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Latest News - August 2014
- Microsoft Sues Samsung Over Dead Beat Android Royalty Payments
- Say Farewell to XBMC And Greetings To Kodi For Release 14
- Ah-Yup Google Sells Maine Mystery Barge For A-Scrappin'
- Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Core i3 And Core i7 Models Now Available in US and Canada
- Playbook Overload: NFL Seeds Quarterbacks With Surface Tablets For Sideline Strategy
- HOT Hardware: Amazon's Fire Phone Lights Up The Top Seller List
- Upcoming PC-Exclusive FPS Toxikk Promises Properly Old-school Arena Combat
- Flappy Bird Returns With Multi-Player Functionality, Makes A Beeline For Amazon Fire TV
- Social Sadness: Facebook Outage Prompts L.A. Area Users To Call 911
- It's About Time: Obama Signs Bill Legalizing Cellphone Unlocking
- Danish Researchers Break Fiber-Optic Network World Record Speed Of 43 Terabits Per Second
- BitTorrent Bleep App Will Offer Private Instant Messaging
- Microsoft Announces Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 Halo Limited Edition: The Master Chief
- Typo Revises Litigious Keyboard For iPhone, Now Taking Pre-Orders For Typo 2
- The French Are Coming! In Possible Bid For T-Mobile
- Samsung To Beat Apple To The Punch With Galaxy Note 4 Launch In Early September
- Shooting Victim Saved As Samsung Galaxy Mega Takes A Bullet For Him
- Blackberry Brings BBM To Windows Store And Lumia Phones Everywhere
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All News for August 2014
Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Samsung in a Manhattan federal court on Friday, as the result of the Korean smartphone maker allegedly failing to keep up its end of a contractual agreement with regards to making royalty payments. Samsung...
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Going forward, the software you previously knew as XBMC will be called Kodi Entertainment Center beginning with release 14. Why the name change? One of the biggest reasons XBMC is renaming itself is because it has little to do with Microsoft's Xbox gaming consoles as opposed to when the...
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We may never know for sure what Google had originally planned for a trio of mystery barges scattered in waters on both sides of the coast. According to numerous reports, Google is selling at least one of those four-story ships while it contemplates what to do with the remaining two...
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 series is expanding, giving customers a broader range of features and prices. Until now, the Windows 8.1 tablet sported an Intel Core i5 processor – new models are available in Core i3 and Core i7...
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Since the debut of its original model, Microsoft's Surface series has had a bit of a rough time clicking with most consumers, namely those so content with their iOS or Android device. With its latest release, though, Surface Pro 3, the...
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Amazon's Fire smartphone received a lot of flack from critics before its launch, with some claiming that it wasn't polished enough, and that its app selection was too poor. When the phone first debuted, we had high hopes for it simply...
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It goes without saying, but games have changed a lot over the years. I'm not talking graphics, but mechanics. Take free-to-play, for example. Its impact on gaming today is enormous, but ten years ago? It was virtually unknown. And then...
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Been wondering if Flappy Bird would ever fly again? Now you have your answer -- as promised, Dong Nguyen, the creator of the original hit mobile game that spawned numerous clones trying to cash in on the craze, just released Flappy Birds...
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It's best not to let the actions of a relative few be viewed as a reflection of society as a whole, otherwise we might as well throw in the towel and call it a day. Why? On Friday, Facebook went down in some areas for a period of time...
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Score one for the customer. President Barack Obama signed the “Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act,” which Congress recently passed with unusual ease. The bill makes it legal for mobile phone service...
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At a time when many are still in awe of the speeds that can be reached with Google's Fiber service, Danish researchers have come along to show us what those fiber wires can really do. The "High-Speed Optical Communications" team at DTU...
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Now that the NSA has everyone second-guessing themselves before hitting the Send button, BitTorrent is jumping into the chat game. The service credited with enabling record-breaking piracy of HBO’s Game of Thrones announced Bleep alpha, a chat service for Windows. The chat’s draw...
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Here is some odd-ball news for your Friday: Microsoft just released a mouse that sports an image of Master Chief. It’s not surprising to see Microsoft promoting its beloved Halo protagonist, but it is weird to see the Chief on an...
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The virtual keyboard on Apple's iPhone line works pretty well, though if you're old school, you might still prefer a physical plank. Ryan Seacrest tried to rectify the situation by funding Typo, a keyboard case for the iPhone, but the end...
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The French may be getting ready to teach Sprint a lesson, that lesson being "You snooze, you lose." While Sprint contemplates a merger with T-Mobile, France's Iliad just swooped in with a buyout offer of its own, which could be the beginning of a bidding war. Had Sprint been more aggressive at...
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As Apple continues to hammer out manufacturing logistics with TSMC and contends with delays related to the much hyped semi-sapphire crystal glass material that we're still hoping makes it onto the iPhone 6, Samsung is apparently gearing up...
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In the movie Rush Hour, Jackie Chan's character brags to Chris Tucker that his father once caught a bullet with his bare hands. That would be impressive if it actually happened, but to the best of our knowledge, Rush Hour is completely...
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Arguably, BlackBerry should've opened up its BBM platform to everyone years ago, as it could've leapfrogged Hangouts, iMessage, Snapchat, and some of the other chat tools ahead of where we are now. At this point, the BBM userbase is so...
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