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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EngadgetThe intrepid disassemblers over at iFixit have torn Amazon's Fire phone asunder in order to determine how repairable it is, but what did they find? At first blush, things seemed promising, with standard Torx screws holding the chassis to...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsBioWare's 'Nightmare teaser' hints at a new reveal at Gamescom for what appears to be a horror game. The short, creepy video features a man trapped in a nightmare dreamscape. The post BioWare teases a Nightmare with a live-action ‘...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandMovile's PlayKids app has found a niche for toddler-to-preschool kids' content. Now, it has revamped its app and added even more shows. PlayKids relaunches iOS kids’ video app with new content from Viacom, PBS and others originally...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EngadgetYou may not be able to fly your drone wherever you want, but there's no rules on what you can actually do with it. That's likely to change, with Politico reporting that President Obama will tell the NTIA to draw up privacy guidelines for...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TechCrunchFRAMED seeks to stretch the boundaries of digital art and take it beyond the confines of computer screen. The full-HD IPS display itself is gorgeous, with a walnut frame, but it’s more than just an attractive monitor. It also...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from CNET NewsLuke Skywalker himself says his return to "Star Wars" is an "unexpected gift," and promises it'll take more than a broken ankle to stop Harrison Ford.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TechCrunchIf you haven’t yet noticed, robots are kind of taking over the world. They’re writing quarterly earnings reports for the AP. They’re reportedly building the next iPhone. And, of course, they help run Conan O’...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TechCrunchFollowing a meeting between European regulators and search engines yesterday, to discuss the latter group’s implementation of a recent European Court of Justice privacy ruling, it has emerged that Google has received around 9...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThis week's Apple rumors hint at a new 12-inch MacBook and 4K display.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesWhen I broke into my neighbor’s home earlier this week, I didn’t use any cat burglar skills. I don’t know how to pick locks. I’m not even sure how to use a crowbar. It turns out all anyone needs to break into a fr...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top Stories“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare once asked, apparently in Romeo and Juliet, which I just learned from Google because I did not pay attention in that class in college. “That which we call a rose by any other name w...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThe UK expects to save lives and money by letting trucks drive at 50 mph instead of 40 mph on some highways.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesLook closely. Can you tell the difference between these two images?
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesTrauma bays and operating rooms are designed to run as smoothly as possible, but inefficiencies still plague the system.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesShopping cart attrition is a huge problem for online retailers. This startup says it has the solution.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesSteve Jobs knew how to make an entrance. In 1985, he descended onto the grounds of Svaneholm Castle in Sweden in a chopper to discuss the impact of the personal-computing revolution on education. Back then, we were just on the cusp ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThe Internet of Things is still young, but it’s real. There are already dozens of internet-connected devices available, ranging from home-automation tools to wearable fitness trackers. And it’s about to start growing at an ev...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital Trends'Netflix for novels' ebook service Oyster on Thursday launched a new web reader for desktop and mobile browsers. The company said its aim was to design a reading experience that feels "fast, fluid, and native to the web." The post Oyster...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsZTE has provided more details about the Blade Vec 4G, its first phone to come with the Google Now Launcher pre-installed. It was launched alongside a revised Grand S2 smartphone, and news of the Grand Band fitness wristband. The post ZTE...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EngadgetThe contactless payment feature on your bank card is ideal for speeding up minor purchases, and soon it'll be able to replace your Oyster, too. London buses have supported contactless payments for some time, and Transport for London (TfL...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThis cloud-connected device prints out a personalized feed of news, messages, and amusements onto standard thermal receipt paper.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesLuc Besson's new sci-fi thriller Lucy is about a woman who gets superhuman powers after a bag of drugs she's forced to smuggle bursts inside her. Sounds dope, right? It is. Until the end, when it isn't.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top Stories"Binishells" combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesMaciek Jasik uses super-saturated color gradients, motion, and playful focusing to create ethereal portraits that are slightly unsettling. The dreamy portraits leave viewers confused, even shocked by what they see. You can’t help but lin...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Top StoriesThe newest iteration of Mission Workshop's Orion rain jacket is made with Polartec NeoShell, a waterproof/breathable material that's air permeable so it can pump out tons of heat and moisture.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comBollywood-focused movie streaming service Spuul is removing some of the barriers around content on its Android app. An update now enables users to stream free movies (or ‘cast’ them via Google Chromecast) without having to even register ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsMeet the blue-sky guys. Most major technology companies have major R&D arms for “blue-sky” research: deep theoretical science and wild new creations. Microsoft Research – 1,100 strong in labs all around the globe – built ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsThe Pirate Bay launched a mobile site on Thursday to make it easier to navigate the search engine for torrent files on mobile devices.