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Today's Technology News: Smart phone rivalry plays out in patent suits Cheeky tweeters use EU outreach experiment to mock Survey: Parents start to see TV, Internet the same PlayStation app coming to iPhone, Android handsets Wanted: a one-stop shop for finding online video WikiLeaks chief Assange fears US charges Android Devices Dominate Holiday Sales in Mashable Poll Conn. AG: Google refusing to turn over Wi-Fi data What Were the Most Retweeted Tweets of 2010? `Cool Revolution' marks CTI's 40th anniversary Moodstocks iPhone Apps Scan the World Through Photos, Not Barcodes Word Lens iPhone app is an amazing translator, but finicky Intel's $7.68 billion McAfee bid raises EU concern: report Biggest ERP Failures of 2010 Avira: 25 pct of PC users disable antivirus software Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla's Free "School of Webcraft" Google alerting searchers to hacked websites Smart phone rivalry plays out in patent suits Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:15 pm PST AP - Competition among smart phone makers is heating up at retail, in advertising and, increasingly, in the courtroom as handset and software makers wield patent lawsuits to protect their turf and slow down their rivals. Full Story Top Cheeky tweeters use EU outreach experiment to mock Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:19 am PST AP - It was meant to be an effort to plug Twitter users into the conversation at the summit of European power. Instead it ended in very public embarrassment. Full Story Top Survey: Parents start to see TV, Internet the same Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:08 am PST AP - No TV for a week, the time-honored punishment for misbehaving children, has been enhanced. Now, parents are also withholding Internet access to punish their kids, further sign that the Web has become as important to families as television. Full Story Top PlayStation app coming to iPhone, Android handsets Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:00 pm PST Ben Patterson - Coming soon: a mobile app that'll let you show off all your glittering PlayStation 3 trophies, wherever you go. Just announced on the official European PlayStation blog, the aptly named Official PlayStation App will make landfall in the U.K., France, … Full Story Top Wanted: a one-stop shop for finding online video Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:16 pm PST Ben Patterson - Picture this: You've just finished watching a $5 iTunes movie rental, only to belatedly discover that you could've streamed the very same movie from Netflix, for free (well, not counting your $8 monthly subscription fee). Sound familiar? It's happened to … Full Story Top WikiLeaks chief Assange fears US charges Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:16 pm PST AFP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday it was "increasingly likely" the US would try to extradite him on charges related to leaked cables as he savoured his first day on bail. Full Story Top Android Devices Dominate Holiday Sales in Mashable Poll Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:06 pm PST Mashable - What's been hiding under the wrapping paper at your house this holiday season: Android or iPhone? BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7? Full Story Top Conn. AG: Google refusing to turn over Wi-Fi data Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:24 pm PST AP - Connecticut's attorney general says Google is refusing to give him access to data it collected about state residents from public Wi-Fi networks. Full Story Top What Were the Most Retweeted Tweets of 2010? Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:05 pm PST Time.com - The winner received Twitter's first-ever Golden Tweet award. But who won and for what message of no more than 140 characters? Full Story Top `Cool Revolution' marks CTI's 40th anniversary Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:57 pm PST AP - Various Artists, "CTI Records: The Cool Revolution" (Sony/Masterworks Jazz) Full Story Top Moodstocks iPhone Apps Scan the World Through Photos, Not Barcodes Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:48 pm PST Mashable - The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Full Story Top Word Lens iPhone app is an amazing translator, but finicky Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:24 pm PST Appolicious - The things that iPhone apps are doing with augmented reality are interesting, but usually not that useful. The just released Word Lens borders on amazing, however, using the iPhone’s camera to translate text on the fly, right on the screen, as you pan the camera over the words. Full Story Top Intel's $7.68 billion McAfee bid raises EU concern: report Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:35 pm PST Reuters - Intel Corp (INTC.O)'s $7.68 billion deal to buy security-software specialist McAfee (MFE.N) Inc is running into close scrutiny from European officials that could delay the transaction, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Full Story Top Biggest ERP Failures of 2010 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:40 pm PST PC World - No year in the IT industry would be complete without a number of high-profile ERP (enterprise resource planning) project failures, ones that burn through mountains of cash, bring company operations to a standstill, generate bad publicity for vendors and toss careers in the trash. Full Story Top Avira: 25 pct of PC users disable antivirus software Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:28 am PST Digital Trends - A new survey from German antivirus and computer security firm Avira finds that about one in four PC users admit to turning off virus protection on their PCs because they thought the programs were slowing down their computers. Furthermore, more than three out of five (62.8 percent) have tried multiple computer security products in the span of a year on the same computer, hoping to find one they like, and nearly one in eight (12 percent) have considered getting off the Internet altogether for safety reasons. Full Story Top Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla's Free "School of Webcraft" Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:17 pm PST Mashable - Mozilla is getting ready for the January semester of School of Webcraft, a 100% free developer training resource run in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University. Full Story Top Google alerting searchers to hacked websites Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:47 pm PST AFP - Google on Friday announced search engine upgrades that included alerting people to hacked websites that make it into query results. Full Story Top

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