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Latest News - February 2015
- Google Tells Cities To Greet Google Fiber With Open Arms Or 'Enjoy Your Time Warner Cable'
- Samsung Debuts Ultra-Fast 128GB Universal Flash Storage For Smartphones
- Apple, Intel, Cisco Booted From Chinese Government’s ‘Approved Purchase’ List
- Samsung Galaxy S6 And S6 Edge Fully Revealed In Massive Photo Leak
- Microsoft Temporarily Drops One Year Of Xbox Live Gold To $39.99
- Audi Plays It Safe With Redesign Of 610 Horsepower R8 V10 Plus Sports Car
- LizardSquad Hacks Lenovo.com In Apparent Retaliation Over Superfish Adware Scam
- UK Bans Kazam Smartphone TV Commercial For Objectifying Women
- Google Chrome Gains Warning Screen To Protect Users From Malicious Websites And Software
- Motorola Rolls Out Affordable Moto E Android Lollipop-Powered Value Phone
- FCC Expected To Pass Net Neutrality Rules On Thursday, Republican Opposition Backs Down
- Gemalto Acknowledges NSA/GCHQ Spying, Denies Massive SIM Key Heist
- Intel NUC5i5RYK Broadwell-U Mini-PC Review
- Microsoft Grants Free Office 365 Access To Students And Teachers Worldwide
- iTunes Patent Infringement Results In $533 Million Judgment Against Apple
- Comcast 'Optimistic' Unpopular Time Warner Cable Sale Will Close In Early 2015
- Reddit Cracks Down On Unauthorized Nude Photos, Revenge Porn
- Android And iOS Combine To Dominate 96 Percent Of Worldwide Smartphone Sales
- BOXX's APEXX 5 Workstation Supports 5 GPUs, Jaw-Dropping Processing Power
- Developers Retool Android To Take On Windows And Mac OS X On The Desktop
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All News for February 2015
It’s hard to imagine a city not rolling out the red carpet for Google Fiber, the broadband service that boasts Internet speeds of up to 1000Mbps. But that’s exactly what’s happening, a Google executive said at a conference this week. Suggesting that Google is fed up with the resistance, VP of Access Services Milo...
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Digital photos and videos aren't consuming any less space these days, and as 4K recording grows in popularity, so too will our storage needs. Luckily Samsung is on top of things on the mobile front -- the company today announced that it's now mass producing the industry's first 128GB ultra-fast embedded memory based...
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China has banned several prominent technology brands from its approved purchase list, presumably because it fears that foreign companies are helping the U.S. government with its spying efforts. There are several well-known names on the list, including Apple, Intel, and Cisco, the latter of which is perhaps being hit...
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There have been more Samsung Galaxy S6 leaks than a submarine with a screen door. We're not sure if these are all controlled leaks, something Apple is known when leading up to the launch of a major new product, but they're coming just as fast and furious. The latest is a batch of photos of what looks to be a final...
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Look playa, you should never pay full price for an Xbox Live Gold membership, not when there's almost always a sale price to be had. Even Microsoft hawks its Xbox Live Gold subscriptions for a discount on occasion, like it's doing now -- for a limited time, you can purchase a 12-month Xbox Live Gold membership for...
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Following the introductions of the dynamic-looking Ford GT and Acura NSX in January (not to mention the Ferrari 488 GTB), forgive me if I’m a bit “meh” on the redesign of the new Audi R8. The inspiration for R8 was unveiled in 2003 as the Le Mans quattro concept. The production version of the vehicle didn’t enter...
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As we discovered late last week, Lenovo has been serving up some tainted Superfish via its consumer PCs. Once Lenovo was called out for its heinous actions, the company offered an apology and vowed to remove Superfish from shipping systems (it provided removal instructions and later an automatic removal tool for...
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Let’s just say, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) would have a field day with Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. ads. The ASA this week came out with guns blazing in an attempt to cut down on the objectification of women in media, and smartphone maker Kazam was the unlucky recipient of a headshot.
The ad for the...
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Google has long offered some serious protection in its Chrome Web browser from malicious software, and in some cases, I'd almost call it too protective. Nonetheless, the warnings the browser provides are good, because as unfortunate as it is, a lot of people end up downloading and installing something that's bundling...
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If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That’s is the case with the second generation Moto E, which was announced this morning by Motorola. Leading up to the launch of the new smartphone, a product listing on Best Buy’s website suggested that the device would carry a price tag of $99. However, reality...
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All signs point to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approving the regulation of the Internet as a public utility, a reclassification under Title II that will ultimately give the FCC the power it needs to impose certain rules, the biggest of which is prohibiting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from...
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Dutch SIM card maker Gemalto has been enduring unwanted media attention for the past few weeks after reports surfaced that Britain’s GCHQ and the United States’ NSA may have breached the company’s networks. Today, Gemalto released a statement acknowledging that an attack in 2010 was probably the work of the spy...
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As Intel (and other chip makers) have been able to shrink its processors, integrate more features, and reduce power requirements over the years, manufacturers have been able to fit them into smaller and smaller form factors. That means notebooks and tablets have gotten thinner, lighter, faster and more portable over the years, of course, but...
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American companies tend to reserve their best promotional offers for their U.S.-based customers, and if they’re lucky, to our northern neighbors in Canada. Microsoft has offered Office 365 free to students in the U.S. since September 2014.
Microsoft announced this week that millions of students and teachers around...
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It's a good thing Apple has plenty of cash on hand because the Cupertino outfit has just been ordered to pay $532.9 million after a federal jury in Tyler, Texas found that its iTunes software infringed on three technology patents belonging to Smartflash LLC. That's hundreds of millions of dollars less than the $852...
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It was a year ago this month when cable giant Comcast announced that its board of directors approved a definitive agreement to acquire Time Warner Cable (TWC) in a deal worth about $45 billion. Given the size of the two companies, the possibility of joining forces immediately drew anti-competitive concerns, though a...
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Reddit regrets the way it handled "The Fappening" (or "Celebgate," if you prefer), the name given to the incident in which hackers plucked hundreds of nude celebrity photos from iCloud and made them available for posting to public sites. While it's too late to go back in time and take a mulligan, Reddit is making...
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Let's face it, we're living in an Android and iOS world and the rest of the mobile platforms are simply witnesses. That's not to say one platform is better than the other, it's just a numbers game, and the numbers show that Android and iOS accounted for 96.3 percent of all smartphone shipments in the world in the...
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The folks at BOXX are no strangers to crafting some of the world's most advanced workstation PCs, but its latest APEXX 5 still somehow manages to kick things up a notch. This might be a good time to rest your fist under your jaw, because your salivary glands might get overly excited.
The "5" in the APEXX 5 name...
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The idea of using Android as more than just a mobile OS isn't new. Some companies, like Acer, have released all-in-ones that have featured the OS, while others, such as ASUS, have tried to release notebooks that dual booted both Android and Windows. Apparently, people want Android on the desktop - or at least could...
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When it comes to Android smartphones for folks that are looking for respectable performance and specs at a reasonable price, look no further than Motorola. While Motorola chastises its competitors for pushing high-end smartphones that can touch the $1,000 mark (and higher), it is happy to sell you devices like the...
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You may recall that we gave Grand Theft Auto V an Editor's Choice award when we reviewed it for the Xbox 360 nearly a year and a half ago. We've been anxiously waiting for it to arrive on Windows ever since, and were stoked when Rockstar Games said it would release to PC in January 2015. Ah, but it wasn't meant to be...
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