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comPaying for a ticket on the London Underground, Overground and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is about to get much simpler. From September 16, all of these transport options will support contactless payments, allowing commuters to ‘tap-in’...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsLondon Underground will start accepting contactless payments across its network from 16 September, Transport for London (TfL) announced today.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from GizmodoSamsung's Gear VR headset thing is the subject of a new leak, with a mobile companion/control app for the gadget now unofficially available. Read more...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsThe latest project to emerge from the Google X lab centers on health, and is ambitious even by Google's standards. The aim of the long-term study is to collect and process a mass of genetic and molecular data in order to define the perfe...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EngadgetHow to come to grips with a world dominated by ubiquitous, but unseen wireless communication? An art installation from the Koln International School of Design aims to give us a feel for the ethereal radio waves we take for granted every ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsLenovo has an event planned for August 5, where it may launch the new K920 smartphone, believed to be equipped with an LG G3-troubling, 6-inch 1440p screen, all wrapped up in a metal body. The post Lenovo’s K920 could be an all-met...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from CNET NewsMicrosoft appears to have scrapped its small tablet -- at least in its current form.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsJumping jacks... hit em! 1... 2... 3... Now we've got you feeling so pumped up , let's talk exercise and Apple. A new Apple patent spotted by AppleInsider seems to suggest the Cupertino firm is working on a system which will allow iPhone...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Slashdotsciencehabit writes In mid-October, a comet sweeping through our inner solar system for the first time will pass near Mars—so close, in fact, that if it were buzzing Earth at the same distance it would fly by well inside our moon's...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsCould Instagram be on the verge of launching a new Snapchat-like messaging app called Bolt? If a banner ad that appeared briefly on the media-sharing app this week is anything to go by, quite possibly. The post Instagram (possibly) tease...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TechmemeStephan Doerner / Wall Street Journal : Germany's Rocket Internet looking to raise up to $4.7B in IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange — Germany's Rocket Internet Eyes Possible Frankfurt IPO — Company Look...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsGoogle may have history's greatest vehicle for exploring the web, but its latest project is much, much more ambitious: it wants to explore the human body. And we mean fully explore it. Google is setting out to collect genetic and molecul...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comMozilla has released an updated version of its Firefox for Android Beta app, which it promises will make the browser more easily customizable for end-users and more powerful for third-party developers. Announced today in a blog post, the...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from VentureBeat
Democracy may be one of man’s greatest inventions, but it has suffered lately due to low citizen participation and general distrust of politicians and government institutions. -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsData is central to every technology we touch, and as we go about our daily lives we consume and generate data at an incredible rate. Even something as simple as paying for lunch in a café with a debit card generates data. Recently, ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Digital TrendsScientists are developing a special screen which could correct vision problems without the need for the viewer to wear glasses, and a prototype version could be just a few years away. The post In the future, screens may correct your eyes...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Om Malik on BroadbandThe Baseline Study is a collaboration between the Google X "moonshot" organization and various clinical and academic partners. The work should fit in well with the health-monitoring aspects of Google's wearable efforts. Google X project ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TechmemeSam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Google has granted over 50% of “Right to be Forgotten” requests, over 100,000 links from 91,000 people — Google Grants Majority of ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ R...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from TheNextWeb.comTwo years after Timista launched for the Web, the intelligent ‘things to do in London’ service now has a dedicated iPhone app too. As with the original site, which responds to a user’s ‘wish list’ by helping them decide what to do based ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techworld.com NewsThe Prime Minister’s office has pulled the £50 million that was due to be spent on the regeneration of Old Street’s Silicon Roundabout in East London.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsMore than a million Brits have signed up for the Sky Go Extra service in the past year, aiding the media giant to another impressive year despite the rising cost of Premier League football rights. On the day in which BSkyB confirmed that...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EngadgetRumors of an assault on Europe have circled for quite some time, but today BSkyB has finally made a move to expand its pay-TV empire outside of the UK. The company today announced it has agreed to pay 21st Century Fox a total of £4.9 bil...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsThe new notebook is the first major design win for AMD's new budget mobile chip.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyAdministrators have imposed a ban on Wikipedia alterations from the US House of Representatives, following "persistent disruptive editing".
