Apple iPad Air 2 as World’s Thinnest Is Meh says Paul Kedrosky (video)

Wired Deputy Editor Joe Brown, Lunar Design President John Edson and Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky discuss the launch of Apple’s iPad Air 2 and the purchasing cycle for tablets. They speak on “Bloomberg West” October 16, 2014 (Source: Bloomberg)

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Apple has big ambitions for tablet sales with iPad Mini
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Log In to CNET; Sign In with Facebook Google Yahoo; Join CNET; Member ... Apple is counting on the $249 iPad Mini to draw you into its stores. .... such as Amazon's $200 devices and similarly priced Google Android devices. ... the iPad Mini 3, the only tablets that support the new payment technology.
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Wall Street Journal
Rivals Slow Google's Money Machine
Wall Street Journal
The growth of Google Inc. 's search-advertising business, the money ... iPad Air 2 IsApple's Shot to Reignite Tablet Growth · Pro Gamers Battle in ... To be sure, Google's ad revenue still dwarfs Facebook's, though Facebook is ... marketing officer at ad technologycompany Marin Software , said Facebook ...


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Go From Google Drive To MS Office By Converting Your Files with Takeout
Gizmodo
Google includes a Takeout tool that lets you export every last drop of data associated with your Google Account—emails, contacts, Hangouts, ...


USA TODAY
Facebook Tells DEA To Stop Operating Fake Profile Pages
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook wants assurances from the Drug Enforcement Administration that it's not operating any more fake profile pages as ...


ValueWalk
Google Nexus 6 vs. Apple iPhone 6 Plus – Specs Comparison
ValueWalk
On Wednesday, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) officially announced its latest phablet-sized device, the Google Nexus 6.

iFixit takes a peek inside Apple's new '5K' iMac
Sure, we were only just introduced to Apple's 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display, but the folks at iFixit are already tearing one apart. Inside they ...

How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter?
The analysts estimates range from 11.5 million to 15.4 million. Average: 13.1 million.

Stunning Photos Of Google's Massive Data Centers
Forbes
These pipes carry water in and out of Google's The Dalles, Ore., data center. The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water ...

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iPad Mini a Nightmare for PC Vendors?

Is the iPad Mini a Nightmare for PC Vendors?
PC Magazine
Prior to the iPad mini, my main productivity device was a laptop, but now I default to my larger iPad. Will this growing trend hurt future PC sales? Tim Bajarin By Tim Bajarin. November 19, 2012 08:00am EST; Comments. Apple iPad mini · VIEW ALL PHOTOS ...

Design guru Nielsen can't stand Windows 8 user interface
CNET
He says that the operating system is plagued by "hidden features [and] reduced discoverability," among other issues. Don Reisinger. by Don Reisinger. November 19, 2012 5:31 AM PST. Windows 8. (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) ...

Solar tsunami seen in NASA video
Fox News
The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday, Nov. 16, in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft. The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), with another event ...

iTunes Match down as Apple's iCloud issues continue
Apple Insider
Only hours after a significant iMessage and FaceTime outage, Apple's iTunes Match was also unavailable Monday morning. The latest iCloud outage discovered by AppleInsider was still in effect as of around 8 a.m. Eastern. Attempts to play or download ...

Apple Insider

Google working on returning missing December to Android 4.2 users
ZDNet
Summary: A bug in the Android 4.2 'People' app has removed December as an option for users trying to input birthdays or other events in a contact's information. David Meyer. By David Meyer | November 19, 2012 -- 11:18 GMT (03:18 PST). Follow @ ...

ZDNet

Astronauts (or other 'nauts) could find life on Mars quite healthy
Register
Mars may be more hospitable to life - including human explorers of the future - than had been feared, according to new research using information sent back both from NASA's robot rover Curiosity and from orbiters circling the red planet. As we've previously ...

Judge approves FTC's $22.5m fine to Google over Safari
Inquirer
US DISTRICT JUDGE Susan Illston has approved a fine handed down by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Google over misleading users about privacy settings. The FTC levied the fine against Google after it was found to have bypassed the ...

Cisco to Buy Meraki for $1.2 Billion
New York Times
Cisco Systems said on Sunday that it had agreed to buy Meraki for about $1.2 billion, as Cisco continues to bolster its cloud computing services. By buying Meraki, a privately held company whose investors include Google and Sequoia Partners, Cisco will ...

Wii U Review Redux: Nintendo Adds Miiverse, Netflix, eShop and More
TIME
Until Sunday, my Wii U's lobby screen came up population: me — a skinny little guy in a red wool cap and glasses, wandering in a white void, mumbling stuff like “Been playing NintendoLand” as effervescent electronica grooved in the background. Nintendo's ...

