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• Looking Back at 2010: The Year's Most Relevant Tech Stories
  December 31, 2010
• Samsung plans to outpace Nokia in three years
  December 30, 2010
• HP's Sandy Bridge-powered dv6, dv7 appear in stores
  December 30, 2010
• Weekend game deals: L4D2 $6.79, Oblivion GotY $9.99
  December 30, 2010
• Taiwan motherboard makers fall short of 2010 shipment goals
  December 30, 2010
• Amazon enables Kindle e-book lending in the US
  December 30, 2010
• Skype adds video calls to iPhone app, works on 3G/Wi-Fi
  December 30, 2010
• Call of Duty: Black Ops named 2010's most pirated PC game
  December 29, 2010
• Toshiba preps AMD Brazos-based NB550D netbook
  December 30, 2010
• Bing celebrates holidays by giving away 500,000 songs
  December 29, 2010
• MSI intros Big Bang Marshal board with eight PCIe x16 slots
  December 29, 2010
• HP reduces Envy 13 notebook by $450, preparing for refresh?
  December 29, 2010
• Intel intros ultra-compact 310 SSD series
  December 29, 2010
• MSI to pair Big Bang boards with Bigfoot gaming NIC?
  December 29, 2010
• Netflix considers overseas expansion in 2011
  December 29, 2010
• Lian Li PC-V2120 Full Tower Case Review
  December 29, 2010
• WiMAX live in San Francisco, AT&T expands Wi-Fi initiative
  December 29, 2010
• MSI preps 11.6" Wind 270 with 1.6GHz AMD Zacate chip
  December 28, 2010
• Sears launches movie download service Alphaline Entertainment
  December 28, 2010
• Rumor: Apple to offer CDMA version of iPad 2
  December 28, 2010
• Tuesday tech deals: Lenovo HTPC remote for $25
  December 28, 2010
• Asus preps tablets, Sandy Bridge notebooks for CES
  December 28, 2010
• Mozilla designer proposes website privacy icons
  December 28, 2010
• Samsung to challenge iPod Touch with Galaxy Player
  December 28, 2010
• Super Talent announces Indilinx-based UltraDrive MT SSD
  December 28, 2010
• Onkyo unveils 10.1" TA117 tablet with Tegra 2
  December 27, 2010
• Windows 7 Family Pack to be yanked December 31?
  December 27, 2010
• Kindle is the bestselling product in Amazon's history
  December 27, 2010
• Dell cuts Adamo 13 price, upgrades specs
  December 27, 2010
• AMD Radeon HD 6950 Review
  December 27, 2010
• Rumor: Logitech puts Revue production on hold
  December 27, 2010
• Radeon HD 6950 can be hacked into a 6970 with BIOS flash
  December 27, 2010
• Toshiba strikes chip deals with Samsung and Sony
  December 24, 2010
• CityVille eclipses FarmVille to become world's biggest game
  December 24, 2010
• Happy holidays from the TechSpot team!
  December 24, 2010
• Skype to release video-calling for mobile devices?
  December 24, 2010
• Facebook passes Yahoo, becomes world's third largest website
  December 24, 2010
• KinEmote brings Kinect to Boxee and XBMC on Windows
  December 24, 2010
• Financial Times names Steve Jobs Person of the Year
  December 24, 2010
• Netflix working on HTML5 standard for streaming video
  December 24, 2010
• EA: microtransactions are more profitable than in-game ads
  December 24, 2010
• Acer readies Aspire One 522 with AMD Fusion
  December 23, 2010
• DC Universe Online coming January 11, 2011
  December 23, 2010
• Microsoft denies Kinect improvement rumors
  December 23, 2010
• ECS, Asus, MSI to have tablets at CES, Android 3.0 in March?
