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Today's Technology News: Investments place value of Facebook at $50 billion Gadget show to bring fiercer competition to iPad Apple's absence to be felt at CES gadget show Rival tablets fill electronics show in IPad's absence Europe inching closer to universal-phone-charger standard Android climbs, Apple holds steady, RIM slips in U.S. smartphone market How Blu-ray could speed up 3D TV adoption Remains of the Day: Legal eagles HP Announces Fusion Netbook With LTE MySpace eyes major staff cuts: reports LG Announces “Flicker Free” LW6500 Cinema 3D TV WordPress Challenges Bloggers to Post Daily in 2011 Samsung moves 10 million Galaxy S phones in seven months Software Industry New Year's Resolutions New JBoss Puts Java EE 6 to Work Microsoft, Google Clash Over IE 0-Day Leaked to Chinese Hackers 5 Reasons to Try Zorin OS Linux Microsoft restores Hotmail service after glitch Investments place value of Facebook at $50 billion Mon, 3 Jan 2011 03:58 pm PST AP - An injection of cash that values Facebook at $50 billion will help it delay going public for at least another year, giving the company breathing room to focus on long-term ambition rather than short-term profit. Full Story Top Gadget show to bring fiercer competition to iPad Mon, 3 Jan 2011 03:17 pm PST AP - Apple Inc.'s popular iPad is getting its strongest competition thus far as consumer-electronics manufacturers unveil tablet computers with bigger screens, front-facing cameras for video chatting and more. Full Story Top Apple's absence to be felt at CES gadget show Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:02 pm PST AP - What do you call it when you have 120,000 people and an elephant in the room? Full Story Top Rival tablets fill electronics show in IPad's absence Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:38 pm PST AFP - The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas on Thursday but the hottest device around, and the trailblazing company that makes it, won't be on the sprawling show floor. Full Story Top Europe inching closer to universal-phone-charger standard Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:19 pm PST Ben Patterson - The days of scrounging around for a smartphone charger that fits your particular handset may soon be over — in Europe, at least. As for a universal-charger standard in the U.S., well ... don't hold your breath. A pair of … Full Story Top Android climbs, Apple holds steady, RIM slips in U.S. smartphone market Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:41 am PST Ben Patterson - Google's Android OS is showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to U.S. smartphone market share: A new survey shows Android climbing within striking distance of Apple's iOS mobile platform. Meanwhile, RIM's slice of the U.S. smartphone pie … Full Story Top How Blu-ray could speed up 3D TV adoption Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:27 pm PST Reuters - Remember the videotape format war between VHS and Betamax in the 1970s and '80s? When wide adoption of a new consumer packaged-media format is at stake, format launches aren't always smooth. Full Story Top Remains of the Day: Legal eagles Mon, 3 Jan 2011 04:30 pm PST Macworld - Traditionally, the first remainders column of the new year is full of joy and wonder. However, we’re still recovering from a weekend bout of 2011-itis, so you’ll have to make do with a pair of Apple-related legal suits and an entry in the time-honored sport of hunting for domain name registries. The remainders for Monday, January 3, 2011 are the first for the rest of your life. Full Story Top HP Announces Fusion Netbook With LTE Mon, 3 Jan 2011 09:20 pm PST PC World - Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced a netbook with some cutting-edge mobile broadband and graphics technologies that could make it the most powerful netbook yet. Full Story Top MySpace eyes major staff cuts: reports Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:24 pm PST Reuters - MySpace is preparing to unveil a major round of layoffs as early as this month in its latest restructuring step, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Full Story Top LG Announces “Flicker Free” LW6500 Cinema 3D TV Mon, 3 Jan 2011 05:15 pm PST PC World - In what may turn out to be a sneak peek of CES 2011 HDTV trends, LG announced the newest entry to their 2011 HDTV lineup--and it's a 3D TV that doesn't use the heavy, expensive active-shutter 3D glasses. Full Story Top WordPress Challenges Bloggers to Post Daily in 2011 Mon, 3 Jan 2011 05:37 pm PST Mashable - Over the New Year holiday, WordPress issued a challenge to its blogger-users: Write and publish one post a day (or a week) throughout 2011. Full Story Top Samsung moves 10 million Galaxy S phones in seven months Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:09 am PST Appolicious - It’s good to be Samsung, and Google (GOOG) has to be excited as well: the phone-maker has sold 10 million of its Galaxy S smartphones worldwide, and they all run Google’s Android operating system. Full Story Top Software Industry New Year's Resolutions Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:00 pm PST PC World - A new year has begun for the enterprise software industry, presenting an opportunity for the players to contemplate 2010's wins and losses while ushering in some welcome changes and delivering on promises. Full Story Top New JBoss Puts Java EE 6 to Work Mon, 3 Jan 2011 09:30 am PST PC World - The newest version of the open source JBoss Application Server has been released, and is now one of the first production-ready app servers to support Java EE 6. Full Story Top Microsoft, Google Clash Over IE 0-Day Leaked to Chinese Hackers Mon, 3 Jan 2011 07:17 am PST PC Magazine - Well-known researcher and Google employee Michal Zalewski has come across what appears to be an independent discovery of an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability by separate researchers in China. Full Story Top 5 Reasons to Try Zorin OS Linux Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:30 am PST PC World - One of the best features of the open source Linux operating system is that there are so many distributions to choose from. Full Story Top Microsoft restores Hotmail service after glitch Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:26 pm PST Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Hotmail service, the world's most-used online email system, is back to normal operations on Monday after some users over the weekend lost access to emails or found them transferred to a deleted mail folder. Full Story Top

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