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Is Cisco chatting up Skype?
TechCrunch reports that it has heard a rumor that Cisco Systems has made a bid to buy the company's voice over Internet Protocol service.
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Another day, another social start-up for Google
SocialDeck becomes the latest start-up to join Google, as the search giant works feverishly over the summer months to build out its social-technology portfolio.
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Tapping this app gives special-needs users a voice
A new wave of App Store offerings, including Proloquo2Go, is gaining favor over clunky and uberexpensive devices for those with communication disorders--and making assistive technology cool.
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Microsoft to build massive Virginia data center
The software maker confirms plans to spend up to $499 million to build a modular data center in Southern Virginia.
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Microsoft launches Bing search app for Android
Bing for Android is Microsoft's most significant Android contribution yet. While it isn't quite up to par with the iPhone version, it's still a smooth operator.
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EPA proposes grading system for car fuel economy
Fuel economy labels for new passenger cars are being upgraded so consumers can compare electric cars and plug-in hybrids with conventional vehicles.
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Quicken Online goes offline for Mint.com
About a year after Intuit's acquisition of Mint.com, it is closing the doors on its competing product. The technological migration has been tough for the company, it acknowledges.
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Xbox Live Gold subscribers face price increase
Gold members of Microsoft's Xbox Live premium online service should expect a $10 price hike in yearly memberships beginning November 1.
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Samsung ships 1 million Galaxy S smartphones
Company reaches a milestone in about six weeks with this line of Android-based smartphones, which have been available via AT&T and T-Mobile. Sprint is up next.
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Nintendo to cut DSi pricing on September 12
Nintendo has decided to cut the price of the DSi starting in September. The Nintendo DS Lite's price will remain unchanged.
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HP gets OK to buy back $10 billion of stock
In midst of bidding war with Dell to acquire storage vendor 3Par, HP receives authorization from its board to repurchase up to $10 billion of its own shares as it sees opportunities.
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Google, AP reach deal for Google News content
News stories from the Associated Press will once again flood the pages of Google News, now that the two sides have resolved a months-long impasse over licensing.
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AMD to retire ATI brand
Four years after acquiring graphics card vendor ATI Technologies, the chipmaker is saying saynora to the ATI brand and rebranding the products under its own name.
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Clearwire launches Rover pay-as-you-go 4G service
The pay-as-you-go 4G wireless broadband service targets 18- to 24-year-olds. Sans contract, customers can get unlimited data usage for just $5 per day, $20 per week, or $50 a month.
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3M to buy biometrics firm Cogent for $943 million
Cogent, which sells biometric ID systems to governments, law enforcement, and businesses, will be swallowed up by the massive conglomerate.
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Angry Digg users flood home page with Reddit links
Longtime users express frustration with dramatic changes made to the social-news site, attempting to carpet-bomb the front page with links to a rival site.
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RIM sidesteps BlackBerry ban in India
Indian officials say they will not ban BlackBerry services while they evaluate solutions that would allow them to satisfy security requirements.
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AMD drops the ATI brand
Rumors suggest that Apple will unveil a significantly smaller iPod Nano sans a clickwheel, YouTube may get movie rentals, and AMD is nixing the ATI brand best known for its Radeon graphics chips.
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Kior lands state loan to make 'biocrude' from wood
Biofuel company Kior gets $75 million loan from Mississippi to scale up its catalyst-based process for turning biomass into gasoline or diesel fuel.
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Chatroulette returns--with more of the same
Version 2 is now live. Despite expectations that the site would clean up its act, salacious content is almost instantly available.
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