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Anonymous won't expose Mexican cartel's servants

Latin American members of the activist hacker group Anonymous called off a planned November 5 plan to expose people associated with the Zetas, Mexico's most violent drug cartel, according to the group's blog.

Nook Tablet expected to be unveiled Monday

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NEW YORK - When Amazon unveiled its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, in September, most tech experts and analysts predicted it would be the first real challenger to Apple's iPad.

Marilyn, Elvis team up for Retro World game

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Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, both long dead, get new lives in an online game aimed at the 40-and-over crowd that seeks to tap into the Hollywood legends' eternal, and lucrative, popularity.
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Mars500 experiment crew members react after leaving the mock spaceship in Moscow

Mars crew lands after 520 days in isolation

Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged bleary-eyed to daylight and applause Friday after 520 days locked away in windowless, cramped cells to simulate the length of a journey to Mars.
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EU Commission probes Samsung, Apple over patents

EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc may have breached EU antitrust laws with patent infringement claims in their global legal battle over the lucrative smartphone and tablet market.
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NASA's New Mars Rover Reaches Florida Launch Pad

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a $2.5 billion rover designed to assess that planet's suitability for life, arrived at its Florida launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned November 25 liftoff, the U.S. space agency said.
Telus profit jumps on smartphone growth

Telus profit jumps on smartphone growth

Telus Corp, Canada's third-largest wireless provider, reported a 30 percent jump in quarterly net profit as more consumers signed up for smartphones and its new Internet-based television service gained traction.
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Openwave shares spurt on Microsoft deal and Q1 profit

Shares of Openwave Systems Inc rose 30 percent in pre-market trade on Friday, a day after the software maker reported a surprise first-quarter profit and announced that Microsoft Corp agreed to license itss patent portfolio.
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China scorns U.S. cyber espionage charges

China on Friday dismissed a U.S. report on online spying as irresponsible, rejecting the charge that China uses cyber espionage to steal lucrative U.S. trade and technology secrets.
Smartphone shootout

EU Probes Samsung and Apple Over Patents

EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc have breached EU antitrust laws with patent infringement claims in their global legal battle, the European Commission said on Friday.
HCL

HCL Infosystems Profit Plunged by 74 Percent

Quarterly net profit of HCL Infosystems plunged 74 percent as its flagship computer retailing business suffered in an economic slowdown worsened by lesser government investment in computing and office automation business.
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Bharti confident of data, Africa as profit falls for 7th quarter

Bharti Airtel is confident of growing its high-speed mobile data business and turning around its struggling African operations after the Indian mobile market leader reported a bigger-than-expected fall in fiscal second-quarter profit that was its seventh consecutive quarterly profit drop.
Galaxy Nexus

iPhone 4S vs. Galaxy Nexus: How Do They Stack Up?

Apple, which unveiled iPhone 4S on Oct. 4, is getting flying off the shelves despite its battery draining problem for which the Cupertino, California-based company would be issuing a fix in the next few days.
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Alcatel-Lucent cuts profit goal as telcos spend less

Telecom equipment gear maker Alcatel-Lucent scaled back its profitability goal for the year, saying operators were cutting spending on their networks in reaction to macroeconomic uncertainty, especially in Europe.
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Galaxy S2 Skyrocket vs. HTC Vivid: How Do They Stack Up?

AT&T has recently released two 4G LTE smartphones HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket on its network. Both Vivid and Skyrocket will be available for $199.99 and $249.99, respectively under a two-year contract with AT&T from Nov 6 in stores and online.
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Interest costs, fx losses drag India's Bharti Q2 net down

India's top mobile phone carrier, Bharti Airtel, on Friday posted a bigger-than-expected 38 percent fall in fiscal second-quarter profit, hit by higher interest costs and losses on foreign exchange and in its African operations.
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LinkedIn Raises 2011 Outlook

Professional networking company LinkedIn posted a third-quarter net loss but raised its full-year outlook after it posted a 126 percent rise in third-quarter revenue.
"Do a Barrel Roll" Has a Song

Google Barrel Roll: 10 More Tricks and Easter Eggs Revealed

You've googled barrel roll, but what about finding Steve Irwin on Google Earth, or what happens when you type recursion into Google search? Find out ten more tricks and easter eggs hidden by Google engineers and how to work them, from making your computer fluent in Pig Latin or Klingon to making Google Reader ninja-themed and tricking your Gmail spam filter.
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Verizon to sell HTC Rezound with Beats audio

HTC Corp <2498.TW> said its latest smartphone, the Rezound, will be its first U.S. phone to include audio technology from Beats Electronics, a company it took control of earlier this year.
Groupon

Groupon Raising $700 Million in IPO

Groupon Inc is set to raise $700 million in its initial public offering after the largest daily deals company increased the price and size of the deal on strong demand.

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