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How To Find Out Instantly When Local Apple Stores Get iPhone 5s Stock
Apple's iPhone 5s launched three weeks ago now, but it's still ridiculously hard to come by in many regions. Lines continue to form each day…
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New Darkmail Alliance Aims To Make Email NSA-Proof
Secure email service Lavabit closed up shop earlier this year after the United States government forced it to hand over its users' private data. But…
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Strong iOS Game Sales Could Spell Doom For The PS Vita And Wii U
The most recent Fiksu data indicates that the iOS app market is still chugging along nicely in America. The launch of the new iPhones triggered…
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Sony Posts $196 Million Q2 Loss Despite Strong Smartphone Sales
Sony said shipments of its Xperia smartphones were strong in the September quarter, but weak camera and PC sales coupled with the flop of its…
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New Lenovo Tablet Takes Cues From Surface, Adds 18-Hour Battery Life
Undeterred by another recent tablet announcement, Lenovo has unveiled its own entries into the marketplace -- the Yoga Tablet 8 and Yoga Tablet 10. The…
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Facebook's Fear Comes Into Focus: Teens Are Fleeing
Facebook's third-quarter results blew out Wall Street expectations as the company earned $0.25 per share on $2.02 billion in revenue. Though it wasn't quantified, there's…
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Nokia Looks To Ban HTC One Sales In The UK Following Patent Win
As HTC's infernal autumn comes to a close, it appears to be entering an equally dismal winter. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia has…
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Facebook's Mobile Growth Dazzles - And Has Implications For BlackBerry
Facebook delivered 18% growth of monthly active users (MAU) in its most recent quarterly earnings report — no mean feat for a company its size.…
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Google Glass Can Identify Friends By Their Clothing
Google's (GOOG) Project Glass is one of the most highly anticipated devices of the year, even though we still don't know much about it. As we…
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Microsoft Rumored To Debut Google Glass Competitor In 2014
Google Glass is generating a considerable amount of buzz for a product that isn't going to hit the market until later this year. The highly…
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Google Still Not Sure How People Will Actually Use Google Glass
Google's (GOOG) Project Glass is one of the more intriguing products unveiled over the past year, as it looks to be the first-ever glasses headset that can project…
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Google Glass Predicted To Be 'The Next iPhone'
A new report suggests that Google's wearable computing device could become "the next iPhone." Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst with Forrester Research, believes that…
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Google Glass Competitor Recon Jet Now Accepting Preorders For Half The Price
Google Glass isn't expected to be released until early to mid-2014, however there are other options for those interested in wearable computing. Recon Instruments is…
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Google's Project Glass Is Totally Right Out Of Terminator [Video]
Oakley THUMP sunglasses not doing it for you? A rumored Google project based around the concept of a pair of glasses that can deliver real-time…
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Google Shows Us What It's Like To Use Project Glass [Video]
This isn't the first time we've seen Google (GOOG) Project Glass shown off on video, but the company released a demo on Wednesday that sheds…
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Does The World Want An Apple 'iWatch'?
While the world awaits new details surrounding the next-generation iPhone and a much rumored HDTV, news that Apple (AAPL) is developing an iOS-powered watch made…
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Bloomberg: Apple's iWatch Is Real And There's Already A Huge Team Working On It
The web is abuzz with chatter surrounding Apple's (AAPL) rumored "iWatch," which both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal detailed in recent…
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Fitness Watch Market Set To Top $1 Billion In 2013, Even Without Apple's iWatch
As rumors surrounding Apple's (AAPL) supposed "iWatch" continue to swirl, one market research firm believes the fitness watch industry will see explosive growth this year…
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Smartwatch Shipments Could Surpass 1 Million In 2013
Smartwatches have been around for the last decade, but they have failed to gain any real attention until recently. The Kickstarter-backed Pebble generated massive hype,…
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Pebble Kicks Off Smartwatch Revolution With Best Buy Partnership
Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky on Tuesday announced an exclusive partnership with Best Buy to offer his company's popular smartwatch at the Best Buy retail stores…
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Samsung Galaxy Gear Preview: Smartwatch Wars Start With A Whimper, Not A Bang
There's no question that Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 was highly anticipated leading up to Wednesday's IFA announcements, but most enthusiasts seemed even more excited for…
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Video: Samsung's Galaxy Gear Ad Is Cooler Than The Actual Watch
Critics may have savaged Samsung's first Galaxy Gear smartwatch but that hasn't stopped the company's crack marketing team from churning out a terrific ad that's…
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Google Smartwatch To Reportedly Be Unveiled This Month
Despite all of its might and resources, Samsung's first shot at the emerging smartwatch category was definitely a misfire. The Galaxy Gear was universally panned…
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Smartwatch Market's Fate Seems To Rest On Apple's iWatch
A slathering of solid reports suggests every major smartphone vendor on the planet is now working on a smartwatch. Samsung, Motorola, Sony and LG have…
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Intel Might Throw In The Towel On Its Revolutionary TV Service
It's bad news for TV viewers interested in alternative services as Intel has apparently decided to give up on its exciting aspirations for a subscription…
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Here's How To Disable Twitter's Annoying New Timeline Photos
As most active Twitter users undoubtedly noticed, Twitter on Tuesday added a new feature to its website and mobile apps that is definitely making waves.…
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How Far Can Fanboys Carry Apple?