TIME

Google Wireless: Could an Alliance with Dish Make It Happen?
TIME
According to “people familiar with the discussions,” Google has talked with Dish Network about the possibility of creating a new wireless service. Although Dish is known mainly for its satellite TV offerings, the company is sitting on some unused wireless ...

TIME

The Apple-Samsung Court Battles Expand to iPhone 5, Galaxy S III
Wired
So You Want in on the Music Biz? Fred Wilson Has 4 Things to Tell You · Planet TEDx · Enterprise · The Legacy of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, and One Giant Flamethrower · Google Turns Vacuum Cleaner Into Book Scanner · iPhone Podcast Bug Sucks Bucks ...

Wired

Samsung Seeks IPhone Ban as Apple Settlement Resisted
Bloomberg
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), told by a federal jury to pay Apple Inc. (AAPL) more than $1 billion for copying the iPhone and iPad, wants another U.S. body to give it leverage to fight back. The Korean company has asked the U.S. International Trade ...

Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan ending astronauts' four-month space stint
Telegraph.co.uk
Russia's Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams of the US and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan touched down as scheduled just before 0200 GMT, the Russian Space Flight Control Centre announced. The three landed an hour before sunrise a few miles from the target ...

Windows Phone 8 reboot woe causes outpouring of forum misery
Register
Early adopters of Windows Phone 8 hardware are complaining that it reboots at random, up to several times a day, and that they're not being offered any prospect of a quick fix. The complaints relate specifically to the HTC 8X and, to a lesser extent, Nokia's ...

Consumer Reports 'Impressed' With Model S
Hybrid Cars News
Calling the Model S “the electric car that shatters every myth,” Consumer Reports (CR) magazine recently posted that of its staffers evaluating the top-of-the-range Signature Performance on loan from Tesla, “everyone has come out of it impressed.” CR's first ...

Hybrid Cars News

Ferrari auctions first F12 Berlinetta for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
Torque News
Ferrari has brought the first 2013 F12 Berlinetta to the U.S. and sold it at auction for $1.125 million in Austin Texas for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. n/a. Ferrari F12 Belinetta. When Ferrari unveiled the new 2013 F12 Berlinetta in Geneva in March, it drew a lot ...

Torque News

Globe Risks 'Cataclysmic Changes' From Warming, World Bank Says
Bloomberg
Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won't do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees ...

Bloomberg

Droid DNA Review
Ubergizmo
HTC, who released the very-well liked HTC One X as their highest-end (“hero”) handset earlier this year, have now released the Droid DNA to be their standard-bearer through the holiday season. Yep, that's right: this is the phone that you're going to be ...

More than 1 million apps have now been submitted to Apple's App Store
BGR
Yes, mobile applications are pretty popular. Mobile app marketing platform Appsfire said on its Twitter account Monday that Apple's (AAPL) App Store “has seen 1 million apps ever created since launch.” TheNextWeb caught up with Appsfire co-founder Ouriel ...

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale Release Date, Pre-order Bonus Details (11/19)!
HawtWired (blog)
Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale on PS3 and PS Vita leads the new release for the week of November 18th, 2012. PlayStation All-stars Battle Royale is a crossover brawler style fighting game featuring over 20 first, and third party characters famous from a ...

Shock, gore as Call of Duty answers
The Australian
CALL of Duty: Black Ops II delivers plenty of shock and gore as it rumbles through a selection of global hot spots from the 1980s up to a futuristic 2025. Turn on the hard-core graphics setting and there's a range of stomach-churning scenes that include ...

McLaren Can-Am is gutsiest 12C ever
Independent Online
Ready to delight the most hardcore of track day enthusiasts, McLaren has announced that it'll be building a limited run of the most powerful 12C ever. First shown as a design study at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance a few months back, the ...

Independent Online

DLC packs not heading to Mass Effect 3 Wii U
RPG Site (blog)
Bioware has revealed that Mass Effect 3's two most significant expansions so far will not be coming to the Wii U version of the game. "Unfortunately it will not be available for Wii U," Bioware tweeted to a fan who asked about a potential Wii U release of the ...

Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge for Wii U Gets Momoiji
GamingBolt (blog)
Team Ninja promised they'd make good on their promise to improve the debacle that was the third Ninja Gaiden game, and they've been delivering like insane. Decapitation, co-op play with Ayane (not to mention her own single-player missions), an upped ...

