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Investors wanting to get in on the Facebook IPO might soon find out what it feels like to get “unfriended.” When it comes to the initial public offering of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, there’s ironically very little for the masses. Facebook’s IPO, as with most IPOs, will only be sold at the offering price to privileged investors

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Investors May Feel Unfriended by Facebook IPO

As campaign rhetoric boils and Americans on both sides of the political divide hurl insults, law enforcement officials are watching social media carefully for threats or signs of violence. The Secret Service says political incivility is nothing new, but the Internet is making more of the venom public

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Internet Breeds Political Incivility, Threats

A laptop powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, going for weeks without refueling. That vision of the future is described in a pair of patent applications filed by Apple and made public Thursday.

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Apple Files Patents for Fuel Cell Computers

Amazon has released a software development kit for its Kindle tablet, with an app store to come. ZDNet bloggers have been weighing in, mostly negatively .

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Open source can win the Kindle-Apple tablet wars

Filed under: Features , Windows , Freeware , Lists It’s amazing how many apps we review over the course of a year. There’s no way I could count the number of times I’ve run appwiz.cpl (add/remove programs) on my desktop and laptop in the past twelve months. Certain apps, however, stand the test of time

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Lee’s 10 favorite free Windows programs of 2009

“Augmented reality” may sound like indecipherable technobabble, but the concept behind this technology is familiar to anyone who has seen any of the “Terminator” movies. In the sci-fi films, a cyborg is able to scan its surrounding area and superimpose data on what it sees, allowing it to get background information on humans. Now, after years of use in academic and industrial circles — not to mention science fiction — augmented reality is coming to consumers, who can expect to see it in their everyday lives in 2010.

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‘Augmented Reality’ Is Tech Industry’s Next Step

Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Productivity , Windows x64 Looking for an easy-to-configure, uncomplicated launcher that looks good? Check out Krento . Download and install the app, and it parks in your system tray.

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Krento is a simple, good looking 3D application launcher for Windows

If you’re trying to decide which — if any — phone platform your IT department will support, Google’s open-source Android is likely moving into your sights very quickly. A key reason is that the Android Market now has a critical mass of third-party applications. While there are new estimates by industry observers that the market has collected more than 20,000 apps in five months, Google says the number is closer to 16,000.

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Apps Growth Makes Android a Strong Mobile Contender

I once gave a vacuum cleaner as an anniversary gift. Despite my good intentions that proved to be an ugly mistake.

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Take a Little Care While Christmas Shopping Online

Filed under: Office , Web services , Adobe , BlackBerry , iPhone , Mobile Adobe’s Acrobat.com service is getting a big update tonight, followed closely by a new mobile app for iPhone and BlackBerry . The name “Acrobat” goes hand-in-hand with the PDF file format, and Acrobat.com allows you to convert documents to PDF and save, store and view PDF files. It also features some other applications, including the Adobe BuzzWord word processor, a web meeting service called ConnectNow, and storage space for docs, spreadsheets and images.

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Acrobat.com gets revamped and gets a mobile app