Security Risks to Shopping on Black Friday, Cyber Monday: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) Shape Security Director of Product Security Michael Coates discusses the security risks of shopping during the holiday season. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 11/25)
CNET No more lies, T-Mobile US: Download speed caps magically vanished on speed ...
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T-Mobile USA has agreed to stop twiddling with subscribers' mobile broadband speeds to hide the fact they were being capped. The telco was caught switching off download and upload bandwidth limits when people visited internet speed test websites.
Game Informer New Sony Ad Markets PlayStation With 'Sexy' Female Doctor
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Women may represent nearly half of the gaming market, but video game companies are still catering first and foremost to heterosexual men. A new ad reportedly published to Sony's European YouTube channel on Friday has drawn criticism for its depiction of ...
Reuters Samsung Electronics wins $3 billion Vietnam project license
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The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 7, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking. Stocks. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. 005930.KS. ₩1,197,000.00. -23,000.00-1.89%.
VentureBeat BlackBerry offers up to $550 to trade your iPhone for a BlackBerry Passport
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BlackBerry today announced a new trade-in program to woo Apple users over to its latest flagship device. In short, the company is offering iPhone owners up to $550 for their device, as long as they purchase a BlackBerry Passport. The BlackBerry Passport ...
USA TODAY Nexus 9 tablet is a serious contender to iPad's throne
USA TODAY
Unlike in some other product categories, finding the best tablet is often less about having the fastest hardware than about the experience the software provides. It's the reason why Apple has kept churning out iPads that sometimes lose the spec sheet war, but ...
Yahoo Tech Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review: A 2-in-1 MacBook Air Killer?
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Laptop or tablet? Tablet or laptop? Which should you buy? That's the question a good number of people will likely be asking themselves this holiday season while they sit at their old computers or stand in the electronics aisles of the nearest big-box stores.
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Sprint Loses More Customers Than Estimated, Will Cut 2K Jobs: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) Sprint lost more customers than analysts projected as new CEO Marcelo Claure began to counter rivals’ escalating price cuts. As the company continues to lose money and subscribers, Sprint said it will cut about 2,000 more jobs. Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen and Bloomberg Intelligence's John Butler have more on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 11/3)
Bill Gates' $578M Planned Microsoft Stock Sale Barron's Microsoft shares went flying out the windows last week. ... of the company, Gates now serves as a technology advisor and on the company's board.
New York Daily News Internet Archive Brings Vintage Arcade Games Right To Your Browser Huffington Post If office productivity takes a tumble around the world today, you can blame the Internet Archive. The online home of the "Wayback Machine" archive of old websites as well as libraries of books, videos and music has added some 900 classic arcade games that ...
New York Times Facebook Conducted Another Secret Experiment On Users Huffington Post Facebook quietly tweaked the news feeds of 1.9 million users before the 2012 election so they would see more "hard news" shared by friends. That change may have boosted voter turnout by as much as 3 percent, according to a little-known study first ...
PC Advisor Nest Thermostat update 4.3 lands with improved energy saving TrustedReviews The Nest Thermostat made home heating cool when it hit the UK earlier this year, now the innovative device is being made even better thanks to a software update. Nest has been tinkering with the Thermostat's inner workings, with the new software update ...
PCWorld Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed Enterprise Apps Today Microsoft offers cloud-based apps for business intelligence, CRM and ERP. You'll want to evaluate the "best-of-breed" approach to going with a single vendor like Microsoft for everything. When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems ...
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Google Cloud Platform LIVE Today, November 4th, Next Gen Cloud Computing: Event Details--2 Tracks--1) Learn about the next generation of cloud computing; 2) how next generation cloud technology from Google allows developers to build better applications faster. Date: Tuesday, November 4
Time: 9am - 5:20pm PT (time conversion) Livestream URL: cloud.google.com/LIVE
The brand new Google Calendar app for Android. It’s designed to be a helpful assistant, so you can spend less time managing your day, and more time enjoying it. Events from Gmail: now emails can turn into Calendar events automatically.
Google has 'outgrown' its 14-year old mission statement, says Larry Page | Technology | The Guardian: "Google’s chief executive says that the company “probably does need” a new statement about its corporate ambitions, but is in uncharted territory and ‘trying to figure it out’" 14 year old mission statement: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. (see also: Ten things we know to be true – Company – Google ) Android 5.0 Lollipop preview: Google's biggest mobile update in years: "There's something magical about the idea that, in the space of a few minutes, your smartphone or tablet can look dramatically different and do some cool new things, to boot. That's why operating system updates can be oddly exciting, and Android's latest upgrade -- known as version 5.0 or Lollipop -- is the firmware equivalent of opening a stack of presents on your birthday...." Google’s Android Begins to Top Out - WSJ - WSJ: "... Android ran 84% of smartphones shipped globally in the third quarter, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, down slightly from 85% in the second quarter... Market share for Apple Inc.’s mobile operating system was 12% in the third quarter. Microsoft Corp. ’s Windows Phone captured 3% market share and BlackBerry Ltd. ’s devices had 1%. Even if Android’s market share doesn’t go any higher, there is still good news for Google. For starters, the market overall is still growing. Strategy Analytics forecasts 12% growth in smartphone shipments in 2015. Google also appears to be turning the tide on the growth of so-called Android fork... As a percentage of total Android shipments, forks made up 37% in the third quarter..." Nexus 9 And Nexus Player Now Available For Purchase From Google Play, Nexus 9 From Best Buy
BBC News Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
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By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News ... Facebook has created the ability for users to connect directly to the social network via anonymising ...
CNNMoney Why retailers are afraid of Apple Pay
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It's expected to be slower and clunkier than tap-to-pay technology like Apple Pay, but CurrentC makes processing payments cheaper for retailers.