See photos of Einstein's brain
The Independent
We all know Albert Einstein was a pretty brainy guy, but did his intelligence manifest in any cerebral abnormalities? Researchers at the Department of Anthropology in Florida State University have produced a study which compares observations of the ...

The Independent

New PS3 Console Bundles Released and Available (11/19)!
HawtWired (blog)
The New PS3 500GB Assassin's Creed III console bundle is back in-stock and available at Amazon. In addition to the new PS3 slim model, the bundle comes with Assassin's Creed III: Assassin's Creed III takes you back to the American Revolutionary War, but ...

Facebook unveils new ROI measurement tool for marketers
Research Magazine
US — Facebook is announcing a new self-service conversion system for direct response marketers that aims to help them more effectively measure their ad campaign ROI and optimise future campaigns for even greater returns. The conversion measurement ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Now Offering a 60-day Trial of Office 2013 Free of Cost
The Point
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is now providing a 60-day trial of Office 2013 Professional Plus free of cost through its TechNet Evaluation Center website. Office 2013 Professional suite entered the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) stage in October ...

Rumour: Google to take on AT&T, Verizon for cellular service
Rapid tv news
Google is considering a spectrum deal with satellite-TV provider DISH Network that would allow it to roll out a nationwide mobile phone service, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Citing "people familiar with the discussions," the WSJ said that the talks are ...

Apple gets patent on turning book pages
DecryptedTech
Yet another busy day at Apple, as they acquire another patent on something pretty ridiculous. Animation flipping pages in applications is now owned by Apple. The U.S. Patent Office granted Apple a patent for this animation. Within the application for the ...

Skyrim's upcoming Dragonborn DLC gets some details and screenshots unveiled
TweakTown
Skyrim lovers get ready, as Bethesda have unveiled twelve new images to the upcoming Skyrim DLC, Dragonborn. Dragonborn is considered, by some enthusiasts, as the game's first "real" expansion, going above and beyond previous DLC packs by ...

TweakTown

Meteor shower to peak on Tuesday night
Indian Express
A celestial Diwali is in store for star-gazers who can look forward to see fireworks in the sky in the form of meteor showers on Tuesday night. Around 10 to 15 meteors per hour are expected to be seen on November 20 (as earth will encounter dust trails of 1400 ...

Comparing Batman: Arkham City on Wii U, Xbox 360 & PS3
Kotaku
Comparing Batman: Arkham City on Wii U, Xbox 360 & PS3 Seeing as many of the third-party launch games on Wii U are already out on the PS3 and/or 360, those games are going to have to do one of two things. Or maybe even both of them. Those games ...

Trine 2 maker: Wii U eShop puts pricing in devs' hands
Develop (blog)
The digital downloads store on Nintendo's new Wii U console has been praised by the creator of Trine 2 for its indie-friendly system which allows developers to set their own prices and choose when they have sales. Speaking to IGN, Forzenbyte's marketing ...

Develop (blog)

Borderlands 2 next DLC called 'Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage DLC', first ...
GamingBolt (blog)
Borderlands 2 is a pretty awesome game, and our review tells you why. The game has gotten two DLCs so far which enhances the single player with more content and Gearbox has also added a new class to the game called Mechromancer. We have new...

GamingBolt (blog)

Game review: Halo 4
Stratford Press
The Halo series tends to polarise gamers. First-person shooter purists hate the game with a passion, yet their combined hatred can't deny that Halo is one of the biggest video game franchises of all time. With more than 42 million games sold (not including ...

Windows 8 in Health Care: 10 Apps for Doctors, Patients and - eWeek
With the introduction of Windows 8 on Oct. 26, health IT has a new environment in which to develop resources and clinical applications. Among the more than ...

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Apple iPad Mini vs Google Nexus 7

Prizefight: Apple iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7
CNET (blog)
The Google Nexus 7 brings arguably the most feature-packed 7-inch tablet on the market with legitimate support from the Google Play ecosystem. Will Apple's new kid on the block take out the reigning Prizefight champ? Which are you picking as YOUR ...

Why the Apple vs Android Comparison Is A Piece of Nonsense
Forbes
I wonder what value this type of data really has. The conclusions seems to be that Apple is playing catch up in the Mobile OS world and has been relegated by Google to a niche position, like it was by Microsoft in the Wintel era. Here's ReadWriteWeb ...

Apple Granted Patent for Original iPad Design
Wired (blog)
“This design patent gives Apple no new advantage, because no one is out there trying to market an iPad lookalike,” said Lea Shaver, Associate Professor with Indiana University's McKinney School of Law. “It's not a game changer. It's just a little bit ...
 
