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HTC One X review
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Batman Begins. The Muppets. James Bond in Casino Royale. What do they have in common? They’re all examples of franchises that got better after a reboot (some will disagree on Casino Royale, but I’m standing my ground). For HTC, that’s exactly what the One series represents: a thorough reboot...
Apple’s Back to School promo to kickoff next week with $100 App Store card for Macs, $50 for iPads?
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Last year’s Back to School $100 gift card We’ve heard from a sources that Apple Stores have begun receiving several boxes of $100 App Store/iTunes Store/iBookstore cards, and these cards are apparently for a reboot of Apple’s Back to School promotion. With these boxes being delivered this weekend, it seems likely that the promotion...
ShareMyPlayLists Gets A Much Needed Android Reboot
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“To be honest, it was awful”, says ShareMyPlaylists founder Kieron Donoghue on the company’s previous Android effort, which today gets a much needed reboot. The new app brings many of the Spotify community site’s best features to Google’s platform, such as its editorally-picked ‘Featured Playlists’ as well as the ‘Top...
Dell leaves its US phone plans blank after ending sales of the Venue and Venue Pro here
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While Dell may still be releasing Streaks and Venues in other countries, a company spokesman tells PC World that its last remaining phone stateside, the Venue and Venue Pro are no longer on sale. While the short lifecycle of mobile products was cited in the pair's time with us...
Kodak moves to block Apple's latest patent suit from proceeding in federal district court
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In a move that's sure to surprise no one, Kodak is fighting Apple's latest round of patent litigation -- a suit that would force Kodak to pause plans to sell up to $2.6 billion in digital imaging patents as a condition of its bankruptcy loan. In documents filed late...
BlackBerry World 2012: news, photos, video, and more
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RIM is hosting its annual gathering in Orlando, and this year's BlackBerry World is of particular importance: the company is taking the wraps off BlackBerry 10, the most fundamental reboot of its smartphone platform in many years. Follow along right here as we cover all the news as it...
Google reboots Android Market, launches Google Play
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Google is rolling up music, e-books, movies, and apps into a single-branded service called Google Play. The reboot comes as some of Android's services underachieve as moneymakers. [Read more]...
iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak gets a video demo, not yet ready to meet the public
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Moving along a similar path to his previous untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0, hacker pod2g has followed up announcements of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 and iPad 3 running iOS 5.1 with a quick demo video (embedded after the break) as evidence. The video shows a jailbroken...
Arrested Development cast set to begin filming Netflix reboot
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Filming for the Netflix-exclusive reboot of hit comedy show Arrested Development is slated to begin production on Tuesday, according to Deadline. The entire cast of the show, which includes Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett and Michael Cera, will reportedly return to the new season, though some of the...
Sim City returns to PC in 2013
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EA finally confirms the rumours that a new city building simulation is in the works, complete with multiplayer mode and ecological concernsIt has to be the worst kept secret in city simulation development, but now EA has finally made an official announcement: Sim City is returning. As rumoured for several...
Digg reboot seeks to woo users
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The New York firm that bought Digg relaunches the social news site with a bolder design and integration with Twitter and Facebook....
NASA J-2X rocket engine enters second phase of testing
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NASA's next-generation J-2X rocket engine is ready for a second phase of testing, following a successful round of tests last year. The space agency is developing the engine to power its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is intended to enable deep-space exploration and experimentation. Alongside SLS, NASA is...
Next MacBook Pro: Retina Display, ultra-thin, USB 3.0 ports
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More details have emerged about the next-generation 15-inch MacBook Pro, if 9to5Macís sources are correct. As with the first unibody MacBook Pro range, where the 15-inch model led the redesign, Apple is expected to reveal its latest MacBook Pro reboot with a 15-inch model. The inclusion of Intelís Ivy Bridge...
Intel Says 20 Windows 8 Tablets in Works With New Clover Trail Chip
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Intel is seeking a reboot in the tablet market with its upcoming Atom Z2760 chips code-named Clover Trail, and 20 tablets are in the works with the new chips......
