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Thanks, Canada: Facebook's 4 Big Privacy Fixes Canadian courts are pushing Facebook to clarify and enforce privacy issues that we should've demanded earlier -- but we still have a wish list.
First Look: Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Facebooks update to its iPhone app has many improvements, but still lacks helpful features.
Google Street View Gets Down to Businesses A new feature pinpoints the business you're seeking -- by name or by type. Sort of.
Windows 7 Family Pack Available for Pre-order Early Online UPDATE: A special Windows 7 upgrade package for households with more than one PC is now available for pre-order online ahead of schedule and at a discount.
PS3 Slim Sells Out Quickly Gamers are snapping up Sony's revamped Playstation 3 early and enthusiastically, retailers report.
Best PSP Games (Part 1) Sony's PlayStation Portable has been inspiring developers and gamers for four years. Join us as we count down the games no PSP owner should pass up.
Apple May Have App Competition In Android The iPhone may be the king of the app world, but Android-powered devices are rapidly gaining ground.
Court Says Even Digital Data Needs a Search Warrant A federal appeals court has ruled that searches of digital gear and electronic files must be limited to material noted in a warrant.
Hands-On Test: Adobe CS3 Purrs on Snow Leopard Testing shows that Creative Suite 3 runs fine on the new Mac OS X, despite Adobe's lack of support for it.
New Cloud Infrastructure Service Focuses on Security OpSource is rolling out a cloud infrastructure service with what it considers to be enterprise-grade security and management features.
iPhone in China Could Be Battle of the Bureaucracies At first blush it seems like a coup for Apple to crack the vast China market, but can Apple deal with a communist bureaucracy even more notorious for doublethink, misinformation, and black-box secrecy than Apple itself?
China Game Boss Sniped Rivals, Took Down Internet An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May.
Apple's Snow Leopard OS: Ultimate Upgrade FAQ In building Snow Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X (version 10.6), Apple focused more on under-the-hood improvements to boost speed and stability than on...
Will China Go Gaga Over a Crippled iPhone? China will get the iPhone in a 3-year deal with the nation's telcom giant China Unicom.
US Appeals Court Rejects FCC's Cable Ownership Cap A U.S. court has struck down the FCC's ownership cap for cable TV companies.
Apple Approves IPhone Music App Apple approved the Spotify music service for inclusion in the iPhone App Store.
US Agency Launches Two Flash Memory Patent Investigations The U.S. ITC votes to investigate two patent complaints focused on flash memory.
Skype Wiretapping Trojan Publicly Released The source code for a Trojan created for the Swiss government is now available online.
FCC to Probe Wireless Industry The inquiry will be divided into three broad categories: competition, innovation and consumer access to accurate information about wireless services.
China Unicom to Sell iPhone Next Quarter China Unicom has reached a 3-year deal with Apple to offer the iPhone in China, it said Friday, confirming rumors that have swirled for months.
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