Wired (blog)

Apple, Vringo, MIPS, Twitter, AHA: Intellectual Property
Businessweek
Jelly Bean is Google Inc. (GOOG)'s latest version of the Android operating system that runs on Samsung mobile devices as well as Google's Nexus 7 handheld computer, which was released in June. Koh on Oct. 1 rescinded a ban on U.S. sales of Samsung's ...

Boot up: Apple's real problem, how GDS did it, Nexus 4 and 10 benchmarked ...
The Guardian (blog)
I'm fairly sure most Apple users would gladly continue to use what are supposed to be skeuomorphically challenged Calendar or Notebook apps for another thousand years if Apple could only solve the far more vexing software problems of AppleID ...

The Guardian (blog)

Apple Says Samsung's Galaxy Note, Jelly Bean Infringe Patents
Bloomberg
Apple Inc. told a judge that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s Galaxy Note 10.1 device infringes its patents, and sought to add the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system to an existing lawsuit against Samsung in California. Apple made the arguments ...

Apple Told to Pay $368.2 Million to VirnetX in Patent Trial
Bloomberg
(VHC) was awarded $368.2 million after a federal jury yesterday said Apple Inc. (AAPL) infringed its patents for virtual-private-network technology used in Apple's FaceTime video-calling function. VirnetX, which won a $200 million settlement from ...

Microsoft Working on a Mini Xbox Surface Tablet: Report
eWeek
Microsoft will soon have large and small tablets, just like Apple, according The Verge, whose sources confirm that a 7-inch Xbox Surface tablet is in the works. MicrosoftCEO Steve Ballmer promised to leave nothing Apple offers unrivaled, and it ...

eWeek

Nokia And Google's High-End Phones Are Getting Cheaper
Wall Street Journal (blog)
And remember your economics lecturer saying high margins will inevitably attract new entrants and lower prices? Apple's two big competitors Microsoft and Google , are now pushing at those margins hard. AT&T announced today that the new Nokia Lumia...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Google Makes Its New Search Results Design Without Sidebar ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Earlier today, we noticed that Google was showing an increasing number of its users a new search results page with more whitespace and without a sidebar. At t..
TechCrunch

Microsoft Will Invest $100 Million in Rio de Janeiro
By Anna Heim
Microsoft is set to invest around $200m in Rio de Janeiro over the next four years while the opening of its first advanced technology center in Brazil,
The Next Web

Microsoft partners with Devicescape to give WP8 users access to ...
By Mark Hearn
Microsoft has secured access to over 11 million WiFi hotspots for Windows Phone 8 users today by inking a deal with virtual network provider Devicescape.
Engadget Mobile

Microsoft to retire Messenger, begins migration to Skype -- Engadget
By Terrence O'Brien
Amazon Kindles ... Though, rest assured, your Messenger buddy list will automatically be transferred. With the imminent death of this MSN descendant, it's clear that Microsoft is positioning Skype not just as a VoIP client, but as an all-in-one messaging solution meant to take on the likes of Google Talk, with its Voice and Hangouts features. ... Apple posts revised 'Samsung did not copy' statement, acknowledges first version was inaccurate. 3 days ago. Google's Nexus 10: 2,560 x 1,600...
Engadget

Google Chrome Goes After Marketers With New 'Do Not Track' Feature
By Chris Taylor
If you use Google Chrome and don't want your online behavior tracked by marketers, today's your lucky day. Chrome, currently the world's most popular browser, just got an update with the much-requested “Do Not Track” feature — which ...
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Hon Hai Says iPhone 5 Design Caused Production Delays
Wall Street Journal
By ARIES POON. TAIPEI—A key supplier to Apple Inc. said Wednesday it is shipping "far fewer" new iPhones than the Cupertino, Calif. company requests, because some quality standards still can't be met due to design-related production difficulties, posing ...

Apple iPad mini (Wi-Fi)
PC Magazine
Pros. Beautifully designed.Very good cameras. Largest library of tablet apps. Cons Expensive. Wide. Slippery. Bottom Line. The iPad mini lets you run the best library of apps in the biz on a tablet you'll actually want to carry, but it's not the best small-screen ...

Apple may have invested $2 billion to aid struggling display maker Sharp
Apple Insider
Apple may have invested $2 billion to aid struggling display maker Sharp. By Neil Hughes. Apple's annual capital expenditures report came in $2.3 billion higher than anticipated, which has led one analyst to believe Apple could have put a significant amount ...

Apple Insider

Amazon Testing Monthly Prime Membership, Just in Time for the Holidays
DailyFinance
Amazon (AMZN) quietly made a big change to its Prime service this week, allowing some customers to subscribe on a monthly basis rather than committing to a full year. The service, which includes free two-day shipping and free streaming of movies and TV ...

