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Quick Hit football video game gets NFL makeover
(AP)
 AP - Thursday marks the kickoff of the 2010 NFL season, and along with it, a renewed interest in fantasy leagues and video games that let Monday-morning quarterbacks feel as if they're part of the action.
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Google search accelerates with 'instant' results
(AP)
 AP - Google Inc. stepped on its Internet search accelerator Wednesday by adding a feature that displays results as soon as people begin typing their requests.
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Microsoft's Xbox ready for bigger battle in Japan
(AP)
 AP - Battling its Japanese gaming rivals on their home turf hasn't been easy for Microsoft Corp. Its Xbox 360 game console runs a distant third in sales here behind Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console and Nintendo Co.'s Wii.
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Able to unplug from work while you?re on vacation?
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out.
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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research.
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AT&T Led More to Avoid iPhone 4 Than 'Antennagate', Poll Says
(PC World)
PC World - About 20 percent of mobile phone users said the antenna problem on the iPhone 4 caused them not to buy one. But more than 60 percent said it was because of Apple's exclusive carrier contract with AT&T--and that they couldn't use carrier Verizon Wireless--that they didn't want the handset.
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Review: Ping a handy iTunes add-on with promise
(AP)
 AP - Apple Inc.'s new music-discovery feature, Ping, is a potentially useful addition to iTunes. With it, you can see what songs your friends are buying and recommend some of your favorites to them.
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Toy Camera From Japan Does 3D for Only $70
(PC World)
PC World - Printing 3D images can be an expensive undertaking (just look at Fujifilm’s Finepix Real 3D W3, which’ll run you at least $500). But for those of us who can't shell out a ton of green for a 3D camera and printer, toy company Takara Tomy has come out with a “toy” 3D camera called the 3D Shot Cam that’ll give you stereoscopic 3D images in a small form factor.
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Operators Get Creative Due to Spectrum Crunch
(PC World)
PC World - The spectrum shortage is forcing mobile operators to experiment more with pricing models, new technologies and partnerships, executives speaking at the Mobile Future Forward event in Seattle said Wednesday.
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Google milks animated doodle mystery on Twitter
(AP)
 AP - For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.
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