Apple reported its results for the fiscal fourth quarter on Monday and it has been on something of a roller coaster ride since then. Shares…
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Spotify-Tango Collaboration Takes Messaging Apps In A Whole New Direction
Tango and Spotify are kicking off a collaboration aimed at offering a new music sharing opportunity for Tango messaging app users. Anyone using Tango can…
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Meet The Man Who Advises Google, Facebook And LinkedIn On Tax Dodging
If there's one thing that Silicon Valley executives love more than having fancy product launch parties it's avoiding taxes by funneling profits through Ireland. Bloomberg…
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20 Million New BBM Users In A Week - What Does It Mean?
BlackBerry just announced that it has added 20 million iOS and Android users to its BBM messaging service in one week. This rockets BBM's total monthly active user…
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Apple Posts Huge Q4 Earnings: Record $7.5B Profit On $37.5B In Sales
Apple's earnings are always the most highly anticipated results of the season among technology companies, and this year's September quarter is no different. The tail…
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Wearable Computer Shipments Seen Hitting 64 Million In 2017
If you're not impressed by the Galaxy Gear, don't worry — there will be plenty of other wearable computers to choose from in the coming…
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New Firefox Add-On Shows You How Your Browsing Is Being Monitored
Mozilla has developed a Firefox add-on called Lightbeam that could change the way you look at your daily Internet activity. Mozilla says that Lightbeam "enables…
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How To Get Unlimited Talk, Text And Data On An iPhone For Only $30
Smartphone service is expensive, and wireless carriers will do everything in their power to keep it that way. Even comparatively cheap plans often have shortcomings…
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Samsung Posts Record Q3 Profit As Smartphone Sales Near 90 Million
Samsung on Friday released its audited earnings report for the third quarter, confirming performance that has once again climbed to new records on the back…
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Samsung Issues Apology, Promises To Fix Buggy Galaxy Phones In China
It has been a season full of ups and downs for Samsung. On one hand, the Korean tech company managed to outsell Apple last quarter…
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Microsoft Recovers From Surface Debacle With Strong Q1 Earnings
Microsoft's last earnings report was not the company's brightest hour. Not only did it miss analysts' expectations with fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $0.59 per share…
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Galaxy S4 Shipments Rocket To 40M, But Sales Are Slowing
Cumulative channel sales of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone have reported reached the 40 million unit mark. Samsung's mobile boss JK Shin apparently confirmed the…
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YouTube Plans To Take On Spotify With Subscription-Based Music Service
The music streaming market has become especially crowded with the addition of Apple's iTunes Radio, but another major player in the online world is supposedly…
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Top Cable Lobbyist Urges More ISPs To Slap Users With Data Caps
Do you like being able to stream Netflix movies at home without worrying about going over a monthly broadband cap? Well too bad — National Cable…
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One Of The Most Important Features Still Missing From Apple's New iPads
Apple unveiled two new additions to its iPad lineup on Tuesday, just as we all expected. The new fifth-generation iPad Air features a completely new…
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BlackBerry's BBM App Rockets To No.1 On iPhone App Chart
It took forever to launch — and some of the people who downloaded still can't even use it — but BlackBerry's BBM for Android and…
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BBM Is Conquering The iPhone As It Tops iOS App Charts In 66 Countries
A day after being released, BBM became the most popular messaging app in the world. By 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, it was ranked as the No. 1…
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Video: Goophone Is Back With A Vengeance, 5s Knockoff Returns In Gold
Not to be outdone by its slightly more successful rival, Goophone returns to the market once again with the gold Goophone i5S, a shameless, Android-powered…
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'Need For Speed: Rivals,' Another High Profile Release, Skipping Wii U
It has already been a very busy month for Nintendo, between the incredibly positive sales figures of the Wii U and the retirement of the…
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Apple Announces First Haswell-Based MacBook Pros
Apple on Tuesday announced a major refresh to its MacBook Pro lineup, including a thinner and lighter 13-inch models that weighs in at just 3.46…
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End Of An Era: Nokia Unveils Six Final Consumer Devices
Nokia is aiming to make a bigger splash in the mobile market by releasing its first-ever phablet and tablet this year, two among the six…
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Does Lenovo Have Ulterior Motives For Its Potential BlackBerry Bid?