Who needs flying cars when we can robotically sort Skittles?
Register
Video One of life's most vexing chores has finally been roboticized: sorting those delectable candy pellets, Skittles, by color. If you insist to The Reg that you've never separated a bag of Skittles – or, for that matter, their chocolaty analog, M&M's – into piles ...

Foursquare Update For iOS Adds Ratings to Locations
PC Magazine
To compete with location services like Yelp, the latest Foursquare update for iOS has added ratings to its locations to give users a better idea of places others like the most. By simply tapping the Explore tab to search for a place to visit, users will now see a ...

Apple Did the Right Thing on Map Fiasco
Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook did exactly the right thing when he removed mobile software head Scott Forstall ("Apple Shake-Up Signals Tim Cook Era," page one, Oct. 31). Good executives figure out ways to deal with behavioral problems. When the ...

Surface RT: A tweener device for Windows laptop users
ZDNet
Surface RT: A tweener device for Windows laptop users. Summary: The many reviews of the Surface RT from Microsoft have been a mixed bag. The dual nature of the device make it not quite a tablet and not quite a laptop. It's a tweener device aimed at ...

ZDNet

Video game gift guide: Making the right play
USA TODAY (blog)
Video game gift guide: Making the right play. Mike Snider and Brett Molina, USA TODAYShare. Comments. A weekly guide to tech products topping holiday wish lists. Coming next week: Cameras. Nintendo Wii U console. Nintendo's Wii U. Price: $300 and up.

Netflix Dominates Streaming Rivals in Web-Video Market
Bloomberg
Netflix Inc. (NFLX), the world's largest video-subscription service, increased its dominance of the online viewing market in a study, defying predictions that newer players would carve into the company's market share. Netflix captured 33 percent of prime-time ...

Architect Niemeyer back in Rio hospital
The Associated Press
(AP) – 1 minute ago. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Celebrated Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has been admitted to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. A spokeswoman for the Hospital Samaritano says the 104-year-old was admitted on Tuesday. She did not give a ...

Apple engineers 'pay no attention to anyone's patents', court told
Register
Apple must pay software biz VirnetX $368m after a court ruled FaceTime video calls infringed VirnetX's patents. The fruity firm was on the hook for as much as $900m, but a jury awarded a lower payout during a Texas court hearing yesterday evening, ...

AT&T settles with the FCC over unauthorized switching of data plans
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Are you an AT&T customer with a grandfathered unlimited data plan? If so, you may want to check your bill to make sure that's still the plan you're paying for. attlogo In 2009, AT&T adopted new, tiered data plans for smartphone users, dropping its traditional ...

Death of the cassette tape much exaggerated
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The widening gap between the amount of data the world produces and our capacity to store it is giving a new lease of life to the humble cassette tape. Although consumers have abandoned the audio cassette in favor of the ubiquitous ...

Adobe, now 'married' to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday
Computerworld
Computerworld - Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. At the same time, Adobe issued an update that patched seven critical Flash vulnerabilities, and ...

Barack Obama victory tweet most retweeted ever
BBC News
The words "four more years", coupled with a photo of Barack and Michelle Obama embraced in a hug, have become the most retweeted Twitter post ever. The US president tweeted the message at 0416 GMT, and it has since been retweeted over half a million ...

BBC News

Obama Victory, Sandy Give Environmental Groups Hopes For Climate Change ...
Huffington Post
With President Barack Obama's reelection victory unfolding against the backdrop of an East Coast brought to its knees by last week's historically violent storm, Hurricane Sandy -- an event that in many minds is linked, directly or indirectly, to a rapidly warming ...

Getting out the vote in space
Scienceline
While Americans lined up outside polling stations on Tuesday, two Americans had the opportunity to vote from space – but didn't. Aware that they would not be in the country on Election Day, Sunita Williams and Kevin Ford, astronauts on board the ...

Galaxy Note II Review: How Samsung Sold Me on Humongous Phones
TIME
There was a time when I thought 4 to 4.3 inches was the ideal screen size for a smartphone. This was before Apple upsized its iPhone 5, but after other phone makers had starting creeping into the 4.7- to 4.8-inch range. It seemed to me that smartphones were ...

TIME

Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013
Register
Microsoft's Instant Messenger will be sacrificed for Skype by the end of March 2013, it has finally emerged. The software giant's Skype business has blogged Windows Live Messenger will be “retired” in the first quarter of 2013, except in mainland China.

