Paul Lilly
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You always have to take these figures with a pinch of salt when a company has a vested interest in the outcome, but according to Lookout, a mobile company that builds both free and paid security apps for iPhone and Android devices, over a...
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Microsoft's hardware partners weren't exactly thrilled with the company's decision to launch Surface RT and Pro tablets, especially Acer, which warned Microsoft time and again that isn't easy competing in the hardware space. Nevertheless...
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In a perfect online world, we'd all sing, "A surfing we will go, a surfing we will go, heigh-ho the derry-o, a surfing we will go," and off we'd go without fear of malware or malicious links or any of the other cruft that litters the web...
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It's not an epic party unless you're willing to invite everyone to participate (see Project X), and it sounds like that's exactly what Microsoft plans to do. In the midst of all these streaming music services popping up from the likes...
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Another round of leaked photos allegedly showing the LG Optimus G2 surfaced today, though it appears LG decided to drop "Optimus" from the model name and roll with LG G2 instead. Whatever it ends up being called, the expectation is that LG will unveil the device at an event scheduled for...
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Planning to pre-order an Xbox One console? We have no issue with that, though be advised that it will not come with a headset. What you'll get is the Day One console itself, commemorative controller, token code to unlock an exclusive Day...
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Microsoft is enrolling its Bing search engine in as many local schools as it can as part of a new initiative aimed at teaching digital literacy skills. The program is called for Bing For Schools and it will provide kindergarten through 12th grade students with a custom-tailored version of Bing...
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Microsoft and Oracle are teaming up in an official capacity to enable customers to run Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure, the two companies announced this week. As a result of the partnership, customers will be...
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Coinciding with the launch of NVIDIA's mid-range darling, the GeForce GTX 760 (be sure to check out our full review with plenty of benchmarks), EVGA unveiled its lineup of graphics cards built around the new part. There are more than half...
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Want to get rich relatively quick? Develop an app around a simple concept and wait for the ridiculous valuations to come rolling in, and then sell to the highest bidder. It's a formula that worked for Instagram, a photo (and now video...
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Android game consoles are trying to take over the living room, or at least co-exist with much more expensive gaming systems. Whether or not the market will react favorably to playing mobile games on their giant screen TVs remains to be...
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Hopefully Google didn't pop the top on expensive bottles of champagne celebrating the $1.1 billion acquisition of Waze, a popular GPS-based turn-by-turn navigational app for mobile that hard drawn interest from a number of suitors...
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The deluge of Samsung Galaxy product announcements continues today with the South Korean device maker debuting three new tablets as part of the Galaxy Tab 3 family. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all approach, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 line will...
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There hasn't been a whole of innovation in recent years when it comes to large screen monitors in the neighborhood of 30 inches. That's about to change. For one, 4K Ultra HD resolution is attempting to gain a foothold in the mainstream...
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Microsoft is taking the retail release of its upcoming Xbox One console seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it's committed to investing $677.7 million in a data center in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register. Dubbed "Project...
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Go ahead and add another RSS reader to the growing list of Google Reader replacement candidates. As Google prepares to pull the plug on its popular RSS reader, alternatives (both new and old) have come out of the woodwork, one of the...
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We've known for quite some time that Ashton Kutcher (and not Noah Wyle or George Clooney) would be playing the part of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the upcoming biographical drama, "Jobs," which actually already premiered at the...
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While sometimes rewarding, being an early adopter also carries its share of risks and pitfalls, and not just for the consumer. Manufacturers are prone to buyer's remorse as well, and Apple may feel that way if it can't come up with a fix...
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You would have to spend an awful long time sitting in front of your mobile device in order to watch every single Instagram video that's been uploaded to date. The new feature was announced earlier this week and users wasted no time playing...
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At 83-years-old, Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men ever to set foot on the moon (second behind only Neil Armstrong), hasn't lost a step, nor has his passion for space exploration wavered in the years since that day in 1969. Just the opposite, the retired United States Air Force pilot and...
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Ladies and gentlemen, the gaming business is just fine. You wouldn't know it from the declining figures posted by The NPD Group time and again, but as some suspected, gamers have grown stingy with their spending because they're waiting on...
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Mark our words, almost without a doubt, Sony will unveil a new SmartWatch next week at the Mobile Asia Expo 2013 event in Shanghai. Normally we wouldn't go out on a limb like that, but Sony's forced our hand, so to speak, with a barrage of not-so-subtle hints pointing to another SmartWatch product in the near future. One need only look at...
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