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Path Uploads Your iPhone’s Address Book To Their Servers Without A Peep
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What started as a bit of aimless tinkering for developer Arun Thampi ultimately unearthed something very surprising about personal life-sharing service Path. As a fan of the app, Thampi took it upon himself to look at the API calls that the app made to Path’s service and found that his...
Test Drive Apple’s New Messages App Before Mountain Lion Launches
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Members of the general public will have to wait a few more months before they can play with Mountain Lion proper, but one of the update’s newest features is ready for a taste of the limelight. Apple has just made their revamped Messages app available for everyone to download, but...
The rise of e-reading
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Summary of findings One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift-giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original Kindles and Nooks.1 In...
Cricket Will Sell The First Prepaid iPhones In The United States Starting June 22
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The crew of carriers that have been allowed to sell the iPhone has been growing steadily over the past few months, but today’s announcement from Cricket Communications wasn’t one most us expected to see any time soon. They revealed earlier this morning that they will start selling the iPhone 4...
Dell spreads the Ivy Bridge love to new XPS 8500, Vostro 470 PCs (video)
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Not willing to let the new Alienware lineup have all the fun with Intel's Ivy Bridge rollout, Dell has seen fit to trot out a pair of new desktop systems using the new 22-nanometer chips. The XPS 8500 is arguably the center of attention here and comes with your...
Startups: Money Orgies: Investors Who Love Them, and Entrepreneurs Who Don’t
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Dan Martell, a tech founder and angel investor, says capital availability has "never been greater." Pictured at a venture event in Hawaii. Photo: Elliottng/Flickr Tech entrepreneur Dan Martell has some advice for fellow startup founders, and it’s not about how to scrounge up funding. It concerns how to resist funding....
HTC shares fall as profits tumble
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Shares of smartphone maker HTC fall on the Taiwan Stock Exchange after a sharp plunge in its profit for the first quarter....
Wintek's sales plunge hints at Apple's switch to in-cell iPhone touch panels
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Touch panel maker Wintek on Tuesday announced that its June sales were down an unusually high 33.6 percent month over month, signaling that the company may have lost out on key orders for Apple's next-generation products, namely a new iPhone rumored to have in-cell touch panel technology....
HTC One X gets software update, minor fixes reported
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HTC One X owners, remember this number: 1.28.401.9. All right, you don't actually have to memorize the thing, you just have to go into the Software Updates section of your phone's settings to grab the decimal-happy upgrade for your beloved new smartphone. According to Android Central, the Android 4.0.3-based...
DealBook: Heirs to Old Money Plunge Into Tech
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Fresh from college and graduate schools, the children of some prominent dynasties are taking a different path, spurning their legacies in retailing, real estate and finance for a future in technology....
Elpida shares plunge 98% in Tokyo
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Elpida shares plunge 98% on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as investors dump stock after the company seeks bankruptcy protection....
Tell HBO how much you’d pay for a standalone streaming service with Takemymoneyhbo.com
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Sites like Netflix and LoveFilm have shown that watching content via the Web doesn’t have to be all about Torrents and pirated content, but yet many of the most established names in broadcasting are still to fully take the plunge online. HBO is arguably the most significant among them, and...
Facebook Shares Rise
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Shares in Facebook gained in early trading after a two-day, 19% plunge....
Google's Language Immersion Chrome extension translates random text to teach foreign lingo
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Berlitz may be the best way to learn a foreign language, but most of us have neither the time nor the ability to fully immerse ourselves in the vocabulary of another country. Hot on the heels of Gmail's automatic translation feature hitting the big time, Google's Translate team has...
VLC 2.0.2 adds Retina display support, kills font cache, and more
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VLC 2.0.2 has just been released for Windows and OS X, and while the update further tweaks video playback on both platforms, the major changes come to the version for Apple's desktop OS. For those who took the plunge and upgraded to the MacBook Pro with Retina display, you'll...
Pandora Shares Plunge on Weak Forecast
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Pandora Media lost more than a fifth of its market value after the Internet radio operator's quarterly report renewed concerns about whether its growing user base and advertising revenue can offset its faster-rising costs....
Apple Thunderbolt Software Update causing sporadic errors, frozen boot screens
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Software updates can be a bit of a mixed bag -- just ask anyone who's ever been on the other side of a botched firmware install. While many users react with itchy trigger fingers to download the goods, the more prudent (read: hardened) prefer to hold off in the...
