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Most ISPs advertise the upload and download speeds of their broadband, but just how much truth is in advertising? A recent study by the FCC aims give consumers the answer for the nation's largest providers. The Federal Communications Commission has released the results of a year-long...
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Hacker group Anonymous promised a cyberattack on the website of San Francisco Bay Area transit agency BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), starting at 12 noon PST on Sunday, Aug. 14, and they delivered, managing deface two related sites, as well leak user data from one of the sites. Both site...
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McAfee is at the top of its game in the secure email gateway market, at least according to research firm Gartner, which placed the company in the “Leaders” quadrant of its Magic Quadrants for Secure Email Gateways. Gartner's...
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There comes a day in the life of every gadget where things just aren't as shiny as they once were. Specifications grow old. Designs fade. Lifestyles change. It's a sad day, but it's looming from the very day a gadget hits store shelves. That day of reckoning has come for Dell's Streak 5, a...
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The PCI (payment card industry) Security Standards Council released a supplement to its PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) guidelines with a document on tokenization. (Version 2.0 of the PCI DSS was released in October 2010.) Put simply...
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AMD has six data centers around the world, but the company is trying to consolidate to just three. It’s not hard to imagine why this would be a good strategy--maximizing resources such as CPUs and server space and achieving optimal...
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Recently, the launch of the Child ID app proved that the U.S. government wasn't scared of tapping into modern-day, consumer-friendly tech to provide a service to the American people. Now, the FCC is pushing for 911 texting. The...
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Unfortunate news for RIM: while sales of the PlayBook tablet haven't been nearly as brisk as some other competitors out there, it looks like Sprint won't be investing time and effort into pushing the 4G WiMAX version on their store...
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One of the roadblocks to more powerful Web apps is the inability of those apps to harness a local machine’s computational power. Native Client (NaCl), now integrated into the next Chrome beta release, is designed to help solve this problem by providing a way to execute native code within...
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Dell introduced the new Vostro V131 laptop which boasts of a battery life that can last for up to 9.5 hours. This thin laptop offers Intel Core i3 and i5 processor options as well as a LTE connectivity option to ensure you're always connected. The Vostro V131 also has Bluetooth 3.0 for...
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Samsung Mobile has been sending around this invite to various media outlets advertising an event for August 29th. The image is entitled Galaxy_S_II_Invite_v2.jpg, which leads many believe that the famed Galaxy S II is almost ready to make...
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Admittedly, small form factor machines have seemingly vanished from the spotlight in recent years, but there are still a handful of companies out there working at them. CompuLab is one of them, and this week they've introduced the Trim-Slice. The Trim-Slice H is an ARM Cortex A9-powered...
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Vuzix is a company that's been pushing out wraparound head goggles for some time now, mostly focusing on bringing portable video right in front of your eyes. They seem a bit awkward at first, but it's the only way to experience a big...
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The long-running and immensely popular Counter-Strike series is getting another sequel in early 2012 with the release of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or “CS:GO” for those in the know. The sequel will be available on Steam (for both Macs and PCs), as well as the Playstation...
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Can you remember what you were doing 30 years ago? Some of you were in diapers, others were graduating college, and some of you may not have even been born yet (sorry about your social security, kids). IBM, on the other hand, released its very first personal computer on August 12, 1981. It was...
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Thermaltake just added a new case to its arsenal, one in which it feels will "encourage space addicts to explore cyberspace with endless possibility." Um, sure. But don't let the goofy marketing tune you out, because on paper, Thermaltake's Spacecraft VF-I looks like another promising chassis...
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NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, Rob Csongor (Investor Relations), and Karen Burns (Interim CFO) hosted a conference call yesterday to discuss the company’s Q2 earnings for fiscal year 2012. The financial data looks good for...
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Lenovo announced a new mobile monitor for road warriors. The new LT1421 is a 14-inch display that connects through a USB port and can be propped up with a photo frame stand. This monitor weighs less than two pounds and measures less than...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Dave, Iyaz and Marco talk about the Kingston Wi-Drive that adds wireless storage to iOS devices, Intel investing 300 million bucks in UltraBook development, the Lenovo IdeaPad...
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Acer is adding to the Iconia Tab lineup with the introduction of the new Iconia Tab A100. This 7-inch tablet will run on Android 3.2, making it the industry's first 7-inch Honeycomb-powered tablet in the United States and Canada. You'll find an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor with 1GB of...
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