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Latest News - February 2016
- VAIO Phone Biz Is A Surprisingly Handsome And Aluminum-Clad Windows 10 Mobile Smartphone
- Amazon Teaches Echo Smart Speaker To Blast Spotify Tunes On Command
- Save Big On A 2-Year NordVPN Subscription In the HotHardware Shop
- Seagate Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Defective 3TB Internal And External HDDs
- Amazon Opening Up To 400 Brick And Mortar Bookstores
- Google Fiber Brings Free Gigabit Internet To Kansas City Public Housing Developments
- Dell Optiplex 3020 Intel i5 Micro Desktop For $512, 60% Off Ivation Portable HDMI Projector And More
- HP Pro Slate 8 Review: Nifty Duet Pen, Premium Pricing
- Google's USB-C Crusader Takes One For The Team, Fries His Chromebook Pixel With Shoddy Cable
- Lenovo's Motorola Purchase Finally Brings Profitability To Mobile Business
- Get Your Copy Of EA's Need For Speed Most Wanted 'On The House’ With Latest Origin Promotion
- Comcast DOCSIS 3.1 Gigabit Internet Service Coming To Five U.S. Cities This Year
- ZAGG Mobile Accessories Empire Expands Into Battery Cases With $100 Million Mophie Purchase
- Here’s How Microsoft Plans To Fully Immerse You In Future NFL Games With HoloLens
- Microsoft Ups Its AI Game With $250M Acquisition Of SwiftKey Predictive Keyboard Technology
- Hackers Reportedly Breach NASA’s Internal Network, Access Drone Camera Footage And Flight Logs
- T-Mobile Nudges Out Verizon To Take Crown As America’s Fastest LTE Network
- Amazon 1-Day Sale! Up To 60% Off Select Logitech PC And Tablet Accessories, $36 XCOM2 Pre-Order And More
- Apple Allegedly Pencils In March 15th For iPad Air 3 And 4-inch iPhone 5se Unveil
- Nintendo Profit Falls 36 Percent As Hardware Sales Continues Downward Trajectory
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All News for February 2016
All signs point to Microsoft putting Lumia brand out to pasture following the release of the Lumia 650 later this month. Microsoft’s flagship Windows 10 Mobile smartphone duties will reportedly be transferred over to the Surface team, which has built quite a reputation for itself with swanky hardware like the Surface...
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Well here's an interesting development—Amazon today announced that its Echo smart speaker now supports streaming directly from Spotify. That means if you're a subscriber to Spotify's Premium tier, you can bark commands like "Alexa, play ZZ Top from Spotify" and in no time you'll be boogieing out to "Sharp Dressed...
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Looking for a fast, reliable, VPN service that won’t break the bank? We may have just the thing for you. A two-year subscription to NordVPN is currently on sale in the HotHardware Shop for only 39 bucks – that’s a 59% discount over the regular price...
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If you own or have owned a 3TB hard drive from Seagate, the law firm behind a suit against the company wants to hear from you. At the case page, it's mentioned that three Seagate models are involved here, including the standard desktop version (called Barracuda), the Backup Plus external version, or any other that...
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Have you ever tried to pitch the merits of an ebook reader to a book lover who wants nothing to do with digital print? To them, it's the dead tree model or bust, and for various reasons—it could be the feel of the book or the smell of the papers, or even just an aversion to electronic devices. Whatever the case might be, paper bound books
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When communities discover that Google Fiber is coming to town, there is usually instant jubilation. I know that when it was announced that my neck of the woods here in North Carolina would be receiving Google Fiber, my Facebook feed lit up with overjoyed friends tired of the monopolies that rule the Internet roost. A...
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Dell Optiplex 3020 Intel i5 Micro Desktop For $512, 60% Off Ivation Portable HDMI Projector And More
Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro PC, an OCZ Trion 100 Series 960GB SSD, an Ivation Portable HDMI Projector, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. For more...
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If you like the idea of using a stylus with your mobile device, then you probably prefer the precision and additional functionality over the convenience of a fingertip. That, or you've picked up a brand-new HP Pro Slate 8, a tablet targeted at working professionals that includes a rather useful and unique accessory dubbed the "Duet Pen" that...
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It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it! Such is the case with the emerging USB Type-C (USB-C) standard that is finding its way into notebooks, tablets, and smartphones. In addition to compliant cables supporting USB 3.1 speeds, the big usability benefit is that the cables are reversible, similar in concept to...
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Lenovo is displaying the kind of business savvy that must have competitors going nuts with envy. To wit, Lenovo became the world's top supplier of PCs a long time ago and has managed to maintain its No. 1 ranking by outpacing market trends, and now it's showing it can be successful in the mobile market as well. More...
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Consumers love freebies. Whether it’s buy one, get one free or just straight up free without any strings attached, people will often flock to a free offer. Such has been the case with Windows 10, which is being offered for free to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. Origin also understands the value of “free”, as it is...
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Following a successful trial to a single customer's home in Philadelphia, Comcast is confident that it's ready to begin deploying the world's first DOCSIS 3.1-powered gigabit Internet service to several U.S. cities. The first of these will be Atlanta and Nashville, which will receive the upgrade in early 2016...
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A major move is taking place in the mobile accessories market. ZAGG, best known for its premium line of screen protectors, inked a definitive agreement to purchase Mophie, a major player in the battery case segment. The deal is for $100 million at closing, plus a 12-month earn-out based on how Mophie performs from...
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I just had one of those "Oh s**t!" moments. What prompted it was a short video from Microsoft teasing a whole new level of immersion with professional football, one that can only be made possible through augmented reality (AR), and in this case, HoloLens. I'll admit, I was a bit tepid towards HoloLens, but not...
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SwiftKey has been one of the more popular predictive keyboard offerings in the mobile space since it was first released in beta form on the Android market back in 2010. What made SwiftKey so appealing, aside from the myriad of customization options, clean layout, support for numerous languages, an innovative input...
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It seems as though no government agency is immune from hackers these days, with the latest victim being NASA. AnonSec has claimed responsibility for infiltrating NASA’s secure internal network to gain access to a treasure trove of data (including the personal information of a few thousand NASA employees).
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T-Mobile might be the third largest carrier in the US, but looking at things through different angles can make it #1. We can see this with the help of the latest results out of OpenSignal, a firm that collects data through real users (who opt-in to use its mobile app).
For overall coverage, Verizon reigns supreme...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on select Logitech PC and Tablet Accessories, a Dell P2415Q 24" Ultra HD 4K (3840x2160) IPS-panel, a 2TB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III Internal SSD, and more. Full details for all of...
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If you’re a fan of all things Apple, you’re in for a fresh round of product introductions in a little over a month from now. Rumors about unreleased Apple products and upcoming keynotes are a dime a dozen, but when the information come from the likes of Mark Gurman, we take notice.
Gorman indicates that his sources...
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Nintendo finds itself in a bit of a tough spot. At one time the king of the home console market, Nintendo's modern generation hardware just isn't keeping pace with the competition in terms of sales, and as a result, profits are down. How far down depends on what you're comparing them with—net profit for the quarter...
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Google might be taking a page from its rival and changing the way it operates in the mobile phone space, at least on the manufacturing side. Rather than continue to outsource production to established players like HTC and LG, Google's now interested in controlling the entire process from start to finish, much like...
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Like many people, cockroaches creep me out and I would show no mercy if one crawled in my general direction. Needless to say, the only good cockroach is one that is squashed on the bottom of my shoe. Of course, there are those that take a different approach to roaches, and study them for research. Or in the case of...
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