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Chad Ochocinco Live-Tweets Wedding to Evelyn Lozada [FULL TEXT, VIDEO]

To call him a Twitter enthusiast would be the understatement of the year. From getting peed on by a real lion to sending the world a dinner invitation to Sylvia's, Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson shocked the world when he live-tweeted his wedding to Evelyn Lozada on Wednesday to help calm his jitters with a pre-game report, a play-by-play analysis and a post-game commentary.

Internet Doomsday Virus Could Black Out 250,000 PCs

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About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November. Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential blackout and describing the Alureon malware as the Internet Doomsday virus.

IPOs? Did Facebook?s Disaster Poison The Pipeline?

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Since its May 17 pricing at $38 a share, the stunning collapse in the value of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) the No. 1 social networking site has made history ? for its sheer size and magnitude.The IPO market remains weak.
Apple working to fix app crashes

Apple Working To Fix Crashing App Store Updates

It's been a rough week for Apple's iOS team.In addition to Apple's first reports of a malicious program in their App Store, hundreds of newly-updated iOS apps have been crashing on launch and functionally unusable. The problem seems to have been traced to problems with the App Store's binary system and its FairPlay DRM. According to developer Marco Armet, apps that run perfectly for development teams are being corrupted when sent through the App store to consumers.
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Apple May Introduce ?iPad Jr? or ?iPad Mini?

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, may introduce a smaller version of the iPad to compete with products from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, and Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), reports said.
Barclays plc chief executive Bob Diamond

Ex- Barclays CEO Blames Bank of England for Libor Debacle

The British Parliament, might not be the place one would expect to see fireworks lit on July 4. But that's what's likely to happen Wednesday, when the former CEO of Barclays plc (NYSE:BCS), who resigned Tuesday, is expected to tell the House of Commons its fraud was partly done at the bequest of the Bank of England.
iCloud Beta Adds New Web Apps: Apple Gearing Up For iOS 6, Mountain Lion Release Dates

iCloud Beta Adds New Web Apps: Apple Preps For iOS 6, Mountain Lion Release Dates

Slowly but surely, Apple's operating systems are converging, but bonding these two separate systems together would be impossible without iCloud. On Monday, Apple introduced two new additions to the iCloud Beta portal for iOS 6 developers, including the Notes and Reminders apps, before it releases Mountain Lion this month and iOS 6 this fall.
Why Facebook Needs A Want Button

Why Facebook Needs A Want Button

Facebook already knows what you Like. Soon, it may ask you what you Want. Web developer Tom Waddington discovered on June 28 that Facebook had included code for a disabled Want button within the Javascript of its list of social plug-ins.
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Bird T---s And Your Car: Beware The Emu Poop

Smart USA employed zoology, statistics, engineering, and some cheeky graphic design to put an obnoxious Twitter follower in the right about the effects of bird doo-doo on cars. Here's the dirt on how much damage bird poop can cause to cars, and which color cars are most subject to aerial bombardment.
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Google Chrome Coming To Apple iPhone, iPad; Drive Also Gets iOS Treatment

After announcing a slew of new Android-optimized hardware and software products on Wednesday, Google announced on Thursday it will finally port Google Chrome, the second most popular Web browser in the world, to the iPhone and iPad operating system (iOS). In addition, Google will also release an iOS-optimized version of Google Drive, which is the company's cloud service for syncing and sharing information from your Google accounts to all your devices. Google Chrome Coming To Apple iPhone, iPa...
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Apple Could Integrate iTunes Closer To iCloud

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, may change the way iTunes works so that it?s more closely integrated with the iCloud file-storage service, news services said.
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Staff 'Arrogance' Behind Botched Facebook IPO, Says Nasdaq Boss

Chief Executive Robert Greifeld told a conference of directors at Stanford University's Law School that the exchange had tested its computer systems before the May 18 IPO, but failed to take into account the volume of canceled orders in the run-up to the stock debut, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Facebook Rolls Out Comment Editing Feature: How To Edit Comments

Ever make a major boo-boo or typo when posting a Facebook comment and wish you could change the error? Well now you can thanks to Facebook's newest feature, comment editing. Forget deleting the comment or post and creating a new, corrected version. Now you and the other 900,000 Facebook users across the globe can simply edit instead of deleting.

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