AT&T off contract Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 pricing revealed
SlashGear
Yesterday on contract pricing for AT&T's Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 smartphones was announced. The pre-order pricing for the Lumia 920 with a two-year contract is $99.99. The on contract pricing for the Lumia 820 with a two-year agreement is $49.99.

SlashGear

Britax Child Safety Recalls 55000 Child Restraints Over Gagging Issue
Nitrobahn
Britax Child Safety has issued a recall of over 55,500 child restraints after three reports of children biting off parts of the harness have surfaced. According to a report filed by the company with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the seats that ...

Nitrobahn

'Google Wallet card' leak points to weakness in NFC mobile payments
BGR
7:40 AM. Launched in May 2011, Google's Wallet was supposed to revolutionize shopping and replace cash and credit cards with NFC-enabled smartphones. While the idea was and still is ambitious, Google (GOOG) Wallet has been hampered by the ...

BGR

PlayStation: The Official Magazine being shuttered, will say farewell with holiday ...
Engadget
PlayStation: The Official Magazine being shuttered, will say farewell with holiday issue. The publisher of PlayStation: The Official Magazine has confirmed to Game Informer that the Sony-minded periodical will board up its doors by year's end. This isn't the first ...

Cool App-titude: NowThis News
Signal Magazine
The NowThis News app delivers original video segments straight to your iOS device. Get the latest on topics ranging from politics to technology in these informative, timely clips. In addition to traditional news stories, the app also includes humorous takes on ...

Xbox SmartGlass comes to iOS
Register
The iOS version of Xbox SmartGlass hit the App Store this week, bringing Microsoft's advanced remote console controllability to those with Apple devices a week after the release of the Android version. Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass technology turns mobile ...

Overdrive2013 Maserati Quattroporte
Moneycontrol.com
Maserati has taken the wraps off its 2013 Quattroporte sedan ahead of its Detroit Motor Show unveiling. Though the styling isn't too different from the outgoing car, a few changes like the roofline which appears much sleeker now, front glass which is steeply ...

'Intel Inside' Needs Intel Outside
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -Intel (INTC) stock was hit hard Monday by a BloombergBusinessWeek report that Apple (AAPL) might use ARM-based chips (like those in the iPad) for future Macintoshes rather than Intel's x86 line.

'Halo 4' game may keep dedicated players from voting
Fox News
Do you know about the universe-saving efforts of John-117? For 20-something men and women, he is a returning savior. Known more commonly as Master Chief, he is the hero of the multibillion dollar Halo video game franchise, and at 12:01 a.m. Nov.

AMD Releases Opteron 6300; Targets New Server Push
PC Magazine
AMD yesterday released its high-end Opteron 6300 series server chips, offering up to 16 integer cores per processor and aimed at high-end, multi-socket x86 servers. These chips, which have been known as "Abu Dhabi," include the company's new Piledriver ...

Fisker Suffers Hurricane Loss
Wall Street Journal
By YULIYA CHERNOVA. Electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. lost more than 300 of its Karma plug-in hybrids and other car makers lost thousands of new cars as a result of flooding last week at a New Jersey port due to superstorm Sandy. Enlarge Image ...

Wall Street Journal

Google updates Chrome browser with battery-saving feature
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Google released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature, available for Chrome on Windows, cuts power consumption by executing video ...

NASA Curiosity Team Changes From Mars To Earth Time
RedOrbit
On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space ...

RedOrbit

Trouble behind the wheel
The Hindu
Criterion Games did a fantastic job with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit; a game that was wonderfully realised and exquisitely re-imagined. Its successful reboot meant that EA put them in charge of doing the same with Most Wanted — no easy task given the fan...

The Hindu

Google rolls out new search page look, moves navi bar
CNET
Google is rolling out a new search page layout that moves its navigational tools from the upper left of the page to the top of the page, the company announced today in a blog post. Those included in the rollout so far will see a more streamlined search page.

Smartphones and tablets growth exploding, especially in business, Gartner says
Computerworld
Computerworld - IT managers already know that smartphones and tablets are being purchased in vast numbers by workers, and Gartner added credence to that trend today, reporting that 1.2 billion of the devices will be purchased in 2013.

Click Facebook's 'I'm Voting' Button, Research Shows It Boosts Turnout
TechCrunch
Today, Facebook is encouraging its legions of users to declare civic enthusiasm to their friends, with a prominent “I'm A Voter” botton at the top of the newsfeed. Large-scale, experimental research shows that simply clicking the button, and sharing your voting ...

Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild
Ars Technica
Tool use was once thought to be one of the defining features of humans, but examples of tool use were eventually observed in primates and other mammals. But the biggest surprise came when birds were observing tools in the wild. After all, birds are the only...

