Facebook has a billion users, which makes it very attractive to media companies. Media companies have lots of content those billion users might like to look at and talk about, which makes them very attractive to Facebook. Easy match, right? Not exactly: The media guys have been here before, with Google and Apple, and are [...]
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You’ve probably read today about the campaign launched by a group of pension fund managers who own a big block of shares in Hewlett-Packard to shake up that company’s board of directors. And if you haven’t here’s a rundown: A collection of pension funds led by the investment arm of the labor federation Change to [...]
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As well as announcing the new Asus Padfone Infinity , Asus has also unveiled another device at Mobile World Congress, the Asus Fonepad, which is a 7 tablet that also offers support for voice calls. The Asus Fonepad comes with a 7 inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and processing is [...]
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Last week LG announced their new LG Optimus L Series smartphones, which included the LG Optimus L7 and L5, and now we have a video of these two new Android smartphones in action. The LG Optimus L7 II features a dual core Qualcomm MSM8225 processor clocked at 1GHz, there is also 768MB of RAM and [...]
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The excitement surrounding Google Glass is unlike any product since the iPad, especially when you consider that it’s most likely we’re still nearly a year away from a commercial release. The hardware is an incredible concept made real, but Google has taken every opportunity to remind everyone that Glass as we see it now is [...]
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Mozilla is once again putting user privacy first with a change to the Firefox code: starting with version 22, only third-party cookies from websites that you’re actually visiting will be accepted. That means pretty much everything advertising-related will be blocked by default, since things like AdSense and Chitika ads are served up from their own [...]
~ read more ~Athlete’s brother Carl Pistorius charged with culpable homicide relating to death of female motorcyclist in 2008 The family of Oscar Pistorius, accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was rocked again on Sunday when it was revealed that the athlete’s brother has been charged with culpable homicide. In the latest twist to the South African [...]
~ read more ~Amid speculation that a bipartisan deal is near, Republican negotiator tells Fox News ‘I don’t think we’re that close to a deal’ Reports of an imminent deal over new gun controls were dismissed by a key Republican negotiator Sunday as senators struggled to find a middle way between calls for tougher regulations in the wake [...]
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Nvidia’s next-generation mobile processor, the Tegra 4, may have been announced at CES last month, but it’s only today that the company has truly let us get an idea of its pixel-pushing potential. Running a trio of the most popular Android benchmarks on an Android 4.2 development platform, we got to see just how much [...]
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Earlier this week, Nvidia announced a major milestone in its mobile development history: its first chip to combine both the applications processor and LTE modem on the same silicon. The Tegra 4i, as it is called, is the green team’s counter to Qualcomm’s dominance in the mobile space — by having the power efficiency of [...]
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