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		<title>10 Games to Watch for Late Spring 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Tablet Story Is Getting Stronger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in the Next Xbox? Blu-ray, &#8216;Always Online&#8217; Requirement Claims Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Entertainment]]></category>
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		<title>Former Googler Rips Company for &#8216;Corporate-Mandated Focus&#8217; on Google+</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/former-googler-rips-company-for-corporate-mandated-focus-on-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former Google employee who left the company for Microsoft last month has explained his decision in a blog post, and it isn't pretty.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123213&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Translation Software Lets You Speak 26 Different Languages</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/12/new-translation-software-lets-you-speak-26-different-languages/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/12/new-translation-software-lets-you-speak-26-different-languages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the person's own voice.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123007&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Nokia&#8217;s Lumia 900 Windows Phone Won CES Before It Even Started</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/10/how-nokias-lumia-900-windows-phone-won-ces-before-it-even-started/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/10/how-nokias-lumia-900-windows-phone-won-ces-before-it-even-started/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show didn't technically kick off until Tuesday morning, but already, Nokia's Lumia 900 has become one of the most buzzed-about products.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=113319&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Rejoices as Internet Explorer 6 Usage Falls Below 1%</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/03/microsoft-rejoices-as-internet-explorer-6-usage-falls-below-1/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/03/microsoft-rejoices-as-internet-explorer-6-usage-falls-below-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft toasted the demise of Internet Explorer 6 today. According to Net Market Share, IE6 usage has dipped below 1% in the United States, joining other web-savvy countries such as Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=112454&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senators Ask FTC to Investigate Google Just Two Months After Last Investigation</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/21/senators-ask-ftc-to-investigate-google-just-two-months-after-last-investigation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission's year-long investigation into Google's user privacy practices only finished a few months ago, but two U.S. senators have decided that two months is too long, and have called for the FTC to look into Google all over again, this time focusing on the company's dominance in the search industry.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=111452&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle for Smartphone Intenders</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/19/the-battle-for-smartphone-intenders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=110540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The current smartphone intender market is one I am very interested in. It's up for grabs. In the U.S., this group presents a sizable opportunity. Nielsen has recently published some data suggesting that 44% of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones. So more than half of the U.S. population falls into what we call smartphone intenders.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=110540&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Course Bill Gates Isn&#8217;t Coming Back to Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/15/of-course-bill-gates-isnt-coming-back-to-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates has shot down reports that he'll ever go back to work full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded 36 years ago.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=109932&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tech 2012: Please Don&#8217;t Call These Predictions</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/15/tech-2012-please-dont-call-these-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of tech punditry, the month of December is practically synonymous with predictions about the year ahead. I try to opt out of the fun. I&#8217;m a sober, serious journalist, dammit&#8211;not the Amazing Kreskin! Besides, predictions are a no-win situation. If your prognostications are sure things, they&#8217;re hardly worth mentioning. If they&#8217;re wacky and surprising, they&#8217;re unlikely to come true. You end up either boring people or looking stupid. Or both. (MORE: Top 10 Gadgets of 2011) Still, I&#8217;m not above musing about what&#8217;s next for technology&#8211;what&#8217;s bound to happen, what I hope will happen and what I fear could happen. Herewith, some thoughts along those lines in nine categories. Windows 8 What we can assume will happen: By the end of the year&#8211;and maybe way before that&#8211;Microsoft will release its radically new, touch-centric operating system. (&#8220;Windows 8&#8243; is a code name: Its final moniker may be something else.) What I hope will happen: Well, first of all, I hope that Windows 8 will be good. (Microsoft released a test version in September, but it&#8217;s too rough and incomplete for a final verdict.) But even if it&#8217;s great, it&#8217;s so different from Windows 7 that it&#8217;s going to take many folks a while to understand it, let alone love it. Like the shift from Microsoft&#8217;s text-oriented DOS operating system to Windows, this one could take years to play out. I&#8217;d like to see everyone from consumers to businessfolk to tech pundits acknowledge that and demonstrate some patience with Microsoft&#8217;s big new idea. What I fear will happen: Windows 8 won&#8217;t catch on right away, and will be widely&#8211;and prematurely&#8211;declared to be a Vista-like debacle. (MORE: 50 Windows 8 Screenshots, Hardware Photos and More) Apple What we can assume will happen: Apple will release a new iPhone, a new iPad and some new Macs. (I refuse to speculate on any other items it might have up its sleeve for 2012.) What I hope will happen: With these products and other 2012 moves, Apple will make a statement about its post-Steve Jobs future.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=109915&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Beta May Arrive in February</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/02/windows-8-beta-may-arrive-in-february/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chance to try Windows 8 in beta form may be just a couple months away. Citing "sources close to Microsoft," The Next Web reports that Microsoft will launch a public beta of Windows 8 in late February.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=108440&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers Don&#8217;t Care About Windows Tablets? No Problem</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/30/consumers-dont-care-about-windows-tablets-no-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research firm Forrester has conducted a survey that supposedly reveals that consumer interest in Windows-based tablets–once quite high–is now tanking. If I were a Microsoft honcho, these results wouldn’t worry me much, for several reasons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=108085&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Phone 7.5: Microsoft&#8217;s Overachieving Underdog</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/24/windows-phone-7-5-microsofts-overachieving-underdog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the name "Windows" stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world's dominant personal-computer operating system--a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often infuriating and largely unavoidable piece of software. Windows' market share has been so overwhelming for so long that there are adults who don't know what life was like before it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=107660&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yep, Microsoft&#8217;s Building a Secret Social Network, Called &#8216;Socl&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/16/yep-microsofts-building-a-secret-social-network-called-socl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's leaked social search plans over the summer were no fluke; the company is working on its own social network called "Socl" that will be tested publicly, according to The Verge.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105197&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia&#8217;s Lumia 800 Windows Phone: Why You Should Care</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/16/nokia-lumia-800-windows-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though Nokia's Lumia 800 is just one Windows Phone among many, there's a lot of hubbub about it, and for good reason: the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft is a desperation move by both companies as they try to reclaim business lost to the iPhone and Android. For techies, this is high drama.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105051&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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