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsOn Monday, several media outlets mistakenly reported that Apple had installed "backdoors" on millions of iPhones and iOS devices.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from eWeek - RSS FeedsVideo platforms like YouTube or Vimeo are the biggest culprits when it comes bandwidth hoarding on wireless networks, according to an Ipswitch study.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyA drone operator has helped locate an elderly man in Wisconsin who had been missing for three days.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyTarget hack victims were directed to Experian for protection. But that company has leaked your data too.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Infoworld NewsMicrosoft's Internet Explorer experienced a record number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2014, far above any other popular program, a Bromium analysis of the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) figures has shown.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologySpecially designed mobile games can help scientists answer important questions about cognition, a team finds.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsWhile on the outside the Fire Phone is sleek and smooth, according to iFixit the inside is "a veritable mess of cables, connectors, and glue." For anyone thinking of buying a Fire Phone with the idea of repairing it if something goes wro...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyDetroit's looming water shutoffs spark a social media campaign and an app to connect donors with residents behind on their bills.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyKiev cathedral launches prayer and guidance app.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsIf you’ve been around for a while, odds are you have fond memories of one BlackBerry or another.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from CNNmoney.com - TechnologyThe company posted a larger than expected loss Thursday, sending shares tumbling 10%.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyApple may release a mobile wallet allowing users to pay with their iPhone.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsMicrosoft's One Windows strategy is only causing confusion because we seem to have forgotten what an operating system is.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyContactless bank cards are to be introduced on London's Tube, DLR and Overground trains.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Infoworld NewsHelp is on the horizon for mobile developers dealing with the nuances of the numerous Android OS ver
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Infoworld NewsYou love your broadband provider, don't you? Right down to the Netflix slowdowns and inscrutable surcharges. You'd never, ever consider switching to faster, cheaper public broadband run by your local municipality.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsThe worldwide cloud services market has already become a battlefield for the big guys, with little leeway for small companies to barge in. Korean start-up ASD Technologies disagrees, and vows to take on Dropbox, reports ZDNet Korea’s Cho...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsAfter being called to account over its handling of the 'right to be forgotten' ruling, it has been revealed that Google is approving around 50 percent of all requests.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Technology NewsTwo in five young people acknowledge that they would be happier if they used social media less
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsMicrosoft's OneNote used to be the hidden jewel in the Office crown, now on its own and with a public API, it's time for it to highlight Microsoft's new direction.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Technology NewsContactless payment cards will join Oyster as Tube payment method in September.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BetaNews
People in other countries handle everyday situations in different ways, and that can make life difficult for the traveler. What might be seen as a polite action or way of behaving in one country could well be insulting in another, and it... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyEmory University honors the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta with a mobile tour app
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - TechnologyThe ship that totally failed to change the world
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukTechnology startup claims $230 accessory will provide 'the most secure form of communication in the world' Continue reading...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyYou’re probably using the Cloud and just don’t know it.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BetaNews
It’s that time of the month when Piriform issues its regular CCleaner update for Windows PCs, and undeterred by the recent CCleaner for Mac 1.08 release, the company has shipped CCleaner 4.16 and CCleaner Portable 4.16 right on schedule.... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukTech tycoon believes politicians need to work harder to engage the youth vote, and says 'internet is the biggest gift of mankind' Continue reading...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BetaNews
Cyber security woes continue to burden the minds of organizations of all sizes. This has been further exemplified by the announcement from C5 Capital to launch the first cyber security-focused venture capital fund in Europe, as concerns ... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from BetaNews
Facebook has smashed all estimates in its earnings and revenue report this week, largely thanks to its robust mobile ad business. The results slapped down any niggling doubts among critics about the social network's ability to transform ... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from BetaNews
Forget smartwatches, or other wearables like Google Glass, as an Indian startup by the name of Ducere Technologies is targeting an entirely different area of the body for "smart" functionality -- the foot. Yes, the Lechal is a smart shoe... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukPlus, Sony coughs up, old media attracts new, Twitter's disparity and leaked Xperia Z3 Continue reading...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukAlways asked to turn off your phone at a performance? This app must be used during the show, as a key piece of the narrative Continue reading...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukExploits can expose software and security systems, researchers warn, helping hackers attack remote machines undetected Continue reading...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsThe internet retail giant rakes in more than $19bn in a quarter and still does not make a profit - and it's all Amazon's choice.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsA charity's survey reveals almost a third of users felt lonely after seeing how well-connected everyone else is.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsAn Australian robot football team has achieved what the Socceroos could not: beat the German team in an international competition in Brazil.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsA leaked discussion paper from the Australian Attorney-General's Department reveals proposals to implement new legislation to undo the High Court's judgement in the 2012 iiNet copyright infringement case against Hollywood film studios, a...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BetaNews
The last Friday in July may not mean much to the average person, but it holds a special place in techies' hearts. It's System Administrator Appreciation Day. And we're celebrating it today, for the fifteenth time, with a giveaway! As we ... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsNot-for-profit MTC needed new infrastructure and systems in order to continue its growth and be more productive.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsAustralian data security firm, Covata, is setting its sights on the United States financial sector, in the lead up to its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in September.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyReport: Chinese regulators conclude chip supplier Qualcomm
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from PCMag.com Breaking NewsThe social sharing site is 60 percent male and 92 percent white or Asian.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsThe largest banks in the country will partly replace their own kit by cashpoints that serve customers of other institutions.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Latest NewsIndian SaaS provider's processes and analytics designed to reduce wastage in major outsourcing arrangements.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsBEIJING (Reuters) - China Telecom Corp Ltd will start selling Microsoft Corp's Xbox One gaming console in China from September through an exclusive contract, the country's third-largest telecommunications company said in a statement on F...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ABC News: TechnologyBaidu reports quarterly profit up 34 percent as revenue from mobile tops 30 percent
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Reuters: Technology NewsTAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc saw quarter-on-quarter shipments growth that exceeded the PC industry average in the April-June period, the company's chief executive said.
