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And just like that, he's out. The former head of Palm is leaving HP, and with webOS all but buried, it's no real surprise.

A recent study finds that more US college students prefer a hybrid of online/offline education than a pure experience in either direction.

This may be a surprise ...

Given Google's typical strength when it comes to launching new products, the fact that the web behemoth's social media arm is struggling to find stable footing comes as a surprise.

Might as well put the details upfront in this one: "spoilers" apparently don't "spoil" anything.

It's pretty standard these days for people to offer up "spoiler alert" warnings when revealing a surprising twist in a story that some might not have read/seen/heard.

However, a new study, that tested a variety of books both with and without key points "spoiled," found that people actually seem to prefer a book if they've been told a spoiler ahead of time.

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LWN.net: "A group of FFmpeg developers has announced that the project has a new set of maintainers - news which came as a surprise to existing maintainer Michael Niedermayer."

OpenSource.com: "Armed with a healthy dose of idealism, I went to executive management and proposed we open source the tool.

I was hoping for a no-brainer and a quick decision at the division level. To my surprise, it took two years"

It's no surprise that 'Oslo', also known as SQL Server Modeling, has not survived the on-going battle of competing data platform strategies at Microsoft.

Jim Lynch: "Life is full of surprises, some of them good and some of them bad. This week I got a great surprise when a Debian version of Linux Mint was released."

The first two "Doe" lawsuits filed in 2010 against alleged P2P movie-swappers have been dismissed this week by the law firm that brought them.

This isn't a surprise, and it doesn't mean the cases are dead.