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- UK’s Latest Internet Porn Crackdown Would Require ID Checks To Access Adult Content
- Put On The Suit! Samsung Galaxy S6 Iron Man Limited Edition Blasts Off
- Sony’s Xperia Z4 Makes Global Debut As More Aptly Named Z3+
- Charter Confirms $55 Billion Time Warner Cable Merger
- Apple Virtuoso Jony Ive Promoted To ‘Chief Design Officer’
- Get A Vizio M-Series 55" 1080p 240Hz Full-Array LED Smart HDTV With $100 Dell Gift Card For Under $600
- Charter Inches Closer To $55 Billion Time Warner Cable Acquisition
- Google Android M Adding Native Fingerprint Authentication For Smartphones
- Google’s Internal Name For Android M Is Macadamia Nut Cookie
- BlackBerry Begins Layoffs In Smartphone Division To Focus On More Profitable Sectors
- Gold Apple Watch Editions Land With Leather-Wrapped ‘MagSafe’ Charging Boxes
- Amazon Opens Wallet, Starts Paying Taxes In European Countries
- Samsung Chopin Android 5.1 Tablet Breaks Cover In Geekbench With Intel Atom x5 CPU, Solid Performance
- Russia Plots Facebook, Google Blockade For Witholding Blogger Data
- Google Patent Outlines ‘Smart Toys’ That Rule Your House With Iron Fist
- Android M To Introduce Two-Year Update Guarantee For Nexus Devices
- Colorful iPhone 6C With Touch ID Bares All Via Apple Store Mixup
- Best Buy Slashes $100 Off Soon To Be Replaced Motorola Moto 360 Smartwatch
- Best Buy Delivers $200 Price Cut To Already Discounted 27-Inch 5K Retina iMac
- Apple Streaming TV Service Faces Delay Over Local Programming Negotiations
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All News for May 2015
Surfing the murkier regions of the Internet is hardly anonymous these days, but Britain’s government appears poised to require Britons to identify themselves before entering porn sites. The U.K. government is trying to find a way to verify user’s ages to prevent underage viewers from accessing adult content.
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It's official, gold is no longer best. We can't in good conscious continue proclaiming such nonsense after seeing Samsung's limited edition Galaxy S6 Edge in Iron Man trim. From here on out, we must concede that gold and red is the new best color combination, a conclusion we're sure Tony Stark and Avengers fans around...
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Through Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare taught us that a rose is still a rose no matter what you call it (he had Juliet put it a bit more elegantly than that), and so it goes with Sony's weather resistant Xperia Z4, a well equipped smartphone that's about to launch globally under a different name. Perhaps in an attempt to pay homage to its predecessor
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A Bloomberg report that came out on Memorial Day was right on the money when it came to Charter’s ambitions to take on cable juggernaut Comcast. Bloomberg learned that Charter would scoop up Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $195 per share, valuing the transaction at roughly $55 billion.
Charter confirmed the acquisition this morning, valuing
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Apple design guru Jony Ive has just received a big promotion from his boss, CEO Tim Cook. Following a management shakeup a few years back that saw the ouster of Steve Jobs’ shadow, Scott Forstall, Ive took over the reigns as Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design. Now, however, Ive has been given the newly-created position of Chief Design
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Welcome back for a special Memorial Day edition of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Vizio M-Series 55" 1080p 240Hz Full-Array LED Smart HDTV, a Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive, a Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600MHz memory kit and more...
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Comcast came up as the biggest loser in its failed bit to acquire rival Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $45 billion. Comcast wasted over $30 million on lobbying and tucked its tail between it legs once it became clear that U.S. regulatory agencies would not approve the merger.
Comcast’s loss is now Charter’s gain...
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With Google's I/O conference set to kick off later this week, the anticipation surrounding its upcoming OS, Android M, is growing fast. While we just learned that M internally stands for Macadamia Nut Cookie, we have doubts this OS release will crumble. Whereas Lollipop represented a major overhaul of the OS, Android...
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First and foremost, Memorial Day is a U.S. federal holiday in which Americans pay tribute to all who have fallen while serving in the country's armed forces, a day of solemn remembrance and reflection. Curiously, Memorial Day is also a day of celebratory ingestion, involving burgers, barbecue, beer, baked beans...and...
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BlackBerry, or the company formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM) if you prefer, has a seemingly endless playbook filled with strategies to keep the company afloat. A name change is just one of many things the company has tried, in addition to hiring new leaders, launching new products, and when things get really...
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Gold is best, right? It's certainly the most expensive in Apple's wearable lineup. The cost of an Apple Watch Edition with 18-Karat gold ranges anywhere from $10,000 to $17,000 plus another $1,500 if you want to add an AppleCare+ warranty. While we don't typically pay much attention to packaging, you'd think that...
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Leave it to the lawyers to find loopholes wherever they may exist. For Amazon and its legal advisers, that meant processing all European sales in Luxembourg, a comparatively low tax region that's been saving the online vendor a significant amount of money. It also drew the ire of European regulators, and in the midst...
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There hasn't been a lot of excitement in the tablet world, though Samsung may change that. Based on some pretty impressive benchmark scores that popped up on Primate Labs' Geekbench 3 page, it appears that Samsung is readying an Android 5.1 slate called "Chopin LTE" that's powered by an Intel Atom x5-Z8500 quad-core...
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Russia has sent warnings to the world's largest social platforms for disobeying a law put into place last year. As per this new law, Russia requires companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, to automatically disclose certain information on bloggers who have more than 3,000 readers per day, and thus far, the...
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Since its founding in 1998, Google has conquered a vast number of different markets. From search to email, phones to tablets, watches to thermostats, Google's achievements are admirable. So, what's next? Teddy bears, of course. Yup - Google has set its sights high, here.
Well, perhaps not a teddy bear, explicitly...
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One of the benefits of owning a Google Nexus device is assurance that it will receive new Android builds as they come out, but for how long? According to a seemingly reliable rumor making the rounds on the web, you won't have to guess with Android M (Android 6.0), which Google is expected to unveil at Google I/O later...
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It doesn’t happen very often, but Apple on occasion leaks upcoming products either via its website or via the App Store. The last such incident happened in October when the user guide for the iPad mini 3 and iPad Air 2 leaked a day before the official keynote.
Today, another Apple product has leaked, but this one...
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While it’s not quite the smoking deal from early last month (a deal which in hindsight was a price mistake), Best Buy is currently trimming $100 from all models of the Motorola Moto 360. The attractive Moto 360 is by far the best-selling Android Wear smartwatch on the market and recently received an update that adds...
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Just this past Tuesday, Apple updated two if its high-end PC product lines: the 15-inch MacBook Pro and the 27-inch 5K Retina iMac. The developments surrounding the 5K iMac were perhaps the most interesting, as Apple lopped off $500 off the price of entry for the base model, taking it to a respectable $1,999 (with...
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Whenever Apple does something, it wants to do it better than the competition, rather than just deliver the bare-minimum to get by. Its upcoming TV service is no exception. Apple certainly won’t be the first to offer such a service when it arrives, and it knows it has to do something special to taste success right out...
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Having failed to put a dent in the smartphone market with its modest $25 offering, Mozilla has decided to overhaul how it goes about this whole mobile thing.
According to a new email from Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, the company is changing its strategy to an "Ignite" initiative that's going to focus on selling phones...
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At this point, the resetting of a mobile phone to a from-the-factory state is something we have all done, perhaps simply to get a fresh start with a device that has become sluggish and over-burdened with years of downloaded flotsam. But more likely, we do it for the purpose of selling the phone or passing it along to...
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