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Latest News - June 2013
- Nokia To Buy Out Siemens' Role In Joint Venture For $2.6 Billion
- Instagram Attacked By Crazed Fruit-Loving Diet Spammers
- Microsoft Teases “Ultimate Game Sale” Bundle For Xbox 360
- AMD Drops Windows XP Support with Latest Graphics Driver Update
- Nitrogen Triflouride Leak at Arizona Intel Manufacturing Plant Hospitalizes 11 People
- Google Offers Native Microsoft Word and Excel File Editing with New Chrome OS Release
- Verizon Now Selling 32GB Version of Galaxy S4 For $299 On Contract
- Mozilla Announces Firefox 23 Beta with Stronger Security and Sharing Features
- Google Maps Updated with 'Skyfall' Island Japan Terrain
- AT&T Awarded Patent To Monitor File-Sharing Traffic
- MIT Researchers Develop Technology That Can See Through Walls Using WiFi
- Microsoft Rolls Out DirectX 11.2 But It’s A Windows 8.1 Exclusive
- Leaked Photo Shows Trays of iPhone 5S Batteries Suggesting Imminent Launch
- Yahoo! Finally Putting AltaVista Out to Pasture
- GameStop Expo Offering Early Access To Xbox One And PS4 This Fall
- Apple Seals Deal With TSMC To Produce Chips For iOS Products
- Intel's New CEO Looks Closely At Company's Efforts In Mobile And TV
- No More Mr. Vice Guy: Facebook Pulls Ads from Inappropriate Pages
- Nokia Will Pay Up to $300 for Your Old Phone When Trading Up to a Windows Phone 8 Smartphone
- Android Home to 92% of Mobile Market's Malware
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All News for June 2013
Nokia and Siemens have a lot to do with one another, believe it or not. On the consumer side, Nokia Siemens Networks is rarely talked about. But in the enterprise, it's a major player. That said, things have changed for Nokia in recent years, and it seems that things are changing for Siemens. A new report suggests...
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When it comes to the web business, you might say you know you've "arrived" when the spammers show up. Instagram, the blazingly hot photo and video-sharing service owned by Facebook and now topping 130 million monthly active users, definitely seems to have crossed that threshold. You might say Instagram is where all the cool kids...
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In a matter of months, Microsoft and Sony will launch their respective Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles to retail, and as evidenced by declining dollars being spent on gaming goods, it appears gamers are especially anxious to get their paws on these next generation devices. That doesn't mean that today's consoles will suddenly fall by the...
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AMD has a new beta graphics driver available--the AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta2 Driver--which features the typical sort of feature list that you’d expect from a driver release, with a notable exception: there’s no support for Windows XP. In the “system requirements” area, AMD lists Windows 8 (32...
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There has been a gas leak at Intel’s plant in Chandler, Arizona, leaving at least 11 people hospitalized with nausea, breathing difficulties, and eye irritation, and a total of 43 that were ill enough to need on-scene treatment. Battalion Chief Tom Dwiggins of the local fire department identified the leak as...
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If the only thing stopping you from picking up a Chromebook is the lack of support for Microsoft Word and/or Excel, you'll be happy to know that there's an update to the developer channel build of Chrome OS that adds the ability to edit both types of files on an experimental basis. Chromium evangelist François...
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Looking for a new Android smartphone, but aren't in the mood to trust a microSD card to hold your data? Verizon Wireless is now offering up a higher-capacity model of the famed Galaxy S4, with a 32GB model selling for $299 on a two-year contract. That's a full $100 over the standard 16GB model, but 32GB of flash...
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These days, it's getting fairly tough to even keep up with the editions of new browsers. Mozilla's Firefox, for example, is already up to v23 in the Beta channel. For those who are fine installing a product that hasn't been fully tested, Firefox 23 (Beta) offers up support for the new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7...
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The latest in the Bond film series, "Skyfall," was certainly one to remember. And not all of those memories were pleasant. The head villain's island lair was a particularly spooky place, and sure enough, it's roots are grown from a real place. The decaying wasteland depicted in the film was a shadow of Hashima off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture...
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Companies that monitor BitTorrent traffic are a dime a dozen, but AT&T marks the first time that an ISP itself is going to be getting in on the action. The company has just been awarded a patent that will allow it to deeply monitor BitTorrent traffic, though its ultimate use seems to be up-in-the-air. The company could simply want to monitor...
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If you have ever wanted to see through walls, but couldn't afford the expensive equipment to do so, then some MIT researchers deserve your attention. They've devised a system called "Wi-Vi", which is designed similarly to sonar where a signal is blasted out and bounced back. An image is then created based on what it...
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There will indeed be another version of the DirectX application programming language (API), though Windows 7 users won't be invited to the party. Neither will Windows 8 users, for the matter. Microsoft confirmed that DirectX 11.2 will be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and its Xbox One console, or at least that's the way it...
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Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) came and went with nary a new iPhone announcement, but that doesn't mean the Cupertino outfit isn't readying the launch of another generation of smartphones. Potentially serving as further evidence that Apple's close to announcing a new model, a French website posted what...
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With a show of hands, who here knew that the old-school search engine AltaVista still existed? Well, that looks like none of you - and I admit, I'm right there with you. Prior to the year 2000, our choice in Web services - heck, even software - was seriously limited. If you didn't use Internet Explorer, you probably used Netscape, and if you...
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Have any major plans for August? Looking to find some, particularly in the gaming space? GameStop is hoping to lure lots of you to Las Vegas in August for its annual GameStop Expo, but this year will obviously be different than years in the past. Why? Xbox One and PlayStation 4, both of which will be on display...
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The times, they say, are a-changing. Even for Apple, it seems. The company has relied heavily on a deal with Samsung to power famed products like the iPhone and iPad, but due to spats in court over designs and theft of said designs, Apple and Samsung haven't exactly been on outstanding terms. Relying on someone that...
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Intel has a new CEO, and he also has plans to make some meaningful changes going forward. Brian Krzanich, the newly implemented CEO, had this to say: "We believe we have a great user interface and the compression-decompression technology is fantastic. But in the end, if we want to provide that service it comes down to...
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When it comes to advertising, many companies are understandably picky about where their ads appear. That plug for a minivan makes sense in a mainstream magazine, but it’s a little odd if the same ad shows up near adult content. So Facebook announced today that it’s going to begin pulling ads from Groups...
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Been considering a move from your current platform over to Windows Phone 8? If you're on the fence, Nokia hopes its trade-up offer will serve as the nudge you need to jump ship and swim over to a Lumia device. As long as you're a U.S. resident, the Finnish phone maker will pay you up to $300 for your old phone in the...
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While mobile use worldwide is growing at an accelerated rate, so too is the increase of malware. But accepting that idea is one thing; seeing it in numbers is another. According to Juniper Networks, the number of individual pieces of mobile malware increased 614% between March 2012 and March 2013. 614%! That figure is nothing short of staggering,...
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BlueStacks, maker of the GamePop console, offers users the ability to play Android and iOS games on their TVs for a $6.99 per month subscription fee. They’ve been running a promotion where you can get the console and its included gamepad (you can also control games with your mobile device) for free with a...
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Microsoft has been in dire need of a win pertaining to its Xbox products lately, and this one is pretty good: Xbox 360 users with an Xbox Live Gold membership will be able to watch 300 of Time Warner Cable’s “most popular” channels live, right from their consoles with TWC TV. They’ll be able to...
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