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Laptop Sweet Spot: 12 Winners That Cost $650 or Less

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Laptop Sweet Spot: 12 Winners That Cost $650 or Less Need more PC punch than a netbook but less than a top-of-the-line desktop replacement? Here's a clutch of laptops that will get the job done.
Twitter: Your 'Tweets' Belong to You Twitter has revised its terms of service, in part by stating clearly that messages posted to the site belong solely to their authors.
Sprint Redefines Unlimited' Mobile-to-Mobile Sprint has just thrown down the gauntlet with a potentially game-changing feature: unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling...regardless of mobile carrier.
DOJ Scrutiny of Microsoft Deal Could Be Bad News For Yahoo Scrutiny could spell disaster for Yahoo if the DOJ ultimately rejects the company's partnership with Microsoft.
Race is On to Patch Critical Windows Flaw Security experts are concerned about the potential impact of a new security hole affecting the Windows operating system.
Hacker Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to 20 Charges Hacker Albert Gonzalez pleads guilty to 20 computer hacking and credit card fraud charges in Massachusetts and New York.
Motorola and T-Mobile Hope to Rebound Together With Cliq Motorola announced its first mobile device based on the Google Android operating system.
China's Alibaba Expects India Joint Venture This Year Top Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com aims to announce an Indian joint venture this year as the company expands its global footprint.
Google Helps Users Jump Ship to Rival Web Services Google is making it as easy as possible for people to quit its Web services in a bid to increase trust in cloud computing.
Alibaba Mulls Yahoo China Future After Bing Deal Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo China, has not decided how to change updates to the search engine's algorithm after the Yahoo-Bing deal, which excludes it.
Powerful Tool to Scour Document Metadata Updated A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of software that can be used to perform open-source intelligence gathering on a company's Web site.
Palm Introduces the Pixi Smartphone, The Pre's Smaller Sibling Palm's new Pixi smartphone, based on the Pre, also uses the company's new webOS.
IBM, European Researchers Develop Multimedia Search Tool IBM revealed details of work it is doing with European partners to develop a better way to search for images online.
Ning Adds Apps to Its White-label Social Networking Platform Ning is now offering applications for users' sites that add new capabilities in areas such as communcation, e-commerce and collaboration.
Facebook Releases Real-time Web Server Tech as Open Source Facebook is releasing open-source software to help developers build Twitter-like applications that let users post real-time updates.
Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal Faces DOJ Review The U.S. DOJ will review a search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo.
Bing 2.0, Thin Laptops Revealed at Microsoft Meeting Microsoft employees, who attended the company meeting today, said that a new version of Bing and some very thin laptops are on the way.
MediaFLO TV Coming to Cars, MP3 Players Qualcomm's MediaFLO wireless broadcast network will soon be available on in-car and portable media players.
White House CIO to Disclose Cloud Computing Plans White House CIO Vivek Kundra is set to unveil the government's cloud computing plan next week in Silicon Valley.
New Search Engine Targets Muslim Web Users New search engine tries to protect Muslims from content that is considered forbidden
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