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Buy Now, Pay Now, Pay Later -- Are Game Companies Ripping Us Off?

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Buy Now, Pay Now, Pay Later -- Are Game Companies Ripping Us Off? Is the growing use of "Season Passes" to games a smart way for gamers to save money on DLC, or an underhanded way for publishers to charge $90 for their games?
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Report: Amazon 10-Inch Tablet Production Starts Early Next Year Also reported: An Amazon 7-inch tablet will ship in October 2011.
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Android Devices Exposed: 7 Ways to Thwart Hackers Take a deep breath. There's a new report out highlighting a huge spike in threats against Google's Android platform.
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Samsung Series 7 Tablet Packs a Laptop Punch The tablet can come with the same hardware specs as the Samsung Series 7 laptops, and pairs with an external keyboard to complete the package.
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TouchPad Fire Sale Redux: What We Know So Far HP says it will produce TouchPads during its fourth fiscal quarter--good news for deal-hunting TouchPad fans anxious to get their hands on the tablet before it leaves the market.
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Financial Times Ousted from Apple's App Store The newspaper refused to cooperate with Apple's new in-app subscription policies.
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In Pictures: Meet the Samsung Galaxy S II Samsung's Galaxy S II is finally arriving in the United States. Here's a look at the AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile versions of the Android phone.
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Sony Unveils Head-Mounted 3D Display Sony's visor offers the equivalent of a 62.5-foot screen viewed from about 60 feet away -- wider than most people's field of vision.
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The $99 HP TouchPad Tablet Rises From the Dead Still interested in buying a TouchPad tablet? HP says it will produce one last run of the discontinued hardware but won't commit to how many or when they will arrive.
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Tracking Stolen Laptops: Is Taking Nude Photos of 'Thieves' Going Too Far? How far can companies go when they track down stolen laptops? One judge thinks they may be taking things too far.
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Justice Department Wants AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Blocked Critics have said the merger would reduce the number of nationwide mobile carriers from four to three and could lead to higher mobile service prices.
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Google One of Many Victims in SSL Certificate Hack A Dutch company that issues digital certificates used to authenticate websites said late Tuesday that several dozen other websites in addition to Google have been affected by a security breach.
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Android Smartphones Surge to 42% Share Google's Android smartphones surged by 15% in popularity in the U.S., topping out the field with a nearly 42% share, according to a ComScore survey.
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Goodbye, Netflix DVDs...Hello, Redbox Netflix's price hike goes into effect Sept. 1--time to cancel that DVD subscription!
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The Gears of War 3 Chainsaw Money Can Absolutely Buy The final chapter in the Xbox 360 Gears of War trilogy ships in just a few weeks, and you can celebrate with a three-and-a-half foot replica machine gun.
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Linux Foundation Chief: 'You Are an Idiot' If You Don't Give Back to Open Source Linux is the granddaddy of all open source projects, the blueprint for the decentralized development processes. And some of those who use the Linux code, free...
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Akamai Employee Tried to Sell Secrets to Israel A 43-year-old former Akamai employee has pleaded guilty to espionage charges after offering to hand over confidential information about the Web acceleration company.
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Google May Tweak Search Rankings With +1 Data Google's +1 button could factor into future page rankings.
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