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Facebook Unveils Suicide-Prevention Tools for Veterans, Military Families
Facebook on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Blue Star Families to provide ...
Facebook IPO Week: The Basics
Big news for Facebook this week – and no, not just because the company is testing new ways for its users to annoy each other in t...
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Facebook's Highlighted Posts: A New Tool for Jerks
The funny thing is, I've never written an unwanted email in my life. And I know you haven't, either. Spam is sent by othe...
Posted by Aditiya1920 | 4:00 PM
Nvidia Posts Solid First Quarter, Banks on Kepler to Drive Growth
Nvidia on Friday reported a fairly substantial sequential decline in profits for its first fiscal quarter of the year but offered...
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Feds Warn of Cyber Attack Targeting Natural Gas Firms
Federal officials recently uncovered a cyber plot to infect various natural gas pipeline companies with malware. A report from ...
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Majority of Americans Now Own Smartphones, Survey Says
A pair of studies released Monday have revealed that nearly half of U.S. consumers own a smartphone, and more and more are turnin...
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Cricket Looks to LTE, Android, and Windows Phone 8
NEW ORLEANS—Cricket Wireless, the nation's sixth-largest carrier, is doubling down on smartphones, adding 4G LTE smartphones ...
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Foxconn, Apple to Share Chinese Factory Improvement Costs
Foxconn, Apple's leading Asian manufacturing partner, said Thursday that the two companies plan to share the initial costs of...
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NASA Greenlights SpaceX ISS Visit for May 19
SpaceX on Friday confirmed that NASA has greenlighted May 19 as the launch date for the first privately funded cargo mission to the...
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Facebook Tests User Option to 'Highlight' Status Updates
Facebook is testing out a "promoted status update" feature in New Zealand, where users could pay to highlight their own...
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TV Execs Accuse Diller's Aereo of Content Stealing, Piracy
Executives with the major broadcast TV networks this week joined forces to go after streaming startup Aereo, arguing that it runs...
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Microsoft Revamps Bing; Oct. iPad Mini Rumors; Harry Potter Ebooks on Kindle
Topping tech headlines on Thursday, Microsoft dramatically revamped its Bing search results page, adding a "sidebar" th...
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Foxconn Pledges to Implement FLA Recommendations
Apple supplier Foxconn said this morning that it welcomes the results of a Fair Labor Association audit that found problems with ...
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The Best Video Cards for Mother's Day
This Mother's Day, get Mom something she'll not only appreciate, but use every time she starts up her computer: a video card. An...
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T-Mobile Mum on Reports of MetroPCS Merger
T-Mobile was coy today when asked about reports that its parent company, Deutsche Telekom AG, is pursuing a merger with MetroPCS....
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Zuckerberg Wears Hoodie, World Ends
Leave the kid alone and let him wear what he pleases. So the big news in the tech arena is that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Z...
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Could Americans Learn to Love Dual-SIM Phones?
NEW ORLEANS—With many big phone makers off the floor of CTIA, the little guys have come out to play at this year's show. You ...
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Otellini: Intel Entering 'Golden Age' of Innovation, Profit
Intel president and chief executive Paul Otellini on Thursday predicted that his company and a handful of other vertically inte...
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Major Bing Redesign Searches Your Friends and Experts
Microsoft dramatically revamped its Bing search results page on Thursday, adding a "sidebar" that will allow users to i...
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Hands On With the World's Simplest Android Phone
NEW ORLEANS—Simple-phone company Doro wants to get seniors on board with the smartphone revolution with a new, super-easy smartph...
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Mozilla: We're On the Same Team as Tizen
NEW ORLEANS—Mozilla's new Boot to Gecko mobile OS and Samsung's Tizen may look like competitors as dueling open-source, W...
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