Star Wars, Ferris Bueller drive Super Bowl ad buzz (Reuters)

Reuters - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials score millions of hits online and rack up pre-game buzz.

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Read This First Before You Buy Canon D600 (T3i)

Read This Canon EOS T3i First Before You Buy Canon T3i Article by Alfred Daniels You have seriously done your homework. You scanned the articles and read all the reviews that you can find. You have done all your research and you really want to buy Canon T3i (EOS 600D in some countries). Ok....

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Android Games from Capcom and Square-Enix on Their Way … In Japan (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan.

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Android lead smartphone platform in 2011, will be used by government (Appolicious)

Appolicious - Android got some good news this week. Firstly, numbers released by comScore suggest the platform grew in the fourth quarter of 2011 in the U.S. Secondly, the U.S. government has decided to use Android devices as secure phones.

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The Super Bowl: The most DVR’d, and DVR-proof, broadcast on TV (The Cutline)

The Cutline - More than 111 million people are expected to watch the Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on Sunday—roughly a third of the U.S. population and the largest television audience in television history. And virtually all of those viewers will be watching it live. "Live sports is...

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Hackers: We intercepted FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)

AP - A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, the hacking group known as Anonymous claimed Friday.

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EU probes new Google privacy policy (AP)

AP - The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws.

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Siemens on look-out for new CEO for NSN (Reuters)

Reuters - Siemens is on the look out for a new Chief Executive for its mobile phone network equipment joint venture unit Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Siemens supervisory board member Sibylle Wenkel said on Friday.

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Megaupload founder refused bail in New Zealand (Reuters)

Reuters - A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail, Friday, agreeing with prosecutors there was a risk he would attempt to flee before an extradition hearing.

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Madonna launching video on billboards, online (AP)

Madonna launching video on billboards, online 
    (AP)

AP - Clear Channel is giving Madonna all its luvin'.

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Sprint investors in purgatory until 2013 (Reuters)

Reuters - Sprint Nextel , like its bigger rivals, is expected to report a steep decline in fourth-quarter profit margins due to its launch of the costly Apple Inc iPhone.

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Pew study: Facebook users get more than they give (AP)

Pew study: Facebook users get more than they give 
    (AP)

AP - The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though.

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Just Show Me: How to see recently used apps in Android 4.0 (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to find out what apps are running on your Android 4.0 …

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How’d they do it? NASA explains the Blue Marble photo (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - A few days ago, NASA published an incredibly detailed photo, dubbed Blue Marble, of the Earth's western hemisphere. Since then, the photo has generated over 3.1 million views on Flickr, making it one of the all-time most-viewed images on the photo-sharing site. So …

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AOL’s Huff Post to launch live streaming network (AP)

AOL’s Huff Post to launch live streaming network 
    (AP)

AP - AOL and the Huffington Post are launching a live video network that aims to combine broadcast news with social media.

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U.S. shuts 16 sports piracy websites pre-Super Bowl (Reuters)

Reuters - Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, U.S. prosecutors said they seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites.

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How Wireless Carriers and Manufacturers Screw Up Android (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Google recently unveiled its new Android design guidelines, which are meant to help people develop apps for its open-source smartphone and tablet operating system. The guidelines work in tandem with Android Ice Cream Sandwich's visual overhaul, which was designed to "enchant" smartphone and tablet users in a way that Android's...

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