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Google Android Market tops 10 billion downloads
Google today said its Android Marketplace surpassed 10 billion app downloads -- a growth rate of 1 billion app downloads per month. Read More


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Uncovering Tech's Most Peculiar Product Codenames
Tech companies go to painstaking lengths to keep new products confidential, which is why many of them assign "secret" product codenames. Here's an insider's look at some of the most unusual codenames, with themes ranging from felines to fairy tales. Read More

Verizon cites security issue for nixing Google Wallet
On the surface, it looked like the kind of scenario that net neutrality advocates had long feared: A big incumbent carrier using its network to snuff out apps that compete with its own services. However, Verizon is insisting that this isn't the case. Read More

Naked truth: Dell Streak discontinued
Dell has yanked the Dell Streak 7 tablet computer from its online stores, quietly acknowledging the failure of the Android device to catch on with consumers as the company redirects its tablet focus to combination work/play products. Read More


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Running SAP NetWeaver on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
This document outlines the value of using SAP on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and discusses architectural and practical considerations when deploying SAP on Exalogic and Exadata. Learn More!

AT&T again ranks last in Consumer Reports survey
AT&T once again has the lowest customer satisfaction ratings of any wireless carrier in the United States, according to the latest survey from Consumer Reports. Read More

PhoneFactor delivers iOS app for authentication
PhoneFactor, an authentication system that uses mobile phones as a second factor for improved security, is now available as an app for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Read More

Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers
Consumer Watchdog has called for a U.S. government investigation of Carrier IQ, the maker of tracking software for mobile phones, and its users. Read More


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Father of RFID, Charles Walton, passes at 89
Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California. Read More

Apple: iOS 5 marked end of our Carrier IQ support
Apple Thursday issued a statement that it stopped supporting a controversial Carrier IQ software that is intended to collect smartphone performance data for carriers, but allegedly collects detailed personal information. Read More

Apple's Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook
Apple became one of the world's most successful technology companies under Steve Jobs, and it remains to be seen whether new leader Tim Cook can sustain the company's market dominance and magic. Read More

Adobe Flash vs. HTML5
You know a technology's future doesn't look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. Read More



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