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Latest News - May 2014
- The PlayStation 4 Continues to Edge Out the Xbox One, But Will it Last?
- Microsoft Reportedly Built 20,000 Surface Mini Tablets Before Scrapping Launch
- Samsung Rumored To Have Stand-Alone Smartwatch Ready For Summer Release
- HP Reassesses Restructuring Plan, Decides To Eliminate Up To An Additional 16,000 Jobs
- Google’s Project Tango Team Developing 3D Vision Tablet
- Ubisoft's Official Watch Dogs Trailer Shows Exciting Hackeriffic Fun Is In Store
- Samsung Reportedly Developing VR Headset To Compete With Oculus Rift, Of Course
- Apple Trumps Samsung In U.S. Smartphone Sales, Samsung Sells More Handsets
- Cox Launching Gigabit Internet Service In Phoenix, Las Vegas, And Omaha
- Microsoft Defeats FBI In Case Blocking Disclosure Of Government Data Requests
- FreedomPop Announces $20 Unlimited Everything Plan, LTE Service And Handsets
- Uncomfortable Nest “Recalls” Smoke And CO Detectors Due To Alert Failure
- Latest Chrome Beta Now Supports ‘OK Google’ Voice Search
- California DMV Officially Approves Autonomous Cars On Public Roads, With Regulations
- Hackers Exploit Apple iCloud Activation Lock Allowing Restoration Of Stolen iPhones
- PC And Projector In-One: Gigabyte's Brix Projector Reviewed
- Facebook Updates Privacy Settings Making Them Less Complicated For The Technically Challenged
- Apple Says iMessage/Texting Bug Will Be Sorted in Future Software Update
- Epic Releases Flappy Bird Clone 'Tappy Chicken' Based On Unreal Engine For Android And iOS
- Hewlett-Packard's HP 7 Plus Is A Quad Core Android Tablet For Cheapskates, Only Costs $100
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All News for May 2014
From the get-go of the launch of Microsoft's and Sony's next-gen consoles, it's seemed like the PlayStation 4 has had a comfortable lead. Part of the reason owes its thanks to the fact that Sony's console has cost $100 less - that's a big deal...
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It was quite a surprise when Microsoft neglected to launch a Surface Mini device during a recent press event in New York City. Leading up to the event, Microsoft had sent out invites for "a small gathering," which was seemingly a big hint that...
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The term "smartwatch" is an interesting one. Yes, these watches are "smart," but there's a limit to the intelligence. Most of them require, at the very least, a partner device to do the thinking. Smartwatches aren't so smart without a...
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Hewlett-Packard, the second largest supplier of PCs in the world, announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended April 30, 2014. The company grew its profits year-over-year by 18 percent to $1.3 billion on $27.3 billion in...
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Perhaps it was inevitable, but Google’s Project Tango team has expanded its device experimentation beyond smartphones into tablets. The tablet will, like the Project Tango smartphone, provide real-time 3D mapping overlays of real environments using cameras and sensors. According to the...
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Four more days. That's how much longer you have to wait for Ubisoft to release Watch Dogs, one of the most anticipated games of the year, though it might has well be four hundred days, because that's what it feels like. With each new trailer...
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To the surprise of few, Samsung is reportedly working on a VR headset that would compete with the Oculus Rift (now a Facebook joint) and Sony’s Project Morpheus. (And, for that matter, dark horses like GameFace Labs.) According to...
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Based on the latest data provided by Counterpoint's Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, the U.S. smartphone market grew to 33 million units at the end of the first quarter of 2014, representative of a modest 7 percent growth rate...
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Google’s push for gigabit Internet service has, directly or indirectly, created pressure on ISPs to explore the same, and Cox is the latest company to dip its toe in the gigabit waters and plans to get the service out to its first...
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One of the most troubling facts that came out of Edward Snowden's disclosures last year was the degree to which the government has relied on National Security Letters to compel companies to reveal information about their clients without...
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FreedomPop announced some big updates to its free (and almost free) mobile services. The MVNO has moved to Sprint’s LTE network to offer 4G service (and is launching commensurate handsets to take advantage of it) and is also rolling out a...
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Whuh-oh. In the quest to conquer the Internet of Things (IoT), Google’s Nest just had a hiccup; Nest Protect Smoke + CO Alarms are being “recalled” by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission due to an alert failure...
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Get ready to see a lot of people talking to their computers. Google has officially rolled out a new feature in Chrome that lets you conduct a voice search on a desktop or notebook using just your voice. From a Google page, you can simply say, “OK Google” and say whatever you want...
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Usually, technological advances substantially outpace legislation to manage them, but give a tip ‘o the cap to the California DMV for drawing up regulations for autonomous cars before the vehicles become widespread. In two separate...
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Life just got a little easier for iPhone thieves, though technically that's not the intended purpose of a new tool that helps iDevice owners bypass Apple's iCloud activation lock. Officially -- and we're not sure if that comes with a *wink*...
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These are the days of form factors. The PC market is changing rapidly as tablets supplant some laptops, new players such as the Chromebook disrupt the old WIntel model, and innovations in processors and graphics allow for ever-smaller PCs such as Intel’s NUC. Here’s a new one for...
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Your life can be an open book on Facebook if you want it to, but the problem for some less savvy users is that it's an open book even they don't want it to be. After all, it's not just experienced PC users posting to Facebook anymore -- anyone...
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Yell loud enough, long enough, and even Apple will hear you. For years now, users who have dabbled in the iOS universe, only to switch back to a rival platform, have grumbled about lost messages. You see, once iMessage knows your phone number...
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Sure, on some levels, it's arguably sacrilegious to use a popular and powerful 3D game engine to create a Flappy Bird clone. But then again, Flappy Bird was netting its developer $50,000 per day through in-game ads before he did addicted gamers...
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Remember when Hewlett-Packard tried to compete in premium tablet category? It didn't work out so well - not only did the company's TouchPad tumble in price, it was such a colossal flop that it sent webOS into a tailspin, which is too bad...
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Valve has today pushed out a new update to its Steam client on all three of the major OSes that finally takes in-home game-streaming out of beta. Similar to NVIDIA's GameStream, which streams native gameplay from a GeForce-equipped PC to...
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Hot on the heels of the news that Verizon is doubling LTE speeds with XLTE, the company announced that it will rolling out VoLTE (Voice over LTE) service to its nationwide network at some point later this year. “Choosing a national...
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