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  Budget PCs enjoy high customer satisfaction

  Compaq and Gateway gain ground in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index, but Apple maintains a wide lead.
  • Search satisfaction high as Google rules the group

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  'PS3 Slim' rumor fervor hard to fathom

  Given that Sony's flagship video game console has lagged badly behind its rivals, it's hard to see why people are so worked up over a device that might not even exist.
  • Should Sony cut PS3 to $299?

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• Users file privacy lawsuit against Facebook

  Complaint alleges that the social-networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Three men indicted in largest U.S. data breach

  Florida man accused of stealing credit card data from TJX is among those named in breach involving Heartland, 7-Eleven, Hannaford Brothers, and others.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Chrome gets bookmark sync with version 4.x

  The Windows version of Google's browser now can store bookmarks in the cloud. Also due for the 4.x version is support for some new Web features.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits

  A service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Report: Apple music event September 9

  The event is said to be completely music-focused, with no tablet announcements, according to AllThingsD.

  (Posted in Apple by Erica Ogg)

• White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports

  Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Yahoo Mail still king as Gmail lurks

  Yahoo added almost 20 million e-mail subscribers in the last year, giving it more users than Hotmail and Gmail combined. Still, Gmail is growing at a faster clip.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• A truly hands-free Bluetooth headset

  Darrell Huff, a 51-year-old from Centreville, Md., has made a truly hands-free Bluetooth headset for his quadriplegic son.

  (Posted in Crave by Nicole Lee)

• MSNBC acquires local news start-up EveryBlock

  MSNBC Interactive News has acquired a small start-up called EveryBlock to help it attract more local news readers.

  (Posted in Webware by Don Reisinger)

• Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS

  We give upcoming Netbook OS Jolicloud a spin. There's much to like, and a few things that may keep some users away.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Moonlight 2.0 goes beta

  The new test version of the Silverlight-on-Linux software incorporates Silverlight 2.0 as well as a few features from Silverlight 3.0.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• How to finance a green-tech revolution

  Venture-backed tech companies create lots of buzz, but many companies that create green jobs rely on different--and troubled--funding sources.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• IBM looks to DNA to sustain Moore's Law

  As chip geometries get infinitesimally small, IBM is looking to DNA to make manufacture of future chips feasible.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)
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