Tech article 12/17

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Text article of the month of december!Starting the year with the most-anticipated gadget possibly ever, and closing it by landing the most influential rock band of all time on your music store? You could say 2010 was good to Apple.

Tablet PCs have been around for years, but none have even come close to the success (more than 7 million units in the first six months) of Apple's iPad. That's probably because it's not a full-blown PC--it's something else: an always-on media-consumption device that does some computer-like things

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tech article 12/11

Wiki Leaks Could be vulnerable

If WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is indicted by the U.S. government for disseminating classified information, as even his own lawyer now expects, his defense is likely to face long legal odds.

The 1917 Espionage Act, enacted by the U.S. Congress during World War I, has been a mainstay of national security prosecutions ever since. And it's been upheld as constitutional by every court that has examined whether its invocation in a criminal prosecution complies with the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.

Tech Article 12/3

Google Acts to Demote Distasteful Web Sellers

Google announced on Wednesday that it had changed the way it ranks search results so that unscrupulous merchants would find it harder to appear prominently in searches.
The change was prompted by an article in The New York Times on Sunday about Vitaly Borker, a Brooklyn-based online seller of eyeglasses. Mr. Borker claimed that he purposely shouted at and frightened some of the customers at DecorMyEyes.com because the online complaints actually worked in his favor in Google search results.