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Facebook Timeline Mandatory: Where to Get Best Cover Art

You may have spent recent months ignoring the Facebook Timeline on your friend's profile, but ready or not, you're going to get the timeline in matter of weeks, Facebook has announced the new feature will become mandatory.

Russian handset sales back to pre-crisis level: MTS

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Total sales of mobile handsets in Russia rose an estimated 16 percent last year and returned to volume levels not seen since an economic crisis struck in 2008, the country's top mobile phone operator MTS said on Tuesday.

ASUS Transformer Prime HD: TF700 Release Date Set for June

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Transformer Prime enthusiasts got excited after ASUS unveiled its new TF700T tablet this month, but it appears ASUS customers will have to make do with their Transformer Prime Eee Pad TF201, and its various shortcomings, until the release date in June.
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About one in five workers worldwide telecommute: poll

About one in five workers around the globe, particularly employees in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, telecommute frequently and nearly 10 percent work from home every day, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.
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Playtech in talks with possible U.S. partners

Playtech, the world's biggest provider of online gaming software, is holding talks with a number of potential partners in the United States as it gears up for the possible re-opening of the potentially lucrative market, CEO Mor Weizer said.
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Nokia fined for spam texts in Australia

Australian regulators have fined Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, A$55,000 ($58,000) for spamming customers and said the Finnish company should change its text message marketing.
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Elpida in talks to merge with Micron, Nanya: report

Japan's Elpida Memory <6665.T> is in talks to merge with U.S. firm Micron Technology and Taiwan's Nanya Technology <2408.TW>, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday, as the memory chip makers battle a weak market and well-funded South Korean rivals.
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Playtech gears up for global expansion

Playtech, the world's biggest provider of online gaming software, said it saw increasing opportunities as gambling laws are relaxed across the world and was confident of meeting full year expectations following a surge in revenues.
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Sony and Panasonic brace for grim earnings season

Sony Corp and rival Panasonic Corp are set to report a slump in quarterly earnings and may cut full-year forecasts after being hit by yen strength, Thai floods and consumer gloom in Europe during the vital pre-Christmas period.
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Texas Instruments says chip demand back

Texas Instruments Inc reported higher-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on Monday as demand improved faster than expected because customers did not have enough chips in stock, signaling the end of an inventory correction.
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VMware profit beats Street view, shares rise

Software maker VMware Inc reported profit ahead of Wall Street expectations and released an outlook ahead of some forecasts, raising hopes that technology spending will grow this year, even as some warn that the economic outlook is grim.
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Sony's New Image Sensors for Camera Phones: Best Smartphones for Shooting in Low Light

Smartphone cameras have come a long way in the last year, but one area they still struggle in is low-light conditions. This is true for most cameras, actually, but the effect is more pronounced in smartphones because they are not dedicated cameras. More megapixels are not the answer, though. Sony has built a new type of sensor that can take all the useable light and use it to make a more even picture. Most camera phone sensors now only look at certain colors to make up the image. That is why low...
Facebook, Twitter, Myspace Devs Clean Up Google Search Results

Facebook, Twitter, Myspace Devs Fix Google Search Results

Focus on the User--a group of developers from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites--has created a bookmarklet that can be added to any web browser and adds Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Myspace, among other social networks to Google search results. The service was built as a proof of concept that social content could be added to Google's search results.
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Megaupload boss says innocent, rival stops file-sharing

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges of internet piracy and money laundering and said authorities were trying to portray the blackest picture of him.
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BlackBerry maker's CEOs hand reins to insider

Research In Motion's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have bowed to investor pressure and resigned as co-CEOs, handing the top job to an insider with four years at the struggling BlackBerry maker.
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iPad 3 May Come with Quad-Core A5 Chip

The launch of the iBooks 2 app further substantiates expectations that Apple may put a quad-core chipset in the iPad 3, which is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2012.

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