Startups in a Downturn

December 1987 was no time to be raising money for a startup. Computer engineer Len Bosack was trying to attract funding for a young enterprise called Cisco Systems (CSCO). But the stock market had just crashed and the Dow Jones industrial average had plummeted 40% since October.

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Asus Eee drops U.S $100 in price

Asus ushered in the netbook craze with its Eee PC in 2007 by hitting a sweet spot in price, features, and aesthetic appeal. When all of those aspects are in harmony, and the timing is right, the overall value of the product soars. We could be seeing a jump in value right now.

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Bow Wow Says Chris Brown Is Only Human

A number of questions have been raised in the wake of the alleged altercation between Chris Brown and Rihanna on February 8. One of the biggest questions has been how Brown's arrest will affect his image and, ultimately, his career.

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Gmail Gets Multi-Attachment Uploading

Gmail users can now select multiple attachments when adding them to an e-mail message. The new system simply opens your operating system's file explorer, and supports selecting of multiple files at once.

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Why Hair Goes Gray

Scientists may have figured out why hair turns gray, and their finding may open the door to new anti-graying strategies. New research shows that hair turns gray as a result of a chemical chain reaction that causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.

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Blink-182's Morse Code Mystery Revealed By Mark Hoppus

Mark Hoppus posted a series of dots and dashes on his blog, Hi My Name Is Mark, setting off an online stampede that had fans pulling out their hair (and their pocket translators). Were the marks actually some form of MIDI notes? Did they contain hidden information about Blink's much-anticipated new album? Was this some sort of throwback to Coldplay's X&Y Baudot code thingamajig?

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Check Out A Photo from Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre's 'Crack A Bottle' Video

The video's coming in about two weeks: That's what Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg, said in a blog post that accompanies a photo from the much-anticipated video for the Eminem/ 50 Cent/ Dr. Dre tag-team effort "Crack a Bottle." The photo, posted Wednesday morning (February 25) on PaulRosenBlog.com, shows a horrifically dirty vagrant holding a bottle that's wrapped in a brown paper bag.

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Review: Apple Safari 4 for Windows

"It's been almost two years since I've looked at Apple's Safari browser in any official capacity and for good reason: Safari simply isn't a good option for Windows users. It never has been. And, I suspect, it never will be."

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SP2 for Vista, Windows Server 2008 coming next week

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the first release candidates (without numerals) for Service Pack 2 for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will be released to the general public for testing next week. This after private testers with the MSDN and TechNet services receive their copies first.

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50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct Gets Pushed Back Again

Apparently Interscope Records' three-headed monster has changed the order of its lineup again. While promoting his video game "Blood in the Sand," 50 Cent told the media his Before I Self Destruct album isn't coming out before Eminem's Relapse.

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A Google Chrome user's opinion of Safari 4 Beta

"After writing for Betanews for a couple of years, there's something you may not know about me. If there is one company that I approach with favoritism (but never fanboyism!), it's Google. Yes, Google's omnipresence is enough to make you want to don a tin foil hat, but it's hard to argue with a company that gives everyone such powerful research tools at no cost."

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Apple's Safari 4 UI Changes Hint at Plans for Snow Leopard

The new public beta release of Safari 4 reveals the deepest look yet at the future of Apple's software, hinting at what's in store for the closely guarded user interface revamp coming in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, as well as appropriating ideas from other browsers and adding some original flourishes...

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Aubrey O'Day 'Would Never Say No' To Danity Kane Reunion

Aubrey O'Day doesn't want to take part in the speculation and gossip that she feels her fellow former Danity Kane members are spreading in the media about the future of the group.

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WTF Vista?!? I won't even live that long! [PIC]

I have to wait HOW LONG???

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Kindle 2 disassembly shows space for SIM

Amazon's Kindle 2 has not been in consumer hands for 24 hours, and already it's been torn apart to show every conceivable mystery that could be contained under the e-ink display.

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Gmail service outage points to a hole in the cloud

A service outage that impacted users of Google services including Gmail for approximately 75 minutes early this morning, is calling attention to a potential kink in the cloud. An estimated 113 million Gmail accounts were forced to resort to Google's new offline mode, introduced last month...

