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Quick Hit football video game gets NFL makeover (AP)
Date/Time: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:16:06 GMT

AP - Thursday marks the kickoff of the 2010 NFL season, and along with it, a renewed interest in fantasy leagues and video games that let Monday-morning quarterbacks feel as if they're part of the action.

Google search accelerates with 'instant' results (AP)
Date/Time: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:40 GMT

AP - Google Inc. stepped on its Internet search accelerator Wednesday by adding a feature that displays results as soon as people begin typing their requests.

Microsoft's Xbox ready for bigger battle in Japan (AP)
Date/Time: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:38:00 GMT

AP - Battling its Japanese gaming rivals on their home turf hasn't been easy for Microsoft Corp. Its Xbox 360 game console runs a distant third in sales here behind Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console and Nintendo Co.'s Wii.

Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson)
Date/Time: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:19:43 GMT
Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out.
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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson)
Date/Time: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:58:20 GMT
Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research.
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AT&T Led More to Avoid iPhone 4 Than 'Antennagate', Poll Says (PC World)
Date/Time: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:11:00 GMT
PC World - About 20 percent of mobile phone users said the antenna problem on the iPhone 4 caused them not to buy one. But more than 60 percent said it was because of Apple's exclusive carrier contract with AT&T--and that they couldn't use carrier Verizon Wireless--that they didn't want the handset.
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Review: Ping a handy iTunes add-on with promise (AP)
Date/Time: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:23:22 GMT

AP - Apple Inc.'s new music-discovery feature, Ping, is a potentially useful addition to iTunes. With it, you can see what songs your friends are buying and recommend some of your favorites to them.

Toy Camera From Japan Does 3D for Only $70 (PC World)
Date/Time: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:11:00 GMT
PC World - Printing 3D images can be an expensive undertaking (just look at Fujifilm’s Finepix Real 3D W3, which’ll run you at least $500). But for those of us who can't shell out a ton of green for a 3D camera and printer, toy company Takara Tomy has come out with a “toy” 3D camera called the 3D Shot Cam that’ll give you stereoscopic 3D images in a small form factor.
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Russia Investing in Sistema’s Indian Mobile Company (PC World)
Date/Time: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:10:08 GMT
PC World - The Russian government has agreed to pick up an equity stake in an Indian mobile operator in which Sistema holds a 74 percent stake, the Russian company said on Wednesday.
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Google milks animated doodle mystery on Twitter (AP)
Date/Time: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:36:09 GMT

AP - For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.