  December 23, 2010
• eBay tells late shoppers to go elsewhere
  December 23, 2010
• Skype plans to compensate users for outage
  December 23, 2010
• Elliptic Labs brings Minority Report interface to the iPad
  December 23, 2010
• Americans can't live without high-speed Internet, or e-mail
  December 23, 2010
• Rumor: Microsoft to relaunch PC gaming with Windows 8
  December 23, 2010
• Tech Tip: Preview Shortened URLs and Avoid Security Threats
  December 23, 2010
• Craigslist closes all adult services worldwide
  December 22, 2010
• Apple TV to pass 1 million sales mark this week
  December 22, 2010
• Acer, Asustek, Lenovo to launch ultra-thin notebooks at CES?
  December 22, 2010
• Would you buy a Motorola Xoom?
  December 22, 2010
• Avatar wins another award: Most Pirated Movie of 2010
  December 22, 2010
• Gmail creator: Google just can't compete with Facebook
  December 22, 2010
• Skype outage affects millions of users
  December 22, 2010
• ViewSonic: G-Tablet isn't defective, just buggy
  December 22, 2010
• Wednesday tech deals: GeForce GTX 460 768MB for $90
  December 22, 2010
• Sony debuts Music Unlimited streaming service
  December 22, 2010
• Amazon expected to sell 8 million Kindles in 2010
  December 22, 2010
• Synology intros high-performance DS1511+ NAS server
  December 22, 2010
• Rumor: Microsoft working on ARM-friendly Windows OS
  December 22, 2010
• Google to give its employees free Nexus S devices
  December 22, 2010
• HP to unveil three webOS tablets at CES?
  December 21, 2010
• Rumor: Kinect to support PC games
  December 21, 2010
• FTC approves Intel's $7.68 billion purchase of McAfee
  December 21, 2010
• Call of Duty: Black Ops rakes in over $1 billion
  December 21, 2010
• Lian Li unveils new PC-A04 mini-tower chassis
  December 21, 2010
• Rumor: PlayStation Phone launch in February, in stores by April
  December 21, 2010
• FCC approves net neutrality rules, for better or for worse
  December 21, 2010
• Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 8
  December 21, 2010
• Microsoft sells 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices in six weeks
  December 21, 2010
• Verizon teases LTE-capable Android devices for CES
  December 21, 2010
• Roku CEO: Apple TV launch helped boost Roku sales
  December 21, 2010
• FCC set to vote on net neutrality rules today
  December 21, 2010
• Blogger is most reliable blogging service, Tumblr the worst
  December 20, 2010
• Google extends free Gmail calling until end of 2011
  December 20, 2010
• Steam launches holiday sale, discounts 1000+ games
  December 20, 2010
• Rumor: Microsoft to quadruple Kinect accuracy via update
  December 20, 2010
• Sandy Bridge processors on sale at Malaysian retailers
  December 20, 2010
• Minecraft reaches Beta status, price goes up
  December 20, 2010
• Motorola teases Android 3.0, criticizes iPad and Galaxy Tab
  December 20, 2010
• BitDefender offers security solution for BitTorrent and uTorrent
  December 20, 2010
• Rumor: Nokia to embrace Windows Phone 7
  December 20, 2010
• Microsoft retires Office Genuine Advantage program
  December 20, 2010
• OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB PCI-Express SSD Review
  December 20, 2010
• Google TV partners asked to delay CES announcements
  December 20, 2010
• ITU softens stance on 4G wireless definition
  December 20, 2010
• UK government wants to block all Internet porn
  December 19, 2010
• Weekend tech reading: 25% of PC users disable antivirus
  December 19, 2010
• Google sandboxes Flash in Chrome, adds WebGL support
  December 18, 2010
• Intel's Sandy Bridge processors have a remote kill switch
  December 18, 2010
• WOF: What software are you willing to pay for?
