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Charging stations to line 'EV freeway' in Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority and Ecotality to unveil blueprint to connect three cities in Tennessee covering about 425 miles of road with public and home charging stations.
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Apple Game Center snubs iPhone 3G, first iPod Touch
The Game Center is open to most iOS-based devices, with the exception of the iPhone 3G and first-gen iPhones and iPods, Apple has revealed.
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Salesforce talks up Chatter Mobile apps
The social-networking tool, aimed at businesses, now comes in apps for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices.
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Oracle to pay Hurd $950,000 per year
Former HP CEO Mark Hurd stands to score big as co-president at Oracle. Beyond the salary, there's a potential $5 million bonus in 2011, and oodles of stock options.
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Mozilla: Now is the time for browser-based games
Firefox and other up-to-date browsers are capable of running newly complex games, Mozilla argues, launching an effort to get programmers interested.
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Are refurbished Kindles a bargain?
Amazon is selling refurbished second-generation Kindles starting at $159.99. But are they a deal?
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Buy one-get one offered for Samsung Fascinate
Verizon Wireless is introducing this Android smartphone with a buy-one, get-one-free deal.
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Reddit co-founders reunite at Hipmunk
Hipmunk, an ambitious foray into the packed travel-search market, was founded by one of Reddit's creators and has just brought the other one on as its head of marketing.
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Microsoft sends Bing back to school
The company is launching Redu, a site aimed at drawing more people into the debate over the future of U.S. education. Among its features is a Bing map displaying educational job openings.
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Microsoft aims to sharpen its CRM pitch
As it gears up to start testing a new version of its product, Redmond says it's tired of letting Marc Benioff's Salesforce.com own the conversation.
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Antivirus isn't dead--it's growing up
Despite longtime diagnoses that antivirus software is doomed, security will become a service for mobile devices, experts predict.
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Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking
Along with the security fixes, Firefox 3.6.9 gets a new feature to help Web developers reduce clickjacking risks. Also: Chrome 6 gets bug fixes.
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Norton's new Power Eraser goes free
The tool for removing aggressive malware is part of Symantec's 2011 refresh to its Norton consumer security suites.
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Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime
Survey finds China, Brazil, India, and the U.S. at top of list of countries with the most cybercrime victims.
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Report: Justin Bieber is 3 percent of Twitter
A tweet by designer Dustin Curtis suggests that a Twitter employee has confirmed to him that, at any given moment, teen phenomenon Justin Bieber uses 3 percent of Twitter's infrastructure.
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Trend Micro bets on the cloud
Trend Micro revamps its consumer-protection suites by wagering heavily on cloud-based protection, creating security suites that the company claims are faster at detection and lighter on system resources.
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Zombies to fill brains at University of Baltimore
No, really. Students getting a minor in pop culture will be learning about the walking dead and how they are represented in various types of media.
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New Firefox beta offers audio API, menu tweaks
A new audio data API, default hardware acceleration, and a return of some menu options that had been missing in previous betas are the keystones to Firefox 4 beta 5.
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Woman makes teary YouTube movies, gets back ex
A woman is heartbroken after splitting with her lover. So she takes to YouTube and pours out her woes. Moved by her performances, her lover returns.
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Microelectrodes help brain signals 'speak'
Using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted atop the brain, Utah researchers are one step closer to enabling paralyzed people to speak via their thoughts.
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