Greatest comebacks in tech history

Ten improvements we'd like to see in OS X

Free Game Friday: Dinosaurs, dolphins and unicorns

ITworld Today

April 26, 2013

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Greatest comebacks in tech history

Knocked flat and left for dead -- these 10 technologies and companies turned around their fate with historic flair.

Issue highlights

1. Ten improvements we'd like to see in OS X

2. Free Game Friday: Dinosaurs, dolphins and unicorns

3. NASA launches new nanosatellites: Android smartphones

4. How to set up two-factor authentication for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more

5. Tim Cook resets 3 popular, and wrong, Apple rumors

6. Gaming news wrap-up: Xbox 720, Sony PS4, Nintendo and Steam

7. Judge rejects FBI's bid to hack computer of suspect in attempted cyberheist

8. Senators stall vote on Internet sales tax for now

9. T-Mobile USA agrees to come clean about 'uncarrier' service plans

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Ten improvements we'd like to see in OS X

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Beat up the sun and date a dinosaur in this week's free games. READ MORE

NASA launches new nanosatellites: Android smartphones

NASA has launched three Google-HTC Nexus One smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested. READ MORE

How to set up two-factor authentication for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more

No more excuses! Microsoft, Google, and Facebook make it easy to improve your account security with two-factor authentication. Here's how. READ MORE

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Tim Cook resets 3 popular, and wrong, Apple rumors

Three comments this week by Apple CEO Tim Cook should have led to a reset of popular iOSphere rumors about the upcoming iPhone 6, iPad 5, and iPad mini 2, but probably didn't. READ MORE

Gaming news wrap-up: Xbox 720, Sony PS4, Nintendo and Steam

Sony loves their DualShock 4, Nintendo doesn't love press conferences, Xbox 720 rumor re-runs and Valve gets one step closer to a Steam Box. READ MORE

Judge rejects FBI's bid to hack computer of suspect in attempted cyberheist

A federal court in Houston has rejected an FBI request for a warrant to hack into the computer of a suspect in an attempted cyberheist. READ MORE

Senators stall vote on Internet sales tax for now

A handful of lawmakers have stalled the U.S. Senate from voting on legislation that would require large Internet and catalog sellers to collect state sales taxes from their customers. READ MORE

T-Mobile USA agrees to come clean about 'uncarrier' service plans

T-Mobile USA's "radical" service plans promising no annual contracts aren't quite as radical as consumers might think. READ MORE

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