  December 18, 2010
• L.A. Noire: Facial recognition like you've never seen it before
  December 17, 2010
• MSE 2.0 released with heuristics, network inspection
  December 17, 2010
• Facebook named best place to work in the US
  December 17, 2010
• Word Lens: translate in real time with just your phone's camera
  December 17, 2010
• Weekend game deals: 25% off Civilization V
  December 17, 2010
• Hitachi releases first one-disk 7mm 500GB HDD
  December 17, 2010
• ARM to take on Intel and AMD servers in 2014
  December 17, 2010
• Dropbox finally hits version 1.0
  December 17, 2010
• Kinect sex game coming to the PC
  December 17, 2010
• Google TV gets first update, voice-enabled Android app
  December 16, 2010
• Adobe: Flash Player 10.2 to be 10 times more efficient
  December 16, 2010
• Square Enix delays Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  December 17, 2010
• Google Nexus S now available at Best Buy, but will it succeed?
  December 16, 2010
• Download of the Week: LookInMyPC
  December 16, 2010
• New record for illegal music downloads: 1.2 billion in 2010
  December 16, 2010
• LG Optimus 2X: the first dual-core smartphone
  December 16, 2010
• MPAA and BREIN shut down 29 file-sharing sites
  December 16, 2010
• Call of Duty: Black Ops gets performance, bug fixes on PC
  December 16, 2010
• Opera 11 released, adds extensions and tab stacking
  December 16, 2010
• Microsoft tries to help Firefox with HTML5 video
  December 16, 2010
• Tech Tip: Tool Up and Regain Control of your Gmail Inbox
  December 16, 2010
• Time picks Alan Wake as top game of 2010
  December 15, 2010
• Paramount: enhanced movies exclusively for Windows Phone 7
  December 15, 2010
• Google delays fiber optic project until early 2011
  December 16, 2010
• Wednesday tech deals: 2TB WD Caviar Green for $75
  December 15, 2010
• Super Talent launches portable USB 3.0 hard drive
  December 15, 2010
• Gmail creator: Chrome OS is as good as dead
  December 15, 2010
• Pioneer ships first BDXL optical drive, priced at $200
  December 15, 2010
• Intel and AMD stuck in market share stalemate in Q3 2010
  December 15, 2010
• Time Magazine names Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year
  December 15, 2010
• Amazon sold more Kindles in the last 73 days than all of 2009
  December 15, 2010
• Google Voice Search gets personalized recognition
  December 15, 2010
• French ISP Free launches its set-top box revolution
  December 15, 2010
• Seagate introduces 5,900RPM Barracuda Green drives
  December 15, 2010
• AMD Radeon HD 6970 Review
  December 15, 2010
• McDonald's hacked and customer data stolen
  December 14, 2010
• GNU founder: using Chrome OS is "careless computing"
  December 14, 2010
• Rumor: Microsoft to show off Windows 8 at CES 2011
  December 14, 2010
• Nokia cutting about 800 jobs in Finland, delays E7 until 2011
  December 14, 2010
• Humble Indie Bundle 2 unveiled, includes Braid, Machinarium
  December 14, 2010
• 1.3 million Gawker emails and passwords available in a torrent
  December 14, 2010
• Sixth Circuit: US government needs warrant to read your email
  December 14, 2010
• Amazon MP3 goes into beta for BlackBerry smartphones
  December 14, 2010
• Google launches YouTube Trends for tracking viral videos
  December 14, 2010
• Samsung to sell luxury Galaxy Tab for $1,000
  December 14, 2010
• Apple to secure iPhone LCD sourcing with plant investment
  December 14, 2010
• Yahoo to announce layoff of up to 700 employees
  December 14, 2010
• Light Peak to debut using copper instead of fiber optics
  December 14, 2010
• Americans spend as much time online as watching TV
  December 14, 2010
• Paul Allen's suit against the Web dismissed
  December 13, 2010
• Seagate announces first 1TB 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive
  December 13, 2010
• Google and Microsoft tricked into serving malware ads
  December 13, 2010
• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm breaks first-day PC sales record
  December 13, 2010
• Verizon to kill Kin Studio on January 31
  December 13, 2010
• Google Latitude app arrives for iOS
  December 13, 2010
• Netflix adds more content in Canada
  December 13, 2010
• Dell to acquire Compellent for $960 million
  December 13, 2010
• AMD previews new Catalyst Control Center
  December 13, 2010
• Microsoft to fix 40 vulnerabilities in 2010's last Patch Tuesday
  December 13, 2010
• More details surface on Motorola's Android 3.0 tablet
  December 13, 2010
• FCC: 68% of US broadband connections aren't broadband
  December 12, 2010
• Weekend tech reading: Elder Scrolls V, Mass Effect 3 announced
  December 12, 2010
• Apple quietly kills jailbreak detection API in iOS
  December 11, 2010
• Will Microsoft update Windows Phone 7 on a monthly basis?