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Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7

It shouldn't surprise many testers that Microsoft has shrewdly closed the upgrade channel for users who will -- probably sooner this year than later -- be making the switch to Windows 7.

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50 Cent Says Rihanna Photo Changed His Perspective On Chris Brown Arrest

50 Cent admittedly shows less compassion than the average person when it comes to going to war in rap battles. However, in other issues, 50 has a heart, and even he knows when to not cross the line.

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Apple Announces Safari 4 - The World's Fastest Browser

Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.

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Does Facebook Hate The Olsen Twins? Yep! [PIC]

How strange. How wickedly strange.

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Heath Ledger Wins Oscar

Heath Ledger wins 'Best Supporting Actor' Academy Award!

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Complete Oscar Winners for 2009

Who won 'Best Picture?' What about 'Best Actor?' Find the complete list of Academy Award winners here.

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At Least 74 Miners Dead in China Blast

The miners were working in the Tunlan Coal Mine in Shanxi Province, the coal mining heartland of China, when the blast occurred at 2:17 a.m...

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iTunes leaks Kelly Clarkson's new album weeks before release

The Norway division of iTunes made a huge blunder yesterday when it accidentally made Kelly Clarkson’s new album, All I Ever Wanted, available for download via iTunes.

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10 Celebrity Twitters Actually Worth Following

Previously, when celebrities wanted to contact their fans, they could issue a press release or release an Internet sex tape. Twitter, however, has shattered this sacred PR trinity, and that may not be an entirely good thing. It's the rare celeb that manages to transcend and maintain a truly interesting chronicle of their moment-to-moment activity.

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Awww…Twitter helps you make friends with Shaq

So you don’t like Twitter, huh? Lots of pablum, not much content? No real human-to-human connectedness? Well you’re wrong, because Twitter helped two guys meet Shaq.

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Microsoft wants refund from some laid off employees

Software giant sends a letter to some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month letting them know they were overcompensated and that it would like the money back!

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First Legit Photo of Rihanna's Battered Face Leaks Online [PIC]

TMZ has obtained a photo of Rihanna taken after Chris Brown allegedly beat her - and the LAPD has now released a statement regarding it.

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Android G2 Hands On: Close to Perfection

HTC and Google are getting closer to perfection with the new Android G2, the HTC Magic. Nice finish, great form factor. Check out our video, including the obligatory comparison with Apple's iPhone, and hands-on impressions...

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So What Does Twitter's Founder Twitter About?

When Lance Armstrong's bike was stolen, he put out an APB to the "Twitterati." When NASA scientists make a discovery about Mars, they turn to Twitter to get the word out to avid space enthusiasts. But Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone says he doesn't Twitter all that often.

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Product Review: Knight Rider GPS by Mio

In 2008 NBC revived its popular 1980s television series Knight Rider. Only this time around K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was a Ford Mustang, not a Pontiac Trans Am. And David Hasselhoff was replaced by lead actor Justin Bruening. Maybe you've seen the show, maybe not. Bottom line, if you're looking for your very own K.I.T.T. personal navigator, the Knight Rider GPS system by Mio should be top on your list.

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Was 1999 The Best Year For Movies?

"Yeah, it was; it was absolutely the best year," Minnie Driver told MTV News recently. "I remember seeing 'The Matrix' and being floored by that film, and I was briefly in the 'South Park' movie."

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Leaked! Dr. Dre's Song 'Topless' featuring T.I and Nas

It's "Crack a Bottle" all over again. Fans are so thirsty for Dr. Dre's Detox that they are bootlegging tracks before the Doc even gets to lay down his vocals. On Wednesday (February 18), another Dre song hit New York airwaves. DJ Envy played a song called "Topless" that sounded like it was supposed to feature Nas and T.I. when finished.

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New Google Maps tweak gives you more results

Google Maps search results now show you more than they used to, information that might boost clicks on businesses that aren't on the top of Google's list.

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Playboy confronting naked truth about future

Playboy Enterprises Inc, publisher of one of the world's best known adult magazines, posted a wider fourth-quarter loss, hurt by U.S $157.2 million in restructuring and other one-time costs, as well as weaker-than-expected revenue. The company also said it would be open to discussions about an outright sale of the company.

