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Latest News - March 2013
- $20 Unlimited: Republic Wireless and the Motorola DEFY XT Tested
- Yahoo! Shutters Unprofitable Services Including BlackBerry App, Yahoo! Avatar, Yahoo! Message Boards
- Are Virtual Doctor Visits the Future of Healthcare?
- Samsung Shares Surge as Judge Slices Apple's $1 Billion Patent Case Award in Half
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Video Trailer Breaks Cover
- Execution in Support: Asus Rolls Out Android 4.2 For Transformer Pad
- Sony Just Grasping For #3 Spot In Smartphones, Proves Samsung and Apple's Dominance
- Embedded System Developers Turn To Android and Linux For Operating Systems
- Google Hires Guy Kawasaki to ReInvigorate Motorola Brand
- Microsoft Offer Subscribers Updates To Office 365 Every 90 Days
- T-Mobile Considering Elimination of Service Contracts?
- Seagate Will Stop Production of 7200RPM Hard Drives To Focus on SSDs
- Hulu's Investors Consider Buying One Another Out, Could Shape Pricing Models
- LG Sells 10 Million LTE Smartphones As Demand Skyrockets
- Evernote Reports Hacker Security Breach, Change Passwords Now
- Google: Saving For a Rainy Day with Piles of Cash
- Metro: Last Night to Launch May 14th
- Steam On Linux Adoption Gaining, Overtaking Mac OS
- 5 Year Old Racks Up Massive iPad App Bill in Ten Minutes
- Best Buy Sees Online Sales Growth, Still Posts $409M Loss
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All News for March 2013
When something sounds too good to be true, we’re as skeptical as anyone, which is why we raised an eyebrow at Republic Wireless last year when the company pledged to offer unlimited mobile service--that’s unlimited talk, text...
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Yahoo! Shutters Unprofitable Services Including BlackBerry App, Yahoo! Avatar, Yahoo! Message Boards
With all the excitement surrounding Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer’s decision to put the kibosh on remote working, another, possibly more important move has gone largely unnoticed: Yahoo! is trimming several major products as part of its...
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Maybe in another 10-15 years we'll press our finger to our tablet or smartphone to have our temperatures taken and to record other vitals, which will then be uploaded to a doctor who will email us his or her prognosis. It sounds terribly impersonal, but then again, what's so great about...
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It was a good weekend for Samsung. On Friday, a judge cut a $1.05 billion jury award owed to Apple nearly in half, reducing the amount by more than $450 million dollars. This apparently sat well with investors over the past two days, as...
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Ubisoft on Monday officially announced the next installment in its popular Assassin's Creed Series, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. As previously teased, the upcoming title will feature a new hero and setting, and the "most diverse and seamless Assassin's Creed world ever created," Ubisoft...
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Asus' Transformer Pad TF300 has certainly been one of the more enticing Android slates of the modern era. And now, it's about to become even more so. Android 4.2, the latest and greatest version of Jelly Bean, has just been pushed out for...
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Still wondering just how tough it is to have a go at the top spot in the smartphone game? Have a listen at this. A new Reuters report claims that Sony is currently aiming to win "third place in smartphone markets around the world," behind...
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It might not come as much of a surprise, but according to a recent survey conducted by EE Times, Linux continues to tear up the charts in the embedded market (embedded refers to special-purpose PCs found in things like TVs, media players...
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Google definitely got itself a solid portfolio of devices and technologies when it acquired Motorola Mobility, but if the Motorola brand doesn’t exactly stir strong feelings in you, you’re not alone. Google itself apparently feels the same way. Google officials have gone on record...
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The world of online, cloud-based software is upon us. While years and years have passed, the software industry has slowly been distancing itself from moving product on physical media, and instead offering it online. Adobe's new cloud-based...
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File this one under "R" for "rumor," but early termination fees at T-Mobile might soon be a thing of the past. That's because T-Mobile is reportedly getting rid of service contracts altogether, whereby existing subscribers will finish out their current agreement and then be able to upgrade to...
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We've long since wondered when SSDs would hit a price (and size) threshold that most mainstream consumers would opt for one over a conventional HDD. We're still a few years out from that, we imagine, but you can see the writing on the...
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In the world of streaming media (and streaming content in particular), Hulu has become a gigantic name -- right up there with the likes of Netflix and Amazon. And that's partly because of the huge names behind it. Both News Corp. and Walt...
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10 million is certainly no small number, and selling 10 million of anything is no small feat. And that's what LG is celebrating this weekend. Shortly after Mobile World Congress concluded, LG announced that it surpassed the 10 million mark in terms of sales with regard to its LTE smartphone...
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Another day, another security breach. This time it’s Evernote, the popular cloud-based “remember everything” service whose product offerings have increased substantially recently to include business-oriented tools...
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It was revealed earlier this week that Google has a current cash stockpile of $45 billion, and it's led some to wonder what the company might want to do with it. The same questions have surrounded Apple for quite a while as well, and with its hoarding of an enormous $137 billion...
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In 2010, a game came along that should have put to rest the popular meme, "Can it run Crysis?" Despite being graphically superior - it was the first major title to include DirectX 11's tessellation feature - Metro 2033 didn't get the respect it deserved on the graphics front. On the gameplay front, things were different. It was immersive,...
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A lot of things happen at the start of each month, and one of those that I look most forward to is being able to check out the updated hardware survey at Steam. It's especially interesting right now, because Windows 8 is only four months old, and the platform became official for Linux...
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When it comes to the iPad, it's all fun and games until little Billy starts downloading in-game content willy-nilly, resulting in a huge credit card bill. In this case, it's little Danny Kitchen who, quite innocently, managed to download dozens of in-game add-ons worth £1,710.43 (around...
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Best Buy said that "accelerating online growth" is its No. 1 priority in fiscal 2014, and it's well on its way to doing that. It's online sales grew 11.2 percent last quarter, after having already jumped 25.4 percent in the same quarter a year ago, the electronics chain revealed when...
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Over the past few years, the consumer electronics industry has shifted in some fairly monumental ways. Desktop sales are eroding, tablet sales are growing, dumbphones are becoming ever more useless, and the peripheral market is expanding rapidly. When you're Logitech, shifting to avoid...
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"Not so fast, buster." Those words probably weren't uttered in public during the Samsung v. Apple trials, but that's the feeling we're getting given the latest announcement in the saga. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh just cut down Apple's massive $1.05 billion victory against Samsung. In the...
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