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  Google's getting lots of kudos for sponsoring free airport Wi-Fi during the holiday season -- but free airport Wi-Fi should be the rule year round.
• Gallery of Best Windows 7 Tweaks
• Leaked: Project Natal Launch Date November 2010
• Google Latitude Gets Snoopier
• Samsung's New Smartphone OS: It's Bada News
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• AMD Promises Big Jump in Performance With Magny Cours Advanced Micro Devices is gearing up for the 2010 launch of Magny Cours, a more powerful Opteron server processor.
• GlobalFoundries Woos Customers With Expansion Plans The acquisition of Chartered by ATIC and its planned integration with GlobalFoundries will help the contract chip maker win more customers.
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• AMD Talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion AMD gave its road map for the next two years on Wednesday, including the 'Danube' quad-core notebook chip, due early next year.
• Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google Bing has added valuable tools and fun technology, making it a formidable Google competitor.
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• HP to Buy 3Com in Networking, Data Center Bid Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion.
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