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Apple's B2B App Store: Why it's a big enterprise deal

Larry Dignan lists four reasons why it's a big deal that Apple's B2B App Store went live last week and that the company is taking the enterprise seriously. Read more

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A security researcher has uncovered a potentially serious vulnerability in Apple laptop batteries that could result in altering the firmware, allowing a malicious cracker to plant malware. Read more

Scroogle: Adding privacy to Google Search

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Research in Motion will lay off 2,000 employees as it struggles to navigate a void in its product line-up as well as lower-than-expected sales. Read more

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Only a week after buying my first ever MacBook, it hasn't changed my opinion of Windows. It has though made me realise I am OS agnostic. Read more

Android 2.3 Gingerbread coming to all of AT&T's 2011 phones

A number of AT&T's 2011 phones are getting the upgrade to Android 2.3 in the coming weeks. Read more

Apple Store coming to New York City's Grand Central later this year

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Microsoft updates Azure tookit for Apple's iOS to support federation with Facebook, Google and more

Microsoft rolled out an update to its Windows Azure toolkit for iOS which adds support for identity federation across Google, Yahoo, Live ID, Facebook and ADFS. Read more

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Amazon, others cave to Apple on in-app purchases today, HTML5 tomorrow

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Personal cloud solutions--own your data

The public cloud offerings may not be secure, but there are inexpensive alternatives to create your own--and keep prying eyes out of your personal data. Read more

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AT&T tops competitors for customer loyalty in San Francisco

AT&T has earned the top spot on a new research poll ranking customer loyalty to wireless providers in San Francisco. Read more

Tweak reveals iPad's Facebook app inside iPhone's Facebook app

A little detective work has revealed that the iPad's Facebook app is actually inside the iPhone's Facebook app. What a twist. Read more

Lifelike artificial lung does away with pure oxygen

Researchers in Cleveland, Ohio have built an artificial lung that reaches functional parity with a human lung. The device uses oxygen sourced from the air rather than pure oxygen as current... Read more

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[TechRepublic] Use Windows 7 System Image Recovery to restore a hard disk

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Poll: What percentage of your enterprise is still running Windows XP?

With Microsoft's earnings report this week, Mark Kaelin thought it might be a good time to assess how far along we are in this slow migration to Windows 7. Read more

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[TechRepublic] Use Windows 7 System Image Recovery to restore a hard disk

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Poll: What percentage of your enterprise is still running Windows XP?

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Poll: How often do you take advantage of collaboration tools in Google Apps?

Has the evolution of Google Apps changed the way you work and interact with your coworkers? How often do you take advantage of collaborative tools in Google Apps? Take the poll and we'll all find out. Read more

Use Excel's table nomenclature to quickly create dynamic formulas

In Excel, defining a data range as a table opens the door to a number of efficient behaviors. Susan Harkins explains how to use nomenclature to create and use dynamic formulas. Read more

10 things you should never say on the job

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MacBook Air (2011 13-inch) Teardown: Evolutionary, not revolutionary

Bill Detwiler cracked open the 13-inch 2011 MacBook Air. Inside the case, he found a few significant hardware upgrades, but the same basic internal layout. Read more


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New moon found at Pluto; Neptune turns one

Pluto may not be a planet any more but it has four times as many moons as Earth. Plus, Neptune was discovered 165 Earth years ago - exactly one year ago on Neptune. View on site

Looking back at Apollo's Lunar Modules (photos)

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