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Frank Thorsberg, PC World Editors
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CES 2009: Picks and Pans From the Show Floor
Besides getting early glimpses of this year's technology, our favorite part of CES coverage is our annual choices of the highs and lows of the show. And this year, as always, there were plenty of both.
For the best of what our CES team saw in Las Vegas, we present our slide show: Best Products of CES 2009. It's here that you'll see great small camcorders, innovative Web services, the details on Palm's new Pre phone, a robot or two and much more.
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Shopping this season for a tekkie, a geek, a nerd, a home office dweller, a tech fanatic, or even the most important person of all--yourself? Are you working with an unlimited budget, pinching the pennies until they squeal, or perhaps you're just reasonably flush?
Let us save you some time.
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Cook: Apple Will 'Double Down' on Siri and Secrecy At the D10 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company is doubling down on Siri, played coy about Apple’s approach to the gaming and television markets, and spoke emotionally about Jobs’ death.
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Tim Cook at D10 Talks Secrecy, Siri, and Facebook Apple CEO in his own words at D10 Conference.
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WikiLeaks Leader Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden for questioning about allegations of sexual offenses, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday...
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TED Head: Online Video, Education Platform Are the Future The head of TED, the organizer of conferences around brainy presentations on a wide variety of subjects, says online video will continue to play a central role...
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Nearly a Fifth of U.S. PCs Have No Virus Protection, McAfee Finds A McAfee study of PCs around the world found that 17 percent had no antivirus protection, and the U.S. outpaced the average with 19 percent of PCs unprotected.
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Cook: Apple Will 'Double Down' on Siri and Secrecy
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Tim Cook at D10 Talks Secrecy, Siri, and Facebook
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How to Use Plex to Get Media From PC to Roku Box
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Square Mobile Payment System Review: Tiny Reader, Simple Apps
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PayAnywhere Review: A Feature-Rich Mobile Payment Processor
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VeriFone SAIL Review: Mobile Payment Processor Has Some Impressive Features
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Intuit GoPayment Review: Processing System Includes a Sturdy Card Reader
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Four Mobile Payment Systems Tested and Compared
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How to Edit Office Documents on Your Tablet
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10 Coolest Tech Devices to Bring to Work
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Fedora Linux 17 'Beefy Miracle' Makes Its Official Debut
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The New DDoS: Silent, Organized, and Profitable
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