Clik turns your phone into a remote for YouTube parties (hands-on)
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The developer behind popular messaging service Kik has released a new app designed for those of you who throw plenty of YouTube parties. Clik essentially turns your Android or iOS device into a remote, letting you control YouTube videos on any internet-enabled screen, whether it's your desktop or a...
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Dell outfits XPS 10 with LTE, asks $100 for the privilege
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The FCC told us that an LTE ready version of the Dell XPS 10 was coming, but there's nothing like official confirmation: it's here, and it runs on AT&T. Dell officially announced the variant's availability on its community blog, identifying the radio the feds uncovered as a Qualcomm Gobi...
Samsung hits $7.9B in Q1 profits on strong mobile sales
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Samsung is reporting an operating profit of 8.78 trillion won and revenues of 52.87 trillion won for its first quarter, which was boosted by strong sales in its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 mobile devices....
Smartphones out-shipped feature phones for the first time ever, says IDC
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Q1 2013 marks the first time that smartphones made up the majority of cellphones shipped, according to numbers from industry analyst IDC. 216 million handsets with computer-like functionality shipped compared to 419 million total, grabbing a solid 51.6 percent of the pie. Another trend spotted by the pollster was...
Nintendo's digital game sales hit an all-time high
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Nintendo's hardware sales may be in a bit of a stupor, but its downloadable games are a different story. During today's financial results briefing, the company's president, Satoru Iwata, announced that digital sales for the 2013 fiscal year, which ended in March, cruised past ¥16 billion (around $160.9 million),...
AT&T launches Digital Life home automation and security platform
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It's been a long time coming. Seriously. AT&T first teased us with Digital Life way back in February of last year. Now the home security and automation platform is finally ready for prime time. Starting today customers in the 15 launch markets (Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Houston, LA, Miami, SF,...
Sony revises its 2012 earnings forecast, doubles expected net profits
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Just like last year, we're reporting on a revision Sony's making to its expectations for last year's profits, but this time around there's some positive news. According to Sony, selling some of the buildings it owns and a weakening yen have doubled its expected net profit from 20 billion...
Microsoft launches Bing Offers to round up local bargains, gives Bing Deals the axe
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Call it a deal, offer or a bargain -- isn't a discount by any name just as sweet? Microsoft seems to think so, and it recently retired Bing Deals in favor of a locally focused newcomer: Bing Offers. Like its predecessor, Offers culls discounts from a number of sources,...
Chatterbox: Friday
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Amazon competes with river for .amazon top level domain
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Along with .book, .author, and .read, Amazon is trying to lay claim to the .amazon top level domain, and not surprisingly, it’s facing some opposition. The governments of Brazil and Peru think that the honor should go to the actual Amazon River, or rather, the protection of its environment,...
Microsoft prevails in Xbox patent rift with Motorola Mobility
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A U.S. judge ruled Thursday that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wireless and video-encoding patents in its Xbox products.The ruling, handed down in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, is significant because...
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