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  • 10 Totally Ridiculous Combo Gadgets From a combo taser/MP3 player to a computer mouse/VoIP phone, these Frankengadgets never should have seen the light of day.
  • Dell Offers Custom Chromium OS Download For Mini 10V Dell has made available a custom downloadable version of Google's Chromium OS for their Mini 10V netbook.
  • Walmart's Black Friday Rip-off Customers arrived at 5 a.m. to find $198 laptops had all been assigned the day before to people who called the store, never mentioned in ads.
  • Cyber Monday: E-Shop Til You Drop If you didn't scoop up all the Black Friday bargains you'd hoped for, get ready for a new round of dirt-cheap discounts on Cyber Monday.
  • How to Lose Your Identity This Holiday Season Looking to expose your personal data to online thieves? Follow these five easy steps — or better yet, use them as a cautionary tale.
  • Psystar Hoped to Sell 12 Million Mac Clones Annually The unauthorized maker of OS X computers that Apple is trying to put out of business shared fantastic sales projections with potential investors.
  • iPhone Owners Gobble Up Online Media According to a new study, iPhone owners are more likely to purchase online media — such as on-demand TV on their phones — than average consumers.
  • Why E-book Readers Make Bad Holiday Gifts Sure, the e-book market has never been better — but that doesn't mean you should buy an e-book reader as a gift. At least not this year.
  • Retail Mania, IE Woes, EU Charges Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
  • New Malware Scam Targets Twilight Fans Security firm warns that a free movie offer supplies instead a contaminated viewer.
  • Buffalo Brings SuperSpeed To Blu-ray With New External Drive A new external Blu-ray burner from Buffalo promises write speeds of 12X when using USB 3.0.
  • British Hacker Loses Another Extradiction Appeal The U.K. Home Minister says Gary McKinnon must face his charges in the U.S., as the latest in a line of rebuffs.
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  • 10 Totally Ridiculous Combo Gadgets From a combo taser/MP3 player to a computer mouse/VoIP phone, these Frankengadgets never should have seen the light of day.
  • Dell Offers Custom Chromium OS Download For Mini 10V Dell has made available a custom downloadable version of Google's Chromium OS for their Mini 10V netbook.
  • Walmart's Black Friday Rip-off Customers arrived at 5 a.m. to find $198 laptops had all been assigned the day before to people who called the store, never mentioned in ads.
  • Cyber Monday: E-Shop Til You Drop If you didn't scoop up all the Black Friday bargains you'd hoped for, get ready for a new round of dirt-cheap discounts on Cyber Monday.
  • How to Lose Your Identity This Holiday Season Looking to expose your personal data to online thieves? Follow these five easy steps — or better yet, use them as a cautionary tale.
  • Psystar Hoped to Sell 12 Million Mac Clones Annually The unauthorized maker of OS X computers that Apple is trying to put out of business shared fantastic sales projections with potential investors.
  • iPhone Owners Gobble Up Online Media According to a new study, iPhone owners are more likely to purchase online media — such as on-demand TV on their phones — than average consumers.
  • Why E-book Readers Make Bad Holiday Gifts Sure, the e-book market has never been better — but that doesn't mean you should buy an e-book reader as a gift. At least not this year.
  • Retail Mania, IE Woes, EU Charges Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
  • New Malware Scam Targets Twilight Fans Security firm warns that a free movie offer supplies instead a contaminated viewer.
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