Ahead of the Bell: Hewlett-Packard 3Q earnings

SAN FRANCISCO — With the personal computer business limping back to health, Hewlett-Packard Co. is a likely beneficiary. More details will emerge Tuesday afternoon when the world's No. 1 PC maker reports its fiscal third-quater earnings, for the three months ended July 13.

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Things went topsy-turvy as Facebook was heard to be launching an official app for Google's Android. While a month ago, Google co-founder Larry Page was seen in a sullen mood after Facebook dropped a big investment plan by the search engine major, which arch-rival Microsoft swept away from under their nose. Facebook's fall back on Google was airing as grapevine until confirmed by techcrunch today. What's most sensational is that the app could make it to the Android Market as early as the end of this week.

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Web support pours out for Iran protesters

NEW YORK — Google and Facebook have rushed out services in Farsi. Twitter users have changed their home cities to Tehran to provide cover for Internet users there. Others have configured their computers to serve as relay points to bypass Iranian censorship. In the aftermath of the disputed Iranian election, Internet companies and individuals around the world have stepped in to help Iranians communicate and organize.

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Layoffs and networking: To tweet or not to tweet?

It happens to you. You're called into your boss's office and told that your job no longer exists. You go home in a daze and sign onto Facebook. There it is — a prompt asking: "What's on your mind?"

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Review: Playful Hunch.com helps you make decisions

NEW YORK — I'm sick of spending so much time making decisions, like what to eat for lunch or where to go on a date. So lately I've been outsourcing the process to a free new Web service that is happy to do it for me.

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Contrary to the usual beliefs that my Mac is fully secure, we have reported again and again that it isn't exactly the same unless you are one of those self -assured types with eyes closed. The reason Mac community hasn't been affected is because of the strange aloofness of Black Hat groupies to exploit its vulnerabilities rather than pampering it. Anyway, just to prove my point that Apple never was too concerned about patching the security loopholes, they have at last fixed a potentially very harmful Java hole after almost 11 months of being addressed by Sun Microsystems. Sun warned the world of flaws in its Java virtual machine that make it easy for attackers to execute malware on users' Macs, PCs, and Linux boxes and they had fixed it for Windows and Linux at least 6 months before. So, Apple did it after the tech world knew, got worried, fixed and forgot about it. Full article (370 words) »

1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U9300 Processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD hard drive, Intel GMA 4500MHD Graphics processor

- Don't get disheartened yet. I know this is a standard feature that is gettable in most of the laptops today but Dell Adamo is not 'just another' in the box. Despite falling miles behind in comparison with Apple macbook Pro, Dell Adamo is suggested by many as the possible alternative or Macbook distractor. You will wonder why is it so unless you have seen that amazing beauty. Right from the amazingly designed Dell Adamo's website to the piece of the gadget hands on, you will have admiration in your eyes throughout. How about the performance? Well we have tested it and some surprise is surely on store.

Before buying an eye candy product such as Dell Adamo, take a look at the thorough review that Gadgetophilia did.

Read: Dell Adamo: Complete Review

Now that you have moved to firefox 3, you must be looking for an appealing Firefox theme that gets you going. Then there are those who are still sticking to the default Firefox theme. It's a fact that most us are never bothered about hordes of Firefox theme available on the Mozilla site. Well, with the new theme your browser would look glamorous and you would have an entirely different browsing experience  like never before. Obviously, it's tough to choose a single theme out of so many choices. To reduce your hassle and help you out with the selection, we have aggregated a list of top 5 firefox theme. Full article (333 words) »

Microsoft eyes on interoperability and comes up with first of its kind where the free and open source Eclipse and Microsoft Silverlight go hand in hand for eclipse4sl. So very simply you can now develop silverlight apps if you are an eclipse user yourself. Web developers, software engineers, and programmers of various stripes will find a variety of tutorials and tips to help them improve their methods through this collaboration.

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MADRID - Spanish novelist Francisco Ayala, who turned 103 Monday, says he would like to live quite a while longer, adding what keeps him going is his active interest in the modern world, including new developments of the information age like Facebook.

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