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Latest News - February 2015
- Facebook Preps Its Own Virtual Reality Apps For Oculus Rift
- Apple Watch Orders Approach 6 Million In Preparation For Mammoth April Launch
- AT&T Boosts Data, Adds Unlimited Calling And Texting To Mexico For $60 GoPhone Plan
- Obama: We Created The Internet And EU Companies 'Can't Compete With Ours'
- Sensor Reliability Issues Sidelined Advanced Health Monitoring On Apple Watch
- Sophisticated 'Equation' HDD Firmware Backdoor Allows For NSA-Style, Global-Scale Spying
- Apple More Interested In Taking Over Your Dash Than Becoming Just Another Automaker
- Microsoft Brings Native Integration Of iCloud And Box Cloud Storage To iOS Office Apps
- In A World Dominated By Smartphones, Japanese Consumers Cling To Flip-Phones
- Samsung’s China Woes Intensify As It Falls To Fifth Place In Smartphone Sales
- Pebble Smartwatch Gains Support For Android Wear Apps
- Samsung Galaxy S6 And Galaxy S6 Edge Could Use Newly Announced 14nm Exynos 7 Octa SoC
- Microsoft’s Entry-Level Surface Pro 3 Receives $100 Price Cut, Starts At $699
- AT&T Brings 1Gbps Internet To Kansas City, Charges $29 Extra If You Don’t Want To Be Tracked
- Asus Zenbook UX305 Ultrabook Review: Core M Powered
- LG Turns On Spin Cycle, Posts Video To ‘Clear’ Exec Indicted For Damaging Samsung Washing Machines
- ASUS ZenBook UX305 Ultrabook Heads To US With $699 Price Tag And Intel Core M Power
- AT&T CEO Fires Back At FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Warns ‘There Will Be Litigation’
- New FAA Rules Setup Crash Landing For Amazon 'Prime Air' Drone Delivery Service
- Sony’s Jettisoned VAIO Brand Resurfaces With Z Series Convertible And Tablet
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All News for February 2015
Beyoncé is going to be an Oculus Rift modder. So will you and everyone else who eventually dons the virtual reality headset, or so that's the future Facebook envisions for its $2 billion venture. Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox talked a bit about his company's vision for Oculus Rift at the Code/Media conference, and it involve apps
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Smartwatches running Google’s Android Wear operating system have been on the market since mid-2014 and roughly 720,000 units have been sold to date according to Canalys. Apple, on the other hand, has much higher expectations for its first entry into the nascent smartwatch market. According to a new report from The...
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Over the past few months, AT&T has been expanding into the Mexican market courtesy of key telecom acquisitions. We saw the first fruits of this expansion in January when AT&T announced that its wireless subscribers could add unlimited calling to Mexico for an extra $5 per month.
Now, AT&T is extending its newfound...
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Following an interview with Re/code late last week, president Obama has managed to upset officials in Europe for a couple of rather blunt comments regarding America's success with the Internet. For starters, Obama claims that the EU's actions towards regulating the Internet is 'commercially-driven', and is the result...
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The Apple Watch is one of the most highly anticipated consumer electronics device launches set for this spring. Although Apple sought to bring the smartwatch to consumer in early 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook clarified last month that the device will actually land sometime in April.
We already know quite a bit about...
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Security firms the world over dream of a day like this, but this one belongs to Kaspersky. The Russian-based firm has discovered the existence of a threat actor that could be linked to the US Government, and NSA in particular. Kaspersky has dubbed the group Equation, as it became clear that the folks involved loved...
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The web at large nearly wet it pants when word got out that Apple might be working on an electric car of its own. In reality, if that's what Apple wants to do, the $700 billion company has the cash and resources to dive in, along with the connections. The company lacks experience -- building an electric car is a bit...
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Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has shown a surprising amount of “love” for its competitors. It has provided high-functioning Office apps to iOS and Android users well ahead of solutions for its own Windows Phone platform. It has even partnered with Dropbox, which goes head-to-head with Microsoft’s own OneDrive...
