Microsoft Completes $8.5 Billion Skype Purchase
Microsoft announced on Friday that it has completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. Skype will exist as a new division within Microsoft and Skype…
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Apple Releases iTunes 10.5 Ahead Of iOS 5 Availability Tomorrow
Apple on Tuesday released the latest version of its iTunes software to the general public. ITunes 10.5 brings with it several anticipated new features including…
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Berg: Mobile App Downloads To Grow 57% Annually, 98 Billion In 2015
Arguments have been made that web apps will gain momentum as mobile browsers become more capable, but not everyone sees mobile apps losing momentum any…
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Samsung Posts Nexus Prime And Android 4.0 Teaser Clip [Video]
Samsung just cranked our anticipation meters up to 11. The phone maker on Wednesday posted a teaser video for the Nexus Prime, which is expected…
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Images Of BBM On Android Reportedly Surface [Updated]
BGR exclusively reported in March that Research In Motion was working to bring its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) platform to Android smartphones and the iPhone.…
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Microsoft's 'Locationgate' Ends With Mango
Microsoft has updated its Windows Phone platform to address what is now presumed to have been a bug that caused phones to gather location data…
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Nokia To Turn Mobile Landscape On Its Head With 'Meltemi' Smartphone OS
Nokia is again developing a proprietary smartphone operating system after announcing this past February that it would abandon both Symbian and MeeGo in favor of…
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Intel Kills MeeGo In Favor Of Tizen
Intel announced on Wednesday that it will be shifting its efforts from MeeGo to the new "Tizen" mobile operating system recently announced by The Linux…
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Google+ Now Open To The Public, 100 Total Improvements Added
Google recently announced that its Google+ social network is now available to anyone who wants to join. The search engine giant noted that it has added…
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OS X Lion Security Flaw Allows Anyone To Change Your Password
Security blog Defense in Depth has found a glaring security flaw in OS X Lion that enables hackers to change the password of any user…
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Jefferies: Facebook Is 'Best Fit' To Acquire webOS From HP
As Hewlett-Packard reportedly toys with the idea of selling off its webOS software division, a new possible suitor may emerge from the dust following the…
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Steve Ballmer: No Platform Will Ship More Than Windows
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer surprised developers during Micorosft's BUILD conference in California on Wednesday when he took the stage to talk up Microsoft's new operating…
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Who Says Men Don't Ask For Directions? Maps Is Top Android App For Men, Facebook For Women
Market research firm Nielsen on Tuesday revealed the 20 most popular Android applications in the United States. Using data obtained from metered device usage as…
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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite To Support Apple's iOS Newsstand
Adobe announced on Wednesday that its Digital Publishing Suite will offer support for Apple's Newsstand feature in iOS. Newsstand will allow users to purchase popular…
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Samsung Will 'Never' Buy webOS, CEO Says
During the IFA trade show in Berlin on Friday, Samsung Electronics CEO Choi Gee Sung addressed rumors and speculation that Samsung was considering purchasing webOS…
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Windows Phone Mango HTC Eternity And HTC Omega Specs Leaked
HTC has a press event scheduled for Thursday evening during the IFA trade show in Berlin, and purported specs for two phones BGR exclusively reported…
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Apple, RIM Sued By Software Maker Openwave Over Patents
Openwave Systems has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple and Research In Motion with a Delaware federal court and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Openwave…
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AirPlay Drives iTunes Momentum In Online Movie Market Share
A new report from research firm IHS suggests that Apple's iTunes share of "consumer spending for movie electronic sell-through (EST) and Internet video on demand…
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Hulu Future Foggy, Bids For Company Due Wednesday
Bids for the online streaming company Hulu are due on Wednesday but it is still unclear what the company's future will hold. Bidders will "submit…
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Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 6 To Developers; Here's The Full Change Log
Apple on Friday released iOS 5 beta 6 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to developers. BGR has the full change log!
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Microsoft Outs Windows Phone 'We're In' Location Sharing App
Microsoft's Bing team took the wraps off of a new location-sharing application for Windows Phone on Thursday called "We're in." The application is similar to…
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Most Android Apps Sit Idle, Top-50 Apps Make Up 61% Of All Usage, Nielsen Finds
Nielsen found that the top-10 apps in the Android Market account for a whopping 43% of app usage on Android devices. The top-50 apps in the Market account
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GameFly To Launch Unlimited Game Download Service This Fall
GameFly announced on Wednesday it will soon offer a new service called "Unlimited PC Play" that will allow gamers to download an unlimited amount of…
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News360 2.0 Brings Web App, Updates For iPad And Honeycomb
In a world packed with more news aggregation services and RSS readers than we could ever need, only a few manage to rise to the…
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Microsoft Adding Speech Recognition Tech To Windows 8, Next Generation Products [Video]
Microsoft's internal Tellme team is working on implementing speech recognition software into the Redmond-based firm's portfolio of software and hardware products. Microsoft will build the…
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Amazon Launches Web-Based Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon launched its new Kindle Cloud Reader service on Wednesday that provides users with access their Kindle library using Chrome or Safari on Mac, PC,…
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Here's The Full Change Log For iOS 5 Beta 5
Apple just pushed iOS 5 beta 5 out to developers and wouldn't you know, we've got the full change log for you to feast your…
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