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5 Speedy Tips For Faster Browsing In Firefox

Frankly speaking, as Internet speeds continue to increase, the loading times of webpages are becoming increasingly less of an issue. The time saved simply by having a better, more user friendly and clear interface outweighs most gains garnered from a browser which simply loads faster. Here are 5 excellent Firefox tips to make browsing even smoother...

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MySpace expands smartphone support, embraces Symbian

Social network MySpace is now battling back against Facebook by adding more smartphone support to its mobile site, including new applications for both the Palm Pre and Symbian OS-based Nokia S60 phones.

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Exclusive: Diddy Describes High-Concept New Album

If you thought Diddy's smash LP Press Play was high on concept, get ready for his next project. The New York media giant is taking it to that proverbial creative place recognized around the world as "there." And when he takes it there, he will not be alone. Diddy is part of team on the album he's titled Last Train to Paris, scheduled for September

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The 20 Best Free PC Games

There are loads of free games out there, but many of them aren't worth your time. These will have you hooked for hours.

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Mathematics: The only true universal language

If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star, we would expect some problems communicating with them. As we are many light years away, our signals would take many years to reach them, so there would be no scope for snappy repartee.

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Diamond is no longer nature’s hardest material

Diamond will always be a woman’s best friend but the gemstone is no longer the world’s hardest material, according to scientists. Instead, a rare natural substance, called lonsdaleite, which is made from carbon atoms just like diamond, has emerged as 58 per cent harder than the gemstone, according to a report in the New Scientist.

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [HD TRAILER]

Check out this NEW trailer, released with the 'Friday the 13th' movie.

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Rihanna to Chris: "Your Apology Don’t Mean Sh*t"

Singer Rihanna’s camp has declined to officially comment on Chris Brown’s apology statement, but sources say that the “Umbrella” crooner is “appalled” by Brown’s statement. “All of us, including Rihanna, don’t understand how he can say he’s sorry on the one hand, but still… does not admit any guilt,” a Barbados pal of Rihanna tells the Chicago Sun-Times. “He should have expressed more contrition.”

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No 'Dark Knight' Sequel for 2 Years

Holy bad news, Batfans! Looks like a Dark Knight sequel is at least two years away. Director Christopher Nolan has inked a deal with Warner Bros. to helm 'Inception,' based on his own screenplay. The sci-fi action film "set within the architecture of the mind" aims to begin shooting this summer and hit theaters in summer 2010, according to the studio.

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Oscar Buzz for 'Slumdog Millionaire' Stars

In just six short months, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto have gone from relative obscurity to patting Jon Stewart's shoulder and gleefully getting down Bollywood-style with Ellen DeGeneres — all a byproduct of the success of their feature-film acting debuts in "Slumdog Millionaire."

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Windows Mobile 6.5 made official, but not for older devices

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in November semi-officially confirmed that Windows Mobile 6.5 would be released in the second half of 2009, after a long run-up with rumors and speculation about Redmond's progress in the touchscreen OS field.

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Top 10 Twitter Tips for Beginners

Ready to jump into Twitter, but don't know how to get started? Follow these 10 tips and you'll fit right in.

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Did 50 Cent Cross The Line This Time?

It went deeper than rap, and in many people's minds, it crossed the line of hip-hop battling. On Wednesday, 50 Cent released a dis video on ThisIs50.com called "A Psychic Told Me," in which he threatens DJ Khaled and his mother.

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Google: now making you even more visible

Google recently cranked out several tools that exploit the search company's strength in the LBS (location based service) model. Here's a look at one for Android, and one for Gmail.

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Is text-to-speech on Kindle 2 a threat to audiobooks?

The Author's Guild aired complaints about the Kindle 2's new onboard text-to-speech function from predictive text specialists Nuance Communications, warning that the function could eventually cut into the audiobook market.

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Chris Brown 'Sorry And Saddened...Over What Transpired'

"Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired," the statement reads. "I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God's help, to emerging a better person."

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David Beckham Reluctant To Return To USA

David Beckham says he would be reluctant to return to the LA Galaxy as he seeks to make permanent his loan spell with Serie A club AC Milan.

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Why is MC Hammer Suddenly All Over Social Media?

First, Hammer popped up at this week’s Twitter-oriented “Shorty Awards,” and he didn’t go unnoticed, either. Listed as a “special appearance” and billed right under Shaq and CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Hammer ended up stealing a good bit of the spotlight from the highly covered event.