As we've mentioned before, a Lenovo-BlackBerry merger is probably a nonstarter because the Canadian government is likely to block any acquisition of BlackBerry by a…
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Nokia's 'Guru' Portable Media Player Allegedly Leaked
It would appear that Nokia is planning on expanding its hardware lineup rather extensively in the near future. Last Thursday, a patent and subsequent video…
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Twitter #Music Reportedly A Dud, May Soon Be Shut Down
In the wake of countless music streaming services popping up over the past several years, Twitter's own offering never made much of an impact. AllThingsD…
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Apple's iPad 5 Debuts Tomorrow - Here's Everything You Can Expect
Apple hasn't unveiled its fifth-generation full-size iPad yet but it might as well have. As is the case with all of Apple's mobile devices these…
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AT&T Announces Huge $4.85 Billion Cell Tower Deal
AT&T on Sunday announced a deal with Crown Castle that will see the nationwide carrier lease the rights to 9,100 of its cell towers and sell…
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Why A Lenovo BlackBerry Buy Looks Like A Nonstarter
BlackBerry's shares got a slight boost on Thursday when rumors circulated for the 12,497th time that Chinese hardware manufacturer Lenovo was interested in buying the…
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Amazon Sites Suggest New Apple TV Launch Next Week
Earlier reports suggested that Apple has a refreshed Apple TV set to be unveiled next week at its press conference, and now it seems almost…
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Apple Poised To Attack New $4 Billion Market Opportunity
Apple hasn't yet begun to push the new iBeacon service it touched upon earlier this year, but that will soon change. According to market research…
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After 32 Months At The Top, Xbox 360 Dethroned By PlayStation 3
There has been a changing of the guard in the U.S. video game console market and for Microsoft, it couldn't have come at a worse…
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Ransomware Demands $300 In Bitcoins To Release Your Data
If you've never encountered ransomware, consider yourself lucky. Ransomware is malware that completely locks down your computer and threatens to corrupt or destroy your files…
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Google Shares Surge Past $1,000 In Friday Trading
Google's better-than-expected earnings report has sent the company's shares surging past the $1,000 barrier for the first time in its history during trading on Friday.…
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Google's Kurzweil Details His Intricate Plan For Cheating Death
As we've noted before, Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil devotes a lot of his life to postponing death. Kurzweil, the brilliant 65-year-old inventor and futurist,…
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Apple's Retina iPad Mini Could Be Next To Impossible To Find At Launch
The biggest "Will they or won't they?" question for Apple fans heading into the holiday season will be whether the company will at long last…
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Current And Former Apple Employees Dish On What It's Like To Work There
Love them or hate them, the people at Apple have found a way to make their products culturally relevant, extremely profitable and apparently worth waiting…
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Verizon's Q3 EPS Tops Expectations At $0.77 On $30.3 Billion In Sales
Following solid earnings in the second quarter that narrowly topped the Street's expectations, Verizon Communications on Thursday reported its third-quarter results ahead of the bell.…
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Despite Dismal Results, HTC Sticking With High-End Smartphone Strategy
To say that things have gone poorly for HTC in 2013 so far would be an understatement: The company released one of the year's best…
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A Simple Guide To Opting Out Of Google's Controversial New Ads
Google's latest Terms of Service update allows the company to use your personal information from Google+, including your name and photograph, in targeted advertising that…
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Intel CEO Explains Why Intel Chips Are Better Than Apple's iPhone 5s Processor
Chip makers are not fans of the new 64-bit A7 processor that powers Apple's flagship iPhone 5s. First Qualcomm's chief marketing officer Anand Chandrasekher took a…
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Ireland Mulls Closing Apple's Favorite Tax Loophole
Apple's luck with the Irish may be about to run out. Bloomberg reports that Irish finance minister Michael Noonan has pledged to change parts of…
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Video: Sony's Debuts First PlayStation 4 TV Ad, 'Perfect Day'
When Kevin Butler first showed up on TV screens around the world promoting the PlayStation brand, it was clear that Sony might be on to…
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Apple Sends Invitations To Next-Gen iPad Event Scheduled For Oct. 22
New Apple products aren't as easy to come by as they used to be when Apple spread its device launches out a bit more, but…
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Why Is A Japanese Carrier Paying $1.5 Billion For Half Of A Finnish App Vendor?
