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Latest News - March 2015
- Taylor Swift And Microsoft Snatch Up .Porn Domains To Ward Off Opportunists And Trolls
- Amazon Beefs Up Fire TV With Bluetooth Headphone, USB Storage And Hotel Wi-Fi Support
- Cyanogen Receives $80 Million Cash Infusion To Challenge iOS And Android
- Dell Becomes Latest OEM To Preload Microsoft Office On Android Tablets
- NFL To Present Jaguars-Bills In London As Digital-Only Game Broadcast In 2015
- Twitch.tv Hacked, Passwords And Stream Keys Reset
- Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe SSD Is Insanely Fast And Now Available
- NVIDIA Unleashes Quadro M6000 Workstation Graphics Powerhouse Based On Maxwell
- Samsung Extends Preinstalled Microsoft Apps Bundle To Android Tablets
- IBM Cozies Up With China, Offers To Share Technology To Help Build IT Infrastructure
- Comcast Balloons ‘Social Care Team’ To Stop Damaging Customer Service Stories From Going Viral
- Microsoft Sweetens Surface Pro 3 Discounts, Offers Up To $150 Off
- Eric Schmidt Says Glass Isn’t Dead, Google Just Needs Time ’To Make It Ready For Users’
- Windows 10 To Introduce Microsoft’s Wireless Payments Answer To Apple Pay And Samsung Pay
- Adobe Flex Vulnerability That Was Patched In 2011 Still Threatens Websites
- Facebook’s Upcoming Android Phone Dialer Will Feature Caller ID And Block Unsolicited Calls
- Purdue Researchers Convert Packing Peanuts Into Fast Charging Battery Materials
- Samsung To Allow Removal Of Preinstalled Bloatware Apps On Galaxy S6
- Google Offers $80 In Rewards For Chromecast Purchases
- Tom Cruise Looking Ripped And Badass In Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Trailer
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All News for March 2015
It may sound strange, but one thing pop music star Taylor Swift and software giant Microsoft have in common is that both are feverishly acquiring .porn and .sucks domains. No, they're not looking to flip their respective brands upside down, nor are they collaborating on a new adult site to rule them all -- they're...
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Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are highly capable media streamer available for extremely attractive prices. The Fire TV has an MSRP of $99 and can regularly be found for $80 or less. The Fire TV Stick has an MSRP of $39. For users that sign up for three months of Sling TV, even bigger discounts can be achieved...
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Cyanogen has 80 million reasons to celebrate to today. The open source Android startup just completed an $80 million Series C funding round with backing from several strategic partners. Not wasting any time, the Cyanogen team is already thinking about ways to leverage its influx of cash, which will include hiring new...
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A big part of Microsoft's software strategy is to expand its reach into other platforms. As part of that, the company is pushing its Office productivity apps on Android devices, and one of its newest (and biggest) OEM partners is Dell, one of nearly a dozen companies that have agreed to pre-install Word, Excel...
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In a further step towards achieving its goal of absolute world sports dominance, the National Football League has announced that they will present a football game during the upcoming 2015 season that will air only on the Internet.
Monday, at the annual league owner's meetings being held in Phoenix, the NFL made the...
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You'll need to think of a new password for your Twitch account, assuming you have one. That's because the streaming service noticed some unusual activity and determined that "there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information." Twitch reacted to the security breach by resetting user passwords.
"For your protection,
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At this point, we've pretty much seen what the best and fastest SATA 6Gbps-based solid state drives can offer -- transfer rates just shy of 600Mb/s. So what's the solution for even faster performance? To tap into the PCIe bus, of course! Enter Kingston's blazing fast HyperX Predator, an M.2 form factor SSD featuring a...
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NVIDIA released its Quadro M6000 at last week's GPU Technology Conference, but interestingly, it was without much fanfare. Perhaps that has something to do with the card belonging to the professional market and NVIDIA doesn't feel the need to trumpet in a new release, but this thing deserves that.
As the "M" in its...
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When Samsung announced its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones earlier this month, the electronics giant confirmed previous speculation that it would preinstall a bundle of Microsoft apps. Both flagship smartphones will come with OneNote, OneDrive (complete with 100GB of storage, free for two years), and Skype...
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Hot on the heels of its announcement that a Chinese tech company will be making Power8-style processors, IBM is taking further steps to publicly ally with China. IBM’s CEO and Chairperson Virginia Rometty attended the China Development Forum this week, where she discussed IBM’s stance on doing business with Chinese...
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Comcast Cares… about its image. Comcast has never ranked highly when it comes to customers satisfaction and is a two-time winner of The Consumerist’s “Worst Company in America” title. The broadcasting/telecommunications giant has come under immense fire in recent months for the way it has treated customers, including...
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With all of these dollar-off promotions for the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft should just go ahead and institute a permanent price for the versatile tablet. While Microsoft has knocked off up to $100 from the price of the Surface Pro 3 in months past, it’s upping the ante this week with up to a $150 discount.
The base...
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Google put an abrupt end to its Glass Explorer program back in January of this year, leading some to speculate if Google was giving up on the wearable. That doesn't appear to be the case. When the Explorer program ended, Google moved Glass out of its Google X research lab and into a dedicated unit, and though the...
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It looks like the mobile payments arena is finally heating up. Apple Pay is popping up in retailers and restaurants across the country, Google snapped up Softcard and announced its own Android Pay, Samsung Pay is making waves by waiving transaction fees, and now Microsoft is sharing details on payment capabilities...
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Whenever a software flaw is discovered and is then patched, it's not often that we'll ever hear about it again (the exceptions are those that do big damage). It's even more rare when we end up hearing about a "medium" bug again four years later. Such is the case of a vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash (don't act...
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Facebook isn't a company that rests on its laurels, as it's always looking to expand its reach into different categories. This has helped the world's largest social playground avoid the same fate as Myspace. So, it's not too surprising that Facebook is testing out a new dialer and caller ID application...
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In setting up a new lab, a group of research students at Purdue University were inspired to come up with a way to put the huge amount of packing peanuts they were receiving to good use. At the suggestion of Professor Vilas Pol, the researchers developed a potential new eco-friendly application for rendering the...
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Thanks to the now-infamous Superfish software that resulted in a bad light being shone on Lenovo last month, people hate pre-installed software (aka: bloatware) more than ever. With its brand-new Galaxy S6, Samsung has proven that it understands where people are coming from, as it's gone out of its way to make sure...
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As if the low asking price of $35 (and oftentimes lower due to sales) for Google's awesome Chromecast dongle isn't enough of a sales pitch, Google has decided to up the ante by offering up to $80 worth of additional incentives. All you have to do is buy and set up a Chromecast by April 19, 2015, and then click the "Redeem all offers" button
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At 52-years-old, Tom Cruise is far removed from being a teen heartthrob. However, his acting career is showing no signs of slowing down, nor is his penchant for action these days. There looks to be plenty of it in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, his fifth Mission Impossible flick in nearly two decades. Where has the...
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Augmented Reality seems to be all the rage these days. Last week at GTC 2015, we saw some rather interesting augmented/virtual reality demos from Google and some of its software development partners. Using the Project Tango Developmental Tablet, demos were shown of Zombie Gunship Reality and an in-door navigation app...
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It's always fun to see which security flaws get exploited at Pwn2Own, and this year's event has proven to be no exception. In fact, it could be considered to be one of the most exciting events to date, with JungHoon Lee exploiting three major browsers, and securing a record $110,000 payout for one of the...
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