Best Black Friday Storage Deals
Have too much stuff to store (or know someone who does)? You can't expand your home, but if your stuff is digital, you can buy a bigger hard drive. One of these hard drives can help you expand your storage. Among this year's Black Friday bargains, we've found 1TB external models for $80, and a wave of 500GB portable drives for between $60 and $80.
Black Friday Deals: Five Point-and-Shoot Cameras
With help from the extremely useful PriceTrace.com, a deal aggregator that includes PDF scans of Black Friday circulars from major retail stores, I've been on the hunt for particularly good point-and-shoot camera deals.
India to set up automatic monitoring of communications
India plans to set up a centralized system to monitor communications on mobile phones, landlines and the Internet in the country, a minister told the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, on Thursday.
Dissecting Black Friday Deals: Is That $197 HP Laptop Good?
Black Friday doorbusters are loss leaders designed to whip up consumerist lust and draw shoppers to stores. Retailers typically lose money on these giveaways, but hope that while you're online or in store, you'll grab a few high-markup items too.
EU charges Philips, others with forming CRT screen cartel
The European Commission has accused manufacturers of cathode-ray tubes of running cartels in the markets for computer monitors and TVs, the regulator said Thursday.
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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