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Apple Store bans Facebook access? Well, sort of
Published 2/6/2009 at CNET News.com
Following reports that the tech retailer had blocked access to the popular social network because people were wasting time on it, one CNET News reporter went to all three Apple Stores in New York to check it out.
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