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Latest News - May 2014
- Zotac Launches Mysterious-Looking “ZBOX Sphere” PCs
- Motorola's Moto 360 Smartwatch Tipped To Release In July For Around $340
- 10 Million People Are Paying For Spotify
- Box 3.0 Android Update Arrives With Big Improvements, Free 50GB For LG Users
- Lenovo Continues To Outperform PC Market, Surpasses Apple in US For First Time
- Ebay Requests All Users To Change Passwords ASAP, Victim Of ‘Cyber Attack’
- Amazon Adds First Wave Of HBO Programming To Prime Instant Video
- MakerBot Replicator Mini Compact 3D Printer Now Shipping
- Survey Shows Americans Generally Unhappy With Their Cable Company, Particularly Time Warner Cable
- Revealed: Microsoft Promises That Surface Pro 3 Tablet Will Replace Your Laptop
- Update Your Auto Correct: Merriam-Webster Adds Hashtag, Selfie, And Crowdfunding to Dictionary
- Chuck E. Cheese Testing Oculus Rift Virtual Ticket Blaster In Three Markets
- Two Cores, No Fan: Fanless Gigabyte Brix PC Powered By Intel Bay Trail Coming
- Verizon Chief Squashes Dish Network Merger Rumor, Chalks Chatter Up To "Someone's Fantasy"
- China Drops Ban Hammer On Microsoft's Windows 8 For Government PCs
- IBM Watson Group Acquires Cognea To Help Build Conversational Computers
- Dell Inspiron 15 7537: NVIDIA Graphics Bring the Game
- Verizon Wireless Debuts Details On XLTE Network: Higher Peak Rates, 2x Bandwidth
- Microsoft Xbox One Developer Teases External Storage Option Coming Soon
- PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Criticized for Their High Energy Requirements
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All News for May 2014
There are lots of SFF PCs floating around these days, but the Zbox Sphere from Zotac is an odd duck among them. Instead of a tall and slim chassis or a tiny square-ish thing like a NUC, this PC is a sphere. (Er, hence the name.) It’s not just a gimmick to hear Zotac tell it, either; in a...
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There's plenty of skepticism floating around the web on whether or not smartwatches can truly represent the next big thing in technology, but perhaps two things working in its favor are Android Wear and the Moto 360. The former is Google's...
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Spotify has proven to be quite a popular streaming service since its launch in 2008, as the company announced today that it has reached 10 million paying subscribers. That’s 10 million people across 56 markets paying for the Premium level of the music streaming service that lets you find and play virtually any song on any connected device...
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Box continues to think outside of itself (see what we did there?) with new and improved ways to approach the cloud storage game. Following the launch of a redesigned app for iOS users, Box just rolled out an overhauled version for team Android...
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Who says the PC market is dying a brisk death? While the numbers in some segments may be cause for concern, Lenovo's bucking the trend by announcing better-than-expected figures for its fourth quarter earnings. The company recorded 55 million...
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Attention all eBay users, go ahead and change your password to the auction site. Like, right now -- we'll wait. Take your time, we'll be here when you get back. Finished? Good! Don't worry, it wasn't an arbitrary exercise -- eBay later today...
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Amazon pulled off a bit of a coup last month when it an inked a three-year deal with HBO worth $300 million to stream older HBO programming on Prime Instant Video. The deal marked the first time HBO has ever agreed to let another company stream...
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MakerBot has a whole new line of 3D printers, and the littlest sibling in the bunch, the MakerBot Replicator Mini Compact 3D, is now shipping. “As soon as we announced the MakerBot Replicator Mini, we received calls and orders from customers who couldn’t wait to purchase this easy...
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No need to brace yourself for this one, but in case you were wondering, Americans are typically dissatisfied with their cable and Internet service providers (ISPs). That won't be shocking to most, but lest there was any doubt, numbers from the...
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Microsoft took the wraps off of its new, much-rumored Surface Pro 3 at an event in New York City today, and the key takeaway as far as Microsoft is concerned is that this tablet (when paired with the new Type Cover and pen) is designed to...
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If you thought it was tough reading through a Shakespeare play back in high school, imagine if he was alive today and you had to explain the terms currently in use, such as "selfie" and "hashtag." The former might not be so difficult, though...
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When Facebook bought Oculus VR, there was an uproar from the community, with serious concerns that the heartless, data-hoarding behemoth run by Mark Zuckerberg would ruin the amazing potential of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset...
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Although it’s not the first fanless NUC-ish PC to hit the market, the Gigabyte Brix (GB-BXBT-2807) is the first to offer a dual-core Bay Trail chip with no fan. The unit has been out for a couple of weeks, but Fanless Tech has confirmed...
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In case you were wondering -- and it would only be natural, given AT&T's recent move -- Verizon Wireless is not the least bit interested in acquiring satellite provider Dish Network. So says Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, who is well aware of...
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China's Central Government Procurement Center has reportedly issued a ban on installing Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system on government computers. The ban is supposedly in place to ensure computer security after Microsoft decided to end...
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We often joke about the machines that humans build coming back to rule the planet, but you have to wonder if IBM's Watson isn't scheming in a way that mere mortals can only hope to comprehend. IBM's Watson group has acquired a new company this...
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As one of the top-shelf systems in the company's mainstream line-up, the Inspiron 15 7537 is in an interesting position in Dell’s extensive family of laptops and ultrabooks. This laptop is too pricey to be considered affordable by most consumers, and yet it’s not quite in the same...
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The leak that we spotted a couple of days ago has been confirmed: Verizon Wireless is gearing up to introduce a new version of LTE, dubbed XLTE, which promises 2x the bandwidth of its already peppy LTE network. The company has published a new...
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Games aren't getting any smaller these days, and though Microsoft gives gamers 500GB of internal storage to play with on the Xbox One console, you might find that you're filling it up faster than you thought you would. What's a hardcore gamer...
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In terms of overall capabilities, both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are a good improvement over the previous generation. But, one thing that's not been talked about too much is that with these increased capabilities have come higher power...
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The United States Justice Department has brought forth criminal charges against several members of Unit 61398 of the Chinese military, alleging that these members hacked into computer systems of six American businesses, including Alcoa Inc...
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Microsoft is planning to make a major announcement tomorrow concerning its Surface line of tablets, and in addition to a rumored Surface mini, the company is expected to reveal the Surface Pro 3. The scuttlebutt is that the Surface 3 will not...
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