• Verizon Employees Accessed Obama's Mobile Record

  
  Verizon has suspended employees who accessed the account information of President-elect Obama.

• Virgin's In-Flight Wi-Fi Coming Monday

  
  Virgin America's in-flight Wi-Fi service launches on Monday.

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• Geek Tech
  Getting to the Core of Intel's New Core i7 CPUs Intel's new Core i7 processors (its first to use Nehalem architecture) are now powering a home PC near you.
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  Google Considers Preinstalling Chrome On New PCs Google is far from bowing out of the browser wars. Latest reports indicate Google will attempt to have its Web browser pre-installed on PC.
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  Study: Wii Games Hit Bargain Bins Faster Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) claims more Wii games underperforming than PS3 and Xbox 360 games.
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  Hands On with Square Enix's The Last Remnant The new "East-meets-West" roleplaying game from Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix is tactically adventurous but visually confusing.
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  Black Friday will be Big Despite Lousy Economy, Survey Says Digital gear tops the shopping lists of many who plan to line up after Turkey Day.
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  Google SearchWiki Addition Fails to Wow Did Google fall flat on its face with Google SearchWiki? I think it did. This feature has got to go.
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  YouTube Experiments with High-Quality Video A few options offer an escape from grainy, blurry video--but there's not yet much of the high-quality stuff to see.
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  Verizon Flunks Privacy Test Employees who snooped on Obama's account are suspended, but why aren't telecom companies guarding our privacy?
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  Apple Updates iPhone Software: Maps, Podcasts Enhanced Apple has updates the iPhone's firmware to 2.2 adding enhancements to Google Maps, podcasts, and more.
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  Spending Time Online May Help Teens, Study Says Study suggests Internet use by teenagers could actually be helping their development in ways past generations don't always understand.
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  Elven Legacy: Colorful, Nonlinear, and Surprisingly Turn-Based It's an actual turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world with a nonlinear storyline, suggesting that sometimes pigs really can fly.
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  Tom Brady Teams Up With OLPC Injured quarterback is buying 1,500 low-cost computers and will send them overseas.