Japanese carrier SoftBank and GungHo just paid $1.5 billion for a 51% stake of Supercell. What the heck is going on? Valuing Supercell at $3 billion…
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iPhone App Lets You Save Snapchat Photos Forever
If you don't already, it might be time to think twice before sending any incriminating Snapchats to your friends. Business Insider stumbled upon a new…
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New Report Claims Apple Won't Unveil A Retina iPad Mini Next Week
Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White has had his fair share of hits and misses over the years, and millions of Apple fans around the world…
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iPhone 5s Pitted Against iPhone 5 In Stunning Camera Showdown
It might be more than a year old now, but Apple's iPhone 5 still has one of the most impressive cameras that has ever been…
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Sonos PLAY:1 Becomes A Less Expensive Trojan Horse For Just $199
The barrier to entry in the world of Sonos has normally been reasonably high. The company's products sell in the $400 plus range, with the…
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New Sony Smartphone Strategy Shifts Away From U.S.
In an effort to become a dominant force in the competitive smartphone space, Sony is refocusing its business to markets that already constitute 60% of…
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Google TV To Finally Get The Ax As Android TV Takes Its Place
It is fairly safe at this point to call Google TV a failed experiment. Google secured several partners for the service and dozens of Google…
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Nokia's Budget Lumia Success May Leave HTC With Nowhere To Run
HTC's disastrous Q3 performance has triggered speculation about how the company may try its luck in the Windows Phone market after getting clobbered by tough…
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Former Apple CEO Says Cook Doing A 'Terrific Job,' Not 'Trying To Be Steve Jobs'
Any time a company's stock has a year like Apple shares have had between late September 2012 and now, investors and industry watchers are bound…
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iPhone 6 Said To Feature Display Around 5 Inches; iWatch Is More Than Just A Smartwatch
Several solid reports over the past few weeks have stated that Apple's next-generation iPhone 6 will finally feature a larger display. Following The Wall Street…
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HP CEO Says Microsoft Has Gone From 'Partner' To 'Competitor'
Stating the obvious doesn't seem to be a problem for HP CEO Meg Whitman. Barron's reports that Whitman told analysts on Wednesday that HP has…
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Microsoft's Nokia Buy Still Won't Get Key Apps On Windows Phone
Microsoft's decision to buy Nokia's handset division signaled its intention to build its own smartphone hardware but this still isn't enough to get Candy Crush…
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Why In The World Did Samsung Launch The Galaxy Round?
The Galaxy Gear smartwatch is the worst product Samsung has made in a long time. The device was rushed to market in an attempt to…
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Qualcomm Realizes Insulting Apple Isn't A Good Idea, Says 64-Bit A7 Chip Isn't A Gimmick
When one of your biggest customers makes its new 64-bit mobile processor a huge focus as it unveils its next-generation flagship smartphone, calling that new…
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Apple: iPhone 5s, 5c To Debut In More Than 25 New Countries On Oct. 25
Apple on Wednesday announced that its new iPhone 5c and flagship iPhone 5s smartphones will launch in more than 25 new countries on October 25th.…
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Video: Schmidt Claims Android Is More Secure Than iOS, Laughter Ensues
Google chairman Eric Schmidt drew big laughs at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo this week but it most likely wasn't on purpose. ZDNet reports that Schmidt told attendees…
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Video: 'Login And Pay With Amazon' Has The Online Retailer Competing With PayPal
Amazon announced the 'Login and Pay with Amazon' service on Tuesday, which will allow online shoppers to use their Amazon account information to quickly complete…
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Solid Report Claims Apple's iPhone 6 Will Finally Feature A Bigger 4.8-Inch Display
With the iPhone 5s launch behind us, industry watchers are now turning up the heat as they sniff around for details on next year's iPhone…
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Another Solid Report Points To Bigger Screen On Apple's iPhone 6
It looks like iPhone 6 rumors have already kicked into high gear. It hasn't even been three weeks since Apple's record-smashing iPhone 5s and iPhone…
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BlackBerry VP Unloads In Epic Email Thread With Shareholder, Analysts
BlackBerry VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders hasn't done a great job in his role. But to pop off like this in an email chain…
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Navigate The Streets Of Grand Theft Auto With This Awesome Google Glass App
As the sales figures might suggest, gamers aren't having any trouble finding reasons to pick up Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar's latest critical and financial…