  December 12, 2010
• Microsoft has been funding anti-Google group since 2007
  December 11, 2010
• Foxconn now has more than 1 million employees
  December 10, 2010
• Mozilla patches 11 security flaws in Firefox
  December 10, 2010
• Rumor: Apple ditching Nvidia for Intel and AMD
  December 10, 2010
• Kinect does Minority Report interface, Air Guitar prototype
  December 10, 2010
• Weekend game deals: 33% off Mafia II, Crysis Warhead
  December 10, 2010
• PlayStation Phone gets preliminary benchmark results
  December 10, 2010
• Weekend Open Forum: Gadgets you can't live without
  December 10, 2010
• HTC to triple the number of handsets in 2011
  December 10, 2010
• Adobe announces Flash Player for Chrome OS
  December 10, 2010
• Iomega eGo 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review
  December 10, 2010
• Rumor: Windows 8 to have two user interfaces
  December 10, 2010
• Lian Li intros $500 Tyr PC-X500FX mid-tower chassis
  December 10, 2010
• Microsoft tried to buy Facebook outright for $15 billion
  December 9, 2010
• Spotify won't launch in the US this year, will cost $10 per month
  December 9, 2010
• Google now activating 300,000 Android phones daily
  December 9, 2010
• Notion Ink preparing for Adam preorders, pricing starts at $375
  December 9, 2010
• Lenovo announces new Sandy Bridge notebooks, desktop
  December 9, 2010
• YouTube removing 15 minute upload length, for some
  December 9, 2010
• New BitTorrent client offers truly decentralized P2P
  December 9, 2010
• DivX HiQ better than Adobe at Flash video?
  December 9, 2010
• Google shows off Motorola tablet prototype with Android 3.0
  December 9, 2010
• Intel's Atom to ship in over 35 tablets next year
  December 9, 2010
• Netflix strikes deal with Disney and ABC
  December 8, 2010
• Quadrotor uses Kinect as an obstacle avoidance system
  December 8, 2010
• TI intros dual-core 1.5GHz SoC for phones, tablets
  December 8, 2010
• Intel, AMD, system builders to drop VGA by 2015
  December 8, 2010
• Android users are the biggest data hogs
  December 8, 2010
• Single software license shared 770,000 times
  December 8, 2010
• Apple releases QuickTime 7.6.9, fixes 15 security flaws
  December 8, 2010
• LCD makers fined €649 million for price fixing
  December 8, 2010
• Dell continues comeback in Q3 2010, Asus enters top five
  December 8, 2010
• Amazon launches Kindle App for Web, but Google is no friend
  December 7, 2010
• OnLive coming to iPad, Android, has potential beyond gaming
  December 7, 2010
• Steam contest gives you a chance to win 100 games
  December 7, 2010
• Google opens Chrome Web Store, first Chrome OS hardware
  December 7, 2010
• Tuesday tech deals: $360 off 55" Sharp HDTV
  December 7, 2010
• Apple to release iPad 2 in April 2011
  December 7, 2010
• Toshiba readying three new tablet PCs for Q1 2011
  December 7, 2010
• US Copyright Group drops 97% of cases against torrent users
  December 7, 2010
• Consumer Reports rates AT&T the worst carrier in the US
  December 7, 2010
• Futuremark releases basic and advanced 3DMark 11
  December 7, 2010
• Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) Review
  December 7, 2010
• AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition CPU Review
  December 6, 2010
• Nvidia launches 500-series mobile graphics with rebadged GT 435M
  December 6, 2010
• Rumor: Seagate rejected Western Digital takeover bid
  December 6, 2010
• Lawsuit finds that EMI distributed music illegally on Rapidshare
  December 6, 2010
• Google buys antipiracy firm Widevine for on demand video
  December 6, 2010
• Mozilla launches Firefox Live to promote browser
  December 6, 2010
• Google officially introduces Android 2.3 and Nexus S
  December 6, 2010
• Microsoft: Kinect shortage is not a strategy
  December 6, 2010
• Google eBookstore launches with more than 3 million titles
  December 6, 2010
• Apple lays down Mac App Store rules, launching next week?
