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  The 5 best (and worst) game preorder trends

  Retailers love customers who preorder games, and they're working harder and harder to come up with gift items to offer to those who do.

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  Yahoo ponders the meaning of search

  Company appeared to wave a white flag in the search market when it agreed to an outsourcing deal with Microsoft, but is search more than just indexing and ranking?

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• Sidekick outage casts cloud over Microsoft

  Although Microsoft inherited Danger's service, this week's massive failure could call into question the broader reliability of depending on keeping data in Redmond's cloud.
  • Missing data may be gone for good

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Cirque du Soleil founder, station fliers, return to Earth

  Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA flight engineer Michael Barratt returned to Earth Sunday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

  (Posted in The Space Shot by William Harwood)

• Downed Facebook accounts still haven't returned

  It's been a week and some members say they still receive a "down for maintenance" error message when trying to access their profiles.
  • 'The Social Network' filming starts in Boston soon

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Solar homes go for high-tech and practicality

  Contestants from the Solar Decathlon in Washington build net zero-energy homes that push the envelope of green building design using solar and energy efficiency.
  • Photos: Solar Decathlon, start your houses

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Hacked Web mail accounts used to send spam

  While Websense has seen a rise in spam following the compromise of thousands of Web mail accounts, security experts are split over how the accounts were breached.

  (Posted in Security by Carly Newman)

• Take down the enemy, while getting in some shopping

  The GeoXray software lets you click on a satellite image and get information about a given location. Now DARPA wants to beef up its capabilities.

  (Posted in Military Tech by Mark Rutherford)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Malibal Veda series notebook, Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch, and the Monster Turbine Pro In-Ear Speakers.
  • Week in review: Android has arrived
  • This week in Crave: The all-the-ooze-you-can-use edition

• Google Squared gets more data, better filters

  A Google Labs project in presenting structured data has been given a few refinements, but it still can't figure out where Yankee Stadium is located.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Adobe exploit puts backdoor on computers

  New exploit targeting Adobe is Trojan horse hiding JavaScript that drops a backdoor onto the compromised computer, Trend Micro says.

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• FCC looking into Google Voice and rural calls

  After AT&T complained that Google Voice is allowed to skirt rules that require it to connect expensive calls to rural areas, agency is reportedly planning to probe the matter.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Photos: A whirlwind tour of wind tunnels

  At NASA's Langley Research Center there's long been more than one way to test the aerodynamics of things that go zoom.

• Kamikaze moon mission kicks up dust, maybe ice?

  In a brute-force search for lunar ice, NASA sent two spacecraft crashing to the moon Friday in a $79 million attempt to blast out suspected ice-bearing soil for detailed analysis.

  (Posted in The Space Shot by William Harwood)

• Adobe brings Photoshop.com to the iPhone

  New app lets users take and edit photos right on the device, push those shots to their Photoshop.com library, and work all the editing controls with gestures.
  • Ralph Lauren admits it needs Photoshop lessons

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)
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