Game shares crash as it misses out on Mass Effect 3 and Mario Party 9
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Shares in Game Group plunge 20% after it confirms it will not stock the potentially best-selling gamesSpeculation about the future of Game Group is mounting after it emerged that the struggling retailer will not to stock the potentially best-selling games Mass Effect 3 and Mario Party 9.This is another severe...
Warm weather drives greater acceptance of the planet's rising temperatures
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One of the biggest problems with discussing climate change is that a substantial fraction of the US public can't agree on basic facts. All indications are that the planet has warmed over the last century, yet polls have shown that anywhere from a fifth to a third of US...
Virgin Mobile may be next up for pay-as-you-go iPhone parade on July 1st
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It might be that Cricket's iPhone deal is just the tip of the prepaid iceberg: insiders reportedly say that Sprint's pay-as-you-go brand Virgin Mobile will be taking the Apple plunge as well. Details of what it will cost are still very much unknown, although we'd look to Cricket's $500...
PSA: Apple offering up to $320 if you trade in your iPad 2 in reuse and recycling program
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Eyeing the iPad 3, but have yet to take the pre-order plunge? Per The Next Web, your patience is about to be rewarded as Apple's updated its Reuse and Recycling program, which means owners of iPad 2s in "good condition" can sling them back to their maker in exchange...
Sprint’s $199 Galaxy Nexus Launches On April 22 With $50 Google Wallet Credit In Tow
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If they haven’t already done it, Sprint customers in need of an upgrade should make it point to circle April 22 on their calendars. Not only has Sprint chosen that day to launch their eco-friendly LG Viper, the nation’s third largest wireless carrier has just confirmed on Twitter that the...
Kohler VibrAcoustic baths bombard your senses with light and sound to drown out stress
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Bathtime isn't just for luxuriating in champs and bubbles as part of an MTV-guided tour of your Manhattan high-rise (we're looking at you Ms. Carey). It's also for taking some well-deserved time off to undo pent up stress and get yourself clean with the help of an audiovisual assault....
It’s Official: HTC’s EVO 4G LTE To Hit Sprint Shelves On May 18
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Pre-orders for Sprint’s new EVO 4G LTE have been open for a few days now, but Sprint has finally gotten around to announcing when we’ll actually be able to get our hands on one. Starting on May 18, you’ll be able to shell out $199 through your sales channel of...
T-Mobile to offer prepaid and monthly4G service at participating Dollar General stores
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Don't let Carly's leather skinsuit fool you -- Magenta may be rebranding with a focus on high-speed network flash, but it hasn't forgotten the budget base it's built upon. Starting this July, the operator's bringing its prepaid and monthly4G no contract plans to shoppers at over 6,000 Dollar General...
Kindle Fire Update Brings Sharing, Book Extras, Print Replica Textbooks To The Masses
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Hey there, Kindle Fire owners — Amazon’s rolling out a brand new software update for you, and it packs quite a few worthwhile (and arguably overdue) tweaks for your budget-conscious tablet. Take sharing, for example. Oddly absent from the Kindle Fire at launch was the ability to share interesting snippets...
My Airbnb Biz Got Me Evicted, Here's What I Learned
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It only took five years for the couch-surfing startup Airbnb to rocket past 10 million bookings--and it only took 10 days for my landlord to force me out of my apartment for riding the wave.After court appearances, phone calls, and printer cartidges, the ink is dry on a settlement that...
Firefox 14 For Android Graduates From Beta, We Go Hands-On
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When Mozilla first pushed their latest beta version of Firefox into the Google Play Store last month, it raised a few eyebrows thanks to its dramatic redesign and its claims of “significant” performance enhancements. Now that new version of Firefox (version 14, if you’re keeping track) has cast off its...
Insert Coin: Berlin Boombox recyclable cardboard stereo (video)
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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. It's been years since we've spotted a proper handle-sporting boombox on this...
Apple Reveals LTE iPads For Verizon, AT&T, Rogers, Telus, And Bell
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The new iPad (dubbed, simply enough, iPad) packs a slew of new hardware — the A5X system-on-a-chip, a 5-megapixel iSight camera, and perhaps most importantly for wireless connectivity fiends, an LTE radio. Yep, the new iPad will be Apple’s first LTE-capable devices, and with any luck they won’t be the...
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