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X-Factor: Britney Spears, Fergie and Other Rumored Judges [SLIDESHOW]

Ever since Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger left X-Factor, rumors have been flying about which female artist would replace them. The latest candidates are Britney Spears and Fergie, though Simon Cowell has remained vague about who he really is considering for the job. However, Cowell and L.A Reid did share that there will be two female judges on the next season, according to MTV.
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Intel Settles NY Antitrust Case for $6.5 Million

Intel Corp agreed to pay $6.5 million to resolve an antitrust lawsuit in which New York's attorney general accused the world's largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars of kickbacks to maintain its market dominance.
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Mitt Romney May Not Release Tax Returns Until April

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, under increasing pressure to release his tax returns now, continued to resist that timetable on Tuesday and said he probably would not make them public until April.
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CES 2012 -- Danger Signals for U.S. Competitiveness

Now that 153,000 people have exhausted themselves at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, an American visitor can't help thinking that the future of electronics is in Asia, not California's Silicon Valley or Texas.
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Windows 8: Top 5 Features that are Worth Mentioning

Windows 8 was first mentioned at the CES 2011 in January last. Microsoft then announced that Windows 8 would be adding support for ARM microprocessors in addition to the x86 microprocessors from Intel and AMD.
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AMD Could Guide Sequentially Lower Q1 Revenues

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) could guide its first quarter revenues to decline 4 percent to 8 percent sequentially when it reports its fourth-quarter results on Jan.19, according to a Wall Street analyst.
Apple Lawsuits Could Boost Samsung Galaxy Sales

Tech Patent Wars 2012: No Settlements in Sight

Technology companies appear likely to resume battle in 2012 on three major fronts of the patent wars: smartphone designs, operating systems and semiconductor chip sets. Despite passage of copyright reform under the America Invents Act in September, technology lawsuits persist and experienced lawyers worry that little will change.
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What to Expect from Tablets in 2012?

As we cast our eyes over the year that was, the computer tablet market across the world strikes one as having been the sort of space most affected by a constant stream of products, with each one trying to outdo the other, in terms of innovation, design, components and performance. At the end of it all, however, if you've played the waiting game, hoping that 2012 will be an even better year, here is a brief rundown of what to expect...
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Nvidia Loses Market Share to AMD in Upgradable GPU Configurations: Analyst

Shares of graphics chip maker Nvidia, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVDA) have outperformed in recent time, following better-than-expected results and guidance, news reports of Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) socket wins in the Macbook and Macbook Pros for 2012 and with still high hopes for Tegra despite lackluster sequential growth in the second half of 2011.
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HP, Battling Oracle, Moving to Newer Intel Chip

Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 computer company, will phase out an older Intel chip on high-end servers in favor of a newer one. Besides offering more power, another goal could be to battle rival Oracle.
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Black Friday 2011 Ad Roundup: Top Deals

Traditionally Black Friday deals were revealed through ads released in national and local newspapers on Thanksgiving day, but now with the Internets capacity to make ads go viral the deals are being released earlier and earlier. Here is a roundup of the ads released for Black Friday 2011 so far:

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