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General Tech News Feeds (Updated every hour)

TechCrunch

   02/09/2010 Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day

   02/09/2010 Foursquare Signing Mainstream Partnership Deals Left And Right

   02/09/2010 The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands

   02/08/2010 The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes

   02/08/2010 blueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave

   02/08/2010 Video: “Parisian Oops” Mocks Google’s Super Bowl Commercial

   02/08/2010 The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web

   02/08/2010 Google Launches Phone Support For The Nexus One, Lowers ETF By $200

   02/08/2010 Still No Native Comments, But Tumblr Toys With Photo Replies

   02/08/2010 The Richter Scales Debut Animated Video Of “I’ve Got Mail And I’ve Got It Made”

CNet News

   02/08/2010 Google launches Nexus One phone support

   02/08/2010 Did this Metro PCS ad make the tech world cringe?

   02/08/2010 iPad pricing: How low can you go, Apple?

   02/08/2010 Twins learn of teen brother's death on Facebook

   02/08/2010 Silicon: It's good for you, especially in beer

   02/08/2010 University worker accused of extorting student file sharers

   02/08/2010 TweetDeck gets a few tweaks

   02/08/2010 Boeing's next-gen 747 takes first flight

   02/08/2010 Former Intel exec pleads guilty in Galleon case

   02/08/2010 Next-generation 747 takes first air (photos)

PC World Headlines

   02/08/2010 Google Eyes Social Net Role for Gmail

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   02/08/2010 IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers

   02/08/2010 LG, Samsung Go Social With Latest Handsets

   02/08/2010 Touchdown! Google's Top Super Bowl Searches

   02/08/2010 Windows 7 Just Being Honest About Battery Life

   02/08/2010 Keep Clear of Craigslist Scams

   02/08/2010 IHound Aims to Help You Find Your Missing IPhone

   02/08/2010 Rumor: Core i7 Coming Soon to MacBook Pro?

   02/08/2010 Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance?

Slashdot

   02/09/2010 Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee

   02/09/2010 Game Development In a Post-Agile World

   02/08/2010 IBM Releases Power7 Processor

   02/08/2010 Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility

   02/08/2010 Virtualizing a Supercomputer

   02/08/2010 Study Says OOXML Unsuitable For Norwegian Government

   02/08/2010 Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU

   02/08/2010 Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator

   02/08/2010 New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries

   02/08/2010 Verizon Blocking 4chan

Info World

   02/08/2010 Oracle buys SOA management vendor AmberPoint

   02/08/2010 Update: SAP hits reset button with CEO change

   02/08/2010 IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers

   02/08/2010 Google goes deep for the Super Bowl

   02/08/2010 Enterprises clamor for usage-based software pricing

   02/08/2010 The iPad questions Apple won't answer

   02/08/2010 InfoWorld review: Windows on the Mac

   02/08/2010 CrossOver: Windows apps without Windows

Gizmodo

   02/09/2010 Publishers Tell Google and Their Ebook Plans to Get Bent [Rumor]

   02/08/2010 Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad [Google]

   02/08/2010 An HD Video Tour of the International Space Station [Space]

   02/08/2010 Apple Job Posting Suggests Cameras in Future iPads [Rumors]

   02/08/2010 It May Be Creepy, But This Case's Ad Is Popcorn-Worthy [Wtf]

   02/08/2010 Prepaid Cellphone Users Less Likely to Return Calls [Data]

   02/08/2010 Best Buy's MacBook Pro SKUs Go Missing, Might Mean Core i5 Refresh Soon [Rumor]

   02/08/2010 The Scale That Thinks It's a Rug [Concepts]

   02/08/2010 Google Wants To Control All Communication [Google]

   02/08/2010 Why Paint Your Room When You Can Get a Color-Changing Wall Instead [Concept]

LifeHacker

   02/08/2010 From the Tips Box: Backyard Igloos, Sink Mats, and Taskbar Arrangement [From The Tips Box]

   02/08/2010 Remains of the Day: Netflix Streaming's 1080p Upgrade Edition [For What It's Worth]

   02/08/2010 TweetDeck Updates with YouTube and Flickr Support, Improved Column Navigation [Updates]

   02/08/2010 Today Is National PC Cleanup Day, So Let's Tidy Up Your System [Computers]

   02/08/2010 The Majority of You Aren't Interested in Paying More than $10 for an E-Book [What You Said]

   02/08/2010 AudioBox Puts Your Music Library in the Cloud So It's Accessible Anywhere [Media Players]

   02/08/2010 UltraDefrag Is a Portable and Open-Source Disk Defragmenter [Downloads]

   02/08/2010 Quickly Backup Your Firefox Profile with about:support [Firefox Tip]

   02/08/2010 Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases]

   02/08/2010 StorageFront Catalogs and Compares Self-Storage Facilities [Storage]

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