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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I admit it’s been a slow week … and I’ve been trying to set up a new laptop … a process made longer by having to uninstall all the Dell bloatware that comes with a new system. But I couldn’t resist posting this. A Colorado woman has decided [...]

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Hot on the heels of Chief Gizmateer’s story earlier this week, about the popularity of Apple on the Amazon.com, came some bad news … investigations into stock options grants and faked documents at Apple. These stories triggered wild fluctuations in Apple stock price as the stock took a hit.
Today [...]

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
This is crazy. I can’t believe this guy … he booked a flight to visit his girlfriend, but made a typo and booked the flight to Sydney, Montana instead of Sydney, Australia. Coming as he was from Germany, at first he thought it was possible he was making [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
What am I missing and what is the catch? divShare offers free accounts, picture galleries, no expirations, full-size pictures … all for free. I signed up for an account, ran all over the site … and can’t find an ad anywhere either.
According to their site blog, it looks [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Amazon released their numbers for the holiday season and Apple did quite well.
According to MacRumors, six of Apple’s iPod models placed in the top ten in the MP3 Player category while three MacBook models placed in the top ten in the Laptops category. Apple also placed [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Shoot, you can’t even trust chess players now. Much as many students have tried to do, a chess player was discovered to be using a Bluetooth headset to cheat at a recent tournament. The player, Umakant Sharma, had risen so quickly officials were suspicious.
Sharma was finally caught [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I’m sure you couldn’t have forgotten, not with all the picture of fiery laptops on the web, but just a few days before the end of the year, Dell wants to make sure you remember: check your laptop batteries to be sure they aren’t part of the recall.
On Dec. [...]

ShareJimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, intends to start his own search engine. The project would be called Wikiasari (from wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”). He indicated it would use the same user-based technology, which sounds like the idea would be to [...]