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Latest News - July 2013
- Harris Poll Results Show Apple is ‘Brand of the Year’ Again Across Three Categories
- Google Shutters Netflix Chromecast Promotion Due to Overwhelming Demand
- Samsung Announces Blowout Q2 Financials, Record Profits and Sales of Smartphone Devices, Market Unimpressed
- The Walls Are Cracking: New Report Alleges FBI, NSA Demand Passwords, Security Data When Spying On Users
- Blactivision: Blizzard Breaks for Independence as Kotick Plans Unparralleled Destruction in $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout
- Activision Believes in the Wii U, Six Titles Coming This Fall Including Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Google Chromecast Won't Kill Google TV--For Now
- Intel Announces Global Competition Seeking App Developers for All-in-One And Tablet Platforms
- Google Donates $600,000 For Free WiFi In San Francisco Parks
- Beats Remasters Their Headphone Line-up with New “Beats Studio” Series
- BlackBerry Cans 250 Workers as Part of Turnaround Effort
- NFC Ring Promises Secure Access To Smartphones, Your Home, Office, and More
- Chinese Manufacturer TCL to Launch 50-inch 4K Ultra HD TV in U.S. for Under $1,000
- Symantec Reports First Android Master Key Hacks Have Begun
- Report: Xbox One Demand Surging, Could Outpace PlayStation 4 3-to-1
- Kaleidescape Brings Home Cinema Server Product To Wider Crowd
- Dell's M3800 Precision Workstation Laptop Packs Major Speed In a Light Package
- Michael Dell Bumps Up Takeover Bid for Third Largest PC Maker, Asks Board to Change Voting Rules
- HuffPo Reporter Notes NSA Claims They Don't Have the Technology To Search Their Internal Emails
- Google’s $35 Chromecast Streaming Device Bridges Gap Between Devices And TV
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All News for July 2013
After the passing of Steve Jobs, there was a huge question mark surrounding Tim Cook's ability to lead Apple and fill the shoes worn so successfully by the company's co-founder. And what has he done since then? Cook has continued to...
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Even the best, most finely-constructed plans can go wrong, it seems. And sometimes, having a good problem is still having a problem. Earlier in the week, Google introduced a $35 HDMI dongle known as Chromecast, which was meant to bring...
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It's official: Samsung is a giant. In case you weren't already aware that Samsung was a massive, money-making machine right in line with the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and Apple, the company's Q2 2013 earnings are proof that it has quite a...
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A new report (albeit from unnamed industry sources, not Edward Snowden) alleges that the government has used the broad powers granted it by the Patriot Act to demand broad information about a user's passwords, website security, and even...
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The CEO of Activision Blizzard Bobby Kotick announced this morning that he would lead an investor buyout of the company worth approximately $8.2 billion dollars. The move would free Blactivision (how has this moniker never caught on?) to...
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It's pretty tough to sell gaming consoles when major game developers are shunning your system, and Nintendo is actually facing such a threat with the Wii U. Facing tough reviews, half-baked software and general confusion on whether the Wii...
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When Google announced its Chromecast media streaming device yesterday, many were alarmed that the dongle’s capabilities seemed to overlap quite a bit with Google TV. The implications there are important, as not only are there plenty of folks who are developing for the Google TV platform...
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Intel and Lenovo are co-sponsoring an app contest called the Intel App Innovation Content (AIC) 2013 in an attempt to foster development for Windows 8 tablet and all-in-one platforms. The contest is open to developers in 20 countries...
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Google has deep pockets--so deep that the company can drop $600,000 to set up free WiFi hotspots in 31 San Francisco parks, just because. Google will also throw in two year’s worth of maintenance costs, which look to be about $25,000...
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The headphones that made headphones cool have a new look and some important new features that will keep the beat going even longer. The Beats Studio series isn’t available just yet, but it’s already getting attention for the...
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As BlackBerry continues to try and turn around its fortunes and regain relevance in the ultra competitive mobile market, more workers are falling by the wayside. Well, a more accurate way of putting it is that more workers are being pushed over the side of BlackBerry's wavering ship. In the...
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Wearable computing is increasingly becoming something that makes sense for average users, and here’s another reason to take the plunge: the NFC ring. Simply put, the ring is equipped with two NFC transmitters or...
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The revolution won't just be televised, it is a television. Or, more precisely, an emerging television standard. We've known for some time that 4K Ultra HD would be the next frontier in TV land, though high prices and lack of content are...
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Sometimes it stinks being right. To wit, Symantec earlier this month talked about the discovery of a so-called "Master Key" vulnerability in Android that would allow remote attackers to inject malicious code into legitimate apps without invalidating the signature. Symantec called it a "serious...
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The next generation console wars have already begun. Sure, it will be a few months before Sony and Microsoft drop their respective PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles into retail, but changing feature-sets, preliminary analysis, and...
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Remember Kaleidescape? That's the company that attempted to give high-end cinema lovers the ability to digitize all of their DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, and clearly, enough of those folks exist to keep it afloat. While niche by nature, it's...
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The words "mobile" and "workstation" don't always work together seamlessly, but Dell is trying hard to make the marriage work with a new Precision laptop. The M3800 Workstation promises "huge power" in a slim design, enabling creative...
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Michael Dell may have known it would be a challenge to take back ownership of the self-named company he founded so many years ago, but he probably didn't anticipate that the process would drag on for as long as it has. Even more unsettling...
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Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference between someone being stupid and being evil. According to Justin Elliott of ProPublica, writing in the Huffington Post, the NSA responded to his freedom of information request with a...
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The TV is the holy grail for companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple; all three have unified desktop, tablet, and smartphone screens with their respective operating systems (and to a lesser extent, with their own devices), but the last...
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Hardcore gamers are more interested in raw horsepower than incremental thermal wins, but Intel is still proud to announce that it will release at least one Haswell Core chip that has an SDP of just 4.5 watts. This surpasses the...
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Guess what, New Yorkers? Next time you're down in the city and are passing underground, your mobile signal might be a bit stronger. If you're working on Sprint's network, that is. Transit Wireless and Sprint today announced that the companies have finalized their contract to bring Sprint's...
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