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AT&T has refurbished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $49
November 27, 2009 4:27 PM PST
Carrier is offering refurbished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $49 and waiving the $35 activation fee.
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Tips for safe online shopping
November 27, 2009 1:05 PM PST
As the holiday season begins, Larry Magid offers some tips on safe holiday shopping.
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Black Friday at Best Buy: What's the big deal?
November 27, 2009 11:52 AM PST
An early morning visit to a Best Buy in Marin City, Calif., reveals no lines, no craziness, and some fairly sleepy Best Buy employees.
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Shuttle Atlantis glides home after station visit
November 27, 2009 10:30 AM PST
The shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth after an 11-day three-spacewalk mission to deliver 15 tons of equipment and spare parts to the International Space Station.
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Apple sues power adapter knockoff maker
November 27, 2009 10:22 AM PST
Apple filed a lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings for selling replacement power adapters that infringe on its patent.
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Trend watch 2010: Mobile movies
November 27, 2009 9:29 AM PST
Streaming movies will become more common to mobile devices as more people switch to smartphones. Can wireless networks keep up with the demand?
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HP Envy eclipses the Apple MacBook
November 27, 2009 8:35 AM PST
The Hewlett-Packard Envy 13 moves past the Apple MacBook Air in some important respects, but the price tag is a problem.
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Handbrake 0.9.4: Your best deal on Black Friday
November 27, 2009 8:23 AM PST
Handbrake, the world's best video transcoder, just hit its 0.9.4 release and delivers more than 1,000 changes while improving speed, quality, and file size.
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Apple's 2009 Black Friday deals: all MacBook Pro models $101 off
November 27, 2009 6:09 AM PST
According to purportedly leaked documents on the tech rumor site Boy Genius Report, Apple is gearing up to offer a series of a variety of bargains on products from iPods to MacBooks.
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NASA tech simulates moon landing (audio slideshow)
November 27, 2009 6:00 AM PST
Inside the massive Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., engineers test designs for next-generation lunar landers.
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A wild ride on NASA's massive flight simulator
November 27, 2009 4:00 AM PST
The Vertical Motion Simulator trains all comers in capsule landings, helicopter flights, and even bobsled runs. Now it's helping in the design of next-gen lunar landers.
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Science untarnished by 'Climategate,' U.N. says
November 26, 2009 4:31 PM PST
Chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says stolen e-mails do not damage the credibility of findings that humans are to blame for global warming.
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U.S., China help climate talks, but tangles remain
November 26, 2009 2:23 PM PST
While some progress has been made ahead of next month's climate change talks, there will still be plenty of big tangles in Copenhagen, observers say.
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EU hearing on Oracle-Sun set for Dec. 10
November 26, 2009 9:43 AM PST
Oracle is set to meet with European Commission regulators to make its case for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Note to hospitals: The pen is mightier than the data entry worker
November 26, 2009 5:00 AM PST
Shareable Ink is hoping to popularize a camera-in-a-pen that wirelessly transfers text written on paper to a remote database to better track such data as glucose levels.
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Big changes in Security Starter Kit 2010
November 25, 2009 3:51 PM PST
Planning on getting a new computer this holiday season? Stay safe into the New Year with the overhauled Download.com Security Starter Kit for 2010.
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AT&T gets Luke Wilson to hit Verizon again
November 25, 2009 3:35 PM PST
Phone company continues to fight accusations that its 3G network is poor. One new spot uses the same strategy as the iPhone, featuring simultaneous voice and data.
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ComScore: Online video scores another big month
November 25, 2009 3:09 PM PST
Market research firm ComScore releases its data on online-video viewing for October 2009. Not surprisingly, YouTube is leading the pack by a large margin.
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At its best, is open source unbeatable?
November 25, 2009 2:57 PM PST
Open-source development, when it works, perhaps works so well and at such a frenetic pace that no proprietary vendor can hope to compete.
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Survey: IT spending to recover in 2010
November 25, 2009 2:51 PM PST
Goldman Sachs' latest IT spending survey suggests a return to growth with a few big vendors aiming to get even bigger.
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