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Latest News - April 2015
- ESPN Sues Verizon For Breach Of Contract Over FiOS ‘Custom TV’ Packages
- Teenager Stuns Fellow Geeks By Solving Rubik's Cube In Record 5.25 Seconds
- Google To Fend Off Trolls With ‘Patent Purchase Promotion’ Marketplace For Patent Holders
- Comcast Burned Through $32 Million While Lobbying For Time Warner Cable Merger
- Three Upcoming BlackBerry Smartphones Including QWERTY 'Slider' Bare All In Freshly Leaked Photos
- Apple Finally Drags Discover Into The Waiting Arms Of Apple Pay
- Only 20 Percent Of Nearly 2 Million Apple Watches Ordered During Launch Weekend Have Been Delivered
- Customers To Lease 10 kWh Tesla Home Battery For $1500 Down Plus $15 Per Month
- HTC One M9 Ad Campaign Derails With Cringe-Worthy Assault On Apple, Samsung
- Apple's Focus On China Sharpens As Country's iPhone Sales Surpass U.S.
- Technically Impressive 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 3' Will Institute A New ‘Black Friday’ With November 6 Launch
- Valve's Gabe Newell Battles Internet Flames Over Steam Mod Sales During Reddit AMA
- Russian Hackers Perused President Obama’s Personal Emails During 2014 State Department Breach
- Hackers Deface Tesla Website, Hijack Tesla And Elon Musk’s Twitter Accounts
- Lenovo Drops 4GB, 4000 mAh K80 Android Phone And Of Course Leaves Out U.S. Buyers
- Nokia Denies Report That It Will Return To Consumer Smartphone Market
- Google Search Now Lets You Send Directions, Notes, And Alarms To Your Android Phone
- FTC Sinks Fangs Into Firm Accused Of Incessantly Tracking Mobile Shoppers
- Venerable Nexus 7 Tablet Bids Farewell To Google Store, Prepares For Dirt Nap
- Valve Gives Devs Golden Opportunity To Sell Homebrewed Game Mods Via Steam
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Well, that didn’t take long. Two weeks ago, word spread out that Verizon was ready to push new Custom TV FioS bundles that would allow customers to pick and choose what channels they wanted to pay for on a monthly basis. Customers are able to choose a basic package of channels, and then select from at least two of...
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It's time for a confession -- I've never solved a Rubik's Cube, at least not without cheating (peeling off the stickers and rearranging them is surely against the rules). I never will, and I'm okay with that. But I can appreciate that others have solved the maddening cube of half a dozen solid colors, though none...
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Patent trolls. We all love to hate these despicable companies that often don’t produce a single product, but use their vague patents to sue companies with deep pockets. When companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung aren’t in court suing each other into submission, patent trolls are nipping at their heels...
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Had things gone to plan, Comcast would be celebrating the thumbs up by the Federal Communications Commission to proceed with its proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable (TWC). But it didn't go down that way. The merger received intense criticism and opposition from the get-go, and instead of giving...
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Fresh off posting a surprise profit amid sagging sales and lost customers, it looks as though BlackBerry is prepping at least three new phones for public consumption, pictures of which have been leaked to the web. One of the phones is the BlackBerry Oslo, a device that's been leaked to the web before, though none of...
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The last holdout among the four major U.S. credit card issuers has finally caved to Apple. Discover announced today that it will allow its cardmembers to make wireless payments using Apple Pay on their iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch starting this fall. Visa, MasterCard, and American Express have supported...
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If you've been amped-up to get your hands on Apple's latest gadget, the Apple Watch, it appears that you may end up unfortunate enough to be forced to wait a while. According to research firm Slice Intelligence, a mere 22% of U.S. customers who pre-ordered an Apple Watch have received delivery, or put into actual...
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We learned some important details about Tesla's upcoming in-home batteries late last week, and now, thanks to analyst Trip Chowdhry, we now have a clearer idea of what it will cost.
Backing up what we learned earlier this month, Tesla's battery will cost $13,000 outright. There's also the option to shell out $1,500...
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What is it with big technology companies putting out horrendous advertisements? Microsoft has a long history of ads that miss the mark, everything from signing up Jerry Seinfeld to go shopping for shoes to the downright bizarre that defy explanation, and it looks like HTC is trying hard to follow in Microsoft's...
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Analysts expect that China will become a bigger market for Apple's iPhone than the United States, and to underscore the point, it's believed that quarterly iPhone sales in the region exceeded the U.S. for the first time. This can be explained, in part, by China's New Year celebrations, a time when people get in the...
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The next installment in the Call of Duty series now has an official launch date: November 6. It’s a rather interesting date because November 6 is actually on a Friday, which is more typical of a new movie release than the usual Tuesday that is more common for new music and video game releases. Regardless of its launch...
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My, my, my. How fast loyalties can change. We reported yesterday that Valve had just launched the ability for modders to pawn their wares on Steam - starting with Skyrim - and right out-of-the-gate, modders and regular gamers alike took to the Web to express their rage.
It's not just one single element that leads...
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It looks like a cyberattack that hit the White House last year by Russian hackers was a bit more serious than originally presented. The biggest takeaway is the fact that president Obama's personal emails were accessed, including both sent and received messages. That's the downside; the upside is that it appears...
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Tesla might seem like it's an invincible company lately, but when it comes to software and social media, it shares the same risks us common folk do, something yesterday's events help emphasize. Nowadays, it's not at all surprising to learn that some company's Twitter account had its security breached, and likewise...
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The majority of high-end smartphones seem stuck at 3GB, though that's finally beginning to change. Asus kicked things off with its ZenFone 2, the first smartphone to boast 4GB, and Xiamoi followed suit with the Mi Note Pro. Keeping the momentum going, Lenovo is getting ready to release a new handset, the K80, also...
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That was fast. Less than a week after Re/code broke so-called news out of China that Nokia was returning to the phone manufacturing fold via its patent licensing division Nokia Technologies, the Finland-based company has issued a statement via their website denying its intent to re-enter the cell phone space in which...
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Google sure is on a roll when it comes to making our lives easier just by using its immensely popular search engine. Just over a week ago, the search giant rolled out a feature that allows you to type a simple query, “find my phone”, into the Google omnibox to locate your lost or stolen smartphone. Today, Google is...
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The FTC has just laid the smackdown on yet another company that's been found guilty of exploiting mobile users without their knowledge. The FTC found that the company, called Nomi Technologies, even went against its own privacy policy mere months after it promised not to, in late 2012.
Nomi's business model...
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It looks like Google might have just pulled the plug on its well-liked Nexus 7 tablet, as it's no longer listed in the Play Store. To see the latest iteration removed isn't too much of a surprise, as it was released two summers ago, but the fact that Google didn't release a third-gen version last summer (or since...
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Valve has this week unveiled a new Steam feature as part of its Steamworks platform that some would consider long overdue: allowing the distribution of mods. It goes without saying that one of the best aspects of PC gaming is modding. Modding could be as simple as replacing the skin of a weapon, or as complex as a...
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The Apple Watch and Pebble Smartwatch are on opposite ends of the wrist wearable spectrum in just about every way, but lest you think Apple isn't at least a little bit threatened by its lower cost competition, think again. That much was evident when Apple cited a technicality in its rules that allowed it to block apps...
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The one real knock against Samsung's Gear VR Innovator Edition headset is that it's only compatible with the Galaxy Note 4, leaving owners of every other handset sitting on the sidelines to watch in envy. Everyone except for Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge owners, that is. Samsung has designed a new model specifically...
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