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Google Buzz's Embarrassment of Opportunities

Is Google stepping on its own toes with the launch of Buzz?

Sirius XM BlackBerry App Bans MLB, Howard Stern

Sirius XM, the beleaguered satellite radio provider, has unveiled a new BlackBerry app that lets users listen to over 120 channels of commercial-free music, talk, sports, and comedy programming. However, there's a catch.

Microsoft's Big Patch Tuesday Begins

In one of the larger Patch Tuesdays ever, Microsoft issued 13 advisories covering 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Office. Updates are available through the usual channels.

9 Things You Wish Google Would Announce

Virtually everyone expects Google to announce something to do with social networking today. But Google isn't telling, and the result is all guesswork. Here are a bunch of ideas from Twitter of all the things many would like to hear Google announce today.

Apple Adds Faces and Places to New Aperture 3.0

Though it's not an official participant in this week's Macworld convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple has issued a new release of its professional photo organizing and editing software, Aperture 3.0.

American Express: Strong Credit, Weak Passwords

American Express's policies for passwords for their customer logins require weak passwords. Why?

Google to Push Android 2.1 to Droid This Week

Here's a little bit of good news for all of those Droid owners out there with Nexus One envy--Google will start to roll out the 2.1 upgrade to Droid users this week.

Android, iPhone OS Gain in Fourth Quarter

Apple and Google's Android operating system slightly gained market share during the last quarter of 2009, according to a market study released Tuesday by comScore, a portion of which tracked the growth of the various mobile OS platforms.

Microsoft Denies Battery Issues Are Tied to Windows

Microsoft on Monday denied that reports of battery issues with Windows 7-based machines were being caused by the new operating system, and said it was actually standard degradation users should expect with older batteries combined with a new Win 7 warning feature.

Toyota Recalls 2010 Prius Hybrids Over Brake Concerns

Toyota has announced a voluntary but expected safety recall on 133,000 2010 Toyota Prius vehicles and 14,500 2010 Lexus HS 250h vehicles to correct a defect in the software controlling the anti-lock brake system (ABS).

China Will Crack Down on Online Gambling

China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website.

Google Warns Chinese Knockoff on Logo

Google Inc has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own.

Two Years Late, Intel Launches New Itanium

Two years later than originally expected, Intel this week released the "Tukwila" version of its Itanium processor, now called the Itanium 9300 series.

Hands On: AMD's $79 Radeon HD 5570 Card

You shouldn't expect the moon with AMD's new ATI Radeon HD 5570, but it provides modest gaming rewards and some cutting-edge technologies at a very reasonable price.

Nvidia Unveils Optimus Video Switching Tech

Nvidia's new Optimus technology is designed to make switching between integrated and discrete graphics in a laptop seamless.

ZoomMediaPlus Loads Files onto iPhones, Touches

Mac peripheral maker ZoomMediaPlus is attempting to knock a hole in the Apple "walled garden" approach by turning the connector interface in the iPhone, iPod touch – and, soon the iPad – into a peripheral storage slot.

Google Guts Nexus One ETF Charge

Google has dropped the "equipment recovery fee" it charges for early returns on the Nexus One smartphone from $350 to $150.

Report: Apple Might Drop iPad Price

Might want to hold off on that iPad purchase. Analysts believe that Apple might soon drop the price of its much-hyped tablet. If sales are not to Apple's liking, the company could cut prices much as it did with the iPhone, according to Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope, who met with Apple executives.

IBM Takes on Itanium with POWER7 Chip

On Monday, IBM rolled out its long-awaited POWER7 microprocessor and servers, going head to head against Intel in the high-end enterprise server space.

Report: Google to Add Social Features to Gmail

Google will be adding hooks to popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter via Gmail, according to reports. Is this a push version of Google's Social Search?

Verizon Admits Blocking 4Chan Site Affiliates

Did Verizon block access to the Web's most infamous message board? 4chan thinks so. Christopher Poole, founder of the site that brought the world rickrolling, claims that Verizon has been "explicitly blocking" access to 4chan.

Canon Launches New Rebel DSLR, Point-and-Shoots

On Monday, Canon introduced a few updates to its compact point-and-shoot camera line, as well as one new D-SLR, the EOS Rebel T2i. All of the new models will share one feature: they will all support the new SDXC memory card format, capable of storing up to 2 terabytes of data.

Barnes & Noble's Nook Is Finally Available

Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader is now available online and will be in stores by mid-week, the book retailer announced Monday.

Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Simple, Powerful Idea

It took a couple of viewings for me to really "get" Google's first television ad.

When Does Hacking Become Cyber Warfare?

There's plenty of evidence to assume that at least some of the recent hacking attempts on U.S. companies originated from China. But are they coordinated? And if so, do we return fire?

TeleNav Improves AT&T's Own iPhone Nav App

TeleNav has unveiled AT&T Navigator 1.5i for the iPhone. The latest revision to the popular turn-by-turn GPS app includes road speed limit signs, speed limit alerts, and improved route avoidance options that account for high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes and toll roads.

Sanyo's New Portable Projector Adds Wi-Fi

On Monday, Sanyo launched the PLC-XU116, the company's latest data/business projector, which it is touting as an ideal unit for both meeting and classroom presentations.

PayPal Halts Payments to India

PayPal has suspended personal payments in India amid "questions" from business partners and other stakeholders.

NASA Extends Cassini Exploration Mission

NASA has decided to extend the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission, which is currently exploring Saturn and its moons, through the year 2017.

Torvalds: The Nexus One is a 'Winner'

Linus Torvalds hates phones. But not the Google Nexus One.