  December 6, 2010
• Skype preparing to launch web-based service in 2011
  December 6, 2010
• Asrock Vision 3D HTPC Review
  December 6, 2010
• Micron intros NAND memory with onboard error management
  December 6, 2010
• PayPal drops WikiLeaks following cable controversy
  December 6, 2010
• Viacom: YouTube ruling will "completely destroy" copyright
  December 5, 2010
• Weekend tech reading: Get an iPhone 4 for $25 with 3GS trade-in
  December 5, 2010
• PlayStation Phone shown off running Android 2.3
  December 4, 2010
• Weekend Open Forum: How often do you beat games?
  December 3, 2010
• Microsoft: Google is failing in the enterprise
  December 3, 2010
• Android to pass iOS before iOS catches up to BlackBerry
  December 3, 2010
• FBI arrests Russian man responsible for a third of spam
  December 3, 2010
• Rumor: Google-branded Chrome OS netbook on December 7
  December 3, 2010
• US companies losing billions of dollars on lost laptops
  December 3, 2010
• Weekend game deals: 50% off Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2
  December 3, 2010
• Sony sells TV with a built-in PlayStation 2
  December 3, 2010
• Google found guilty of trespassing, has to pay $1
  December 3, 2010
• Kinect hack makes the user invisible
  December 3, 2010
• AVG Free 2011 update pulled, crashing Windows 7 systems
  December 3, 2010
• OnLive unveils $10 monthly plan, to become the Netflix of gaming?
  December 2, 2010
• Google releases stable version of Chrome 8
  December 2, 2010
• Judge in Xbox 360 modding trial: what are we doing here?
  December 2, 2010
• LimeWire Store also being closed down
  December 2, 2010
• Microsoft announces Silverlight 5 with hardware acceleration
  December 2, 2010
• IBM working on laser-based chips with speeds of over 1Tbps
  December 2, 2010
• Zotac intros HTPC AMD motherboards with USB, SATA 3.0
  December 2, 2010
• YouTube launches ads that you can skip
  December 2, 2010
• Nvidia launches NVS 300 for multi-display enterprise setups
  December 2, 2010
• Asus readies Eee Reader DR900 with 9-inch touchscreen
  December 3, 2010
• Tech Tip: Speed Up Firefox by Loading Tabs On-demand
  December 2, 2010
• Verizon to roll out 4G LTE network Sunday, December 5
  December 2, 2010
• HP kills Windows Home Server options, to focus on WebOS
  December 1, 2010
• Microsoft introduces Xbox Live Rewards program
  December 1, 2010
• RIM's BlackBerry OS passes Apple's iOS in US mobile Internet traffic
  December 1, 2010
• MSI announces fanless Atom-based SFF motherboard
  December 1, 2010
• Visiontek intros GPU/NIC hybrid, but why should gamers bother?
  December 1, 2010
• Adobe releases Flash 10.2 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux
  December 1, 2010
• Dell Venue Pro finally available, ships on December 9
  December 1, 2010
• Netflix getting first-run movies sooner, same time as pay TV
  December 1, 2010
• ChevronWP7: Windows Phone 7 unlocker discontinued
  December 1, 2010
• Samsung shows flexible 3D OLED TV concept
  December 1, 2010
• Google launching Google Editions ebook store by year's end
  December 1, 2010
• Seagate ends acquisition talks, starts $2 billion buyback
  December 1, 2010