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Microsoft signed a patent-licensing contract with yet another Android-based smartphone manufacturer, the company announced Thursday, and executives immediately took to Twitter to taunt Android creator Google and rival Apple about the deal. Microsoft signed the patent agreement with LG, the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, according to ComScore’s latest analysis of the market. Microsoft has already signed a licensing agreement with the No

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Microsoft Jabs at Google After Android Licensing Deal

The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other devices. But what about the old gadgets?

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Gadget Watch: ATM Turns Your Old Phone into Cash

The presidential primary season is upon us, and the Super Bowl isn’t that far off. Small-business owners may find productivity dipping as employees talk about the candidates and this weekend’s game. How much chatter is OK when there’s work to be done?

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Too Much Office Chatter? What a Business Owner Can Do

Even as Yahoo looks for a successor to fired CEO Carol Bartz, the ailing search prince may be looking to shed more corporate assets: Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan. According to several news reports, Yahoo’s board of directors is considering selling off most of the company’s holdings in the Alibaba Group of China and its Japanese affiliate. Yahoo would sell the assets back to their majority owners.

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Yahoo May Be Poised to Exit Asia with Alibaba Disposition

Following a generally warm reception when it launched, Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet quickly became the target of complaints about bugs and various functions — or lack thereof.

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Amazon Releases Update for Kindle Fire

Yahoo is deepening its connections with Facebook’s online social network. The latest bond announced late Tuesday will enable Facebook users to share more of their activities on Yahoo’s Web sites, including which stories they are reading. Yahoo Inc

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Yahoo Expands Sharing of Stories Through Facebook

Later today, Firefox will undergo its biggest developmental upheaval ever. Mozilla-central, the source of nightly builds, will be renumbered to version 5 — and at long last, after years of wallowing around version 1, Mozilla’s rendering and layout engine, Gecko , will also have its version number updated to match Firefox. Shortly thereafter, Firefox’s new channel system will be implemented.

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New Firefox Nightly and Aurora logos unearthed, and how to enable channel switching

Rejoice! No longer will you have to fork over $700 for a Photoshop CS5 license! Adobe has unveiled a new subscription scheme where you can rent the entire Creative Suite, or individual packages, by the month, or for an entire year. Adobe Photoshop can be yours for $35 per month if you agree to rent it for 12 months, or $49 per month if you require its services for a shorter period. Dreamweaver can be had for even cheaper, at just $19 per month

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You can now rent Adobe Photoshop for $35 per month, CS 5.5 available soon

Filed under: News , Windows , Macintosh , Linux Boxee is one of those magically delicious technologies that you may not “get” until you try it. Then you try it and you’re hooked. I’m just talking about the old alpha builds here, which I tried on my non-techy mate and she loved Boxee, frequent crashes and all

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Boxee beta officially available

Filed under: E-mail , Productivity , Google , Freeware MailBrowser is a new Gmail 3rd-party browser plugin that sits in the sidebar, giving you more information about your Gmail contacts. The plugin works by downloading a complete local copy of your email archive from Gmail over IMAP, then cross-referencing it to your Google Contacts in your Google account.

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MailBrowser for Gmail plugin is interesting, but needs work