Ars Technica

World Rarest Whale Species found in Pacific Ocean
Jagran Josh
The world's rarest whale species - the spade-toothed beaked whale was spotted for the first time by scientists of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. The Spade-toothed beaked whales were first discovered in 1872 when bone fragments of rarest whale species ...

ARM Holdings licenses big chunk of MIPS patents
Register
Updated ARM Holdings has helped form a consortium that has bought the rights to the majority of the patent portfolio of rival RISC chip biz MIPS Technologies. MIPS could have been a contender for clients and servers but almost certainly won't be now.

Next iOS update will let you purchase movie tickets with Siri
Los Angeles Times
The next update to Apple's mobile operating system may include a way to buy movie tickets by just talking to Siri. The website 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that users will be able to ask Siri to purchase movie tickets in iOS 6.1, according to developers who already ...

Verizon pulls the kill switch for their own App Store
Technology Bloom News
When a company like Verizon realizes they made something absolutely unnecessary for their customers and shoved it as bloatware, you have to believe there may be some hope for them yet. Who doesn't want to remove all the bloatware found on their ...

Technology Bloom News

Ubisoft posts £26m loss, but outlook is strong
Computerandvideogames.com
Buoyant publisher Ubisoft has balanced out a jubilant start to its week with a negative bottom line to its first-half financial results. Assassins Creed 3 Screenshot The company posted an overall loss of £26 million for the six month period ended September 30; ...

Games: Go Behind the Battles of Injustice: Gods Among Us
Superherohype.com
The developers of the upcoming DC fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us, Neatherrelm Studios, has begun a behind-the-scenes video series for their upcoming title called "Behind the Battles." No word on if this will be a new weekly series for the game, but ...

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Apple announces new MacBook Pro, iMacs, iPad, iPad mini

Beware Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Samsung et al--Apple's announcement Tuesday shows it is taking on all comers with new iPad, iPad mini, iMacs, MacBooks--it will be easier for a PC user to transition to an Apple device than to move to Windows 8!

Apple debuts iPad mini tablet
Los Angeles Times
Rumors have swirled for months that Apple was designing a competitor toAmazon.com's Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus 7, smaller and cheaper devices that appeal to on-the-go consumers who don't want to shell out for the pricey iPad.Apple has sold ...

Apple's Mac moves take advantage of Windows 8 hardware uncertainty
ZDNet
Apple launched a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that weighs in at 3.57 pounds, will start at $1,699 and starts to ship on Tuesday. The move is designed to trump Microsoft's Windows 8 launch and take advantage of a lot of hardware ...

ZDNet

Apple unveils thinner iMacs, new iPads, MacBook Pro
The Seattle Times (blog)
Apple's trying to spoil the party in Seattle, announcing new PCs and a mini iPad ahead of Microsoft's launch of Windows 8 on Friday and Amazon.com's launch of its 10-inch Kindle Fire next month. WIth the PC industry gearing up for a major refresh ...

Apple joins hybrid storage market with Fusion Drive
CNET (blog)
Apple joins the hybrid storage market with Fusion Drive. At its October 23 event, Apple announced a new type of storage device, called Fusion Drive, which combines 120GB of flash storage and a regular platter-based hard drive of up to 3TB. Dong Ngo ...

Samsung Mocking Apple in Ads Looks to Win Cheech and Chong Test
Bloomberg
Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility unit was ordered to remove a feature to coordinate schedules from its phones after it was found to infringe a Microsoft Corp. patent. The ITC is scheduled to make a final decision in the Apple case against Samsung in ...

Apple shows off new iBooks app
CNET
Install Flash now. Apple shows off new iBooks app. Created: 10/23/2012. Video description: CEO Tim Cook ups Apple's game in the e-reader space with new iBooks features, including night mode and continuous scrolling, so users never have to turn a page.

Google renames Google Drive apps, releases them to Chrome Web Store
CNET
In a few weeks, Google says, Docs, Sheets and Slides will appear in Chromebook users' app list by default. They aren't the only new Web apps available in the Chrome Web Store. Google has also released apps for Drawings, Forms, Google Apps Script and ...

Google pours millions into lobbying as decision on antitrust case looms
The Hill (blog)
Microsoft, a leading member of FairSearch and one of Google's most vocal critics, spent $1.9 million on lobbying in the quarter. The Justice Department's lawsuit againstMicrosoft in the late 1990s drained the company of resources and led to an exodus ...