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Usher's Wife Suffered Cardiac Arrest During Plastic Surgery

The exact nature of the "family emergency" that forced Usher to miss the Grammys last Sunday has been revealed: As many had speculated, his wife, Tameka-Foster Raymond, suffered as a near-fatal plastic-surgery complication in Brazil.

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50 Seriously Useful Windows 7 Tips

They said Windows 7 was just a cosmetic upgrade, a more polished version of Vista with little to offer beyond the new wallpaper. They couldn't have been more wrong. Look beyond the headlines about interface tweaks and you'll find Windows 7 is crammed with lesser known, but still important, new and enhanced features...

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Microsoft follows Apple with retail stores

Planning a foray into standalone retail stores is risky business for a tech company not named Apple, but if Microsoft's going to take its long-rumored shot, it could have done worse than David Porter, the former DreamWorks and Wal-Mart exec they've hired to do the job.

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Aubrey O'Day Talks More About Her Playboy Shoot

Aubrey O'Day certainly isn't shy about her body. And with a Playboy photo spread about to hit newsstands on Friday, O'Day thinks that by posing for the famed men's magazine she can change people's idea of sexuality and show people it's OK to express yourself in such a way.

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U.S $4 Billion Lawsuit Filed Against Miley Cyrus for Racist Pic

A Los Angeles woman has filed a class action suit against Miley Cyrus, claiming she mocked Asians in a recent photo by slanting her eyes. Lucie J. Kim claims to represent more than 1 million Asian Pacific Islanders who live in L.A County and each Asian person is entitled to the minimum damages for a civil rights violation: U.S $4,000.

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Why Some People Are Blaming Rihanna

Based on comments MTV News has received on the incident, a surprising number of people — some of whom are apparently female — are blaming Rihanna for the alleged incident.

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Google Is Deleting Music Bloggers' Posts

Ryan Spaulding, the proprietor of Boston-based music blog 'Ryan’s Smashing Life,' noticed something odd happening to his archived posts a few months ago. A lot of posts on everything from Abba to Zappa, had vanished...

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Limp Bizkit reunites original members for World Tour

Limp Bizkit have announced that all five original members are reuniting for a world tour in the spring. A new album is also planned. In a joint statement by Fred Durst and guitarist Wes Borland, they say they were "more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other".

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Facebook's Value: U.S $3.7 Billion and Dropping

What's Facebook really worth? The fast-growing social network is adding to its 150 million users effortlessly. But revenues aren't growing as easily. And that has Mark Zuckerberg's company tied up in legal and financial knots. Last summer, the company settled a dispute with a rival social network, ConnectU...

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Twitter Is What You Make It

Just another Internet time drain, or better than e-mail and phone calls combined?

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Gmail feature lets recipients know where you are coming from

Gmail Labs announced in a blog posting Tuesday that Gmail users can now append their e-mail signature to include their current city and country location. If you are overly officious, or travel frequently and enjoy "place dropping" to your friends and colleagues that you are in Dubai, Dublin, or, um, Duluth, this feature will appeal to you.

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YouTube goes downloadable

So begins a new day for the venerable YouTube, the popular video streaming site is testing downloadable videos which include both a free and a for-pay model. Thai Tran, Product Manager at YouTube announced in the site's official blog that YouTube is "going offline."

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49 Killed as Continental Plane Crashes Into NY Home

County Executive Chris Collins said that there may have been as many as 50 people aboard the plane and crew members had reported mechanical problems as they approached Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Several injured people were taken from the scene to Erie County Medical Center for treatment.

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Subway Will NOT Be Dropping Michael Phelps

The Michael Phelps saga continues to surprise. After cereal and snack marketer Kellogg's said it would not resign the Olympic hero as an endorser due to his now infamous bong photo, some speculated fellow sponsor Subway would follow suit. Surprise.

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Therapists Say Kinky Sex Is on the Rise

What is abnormal may not necessarily be unnatural, according to sexologists who study the outer limits of the human psyche. And, increasingly, as seen in a plethora of new books and films -- not to mention thousands of sites on the Internet -- kinky sex is getting more attention.

