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Penney's February sales down

J.C. Penney Co Inc's February sales are down from last year, its chief executive said on Friday, as the retailer tries to get shoppers used to a new pricing strategy that does not include the discounts that hurt margins.
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Employees, leaders honor late Micron CEO

Thousands of Micron Technology employees, industry figures and community leaders paid tribute to the chipmaker's late CEO, Steve Appleton, at a memorial in Boise on Thursday.
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Apple ponders cash, caves on board-vote proposal

Apple Inc on Thursday adopted a measure long desired by investors and corporate governance activists, granting its shareholders a bigger say in the appointment of directors to the board of the world's most valuable technology company.
Gadhafi's body, reported by al Jazeera

Why Does America Hate Al Jazeera?

On Thursday Al Jazeera was named as News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards. But despite its numerous plaudits and fans the Qatar-based network has virtually no presence in the U.S.
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Facebook Timeline: Cover Photo Crop Tool Launched as Brand Pages Prepare for Switch

Along with other altered features, the Facebook Timeline allows users to upload a large vertically elongated photograph at the top of their profile, known as the cover photo. If this seems inconvenient for some users, they might be in luck. Today design website Aviary launched a service that allows Facebook-surfers to custom crop photos to fit perfectly in Timeline's constraints.
The New Google Goggles Will Look like Oakley Thumps

Google Goggles: Heads Up Display (HUD) Reality Augmenting Smart-Glasses May Be Available This Year

Deep in Google's top secret X offices at an undisclosed location the internet companies are working on several secret projects including robots and space elevators, but one project may soon be on the market and available for consumers. Google Goggles, as they're being called by the media though Google has yet to release their newest product's name, may be coming to stores as soon as Christmas 2012. The reality augmenting glasses will have GPS, cameras constantly photographing th...
The Anonymous Flag

Anonymous Hackers Attack Wall Street Journal Facebook Pages with ‘Comment Flash Mob’ [VIDEO]

Anonymous Kollektiv, a German affiliate of the hacktivist group Anonymous launched what they called a comment flash mob on Feb. 21 against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in response to an article in the WSJ discussing claims made by NSA director General Keith Alexander that the group is growing in strength and could have the capability to shut down the U.S. power grid in one or two years.
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Court says Apple can still sell iPads in Shanghai

A Shanghai court has rejected a request in a trademark case to stop Apple selling its iPad tablet computers in the city, averting an embarrassing suspension of iPad sales in its own flagship stores.
With the rumored upcoming release of the Apple’s newest tech toy, the iPad 3, speculations about the devices features have been cluttering cyber space.  The third generation tablet is said to slam rivals such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Blackberry’s Playb

Apple iPad 3 Release Date Approaches: Will 2012 See Smaller Tablet? Top 5 Spec Rumors

With the rumored upcoming release of the Apple’s newest tech toy, the iPad 3, speculations about the devices features have been cluttering cyber space. The third generation tablet is said to slam rivals such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Blackberry’s Playbook. Although product information isn’t confirmed, here’s a roundup of the latest rumors and educated guesses that you might not have heard yet.
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Liberty Global mulls bid for Ziggo: paper

U.S. cable group Liberty Global is considering a bid for Dutch cable firm Ziggo, estimated to be worth 8 billion euros ($10.6 billion) and which is planning a stock listing, Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Thursday without citing sources.
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Anonymous Timeline 2011: The Rise of the Hactivist [INFOGRAPHIC]

In recent past, hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec carried various cyber attacks on different government and non-government Web sites. The reason behind all these attacks, as claimed by the hackers themselves, is to show their gripe against corruption, injustice, oppression, and violence. Here's an infographic detailing the moves done by Anonymous and their fellow hackitivists during 2011.
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HP shares fall on sharp profit decline

Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co were down 2 percent in premarket trading on Thursday after the world's No. 1 computer maker posted a sharp decline in quarterly earnings and warned it would take several years to turn around its sprawling businesses.
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Migrants elbow for Foxconn jobs despite labor probe

Apple's top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm's reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labor practices.
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KT reviewing network fees on Youtube, Internet TVs

South Korea's top Internet provider, KT Corp plans to charge data-heavy content providers such as Google's Youtube and Internet-enabled TV service operators to subsidize costly network upgrades, a KT executive said on Thursday.
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HP, Dell watch rising China labor costs for Apple

Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc are keeping a close eye on a big jump in wages for workers that assemble Apple Inc's iPhone in China, and could be forced to nudge up prices for their own products if labor costs keep rising.
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Apple, Google, Amazon, smartphone makers sign privacy accord

Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday.

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