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Devo on the fate of the world--and Chatroulette (Q&A)

6 hours 5 min ago
At SXSWi, two band members tell CNET that Chatroulette is a natural home for Devo and note that the Net is a lot cheaper than TV for promoting a big project.
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Devo 2.0, the Internet start-up--take it seriously

6 hours 5 min ago
Devo's presentation at SXSWi was a no-doubt-about it business pitch, yet it was so silly that people were nearly falling out of their seats.
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Mobile apps market to reach $17.5 billion by 2012

6 hours 33 min ago
Worldwide demand for applications on the go is set to explode, according to a new report.
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Start-up Tendril pursues 'TiVo of thermostats'

6 hours 35 min ago
Tendril is designing a home energy system aimed at people who aren't tech-savvy or willing to work hard on energy efficiency.
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Behind Bing's blue links

6 hours 35 min ago
It turns out there's a reason why Microsoft went with the shade of blue it did for links on its search engine--an $80 million reason.
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IT pros happy with enterprise software support

6 hours 50 min ago
Overall, they're very satisfied with support services offered by enterprise software vendors, says IDC, with HP rated tops, followed by Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM.
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Bing Maps adds a telescopic lens

7 hours 5 min ago
Users of Microsoft's mapping service can now "look up" and see what the stars look like from any vantage point on the globe.
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Google making it easier to leave Exchange

7 hours 5 min ago
Google's bid to get businesses on its cloud computing office productivity software has new weapon: a tool for making the Exchange migration easier.
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Microsoft says it decimated Waledac botnet

7 hours 11 min ago
The company has said that thousands of bots are no longer receiving commands and attributed it to earlier legal action.
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Teen wins $100,000 Intel science award

7 hours 36 min ago
An 18-year-old from Albuquerque gets top prize in Intel's Science Talent Search for designing software to help spacecraft travel through the solar system more easily.
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Green tech on St. Patty's

8 hours 7 min ago
We have some disappointing news about the upcoming Windows Phones, Porsche launches a cell phone, and we're going to talk about green car tech since it's St. Patrick's Day after all!
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With IE9, Web video issue remains deadlocked

8 hours 43 min ago
The preview version of the Microsoft browser shows that lots of new standards will be useful on the Web. But HTML5 video is caught between two formats.
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Xobni Mobile arrives on the BlackBerry

9 hours 40 min ago
It's the first time that the contact manager has been available in any form other than a plug-in for Outlook, adding search, threading, and relevance functionality.
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Study: Businesses start to embrace Windows 7

11 hours 5 min ago
A new study shows that, far more than with Windows Vista, businesses do plan to adopt Windows 7. A decent number plan to start this year.
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Intel powers its way inside the smart grid

12 hours 5 min ago
Like Cisco and IBM, Intel shifts development toward the smart grid with home energy management systems, building automation, and high-end computing to model the electricity grid.
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TV broadcasters prepare for spectrum battle

12 hours 5 min ago
They're not happy with the National Broadband Policy, which asks them to give up 40 percent of their spectrum holdings for wireless broadband.
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Firefox 3.0 reaching end of the line

14 hours 24 min ago
Security and stability updates will finally come to an end with the release of Firefox 3.0.19, due out March 30.
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Chinese ad partners beg Google for information

16 hours 25 min ago
Twenty-seven advertising partners in China also ask Google how they will be compensated if the company goes ahead with a threatened withdrawal.
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Social network's CEO documents flight nightmare live

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 7:52pm
David Martin, the CEO of visual update site Kontain, was on the 14-hour nightmare Virgin America flight from LA to NY. He documented the worst parts live using the airline's Wi-Fi.
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Jury rules against Microsoft in patent suit

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 7:32pm
Texas jury finds that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents related to virtual private network technology, awarding plaintiff VirnetX $105 million.
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