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Latest News - November 2012
- Report: European Commission Will Fine Six Electronics Companies Over CRT Price Fixing
- GameFly Launches PC Client Out Of Beta
- Sony Brings Water-Resistant Xperia Advance Smartphone To America
- Digital Divide: U.S. Physical Game Sales Declined for 11th Consecutive Month
- AT&T Offers Tablet Discount With Two-Year Tablet Plan
- New High Tech MasterCard Sports LCD Screen And Keyboard
- Nike+ FuelBand: One Big Security Hole For Your Life
- Navy SEALs Disciplined for Medal of Honor Video Game Disclosures
- Twitter Accidentally Resets Passwords for Many Users Due To Security Threat
- Romney Presidential Transition Website Accidentally Appears Online
- LTE-Equipped iPad Mini Ready to Ship Soon
- Facebook’s COO Still Cashing Out of Company Stock
- Google to Offer Free, Ad-Supported Mobile Internet Access in the Philippines
- Verizon Waives Voice and Text Fees for Customers Hit by Hurricane Sandy Through November 16th
- AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Availability
- HTC Windows Phone 8X Available Now To Order
- Lenovo Getting Cozier With Smartphones and Tablets
- Intel's Eight-Core, Heavily-Updated Poulson Itanium Breaks Cover, Heads To Market
- Foxconn Mulls Opening a Manufacturing Plant in the U.S.
- Streaming Entertainment Comprises Nearly 50 Percent of All Internet Traffic, Netflix Dominates
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All News for November 2012
According to a Reuters report, the European Commission is planning to level fines at six major electronics companies that participated in a price-fixing scheme for CRT displays in the late ‘90s. The apparently guilty parties include LG...
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Steam sure shook things up when it brought digital downloading of games to the PC gamer masses, and now it looks like famed rental shop GameFly is leaping onto the bandwagon. The company has this week launched its PC client, releasing it from beta and out into the wild. It's said to be a one-stop shop for games, with over 1500 titles available...
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Looking for an Android smartphone? You've got plenty of options. Looking for an Android smartphone that'll withstand a monsoon? Your options just got a lot less plentiful. Thankfully, Sony's out to serve Americans who need precisely that, with...
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The latest data from research firm NPD Group is a little misleading in that you'd think the games industry is in a tailspin, even though it's not quite as bad as it seems. To wit, retail sales of new game hardware, software, and accessories in...
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AT&T is offering customers $100 off of the purchase of any tablet, provided you're willing to sign a two-year agreement for a data plan. The promotional offer begins today. The discount applies to tablets purchased at AT&T company owned stores, online at AT&T's website, and at...
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MasterCard is launching a new high tech card in Singapore that features an LCD display and a built-in keyboard. The card looks and functions just like a regular credit card but with the addition of the LCD screen and touch-sensitive buttons. MasterCard calls it Display Card technology. There...
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Exercise is important, there's no disputing that. It's especially critical if, like us, you spend hours each day plopped in front of a computer screen hammering out hardware reviews, TPS reports, or whatever. Activity is key to a healthy lifestyle, but how do you know if you're doing enough?...
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The never-ending one-upmanship among warfighter titles has reached a new level: Seven Navy SEALs have been disciplined for allegedly giving secret information to the makers of Medal of Honor: Warfighters. EA, which publishes the game, has been...
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If you woke up to find that your Twitter password wasn’t working, you’re not alone. Twitter accidentally reset the passwords for many of its users yesterday. If your account is one of those affected by the mass reset, you...
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The campaign team for presidential hopeful Mitt Romney prepared a transition website in the event he won the election. We know this because the site accidentally went live for a short period of time, and though it was quickly taken down, there...
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Good news for those of you who pre-ordered the Wi-Fi + Cellular version of the iPad mini. The waiting game is almost over, as Apple has begun notifying customers that the 4G LTE-equipped tablet will start shipping out in the next five days. Despite carrying a pricing premium over competing...
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Facebook's Chief Operating Officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg, is setting herself up to have a very nice holiday season by selling truckloads of company stock for millions of dollars. Sandberg unloaded around 353,000 Facebook shares worth some $7.44 million a week ago, and has now followed that up...
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In an effort to expand its Internet empire to the “next billion”, Google is partnering with Globe Telecom to offer free mobile access to certain Google products such as Google+, Gmail, and Google Search to users in the Philippines...
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Amidst the lingering damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, Verizon is throwing its customers in the most affected areas of New York and New Jersey a bone by waiving voice and text fees incurred between October 29th and November 16th. Even better...
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Great news for AT&T users who have been frustrated about the company's stance on handling FaceTime over Cellular. The carrier just expanded availability of the feature, but there's still a catch: you'll need an LTE device on a tiered data plan. To date, that would include the iPhone 5 (not...
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Windows Phone 8 is upon us, and for AT&T users, the party starts now. The HTC Windows Phone 8X, one of the first WP8 devices to hit the streets, is coming to AT&T shelves starting today. It'll arrive in two forms: 16 GB of memory in California Blue for $199.99 and an AT&T-exclusive...
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Although Lenovo is on the track to become the No. 1 PC maker in the world, the company recognizes it must compete in other markets as well if it wants to succeed long term. As consumers transition away from traditional PCs to using smartphones and tablets for an increasing number of tasks...
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Intel's Itanium has spent the past year in an unwelcome spotlight. The war between HP and Oracle over whether or not the latter had an obligation to support HP servers after publicly promising to do so dragged Intel's Itanium roadmap into the...
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This one's probably a long-shot, but apparently Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is thinking about branching out and building manufacturing facilities in the United States. Two potential destinations reportedly being evaluated include Detroit, Michigan and Los Angeles, California. Foxconn...
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According to Sandvine’s “Global Internet Phenomena Report 2H2012”, consumption of Internet data via “Real Time Entertainment”, aka streaming video and audio, accounts for almost half of all peak Internet traffic in...
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After 25 years of typing on keyboards, I've field-tested everything from IBM's legendary Mode M to the sort of $4.99 specials that were, as far as I could tell, constructed from styrofoam, packing peanuts, and pocket lint. About a year ago, I made the jump to a pair of mechanical keyboards and...
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In many ways, RIM’s once mighty BlackBerry brand is now an also-ran in a mobile market that’s dominated by Android and iOS devices, but today’s news bodes well for the Canadian company. RIM announced that its BlackBerry 10 platform has received the prized FIPS 140-2...
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