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Apple updates Mac Pro with 3.33GHz chip option
December 4, 2009 8:46 AM PST
Apple updates its Mac Pro line of desktop computers with an option to add the quad-core Intel Xeon. This would add $1,200 to the price of the base configuration, currently priced at $2,499.
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Cisco works percentages toward Tandberg takeover
December 4, 2009 7:16 AM PST
Just shy of 90 percent of Tandberg shares as it passes a self-imposed drop-dead deadline, Cisco says its acquisition plan is still very much alive.
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Video site Vevo close to signing EMI
December 4, 2009 7:02 AM PST
Vevo, a site scheduled to launch Tuesday that hopes to become the MTV for the next generation, continues to sign licensing deals with the top labels.
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Viewers to explore 360 degrees of MTV Woodies
December 4, 2009 6:57 AM PST
On Friday night, MTV will be showing its 2009 Woodie Awards online, utilizing a new spherical-video platform developed by Calgary, Alberta-based Immersive Media.
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Coke eyes climate-friendlier vending machines
December 4, 2009 6:12 AM PST
The soft-drink company plans to replace hydrofluorocarbon, a contributor to greenhouse gases, in its new vending machines and coolers by 2015.
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Hardware for Gmail: The 'Gboard' keyboard
December 3, 2009 9:01 PM PST
Gmail's got desktop hardware now, though not from Google. The Gboard is a new Gmail-centric keyboard with colored shortcut keys that let you zip around your in-box.
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Acer 17-inch, Intel dual-core laptop falls to $479
December 3, 2009 8:10 PM PST
Staples is selling a large 17-inch Acer laptop for $479.
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The FTC is talking to Nvidia about Intel
December 3, 2009 7:45 PM PST
The Federal Trade Commission's probe of the chipmaker's business practices has extended to Nvidia.
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Microsoft's Bing goes down
December 3, 2009 7:00 PM PST
In what could be a blow to Bing's image, the main Microsoft search site goes down.
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Last call for i-Booze delivery service
December 3, 2009 5:15 PM PST
A Seattle-based online beer and wine delivery service has its license application turned down and then its founder is found guilty of selling alcohol without a license.
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Friendster gets a face-lift, looks for love?
December 3, 2009 4:51 PM PST
The social network has long since fallen from favor in the U.S. Its redesign places its focus more squarely in Asia, where the youth market has stuck with it.
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New Droid ad: iPhone is 'digitally clueless'
December 3, 2009 4:19 PM PST
In its latest, and perhaps harshest, assault on the iPhone, Verizon's Droid reserves much active bile for its alleged rival, while admitting that the Droid itself is not pretty.
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Giving voice to a new artificial larynx
December 3, 2009 4:11 PM PST
Researchers are creating a system that uses a retainer-like mouthpiece designed for use in speech therapy to help those without a voice box speak less robotically.
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Doctors told to say no to Facebook come-ons
December 3, 2009 3:53 PM PST
The U.K.'s Medicine Defense Union has advised doctors who are propositioned by patients on Facebook to not even say no. Its advice is to ignore every personal message.
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Defense Dept. pulls software over privacy issues
December 3, 2009 3:38 PM PST
EPIC complaint alleging privacy issues with Echometrix parental control software prompts Defense Department online store to pull the product.
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FarmVille maker unleashes PetVille
December 3, 2009 3:23 PM PST
FarmVille maker Zynga announces it has expanded its social-network offerings, allowing Facebook users to play a new game called PetVille.
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Coca-Cola launches face-matching Facebook app
December 3, 2009 3:16 PM PST
Coca-Cola has offered up a facial-matching app called the Coke Zero Facial Profiler that allows Facebook users to match their faces to other people on the social network.
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Teen scientists vie for $100,000 prize in N.Y.
December 3, 2009 2:59 PM PST
Twenty finalists in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science, & Technology gather to showcase projects ranging from diabetes treatment to protein drug delivery.
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Facebook notifies members about Beacon settlement
December 3, 2009 2:57 PM PST
The terms of the settlement were announced in September, but per a court order Facebook has had to send out an e-mail to explain it to users who were members at the time its Beacon advertising program was active.
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The yogurt makers of tech: Gadgets to avoid
December 3, 2009 2:20 PM PST
Don't buy these one-trick ponies--unless you like gizmos that gather dust.
Microsoft's new mapping tricks 
Loaded: Don't Facebook your doctor 
E-commerce on your phone 
Intel's 48-core processor debut (photos) 
Energy displays bring the smart grid home (photos) 
Digital cloud set to hover above 2012 Olympics (images) 