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Your fancy pants smartphone might be able to play games like Angry Birds and stream movies from Netflix, but in Japan, it's just another overpriced device with a shrinking audience. Taking their place are those clamshell phones that your pop still uses. It seems crazy, but flip-phone shipments in Japan went up in 2014...
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Samsung's attempt to turn things around and boost its smartphone sales isn't getting much help from the Chinese market. Instead, Samsung has slipped to fifth place among China's top smartphone players, taking up the last spot before the catchall "Others" category, according to latest data compiled by International...
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The underlying message today from Pebble is "if you can do it with Android Wear, you can do it with Pebble." That's because the smartwatch maker just graduated Android Wear compatibility from beta to public release, thus allowing Pebble hardware to act on and respond to notifications from its monochrome display.
First things first -- to
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In what can be considered the biggest sign yet that Qualcomm's hardware will not power Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones, Samsung today said it has begun mass producing Exynos 7 Octa chips. The parts are being produced on a 14nm FinFET process that Samsung says offers the highest levels of...
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Two weeks ago, Microsoft initiated a $100 price cut for its Surface Pro 3 tablets. The 128GB model with a 128GB SSD and Intel Core i5 processor dropped from $999 to $899, while the configuration with a 256GB SSD and an Intel Core i5 processor fell from $1,299 to $1,199. While these price cuts were definitely...
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Google Fiber launched in Kansas City, Missouri in September 2012, and now AT&T is looking to creep in and compete toe-to-toe with its own ultra high-speed fiber network. AT&T’s U-Verse with GigaPower network is launching not only in Kansas City, but also “parts of Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, Overland Park, Kan. and in...
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Asus announced the super slim Zenbook UX305 during the IFA trade show in Berlin in September. This ultrabook will be available in two models: one with a 1920x1080 IPS display and one with a QHD+ display that boasts a resolution of 3200x1800. Asus claims the latter model is the world’s slimmest 13.3-inch QHD+ laptop. The UX305 is powered by...
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The world of business can often be boring for us on the outside, so it's stories like this that help add a bit of excitement back in.
Over the weekend, LG acknowledged that its home appliances chief Jo Seong-jin and two other employees were indicted on charges of damaging competitor products in Germany. It's almost...
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After showing off its super-thin Zenbook UX305 at Intel’s Developer Forum in San Francisco last September, ASUS has the system for sale in the U.S. The laptop owes its slim profile to the Intel Core M processor, which doesn’t require fans. The CPU is usually found in tablets and such, but it’s hard to resist for...
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The road to net neutrality and winning the Internet, as it were, won't be one that's quickly or easily traveled. On the bright side, Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Tom Wheeler earlier this month announced quite plainly that the FCC will propose reclassifying the Internet as a utility under Title II of the 1934...
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When Amazon's Jeff Bezos unveiled Amazon Prime Air in late 2013 via 60 Minutes, a lot of people took it as a joke -- an easy way for Amazon to hog the limelight for a little bit. It took only a few months more to realize that the company was very serious about the venture, and while it might still seem a little bit...
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It was a year ago this month that Sony sold its VAIO PC business to investment firm Japan Industrial Partners Inc., thus signaling a likely end to the VAIO brand in the U.S., at least on computers. Is that still the case? We're not sure, though in Japan, a pair of new VAIO Z convertible laptops is launching.
The...
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Given the string of success hackers have had with compromising the security of major retailers, it can’t be surprising that hackers have also been targeting more juicy targets – namely, banks. After Russian anti-malware company Kaspersky was brought in to investigate a malfunctioning ATM in the Ukraine, it discovered...
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Fans of Google's Helpouts video support service will be sad to know that it's shutting down on April 20, 2015. Google announced the discontinuation of Helpouts on the service's dedicated website, saying that it was "sad" to issue the news, but that slow growth ultimately forced the search giant to make a tough...
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