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Chris Brown's Songs, TV Appearances Yanked From Air

As the district attorney is seeking more information on the alleged incident between Chris Brown and girlfriend Rihanna that occurred on Sunday in Los Angeles, the fallout from the story continues to impact both singers' careers.

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Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones

Just as Mozilla's developer wiki cryptically promised last week, a pre-alpha build of Firefox Mobile 'Fennec' has been made available for the HTC Touch Pro, though it'll work on many other VGA (480x640) WinMo phones.

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Twitter suspends fake Dalai Lama account

Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone, in an email to AFP, said "the account was suspended because it violated our Terms of Use regarding impersonation."

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Facebook founder paid U.S $65M settlement to classmates

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid U.S $65 Million to two former Harvard classmates who claimed he stole their idea for a social networking site, a law firm has revealed. The settlement amount in the suit waged by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Zuckerberg's ex-classmates, was supposed to be confidential.

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Gmail eases duplicate contacts problem

Google has added a new option to merge multiple contacts into a single entry. It's only treating the symptom, but it's a step in the right direction.

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Amazon Kindle: not a gamechanger...yet

Digital distribution has infiltrated media. We saw it happen with the music business and we're seeing it happen with the film business, but will it happen to the book business?

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Jay-Z to Chris Brown: "You're a Walking Deadman!"

Chris Brown is set to incur the wrath of hip-hop king Jay-Z over his alleged assault on R&B star Rihanna. Jay-Z, who discovered and mentored Rihanna, was reportedly enraged upon hearing the allegations, warning of retributions for Brown. A source tells Us Weekly magazine “He hit the roof. Chris is a walking dead man. He messed with the wrong crew."

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Very rare photo of the “end” of the rainbow [PIC]

Since there's no sign of a "pot of gold, maybe it's the beginning?

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76 Killed in Deadliest-Ever Australian Wildfires

Towering flames razed entire towns in Southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 76 on Sunday, making it the country's deadliest fire disaster...

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Man, 47, marries 8 year-old girl

A Saudi judge recently refused to annul a marriage between an 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man -- a union apparently arranged by the girl's father to settle his debts -- a lawyer in the case told CNN.

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Nissan to slash 20,000 jobs

Nissan sank into a loss for the fiscal third quarter and forecast its first full-year loss in nearly a decade on Monday, forcing Japan's third-biggest automaker to slash 20,000 jobs, or 8.5 percent of its global work force.

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Green Day's New Album, 21st Century Breakdown, Due In May

It got somewhat lost, given the Blink-182 and Chris Brown news that went down at Sunday night's Grammy Awards, but Green Day's new album finally has a title and release date. The news came with little fanfare: As GD took the stage to present the night's final award, Album of the Year, the in-house announcer simply proclaimed that their long-awaited follow-up to 2004's American Idiot would be called 21st Century Breakdown. The band didn't mention it at all, instead reading off the list of nominees, then handing the AOTY award to Alison Krauss and Robert Plant.

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Amazon launches a sleeker, spookier Kindle 2

Amazon hosted an event today at the Morgan Library in New York that officially unveiled the second generation Kindle which surfaced in leaked photos as far back as October 2008. The new Kindle has the same screen size as the original version, but has received an upgrade to the shape and durability of the chassis.

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Intel begins shipping new Atom Processor

Intel is now shipping the next generation of its Atom processor, the single core N280, to PC manufacturers. This iteration of the Atom microarchitecture has already been slated for use in Asus' latest Eee PC Netbook, the 1000HE.

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50 Cent Takes Aim At Kanye West

50 Cent recently sat down with MTV News and denied that he was referring to Kanye West when he dropped the other F-bomb on the song "Play This on the Radio." 50 hasn't really helped to shoot down speculation that the line "first they say, 'That f----t hot' " is targeted at 'Ye. Fif also calls Lil Wayne a "junkie" on the controversial track...

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Chris Brown Charged, Released On Bail

Chris Brown has been charged by the Los Angeles Police Department with making criminal threats regarding an incident he was involved in early Sunday. Bail was set at $50,000 and Brown has been released. He turned himself in to authorities late Sunday (February 8) after reports surfaced that he was involved in a domestic dispute.

