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Latest News - October 2013
- Twitter IPO Prices Targeted at $17 to $20 Per Share with an $11.1B Market Cap
- BOO! Linus Torvalds Says Linux Ain’t Afraid of No Free Apple OS X Mavericks
- Twitter Overtakes Facebook as Most Popular Social Network Amongst Teens
- Amazon's Latest Earnings Tell of Nearly 1400 New Robot Employees
- Boobs And Beheadings: Facebook Revisits Community Standards Enforcement
- Samsung ATIV S Neo Hits AT&T Stores on November 8 for $100 on Contract
- Microsoft Knocks Another $100 Off Original Surface Pro
- TiVo Roamio Lets You Watch DVR Content On Your iPhone
- Taiwan FTC Slaps Samsung's Hand for Posting Fake HTC Reviews
- LinkedIn Intro Pulls Profiles Into iPhone Mail
- Ex-Apple Chief John Sculley Considering BlackBerry Acquistion
- AT&T Posts Second Quarter Profit of $3.8 Billion on Wireless Gains
- T-Mobile Promises 200MB of Free Tablet Data For Life
- AMD Radeon R9 290X Review: Welcome To Hawaii
- LG Launches Fireweb, Its First Firefox Phone
- BlackBerry's Silver Lining? BBM For iOS And Android Shoots Up the Charts
- Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review: The Phablet Refined
- Battlefield 4 Single Player Story Trailer Impresses With Characters, Storyline, And Visuals
- Google Chrome OS to Offer Robust Parental Controls with ‘Supervised Users’ Feature
- Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Coming To The U.S. In November
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All News for October 2013
At long last, Twitter is close to being traded on the stock market (New York Stock Exchange), and according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), owners plan to offer up 70 million shares for $17 to $20 each for...
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Some of the reactions to Apple's decision to make OS X 10.9 Mavericks a free upgrade have been a little over the top, especially in relation to Windows, which we think will be just fine in this so-called "new era," as the Cupertino company...
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Teenagers change friends almost as often as some of us change our underwear. Any parent who has ever raised one or is currently trying to understand their teen knows this as well as anyone and have seen first hand how a best friend one...
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Believe it or not, it's earning seasons again, and a company that always seems to make things interesting in this regard is Amazon. While it's stock price is soaring, the past few quarters have shown tremendous revenue with next to no...
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The problem is a simple one: There are images out there that should not be on Facebook, where they’re viewable by anyone aged 13 and up. However, Facebook has an extremely difficult job to do when it comes to deciding which and what...
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AT&T is about to offer its first Windows Phone 8 smartphone from Samsung. Starting November 8, 2013, you'll be able to snag a Samsung ATIV S Neo from AT&T for $21 per month with an AT&T Next plan, or $100 with a two-year...
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This summer, Microsoft cut the price of its Surface Pro tablets by $100, and now it’s dropping the cost again by another hundo. The 64GB Surface Pro is now $699, and the 128GB version is $799. Both prices are for the tablet only--Touch or Type Covers are still extra. Regular Surface...
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Of all the wonderful entertainment-related technology that has emerged in recent years, perhaps none is better than the DVR. Being able to record and watch your favorite shows whenever you want without having to sit through commercials is a true game-changer, but TiVo, often the proprietary...
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Samsung found itself in a little bit of trouble for its role in an Internet campaign in which marketing firms were compensated for posting positive reviews of its products and negative write-ups for handsets belonging to rival HTC...
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iPhone users who also rely heavily on LinkedIn are getting a welcome new feature today. With the new LinkedIn Intro, an email on your iPhone will display a picture of the sender, with useful profile info only a tap away. That’s handy for sorting spam from legitimate email, but more...
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A change of ownership might do BlackBerry some good, but who's interested in taking possession of the struggling smartphone maker? A man from Apple's past -- former CEO John Sculley -- might be the answer. Sculley, who says he's been a...
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AT&T said it raked in $32.2 billion in consolidated revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, up 2 percent versus the same time period a year ago. Ma Bell also posted $26 billion in operating expenses, $6.2 billion in...
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A lot of companies in the technology realm make a lot of promises, but few live up to their claims. T-Mobile is not one of those companies. After changing its stance and coming out as the "Uncarrier," T-Mobile has made one groundbreaking move after another. First, by enabling phone swaps every...
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AMD has launched their new top-end Radeon R9 290X graphics card today. The new flagship wasn't ready in time for AMD's recent October 8th launch of midrange product, but the new top of the line model, based on the GPU codenamed Hawaii, is ready now. The R9 290 series GPU (Hawaii) is comprised...
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LG is known for turning out some pretty nice Android devices, but in an effort to try something new, the South Korean handset maker just introduced its first Firefox OS-based phone called Fireweb. It's the second Firefox OS device to hit the market, the only other one being the ZTE Open, which...
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Times are changing, and so is BlackBerry. The company that was once the envy of the mobile world has fallen on hard times, largely due to the fact that it never truly kept pace with change after the iPhone's reveal in 2007. Today, its...
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Whether you’re a fan of oversized smartphones or not, it’s clear that they are here to stay. When Samsung initially released the first Galaxy Note, many of us in the industry looked at it a little sideways and wondered what the designers at Samsung were thinking. The original...
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The latest Battlefield 4 game trailer from EA is here, and this one is a single-player story trailer that gives you a taste of the sort of character arc you can expect from the game. The trailer starts out with the evacuation of American...
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Worried about what your kids are doing online with their Chromebooks? Your only option at this point is to hover their shoulders each and every time they fire it up, but starting soon, you'll be able to implement certain restrictions as a...
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Samsung announced the “mini” version of its hugely popular Galaxy S4 smartphone, the Galaxy S4 mini, back in May, and you can finally grab your own starting in November from the usual suspects--AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. In short order, the S4 mini will also be...
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We've said before that we think Microsoft might be onto something with its second generation Surface systems. Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are thinner, lighter, faster, and more feature-rich than the first generation Surface tablets, and though we'll reserve final judgement until we're able to...
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To anyone who took the day off yesterday and/or crawled out from under that cozy rock that's kept you isolated from the Internet, welcome back to the online world. You didn't miss a whole lot. Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro became available...
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