radio play
Songwriters get paid every time one of their songs gets played on the radio. The Performance Rights Act would do the same for the musicians who played on the recording.
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Some charges dropped against The Pirate Bay
After Swedish prosecutors drop some charges against four men accused of criminal copyright violations, a trial focuses on whether the site is making copyrighted files available illegally.
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Where will the techies go?
The recession came late to Silicon Valley, and it's now wreaking havoc on the workers who support the technology industry but don't profit much from it.
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Universal cell phone chargers coming soon
Finally, the mobile industry will provide a single cell-phone charger that will work with any phone.
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How piracy paved the way in Sweden
At least three new innovative and legal alternatives for listening to digital music have been launched in Sweden: Spotify, Tunerec, and Chilirec. It's hardly a coincidence.
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Rinspeed to debut transforming electric concept car
Swiss automaker Rinspeed will debut at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show an electric concept car that changes shape to conform to the number of passengers on board.
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Sirius XM agrees to $530 million Liberty Media stake
Troubled satellite radio company will avoid bankruptcy with loans from the cable giant.
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Vodafone snags Android-powered HTC Magic
Vodafone and HTC announce the HTC Magic at GSMA Mobile World Congress, Vodafone's first Google Android smartphone, for the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, and Italy.
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Skype strikes deal with Nokia
Skype will embed its Internet calling software and service onto Nokia phones, starting with the high-end N97 device.
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How I became a prisoner of Outlook
Right now, the one program that dictates all my other hardware and software choices is Microsoft's e-mail software, and unfortunately, that might not change for a while.
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Cisco brings Web conferencing to more smartphones
Smartphone users will soon be able to join WebEx Web conferences from their smartphones. Cisco said it has added the capability for BlackBerrys.
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Slideshow: Voice chat for free on your PC
You don't need a fistful of dollars to make an international call, just a computer with a microphone, speakers, and one of these six voice-chatting applications.
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Lance Armstrong begs twitterati to find his bike
The one-of-a-kind time trial bike of the seven-time Tour de France winner was stolen. So he immediately reached out to his Twitter followers and even offered a reward.
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TI escalates ARM (chip) race
Texas Instruments chimed in at the Mobile World Congress with a bevy of ARM processors.
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Acer introduces eight new smartphones at GSMA 2009
At a press conference at GSMA 2009, Acer introduces a whole line of Windows Mobile smartphones that will come to market in 2009.
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Omnifone rolls out music service for broadband
Service will give consumers in Europe unrestricted access to streaming songs and music videos on Macs, PCs, and television set-top boxes.
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Facebook: Relax, we won't sell your photos
After a blog highlighted revisions to Facebook's terms of service hinting that the site keeps deleted users' content and can use it at will, a debate heated up on the Web. Here's what Facebook had to say.
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Is Sprint CEO leading a comeback with new devices and 4G network?
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is optimistic about new devices and the company's 4G network.
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