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Pro Wrestler Chris Jericho Punches Woman

Pro wrestler Chris Jericho hit a woman in the face outside Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre after he lost Saturday’s RAW Live WWE bout. In the video, one man can be heard yelling at Jericho, “You’re an insult to Canadians you [expletive].” A blond girl pushes Jericho twice, and he retaliates with a swing to the face that knocks her to the ground.

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Blink-182 Confirm Reunion On Grammy Stage

It's official: With an introduction of "together again," Blink-182 confirmed that they are back in the Blink business at the Grammy Awards Sunday night (February 8) when they appeared onstage together for the first time in four years.

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Jessica Simpson forgets lyrics, walks off stage in tears

Jessica Simpson shocked fans at a concert in Michigan on Thursday night with a series of onstage blunders - with the star eventually walking off in tears.

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Google Chrome Will Have Extensions by May

A recently published document explains the process model for extensions. The latest developer versions of Google Chrome already supports user scripts, which could later become part of more complex extensions.

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Diddy's Reaction to a $1 Bill [PIC]

So Diddy was at the Cavs-Knicks game recently. He thumbed through his wallet and came across a $1 bill. His expression is priceless - "the hell did this come from??".

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Game Takes 50's Side In Rick Ross Beef

You know things aren't looking good when your enemy's enemy is laughing at you. While Rick Ross contends he's not yet excited by anything 50 Cent has thrown his way, the Game — 50 Cent's former protégé and constant thorn in the side — sure is.

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Apple's Snow Leopard to include location, multi-touch tools

Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will include tools borrowed from the iPhone that let developers determine the geographical location of Macs, as well as extend additional support for multi-touch to their apps, AppleInsider has learned.

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T.I. For President! (of Atlantic Records)

With President Barack Obama curbing executive pay earlier this week, now might not be the smartest time to switch from the recording booth to the boardroom. But T.I. is interested anyway.

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Yahoo unwraps a Search Pad

Despite the real possibility that your desk actually is composed of nothing but sticky notes and scraps of random paper, Yahoo's testing a new tool that could help you dismiss some of the daily data debris. The search engine's testing a Search Pad, an online app that the company envisions as your virtual scratch pad...

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Miley Cyrus Addresses Criticism Over Slant-Eyed Photo

"I've also been told there are some people upset about some pictures taken of me with friends making goofy faces! Well, I'm sorry if those people looked at those pics and took them wrong and out of context!" she said on her official fan site, MileyWorld, reports Perez Hilton, adding, "In no way was I making fun of any ethnicity!"

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Paris Hilton Pledges Help To The Economy

Ms. Hilton has promised to help the struggling global economy by doing what she does best - shopping!

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The Truth Behind Christian Bale's On-Set Rant

There's no excuse for a temper tantrum like that to ever occur and if you are going to act that way, you deserve to be embarrassed by your own actions. Except, here's the truth behind the audio clip...

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Beyonce Slammed By Etta James For Singing 'At Last' At Inaugural Ball

Remember a few months ago when Etta James had some nice things to say about Beyoncé's portrayal of her in "Cadillac Records"? Well, apparently the good vibes have dissipated. James unleashed a verbal beat-down on B last week during a concert in which she, believe it or not, threatened to whip the "Single Ladies" singer's butt.

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Eminem: The fall and rise of a superstar

In 2006, after the murder of his closest friend, hip-hop's most talented star became its most notorious recluse. As he returns with a new album, Guy Adams travels to Detroit to find the truth behind the tales of breakdown, paranoia and tortured genius.

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Blink-182 To Reunite At The Grammys!

Long-suffering Blink-182 fans, your prayers have been answered. Or, at least, taken a step toward being answered. On Thursday (February 5), the Recording Academy announced that Blink-182 will reunite at Sunday's 51st Annual Grammy Awards ... as presenters.

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Next Sidekick to run on NetBSD?

Fans of the Sidekick, who have fretted over the smartphone's fate since the purchase of manufacturer Danger, Inc. by Microsoft, apparently don't have Windows CE in their favorite handset's future. Instead, Microsoft's looking for...NetBSD programmers?

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Bale Goes Nuts On The Set of Terminator Salvation [AUDIO]

Christian Bale goes ballistic on some guy on the set of the new Terminator film. Graphic language kids, mind your ears.

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Michelle Obama bans daughters from mixing with celebrities

Michelle Obama, America's First Lady, has banned celebrity socialising for her daughters Malia and Sasha as she attempts to forge a normal family life in the White House.

