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Our Top Stories Tired of Patent Wars? Use Open Source Instead Legal battles may be slowing proprietary innovation to a crawl, but open source software just keeps getting better. Share: Twitter Image Galleries Open Up Business Outreach The new image service, set to go live on Monday, could drastically change the way the microblogging platform is used. Share: Phone Thief Accidentally IDs Himself via Photobucket Photobucket has a cool mobile application that allows users to automatically upload mobile pictures to the company's photo-sharing website. That's something that... Share: Google to Pay $500M to Settle DOJ Pharma Ads Charges Google has agreed to pay US$500 million to settle allegations from the U.S. government that it let online pharmacies in Canada use its AdWords system to... Share: Four Reasons the ThinkPad Tablet Is Right for Business Undaunted by the untimely demise of the HP TouchPad, Lenovo announced availability of its business-oriented ThinkPad Tablet. Here are four reasons businesses should take a closer look. Share: Twitter Turns on SSL Encryption for Some Users Twitter is slowly turning on automatic encryption on its website, a move following other major providers of web-based services to thwart account hijacking over... Share: VMware Launches a Developer Edition for Cloud Service Hoping to spark developer interest in building cloud applications, VMware has issued a free version of its Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) stack that... Share: Top Chinese Official Warns Sina's Twitter-like Service A top Chinese communist party official has urged the country's Internet companies to firmly put an end to the spread of fake and harmful information, a statement... Share: IBM Shines in Strong Q2 Server Market IBM's worldwide server revenue jumped a healthy 24.5 percent in the second quarter, putting it neck and neck with Hewlett-Packard for the top spot, IDC reported... 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Share: 4 Reasons to Use GroupMe for Work Skype is buying text messaging service GroupMe. Like Skype, the tool offers cool and unexpected uses for business. Share: Death of HP TouchPad Is Prime Opportunity for RIM PlayBook With the defunct HP TouchPad selling like wild fire, RIM should follow Microsoft's lead and find a way to embrace the customers and developers being left out in the cold by the WebOS tablet. Share: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420 Laptop, $480 TigerDirect is selling the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptop for only $480. Share: How Facebooks New Privacy Settings Will Affect Your Business Facebooks new privacy settings give users more control, and outside businesses less access, to your information. Share: Microsoft Throws Support Behind USB 3.0 With Windows 8 Microsoft is incorporating a software stack in its upcoming Windows 8 OS to natively support devices based on the USB 3.0 interconnect, which is in a battle for... 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