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Twitter's Growth Problem In America
It is surprising that Twitter only grew its U.S. monthly active user base by 1 million between the March and June quarters — from 48…
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Samsung 'Galaxy Round' Smartphone With Flexible Display May Be Announced This Week
Flexible displays could potentially open the door for a variety of exciting (and not so exciting) new form factors for smartphones and other devices. The…
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Samsung Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Stake In Best Buy [Updated]
We learned on Friday that Samsung is set to bring in record profits this quarter, but that analysts do not believe smartphone-driven profit growth will…
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Verizon Says When It Comes To Protecting Your Data, 'Don't Look At Us' [Updated]
As some high-profile technology companies make an effort to shed more light on issues surrounding user privacy in light of recent NSA spying revelations, most…
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Lose Money, No Problem: Twitter's IPO Is A California Dream
The tech industry is captivated by two upcoming IPO's, which offer an interesting contrast. Twitter is a great example of what software companies used to…
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Twitter Makes IPO Filing Public, Will Look To Raise $1 Billion
In line with earlier reports, Twitter on Thursday made its IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission public. Twitter filed an S-1…
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Samsung Accused Of Illegally Disclosing Classified Apple-Nokia Documents
As Samsung attempts to deal with the minor PR threat that came along with allegations of artificially boosting benchmark results on smartphones and tablets, new…
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Study Suggests Microsoft's 'Bing-It-On' Claims Are False [Updated]
Surprise! It turns out that people who take Microsoft's "Bing it on" challenge don't actually prefer Bing to Google by a rate of 2-to-1. Yale…
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The Dark Side Of Apple's iBeacons
Alongside the introduction of Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS 7, the company also rolled out its answer to the NFC technology it has gone…
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Samsung: We Don't Cheat On Benchmarks
BGR reviewed Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 recently and said that the humongous handset is likely the best smartphone Samsung has ever made. As good as…
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Dell Unveils The Venue 11 Pro, A Windows 8.1 Tablet Priced To Beat The Surface Pro 2
Anyone who thinks the new Surface Pro 2 looks terrific but is put off by the price may have a new alternative. Dell on Wednesday…
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WhatsApp's Engagement Drop Could Be A Big Red Flag
Even as rival messaging apps such as WeChat, LINE, Kik and Tango have made progress in various markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia, it has seemed…
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Apple's $147 Billion Cash Pile Accounts For 10% Of All U.S. Corporate Cash
So it seems as though Apple has been doing pretty well for itself over the past few years. Per The Wall Street Journal, Moody's now…
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Another Blow For HTC: Company Must Change Chip Design After Losing Patent Fight With Nokia
HTC is working with Qualcomm to alter a chip design that has been judged to infringe on Nokia's radio patents, The Wall Street Journal reports.…
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Google Seemingly Close To Settling EU Antitrust Case
Google looks like it's about to skate it yet another antitrust probe. The Wall Street Journal reports that Joaquín Almunia, who serves as the European Union's…
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Galaxy Note 3 Juices Benchmark Tests, Phil Schiller Takes Note
There's no question that the Galaxy Note 3 is one of the most powerful Android smartphones on the market, but Samsung appears to have designed…
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The Death Of The Blue Screen Of Death
The "blue screen of death" that signifies a system failure has historically characterized Microsoft's Windows operating system as much as the windows-based user interface itself.…
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Former Microsoft Privacy Advisor: 'I Don't Trust Microsoft Now'
It's doubtful that Microsoft will recruit its former privacy advisor Caspar Bowden to help it come up with witty one-liners for its next round of "Scroogled"…
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Google Nexus 5 Photo Shows Highest-End Nexus Device To Ever Be Released
Google's upcoming Nexus 5 smartphone has leaked several times already, but eager Android fans waiting for the company's newest pure Google device to launch certainly won't mind…
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Surface 2 Tablet Reportedly Won't Take Microsoft Very Far In The Mobile Market
There is absolutely no question that Microsoft's second-generation Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets represent a huge improvement over the company's first-generation slates. Where…
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