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Latest News - July 2013
- Apple Continues Building Its Maps Portfolio With HopStop Acquisition
- Apple's 'Unexpected' Developer Portal Maintenance Seems To Indicate Hackery
- Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements to Optimize New Crop of Amazing 4K Displays
- Google ‘Chromoting’ App for Android to Offer Remote Desktop In the Palm of Your Hand
- Gearbox Announces "Ultimate Vault Hunter" DLC Pack For Borderlands 2
- Locket App Lets Users Earn Cash for Putting Ads on Smartphone Lock Screens
- Twitter Co-Founder Believes Facebook Should Charge Users Montly Fee to Remove Ads
- Google Play Store Hits 50 Billion App Downloads, Wallows In Good Fortune
- Google Updates Gmail, Now with Full Screen Composition
- Microsoft Now Offering Free Year of Xbox Live Gold With Office 365 Subscription
- Is Microsoft's $900 Million Dollar Surface RT Mistake The Writing On The Wall?
- UK Fears Huawei Spying For China At Cyber Security Evaluation Centre
- Cheap HP Slate 7 Android Jelly Bean Tablet, Inspiron 660s Windows 7 Desktop
- What's In A Name? ICANN Rejects Amazon's Request For Top-Level Domain Name
- iPhone 5S May Be Delayed, Joins New iPad Mini In Apple Production Misses
- Moto X Leak Suggests August Launch, Google CEO Larry Page ‘Excited’
- Best Buy Slashes $200 Off MacBook Pro Laptops, Students Can Save Additional $100
- Apple Acquires Mapping Start-Up Locationary To Bolster Maps Service
- EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC with ACX Cooling Review
- NASDAQ Site Hacked, Forum User Credentials Exposed
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All News for July 2013
Apparently, Locationary wasn’t the only maps-related acquisition Apple is making these days; the Cupertino company also snapped up HopStop, which is a service that provides “door-to-door transit, walking, biking, and taxi directions...
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Here's a strange one: Apple recently published a page on its developer portal that openly apologized for maintenance that was "taking longer than expected." Of course, it's hard to fault a company for taking time to ensure something is done...
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When we posted our look at Windows 8.1 earlier this month, we covered a lot that was new to the OS, and admittedly, there was a lot more packed in than we originally anticipated. Despite that, we still managed to miss a couple of major DPI...
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The market is hardly devoid of remote desktop apps, but it is rather lacking in good ones. Google has for a couple of years offered a solution for Chrome desktop users which is decent, called Chrome Remote Desktop, and in the future (how...
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With the release of Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, we were led to believe that Borderlands 2 would be seeing no more DLC. As it turns out, we're just not going to be seeing more DLC that introduces vast new worlds. At PAX Australia...
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Your eyeballs are valuable commodities. No, we're not talking about scooping them out and selling them on the black market -- please don't do that -- but for advertisers, their goal is to get their goods and services in front of your face...
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If you believe everything that took place in the docudrama The Social Network, then Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was originally opposed to the idea of implementing ads into his social network, claiming they're not cool. Today, Facebook has...
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Apple recently hit the 50 billion app download mark with its App Store; Google just did the same. Apple did it in five years; Google did it (between the Android Market and Google Play store) in four. Further, Mashable says that Google CEO Larry...
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Google has been tinkering with Gmail’s look and features, and even after a major overhaul this spring, not everyone was satisfied, so even more changes are coming down the pike. Specifically, Google is tweaking the compose to give it a full-screen option. It’s a welcome change...
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You've got to hand it to Microsoft -- the company is willing to find novel ways of promoting its products. The company is now offering anyone who buys a year of Office 365 ($99.95 annual rate) a free year of Xbox Live Gold. That's worth $60 a...
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Nearly one billion dollars. Even for a company as massive, powerful and entrenched as Microsoft, that sum is one that simply cannot be ignored. It just can't be brushed aside. And in the company's latest quarterly earnings, the $900 million...
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The U.S. government has stated that it’s concerned about China-based Huawei and its ties to the Chinese government and military, and the UK shares that concern. After Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) issued a...
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Thanks for tuning in to our weekend edition of the web's hottest deals. Topping this weekend's offers is a Dell Inspiron 660s Dual-core Windows 7 Desktop under $350. We also found a 7" HP Android Tablet for just $139.99, the lowest price we've...
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As the Internet evolves, so too has the domain name. For years, everything was a .com, .net, .org, .edu, and so on, but now the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has enabled a greater variety of top-level domains...
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What’s going on with Apple? Earlier this week, a rumor broke that Apple had to push back the release of its 2nd-generation iPad Mini to as late as next year--production allegedly won’t even begin until Q4 2013--and now, it seems...
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At this point, it's hardly a "rumor." The Motorola X is very, very real. Numerous executives have confirmed it slyly over the past few months, Google's own Eric Schmidt was seen using it in public earlier this month, and now we have yet another...
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There's no better time to shop for a Mac than during the back-to-school shopping season. As we recently reported, Apple is offering college students up to $200 off select Mac systems plus a $100 App Store gift card, however you don't have to go...
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While Yahoo! has become the undisputed king of start-up acquisitions over the past year or so, Apple has definitely been on a fairly steady buying spree as well. While Apple never makes public its acquisition targets, huge innovations in the...
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Coincident with the launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 700 series of products, EVGA unveiled a new invention of its own: the ACX cooler. ACX is an acronym for "Active Cooling Extreme" and as the name suggests, it’s a cooling solution for high-end graphics cards. To date, we have looked...
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Tired of changing passwords yet? Well, if you're a member of the NASDAQ OMX Group forums, your wish is still pending. The forum, where users can discuss stock happenings throughout the day, has been revealed to have been exploited, with an unknown number of usernames and passwords at risk...
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There are no boundaries to technology, which continues to reach into all facets of our daily regimen. The world will look and function decidedly different in 10 years compared to today, and while we don't know exactly what life will be like, we...
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Things are going well for Google, if you'll allow us the understatement of the year. As we reported yesterday, Google might as well have a license to print money, having earned over $14 billion in the second quarter, up 19 percent from a year...
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