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Latest News - July 2012
- Wildly Popular 16GB Nexus 7 Tablet Now Back in Stock at Google Play
- Excessive Tweeting Takes Toll On Olympics
- Deal Site Writes iPod's Obituary, Claims Convergence Devices are Pallbearers
- Mountain Lion Roars to 3 Million Downloads, is Apple's Most Successful OS X Release
- Filing Leaks 10/26 Launch Date For Microsoft Surface & Windows 8
- Like Valve, Blizzard Denouncing Windows 8 as Bad for PC Gaming
- Microsoft Reveals New Mice And Keyboard Accessories For Windows 8
- Inside Baseball: Curt Schilling, Steve Jobs, and the Death of 38 Studios
- In Search of Gold, Apple's New Mac Ads are Olympic Fails
- Instapaper Downloads Shoot up 600% with Google Nexus 7 Launch
- Google Updates Select Locales With High-Res Imagery
- Leaked iPhone 5 Images Showcase Smaller Dock Connector, Sleeker Design
- GameStop: We're Interested in Selling Secondhand Digital Download Video Games
- 28nm Chip Shortage May Lead to iPhone 5 Delay
- Charlie Miller Strikes Again, Hacks Android and MeeGo Devices using NFC at Black Hat Conference
- MSI Introduces Intel-Powered CR41 Multimedia Laptop
- Samsung's Q2 2012 Profits Soar Thanks To Smartphone Sales
- Apple Reportedly Looking To Invest Heavily In Twitter
- Facebook Puts The Kibosh On FB Smartphone...Or Does It?
- Mac OS X Mountain Lion (Unofficially) Sprints to Over 2 Million Downloads
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All News for July 2012
The thing about tables like the Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, and iPad is that you're generally stuck with whatever internal storage exists, save for cloud computing and external add-ons. For that reason, early Nexus 7 owners proved ahead of the...
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The staggering size of the Olympics is doing more than congesting London's street traffic - it's hampering data traffic, as well. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is pleading with fans to reduce the number of tweets and texts they're sending, as the data usage has actually started to...
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It wasn't that long ago that Apple's iPod line sold like gangbusters, taking the MP3 player market by storm and creating a frenzy that other companies have been unable to replicate. Fast forward to 2012, a time when iPad and iPhone sales...
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Mountain Lion is off to such a fast start that Apple dubbed it "the most successful OS X release" in the company's history. Prior to the weekend, estimates pegged Mountain Lion downloads at around 2 million after just 48 hours of being...
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Microsoft's annual report to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission seems to confirm a few details about Windows 8 and Surface that many already suspected: The launch date is October 26th for both. Of course, Microsoft hasn't made...
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Game developers Valve and Blizzard don't always see to eye-to-eye, such as when the two companies argued over which was the rightful owner of the DOTA (Defense of the Ancients) trademark. But one thing they do agree on is that Windows 8...
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Newsflash: Microsoft isn't just a software company. As if the Surface wasn't reminder enough that the company also knows a thing or two about hardware, it has just introduced new mice and keyboards designed specifically to play nice with...
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Boston Magazine has posted an in-depth article on how and why 38 Studios fell apart, including a significant number of comments and insights from Schilling himself. The article confirms much of what we initially expected; Schilling was...
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It doesn't matter if you're a Mac fanatic or if you're anti-Apple to the core, there's no denying the Cupertino company knows how to market and sell a product to the masses. Steve Jobs, if nothing else, created a consumer culture where iDevices are in such high demand, people will line up for...
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Was it a coincidence? Perhaps, but the fact remains that according to Mobelux, maker of Instapaper, the “read later” Android app saw downloads skyrocket 600% when the Google Nexus 7 launched. According to The Next Web, Jeff...
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Google is making its Maps and Earth products even better. While the company clearly has to match Apple now that the company is cranking out its own Maps app for iOS 6, it seems that 3D offline maps with flyover data isn't enough. Now, it has just published another extensive catalog of new...
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There will be another iPhone. That's a fact. While Apple hasn't confirmed it specifically, you can bet it won't just stop with the iPhone 4S. The question on the world's mind right now is pretty simple when it comes to this segment: "What...
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GameStop makes a killing selling used videogames, but what happens to that business model when digital distribution platforms run physical media out of town? That's not anything to worry about today, tomorrow, next week, or even next year...
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If you're one of the many people stuck in a smartphone holding pattern as you wait for Apple to announce (and launch) its upcoming iPhone 5 model, go ahead and get cozy. Reports out of China suggest Apple may delay the iPhone 5 as a result of a shortage of 28 nanometer chips. This isn't the...
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Back when Near Field Communication (NFC) technology was just becoming known, there were some who worried that it would create yet another potential attack vector for mobile devices by dint of being a wireless technology over which users...
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Multimedia laptops haven't been as en vouge as they once were, mostly because Ultrabooks have been here, there and everywhere. But that's not to say they've faded completely from view. MSI has a new one, the CR41, which ships with Intel's latest Core i CPU range, USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4, Bluetooth...
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With earnings season comes yet another glorious release from Samsung. The owner of the Galaxy line of phones and tablets is all smiles following its Q2 2012 earnings report, which details a record operating profit of 6.72 trillion won on consolidated revenues of 47.6 trillion won. In U.S...
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By and large, Apple doesn't really "do" partnerships. The company likes to play pretty much all of its cards close, hence the vertical integration between software and hardware. So, it came as something of a surprise when Apple not only allowed access to Twitter on iOS 5, but integrated it so...
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Facebook has been fairly dismissive of reports of a Facebook smartphone, but the strongest rejection came yesterday from Mark Zuckerberg, himself. And yet, even with the CEO of the company saying that such a phone "Wouldn't really make much sense to do," analysts and reporters are largely...
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While nothing is yet official, early estimates have Apple's newly released Max OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) off to a roaring start. Furthermore, if the preliminary numbers are accurate, Mountain Lion could become the fastest deployed...
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One of the biggest questions swirling around the Kickstarter-funded Ouya console is whether the device would be able to build an adequate game library. Ouya explicitly eschews the vendor lockdown imposed by Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo...
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Let's face it, even with Swype and other on-screen keyboards that make it relatively easy to enter text on a smartphone, there are times when it's difficult or inconvenient to type, such as during a bumpy taxi ride. Google is hoping to make it even easier to search the web from your smartphone...
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