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The Top Five Internet Scams

Internet scams are by no means a recent phenomenon, but certain scams come back again and again. Here are five popular Internet scams that you should be on the lookout for.

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Google Ocean will let users explore shipwrecks and reefs

Google users will soon be able to explore the oceans from the comfort of their living room, thanks to an upgrade to their popular Google Earth software.

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Facebook's Plan to Amp Up Ad Revenue

Think Facebook's 15 minutes are just about up? Well, one in five web users in the world is saying otherwise. Facebook lured 222 million unique visitors in December, according to ComScore, twice as many as MySpace, and it has been growing at a more than 10% rate each month since September.

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Is Apple about to release a new iPhone?

The world of Apple is awash with rumours that the Californian computer maker may be close to releasing the third version of its highly successful iPhone and that a number of handsets are already being used.

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iPhone 4G Concept Is a MacBook In a Phone

"Oh. So. Pretty. It needs some small aesthetic fixes here and there, but boy I would like to see something along these lines coming from Apple. And I like the fantasy specs too."

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Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video

Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google’s Italian site. The case involves a three-minute cellphone video, posted in 2006 to Google Video, in which four youths in Turin tease a boy with Down Syndrome.

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The new deal for Windows 7 testers

One of the major shortcomings of Windows Vista that Microsoft has quietly, though plainly, acknowledged in recent months concerned the company's relative inability to engage partners in the development process. With a respectably long development cycle, there were too many third parties that complained that they couldn't get their drivers to work.

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Five Best System Tray Applications

The Windows system tray can be so much more than a parking lot for programs you don't want cluttering up your task bar. Read on to see the five most popular tray tools our readers can't live without.

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Jennifer Hudson Lip-Synched Super Bowl Performance

By now, you've probably either read about or seen Jennifer Hudson's stirring rendition of the national anthem before Sunday night's Super Bowl. In her first public performance since her mother, brother and nephew were slain in October, Hudson delivered a stunning version of the anthem.But after the game, the show's producer, "American Idol" music director Ricky Minor, told The Associated Press that, at his request, Hudson lip-synched the anthem to a previously recorded track.

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New Google Toolbar makes Firefox look more Chrome-ish

One of Google Chrome's signature features is a "New Tab" page that shows thumbnails of favorite Web sites. The latest IE has a similar feature, though now, Google Toolbar 5 for Firefox retrofits that browser with a similar feature.

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Google Earth 5.0 shows ocean floor, Mars

Ocean adds the ability to view undersea terrain, shipwrecks, and related content that has been submitted by oceanic exploration and science experts and advocates. Historical Imagery sounds like it would be mockups of historical architecture and landscapes, but it's actually the ability to view previous renderings of the Earth as captured by Google's hardware.

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50 Cent Taunts Rick Ross: 'You're So Unimportant'

Rick Ross told 50 Cent on Friday that he'd give him 48 hours to come up with a new response after the Miami lyricist shrugged off "Officer Ricky (Go 'Head, Try Me)," the G-Unit rapper's dis song following the first musical volley shot by Ross on "Mafia Music."

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IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain

Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of global browser market share, a drop of over seven percentage points in a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications, released Monday. Mozilla's Firefox browser, meanwhile, has gained market share in the same time frame, climbing over three percentage points to 21.53 percent.

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10 Confessions Of A Cash4Gold Employee

From the acid-cloud haze of the Cash4Gold processing center steps forth a shadowy figure, fingers stained with orange testing fluid. It's an ex-Cash4Gold employee...

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Google's rumored GDrive personal cloud service

Google's GDrive -- a rumored forthcoming service for storing personal software files on cloud-based Google servers -- looks likely to launch soon, if a reference in a file used by GooglePack is a good indication.

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How Gmail Destroyed Outlook

As of this past week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There is a certain bliss to this if you've got a pile of letters that demand well-composed, unplugging the Internet can be the fastest way to get things done...

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Google Chrome gets updates, pretends to be Safari

After the initial hype that Chrome (and its subsequent first vulnerabilities) caused, the browser quietly broke the 1 percent mark of browser share. Google has now released updates addressing one moderate, and one severe security threat, and provides fixes for Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail.

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