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• 30 best iPad games
  6 Feb 2012 at 6:19pm
  Trying to figure out which iPad games to buy with your hard-earned dough? Here's a look at our current top-30 favorites.
  
• PlayStation Network renamed Sony Entertainment Network
  6 Feb 2012 at 6:16pm
  Starting tomorrow, PS3 and Vita owners will sign into a rebranded online service.
  
• Netflix gets competition with Verizon-Redbox deal
  6 Feb 2012 at 6:11pm
  Watch out, Netflix. A new competitor will soon be entering the movie-streaming business. Verizon has announced it will team up with Coinstar, the parent of DVD rental company Redbox. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on the details of the partnership and why Netflix needs to worry.
  
• Friskies hijacks Facebook with real cats
  6 Feb 2012 at 6:05pm
  Friskies kicks off a two-week Facebook marketing stunt with the Friskies Plus Playhouse, an interactive live video feed featuring 10 rescue cats playing with remote-controlled toys.
  
• DOE-backed Beacon Power finds buyer post-bankruptcy
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:49pm
  Flywheel grid storage company Beacon Power has been acquired for $30.5 million in a transaction that will return about 70 percent of a government loan.
  
• Redbox pays $100 million for NCR's Blockbuster Express
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:47pm
  Netflix snubs DVDs while Redbox doubles down on movie discs. Redbox gets more than 10,000 Blockbuster Express kiosks.
  
• Hollywood's gentler post-SOPA strategy: A charm offensive
  6 Feb 2012 at 5:15pm
  In a new charm offensive, Paramount Pictures says it's "humbled" by last month's protests over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP--and wants to talk.
  
• Halliburton to drop BlackBerry in favor of Apple's iOS
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:56pm
  According to a report from AppleInsider, oil field services provider Halliburton has decided to drop Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple's iOS for its workforce.
  
• Google secretly testing pair of connected devices
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:27pm
  Could Google be working on the "Project Tungsten" hardware first demonstrated at Google IO last year?
  
• Guns, body armor, and raids: The piracy fight gets dangerous
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:26pm
  Police raid the home of MegaUpload's Kim DotCom wielding automatic weapons. Anonymous publishes the Social Security number of a sports promoter who disagrees with them. Are both sides hurting their causes by turning to increasingly tougher tactics?
  
• Road Trip 2009: Geek Gestalt heads to the Heartland
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:24pm
  Daniel Terdiman hits the road yet again, this time to find the tech and science hot spots in the Rockies and Great Plains. You're invited to follow along on his travels--without getting the left-arm sunburn.
  
• Apple TV for $1,499? Would you buy it?
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:19pm
  An apparent Best Buy customer survey hints at an upcoming Apple HDTV for $1,000 more than most 42-inch HDTVs currently cost. Would iOS fans be willing to swallow such a hefty premium?
  
• Android nabbing more than half of new smartphone buyers
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:10pm
  Apple sold the most smartphones in Q4 2011, but Android might win the race as it is attracting more first-time buyers than iOS, according to NPD research.
  
• Apple knocks IBM off top of Davis brands list
  6 Feb 2012 at 4:09pm
  Apple unseated IBM as the top brand of 2011, according to a new study by Davis Brand Capital. The popular gadget maker came in seventh place in last year's tally.
  
• 3D printer produces new jaw for woman
  6 Feb 2012 at 3:59pm
  In what's being called a first-of-a-kind operation, surgeons implant an entire titanium jaw made with a precision 3D printing technique.