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Latest News - August 2014
- Microsoft Offers Deep Discount On Surface 3 Tablet Hybrids For Education
- FBI Allegedly Using Custom Malware To Peel Back Tor's Veil of Anonymity
- Tech Terms 'Selfie' And 'Hashtag' Infiltrate Updated Scrabble Dictionary
- Samsung Falls To Xiaomi For Top China Market Share In Smartphones
- GM Sees Rabid Demand For 4G LTE Connected Car Trials
- Microsoft Dishes Out First Windows Phone 8.1 Update To Developers
- Verizon Responds To FCC's Scathing Letter, Defends Decision To Throttle Data For Unlimited Subscribers
- GameStop Less Of A Cheapskate Now, Offering 20 Percent More For Used Game Trade-Ins
- China Warns Microsoft Not To Interfere With Anti-Trust Investigation
- BlackBerry Considers Restructuring Process Finished, Vows No More Workforce Reductions
- AMD Prepares For Storage War By Building A Branded Line Of SSD Products Using Toshiba Chips
- Apacer Shows Off DRAM-Mounted SATA Drives, Compact Flash
- Google Play Store Refund Window Secretly Adjusted from 15 Minutes to 2 Hours
- Microsoft Rumored To Offer Big Incentives For Windows 9 Upgrades
- Thailand Bans Tropico 5 Because it Could 'Affect Peace and Order'
- Twitter User Evleaks (Evan Blass) Calls It Quits, No More Leaked Photos Of Unreleased Products
- LG Issues G Watch Update To Alleviate Skin Irritation Issue
- AT&T Calls Dibs On LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, Goes For $0.99 With Purchase Of Select LG Smartphones
- Bioshock Bringing Rapture to Apple Land For iOS Device
- HP Begins Shipping 14-Inch SlateBook 14 Android Notebooks
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All News for August 2014
When Satya Nadella displaced Steve Ballmer as the CEO of Microsoft, I was a bit unsure of what the future would bring. The outlook seemed good, but there was much work to be done in reversing some trends that obviously needed reversing. At this point though, I feel far more confident in the future of the company than...
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More details have surfaced on how the FBI uses its own custom malware to penetrate the Tor network's anonymizing service -- and while those tools have been deployed in some important investigations, it's sure to raise hackles in the post-Snowden era. Several years ago, the FBI launched a major sting operation against...
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Chillax: you can now use “selfie” to score points in Scrabble. A new version of The Official SCRABBLE Player’s Dictionary adds about 5,000 new words, including many tech-related terms. Expect to see “hashtag,” “texter,” and even “geocache,” in your Scrabble games...
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In the western hemisphere, the name Xiaomi is not likely to ring many bells, but in China, the company has become an absolute powerhouse. It's interesting, then, to realize that the company's name is a little ironic. Broken down to Xiao and Mi, it directly translates from Mandarin as "small rice". With the company...
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The Great American Road Trip isn't the same as it used to be, but perhaps that's not entirely a bad thing. With mobile connectivity becoming an asset that few professionals can live without, let alone the average teenager, General Motors has seen strong early interest from consumers in having LTE embedded into their next vehicle. While a number...
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Microsoft took the veil off of Windows Phone 8.1 Update last week, and while it's not a "major" update by any stretch, it's certainly one worth looking forward to if you are a WP user. It's also one that could prove very useful to those in the UK, China, Canada, India, and Australia, as it's the update that introduces...
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Earlier this week, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler penned an open letter to Verizon telling the wireless carrier that he's "deeply troubled" by its decision to throttle data for the top 5 percent of users subscribed to the company's unlimited data plans. The way Wheeler sees it, Verizon isn't trying to relieve network...
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We reported exactly one week ago of a ridiculous venture gaming retail giant GameStop would soon pursue in its never-ending quest for increased revenue: A very high interest rate credit card. Well today, we learn of a different sort of venture, one that could increase something just as important as revenue - customer...
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China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) issued a warning to Microsoft not to interfere with its anti-trust investigation of the software maker. The warning comes after China made a series of surprise visits to several Microsoft offices in China, including ones in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and...
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In an internal memo to employees, BlackBerry CEO John Chen essentially told the company's remaining workers that they can exhale, the worst is behind them, including layoffs. Not only that, but Chen said he plans to hire workers in specific areas, which is somewhat surprising after BlackBerry just finished shrinking...
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We're getting awfully close to the point where, if you wanted to, you could build an entire PC using only AMD branded parts. One area that's missing is storage, though not for long --AMD is said to be expanding its product portfolio with a line of high performance solid state drives boasting the company's Radeon...
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Thin and light clients are all the rage these days, even in the desktop space -- from Intel's NUC to many diminutive Steam Machines, the idea from OEMs is that even mainstream buyers are going to adopt system form factors the size of playing cards. If true, it would explain the thinking behind Apacer's latest innovation -- a new style of DRAM...
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One of the most frustrating realizations as consumers is knowing that you just purchased the wrong item, or that the item doesn't live up to your expectations. Heck, it might not even work at all. Where mobile marketplaces are concerned, running into this issue is common. When an app costs only a buck or two, people...
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It's a secret to no one that Windows 8 isn't the winner that Microsoft planned it to be, with its uptick being worse than Vista's - something a lot of us didn't even realize would be possible. With Windows 9, or whatever it'll be called upon release, Microsoft has to produce a successful release in order to make those...
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It's not uncommon to learn of a video game being banned in some country, but it is kind of rare to get a reason that's not simply "it's too violent". No one would question why Wolfenstein isn't sold in Germany, of course, and likewise, it's kind of understandable why China doesn't particularly like Battlefield 4 -...
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Technology journalists and fans of electronic gadgets suffered a gut punch on Sunday, as it came to light that Evan Blass will no longer post leaked photos of unreleased products. If you're wondering, "Evan who?," then perhaps you better know him by his Twitter handle @evleaks. Blass built a reputation for himself...
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LG thinks it may have found a fix for an annoying issue that was causing corrosion build up on its LG G Watch and subsequent skin irritation. Some users are reporting an over-the-air (OTA) update that flashes the firmware from KMV78V to KMV78Y. There doesn't appear to be an official changelog associated with the OTA update, though LG confirmed...
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AT&T is eager to let the world know that it will be the first to offer LG's G Pad 7.0 LTE tablet. Beginning August 8, 2014, you'll be able to waltz into an AT&T store (or navigate to AT&T's website), slam your fist on the counter (not too hard, lest you scare someone), and tell the employee on the other...
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For those of us who find most mobile games to be unengaging, the rise of so-called “premium” games on mobile platforms is a welcome development. Big names have been trotting out the likes of Modern Combat 5: Blackout (Gameloft) and Mass Effect: Infiltrator (EA), which tend to carry high price tags, but pack better graphics and...
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Motorola put Android on a laptop screen with its Atrix smartphone + companion device, but HP has taken things to another level with its SlateBook PC. While the exterior looks like most any other HP laptop of late, the software on the inside is a different beast. In what could only be considered a bold move to see how the market reacts, HP...
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It's been a mini-roller coaster ride for Google's Chrome browser, which flirted with surpassing the 20 percent market share threshold around this time two years ago. Fast forward to today and Chrome has finally managed to leap over the hurdle, landing at 20.37 percent to close out the month of July, according to the...
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While the rest of use have been enjoying what's left of the summer months, Western Digital's HGST division has been busy with some fancy new storage technologies. In two separate announcements today, HGST rolled out its new FlashMAX III family of PCIe accelerators and demonstrated a new SSD architecture that's capable...
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