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May
22
FCC certification for Motorola XT1056 surfaces, appears headed to Sprint
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It has been a few days since we had any new rumors about the Motorola X Phone, but the latest bit of news comes to us from the FCC. A filing for a Motorola XT1056 has been approved by the FCC with the capability of running on LTE Band 25. ...
Ingress, a sci-fi augmented reality game that incorporates some of the real world into its gameplay, received an update today from developer NianticLabs@Google. The update includes a couple features that users will probably find especially useful. The first of these improvements is a change to the Inventory carousel to display ...
VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings.
VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service will be based on the company’s vCloud architecture, allowing customers to shift their VMware encoded workloads between in-house and the VMware hosted ...
May
22
Sony to stream PlayStation games to non-consoles as part of turnaround
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Sony will leverage its streaming technology to bring PlayStation games to devices other than dedicated consoles as part of its ongoing turnaround, but said gaming profits will still suffer and lowered sales targets for its smartphones and cameras.The Tokyo-based company emphasized in a strategy presentation Tuesday that it met its ...
Gmail offers powerful customization options even if you don’t install a single browser extension. You can switch keyboard shortcuts on and off, modify individual shortcuts, enable experimental features, and more.
But there are some things even Gmail’s extensive customization settings can’t do, and that’s where these free Chrome extensions shine. They ...
May
22
Possible wireless cards for next-gen Macs show 802.11ac connectivity
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:51 pm
By AppleInsider Staff
Ahead of an expected refresh of Apple's Mac lineup, images of what appear to be the wireless cards that could go into those computers have appeared online with potential support for high-speed 802.11ac connectivity.
The images showed up on Monday on TonyMacX86. The card ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 06:40 pm
By AppleInsider Staff
Google is looking to bring a version of its Chrome OS app launcher to the Mac, possibly as an add-on to the Chrome browser, allowing users to access a slew of Web apps normally available only from within the
Google's Chrome app ...
May
22
Vudu Player for iOS update brings movie and TV show download support
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 08:25 pm
By AppleInsider Staff
Video-on-demand service Vudu on Monday rolled out a major update to its Vudu Player iOS app, granting users the ability to download movies and TV shows directly onto an Apple device for offline viewing.
With Vudu Player version 2.0, both iPhone and ...
May
22
Caterpillar launches incredibly durable Cat B15 Android phone in North America
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Caterpillar – yes the same Caterpillar that manufactures construction equipment – has created a tough and rugged phone for users who work and play in extreme conditions. We told you about the Cat B15 in February, and now the phone designed to be the ”most progressive, durable and rugged device available ...
May
22
Featured Android Game Review: Bowling Paradise [Sports]
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There certainly is no shortage of bowling games in the Google Play Store. We recently reviewed Concrete Software’s PBA Bowling Challenge, which is a cool game, but if you are looking for something a little more mellow, you might want to check out Bowling Paradise from InnoLab. You won’t find ...
May
22
Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile to offer Samsung Galaxy S 3 beginning in June
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The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is by all accounts the next big thing, but its predecessor isn’t dead just yet. Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile announced today at the CTIA that they will offer a 4G LTE-capable Galaxy S3 beginning next month. The device will run on Sprint’s 4G LTE ...
May
22
New Ericsson software designed to ensure good connections for mobile users
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New network software from Ericsson is designed to make sure mobile users get the best possible connection when there is both a Wi-Fi and a cellular network available.
The software, which Ericsson introduced Tuesday at the CTIA Wireless trade show, is an enhancement to its platform for mobile operators that use ...
A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report.More than a dozen utilities said cyberattacks were daily or constant, according to the survey, commissioned by U.S. Democratic Representatives Edward ...
May
22
Jive’s Producteev task management app now free for unlimited users
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Jive Software has eliminated the limit on the number of people who can use its social task management application Producteev for free within a company.It also added new features to the application, including the capability of assigning tasks to everyone in the company, not just to narrower sets of employees ...
The Entertainment
Live television is the main competitor of any online gaming service. Take Xbox Live: 48 million people use the service, whether for gaming, Netflix, or anything else, an average of 87 hours a month. Meanwhile those users are watching television somewhere around 150 hours a month. Microsoft wants to ...
May
22
Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want
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If you’re looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won’t cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce’s new Mobile Music Pump.
NuForce’s headphone ...
May
21
Microsoft unveils ‘Xbox One,’ a voice-controlled all-in-one entertainment hub
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 01:31 pm
By AppleInsider Staff
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled its next-generation home game console dubbed the "Xbox One," a device that aims to go beyond gaming and become the center of a consumer's living room entertainment experience.
Scheduled to arrive later this year, the Xbox One will ship ...
May
21
Apple CEO Tim Cook says America’s IP environment needs more work
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 02:06 pm
By Kevin Bostic
In the midst of a larger discussion with U.S. senators on international corporate taxes, Apple CEO Tim Cook took an aside to discuss another area of regulation where the iPhone maker would like to see changes: the United States' intellectual property protection environment.
Senator ...
May
21
Apple publishes execs’ opening statements from US Senate testimony
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 04:21 pm
By Mikey Campbell
After Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook and chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer appeared before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to explain the tech giant's offshore tax practices, the company has made available the opening statements as read in testimony.
The ...
May
21
Opera’s First WebKit Browser Leaves Beta, Adds New Features
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Opera's newly updated, WebKit-based Android browser has now exited beta, adding a new wrap text capability plus some other new features beyond those offered in the beta version.
Back in February at Mobile World Congress, browser-developer Opera announced it would be ditching its Presto framework in favor of the standard WebKit engine to ...
May
21
Lenovo ThinkPad Helix Dockable Windows 8 Tablet Can Now Be Ordered in the U.S.
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Lenovo has just begun taking orders for its latest dockable tablet with Windows 8 to shoppers in the United States. The business-oriented ThinkPad Helix has a very high-end feature set.
This device includes a 11.6-inch touchscreen with a Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution. It's sold with a keyboard dock that ...
When the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 was formally announced last month, an important detail was left out: the price. This has now leaked out, showing the Android tablet is going to be quite affordable.
The retailer Adorama mistaken listed this product on its website today for a brief time, indicating ...
May
21
Samsung Galaxy S 4 with stock Android to launch only in US
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Google has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with stock Android that was announced at last week’s I/O will launch only in the United States. Again, the phone that will run for $650 will come with a stock version of Android 4.2 with the bootloader unlocked, making it a ...








