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Music cloud services seem to be all the rage for iPhones and Android phones these days. However, perhaps due to its reputation as a business device, the BlackBerry has been left out in the cold in most cases. Luckily, if you use this particular mobile OS, Sugarsync doesn’t want your life to be all work [...]

More than half a million Sony laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said Wednesday.
Sony has recorded 39 cases of overheating among Vaio F and C series laptops that have been on sale since January.
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Apple passed a major milestone today, becoming the world’s largest technology company as measured by the total value of its shares.
Near the close of trading on the Nasdaq exchange, Apple’s market capitalization stood at $223 billion, higher than No. 2 Microsoft, which had a market cap of $219.3 billion.
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Google on Friday began giving students priority access to its Google Voice service, which has remained in a closed beta since its transition from GrandCentral in March of last year.
Typically, invites for the service can take anywhere from a few hours to several months to arrive after a user signs up. But the company [...]

Ever tried to share a Twitter account with someone else? Probably not, but there are a growing number of businesses that do it on a daily basis. And until Twitter’s own “contributors” service is available to the general public, there’s room for companies that have come up with solutions that don’t require sharing your log-in [...]

Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to charge up to $25 a month in online purchases to their Verizon Wireless accounts.
The carrier today announced that the e-commerce payment service, based on services created by Danal will be launched later this spring.
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A few years ago it was a big deal to find a place that would let you share 1 gigabyte of files.
Things change, though. Bandwidth keeps growing, and the cost of Web storage keeps shrinking. That’s good news for people looking to share increasingly large files, be it an HD video recording or an archive [...]

User e-mail addresses on Facebook have come a long way. For years, Facebook converted them into a static image to keep potential spammers and data thieves at bay. As a result, it made copying them a serious pain, as you’d need to have whatever e-mail tool you were using in one window, and that user’s [...]

The Boeing Co. late last week issued 1,000 layoff notices to employees, many of them working in IT.
The company sent 60-day layoff notices to the workers, who are at risk of being laid off on April 23. Of those notices, about 800 went to employees of Boeing’s Engineering, Operations & Technology unit; most of the [...]

The Boeing Co. late last week issued 1,000 layoff notices to employees, many of them working in IT.
The company sent 60-day layoff notices to the workers, who are at risk of being laid off on April 23. Of those notices, about 800 went to employees of Boeing’s Engineering, Operations & Technology unit; most of the [...]