Designing digital public services: where we went wrong
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Designing a mobile application that lets mental health service users register their mood and activity daily proved a long and challenging road. Adil Abrar shares five important lessonsIn 2009, Nesta launched a programme it called Reboot Britain. The aim was to explore whether new web-based technologies could be applied to...
T-Mobile G2x finally updated to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
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After nearly a year of false starts, T-Mobile seems to be finally getting a handle on releasing Gingerbread for the LG G2x. Starting yesterday, the company has been pushing new over the air updates to its phone, and it's promised that they will be available through May 14th. After...
Review: Reflection app brings full iPad & iPhone AirPlay mirroring to Mac
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Right before Apple made AirPlay mirroring for Macs official with the Mountain Lion developer preview, we told you about AirParrot, a third-party app that brings the same functionality to Snow Leopard. The same developers have just announced the first solid release of another AirPlay app, this time for mirroring...
Wi-Fi Direct May Get a Reboot With Push for Better Ease of Use
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The Wi-Fi Direct standard may get a much-needed boost next year from work by the Wi-Fi Alliance to make it easier to use for both consumers and developers....
Syndicate Review - The price of progress
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The Syndicate reboot had two strikes against it before most players even knew it existed. It carries all the emotional duress inherent in a modern “re-imagining” of a classic title, to say nothing of a cult-hit PC classic like its namesake. It’s also a cyber-punk opus in a post...
Apple's Messages Beta: Pretty Meh in a Mixed OS World
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As part of the Mountain Lion preview last week, Apple put out a beta of its revamped chat application, Messages. If you spend a lot of time connecting with other folks on iOS devices, Messages is a must-have. If not, it doesn't really add much to the mix. Installing Messages...
Is Atlassian the Next Big Enterprise Software IPO?
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Atlassian shouldn’t have become this interesting of a company. It was started ten years ago, at a time when most of the major categories of enterprise software were saturated– even if they were saturated with lousy software everyone hated. After spending billions on stuff that barely worked, Corporations simply weren’t...
Microsoft vows to end Windows Phone's mindshare woes
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Ask the average person to describe Windows Phone, and watch what happens. They’ll either admit ignorance, make something up, or just stare at you. Microsoft’s mobile platform has a mindshare problem – people don’t know that it exists, or if they do, how it’s different from other platforms. According to...
Windows 8 Release Preview now available to download
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Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. Unfortunately there isn’t a Consumer Preview > Release Preview upgrade path — you’ll have to format and perform a clean installation. After downloading the ISO, simply burn Windows 8 RP onto a USB stick or DVD, reboot, and follow...
According to a Samsung device profile, Windows Phone 8 will contain Bluetooth file transfer
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Microsoft recently unveiled much of the developer nuts and bolts of Windows Phone 8, but left most consumer-facing elements of the coming reboot of its mobile line under wraps. However, as things do, new pieces of information are bubbling up. According to a profile of the Samsung SGH-i687, hosted on the...
iOS 5.1 gets early tethered jailbreak for pre-A5 devices
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The iPhone Dev Team has detailed a very early jailbreak method for the now official iOS 5.1 update. Beta 6 of redsn0w 0.9.10 will crack all devices based on the A4 and earlier. With the exception of iPhone 3GS units with older firmware, however, the jailbreak is tethered and will...
Apple's U.S. patent application 61481114 might be essential to nano-SIM
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Yesterday's news of Apple having offered to make, on a reciprocal basis, any of its intellectual property essential to nano-SIM available on a royalty-free basis has already drawn a lot of interest around the globe. One of the reactions was a response from Nokia consisting of two paragraphs. I'l quote...
LG Optimus M gets a makeover with the M+
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With its slightly better specs and way better design, MetroPCS's recently released LG Optimus M+ is a reboot of the original M. [Read more]...
Samsung Gusto 2 review: This flip phone gets a lot right
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Samsung's Gusto 2 reboot is one argument in favor of second chances. [Read more]...
Ninja Theory Gives Capcom’s Devil May Cry a Reboot
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We take advantage of E3 to grill Capcom's Alex Jones about what fans can expect from the new Devil May Cry game....
Mega Reboot: Will Kim Dotcom Relaunch Megaupload?
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A tweet teases of the pending return of the downed file-sharing site, accompanied by a music download service called Megabox....
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