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Police to put drunk drivers' names on Twitter
December 26, 2009 2:17 PM PST
Montgomery County, Texas, decides that the best way to deter those who want to drink and drive over the festive period is to out them on the microblog.
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Kindle is most gifted Amazon item, ever
December 26, 2009 11:19 AM PST
Statement on holiday sales declares the Kindle king; On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, more books for the e-reader sold than physical copies.
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Microsoft, Intel to cede tablet market to Apple?
December 26, 2009 10:04 AM PST
If the Apple tablet emerges as expected, this could be another market that Cupertino takes from right under the PC companies' noses.
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Open source became big business in 2009
December 26, 2009 9:10 AM PST
Open source has always been an important sideshow for software vendors, but in 2009 it became the main event thanks to Google.
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The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009
December 26, 2009 12:00 AM PST
2009 felt like a rebuilding year for Firefox add-ons, with two new frameworks created to help guide the future of extensions. But that doesn't mean there weren't any cool debuts. Check out list of the best new add-ons from the past 12 months.
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Ford sees bump in hybrid sales
December 25, 2009 6:59 PM PST
Carmaker says its hybrid sales are up 67 percent this year, despite an 11 percent slump industrywide.
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FCC member berates Verizon for termination fees
December 25, 2009 2:39 PM PST
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says in an open letter that she find Verizon's defense of its early termination fees to be "unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling."
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How tech touched the '00s
December 25, 2009 12:46 PM PST
Among the multitude of end-of-decade lists, the Associated Press rounds up 50 lifestyle trends. Whether it's surprising or not, tech-related items make up nearly half.
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Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace mystery solved
December 25, 2009 11:59 AM PST
A complex, potential deal centers on News Corp.'s Rotten Tomatoes merging with Flixster, a social-networking site for movies. The resulting company's content could then be threaded throughout News Corp.'s MySpace.
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Apple owns iSlate.com--the mystery deepens
December 25, 2009 9:45 AM PST
More intrigue arises around Apple's widely rumored tablet. The latest: it may be dubbed iSlate, according to information uncovered by MacRumors.com.
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Apple stockholders get record high for Christmas
December 24, 2009 2:24 PM PST
On rumors of a January Apple tablet unveiling, the company's stock closes as an all time high Thursday of $209.04, up 3.43 percent.
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Obama says disappointment at Copenhagen justified
December 24, 2009 8:55 AM PST
President's statement hardens widespread verdict that the climate conference was a failure.
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Web-based Lookout protects mobile devices, data
December 24, 2009 4:00 AM PST
Lookout offers data security, backup, and management over the Web and a way to locate and protect missing or stolen devices.
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DDoS attack hobbles major sites, including Amazon
December 23, 2009 8:04 PM PST
More than a mouse was stirring Wednesday night on the Internet, as an attack on a major DNS provider to sites such as Amazon.com and others hobbled service for about an hour.
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Web staggers under pre-Christmas DDoS attack
December 23, 2009 5:23 PM PST
Several high-profile e-commerce sites were inaccessible for around half an hour Wednesday evening, due to what customer support at a major DNS provider called an attack.
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Tablet hint? Apple developers supersizing apps for January event
December 23, 2009 4:42 PM PST
Company has told some key developers to prep versions of their iPhone apps that will work on a device with a larger screen, sources say.
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Wait! Nook arriving for Christmas after all
December 23, 2009 3:11 PM PST
Despite statements to the contrary a few days earlier, Barnes & Noble now says it will fulfill all preorder shipments by Christmas. Got whiplash yet?
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Twitter buys developers of GeoAPI
December 23, 2009 2:48 PM PST
With location-aware services hot right now in the social-media segment, Twitter is buying the developers of a popular API used by developers on the platform.
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How iPhone apps can ruin your Christmas
December 23, 2009 2:42 PM PST
If you are looking to download new iPhone apps that will change your life this Christmas, beware if a couple that could easily change things for the worse.
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iPhone vs. BlackBerry in the California outback
December 23, 2009 1:28 PM PST
On a recent trip to the California desert, CNET Blog Network's Brooke Crothers had a chance to put Verizon (BlackBerry) and AT&T (iPhone 3GS) service to the test.
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Deep-sea volcanic explosion--part 2 (video) 
Deep-sea volcanic explosion--part 1 (video) 
Top-rated reviews of the week (photos) 
Lookout keeps an eye on mobile-device security (photos) 
15 sites that went kaput in 2009 (images) 