Is Google's stumble an opportunity for investors?
CBS News
Google doesn't just make money off mobile ads, either. It has licensed its Android mobile operating system to numerous phone and tablet makers, akin to what Microsoft(MSFT) has done with Windows. And, just as Windows is now the dominant operating ...

Google's Earnings Incident Shines Light on a Stealth Industry
New York Times
Considering the importance of earnings information, especially for widely held stocks like Google, the incident raises questions about whether the information could fall into the wrong hands. A growing number of companies are increasingly aware of this ...
 
New York Times

Updates From Apple's Product Event - NYTimes.com
By By NICOLE PERLROTH
02:05 PM |iPad Mini Pricing. Jim Wilson/The New York Times. The new iPad Mini will sell for $329, quite a markup from Google's $200 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet, and Amazon'slatest 7-inch tablet which sells for $160.
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Dell XPS 12
PC Magazine
Pros. Resurrects the flip-and-fold display. Intel Core i7-3517U processor. 256GB Solid-state drive. Long battery life. Comfortable keyboard and touchpad. Cons A better lap  . . .

Microsoft Unveils Pricing for Office 365 University
PC Magazine
Microsoft has unveiled pricing details for the student version of Office 365. Full- and part-time university and college students, as well as faculty and staff at accredited institutions can sign up for Office 365 University for $1.67 per month, or $79.99 over four ...

New, Smaller iPad a Test for Apple
Wall Street Journal
By JESSICA E. LESSIN · Apple Inc.'s expected announcement Tuesday of a new, smaller iPad is more than another buzzy product launch. It is a chance for the company to prove it is still ahead of the curve.

Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Surface with Windows RT
PC Magazine
Pros. Comes with a full version of Office 2013 (Home and Student). Good battery life. MicroSDXC slot. USB 2.0 port. Compact. Includes Touch Cover. Touch Cover sleeps and wakes the tablet. Micro-HDMI port. No fans. "Always connected." Dual band Wi-Fi ...

Ease into Windows 8 with My Passport Enterprise portable drive
CNET
Wondering if you should upgrade to Windows 8? WD has a quick solution for you. The company announced today that its My Passport Enterprise portable drive is now Windows To Go-certified and will be available on the same day as Windows 8, which is ...

Nokia Lumia 920 no longer available through Best Buy
CNET
Best Buy's pre-order offer on the Lumia 920 didn't last long. On Sunday, the retail chain first listed the 920 on its Web site for customers who wanted to pre-order the Windows Phone 8 handset. But now a search for the Lumia 920 on the Best Buy Web site fails ...

Vital Signs Chart: Gas Prices Are Falling
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Josh Mitchell. Gasoline prices are falling along with the price of crude oil. The average retail price of a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. stood at $3.687, down just over 16 cents from two weeks ago. Concerns about weaker global demand are pushing down ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Paging Dr. Doolittle: Whale mimics human voice
NBCNews.com
TODAY | Aired on October 23, 2012. Paging Dr. Doolittle: Whale mimics human voice. A team of marine biologists from San Diego are saying the audio recordings of a white whale named Noc, which they studied for three decades, prove he had the unique ...

NBCNews.com

Facebook earnings will spotlight mobile and Zynga
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's second earnings report as a public company comes out late Tuesday, and the social network is under pressure to prove it can make more money on its 1 billion users. Facebook watchers are focused on two key areas: ...

FTC offers best practices recommendations for facial recognition technologies
SlashGear
The FTC has offered recommendations on best practices for companies that are using facial recognition technologies. The recommendations are offered in a new staff report titled “Facing Facts: Best-kept practices for, and Uses of Facial Recognition ...

UN calls to expand internet surveillance
BBC News
The internet has become a standard tool for terror groups who use it to spread propaganda, recruit members and raise cash, warns a UN report. Wider surveillance of the net would help combat this growing problem, said the report by the UN Office on Drugs ...

BBC News

Digital Sound Tech Used To Study Rare Owls
Discovery News
Great-Gray-Ow-JM-webl. Digital sound systems have moved from the living room to the forest. In Yosemite, Calif., researcher are using digital mp3 recorders to used to study a rare species of great gray owl. Trapping and banding them is traumatic for the birds ...

Forza Horizon Shifts Gears, Still Produces Miles of Driving Pleasure
Wired
Last year's fourth installment in the Forza Motorsport series celebrated the car geek. Its introduction featured none other than the premier automotive ambassador, Jeremy Clarkson, waxing poetic about horsepower, speed, and “mechanical soul.” His lament...

Wired

Rackspace intros Cloud Block Storage for I/O-heavy apps
ZDNet
Open cloud purveyor Rackspace has introduced Cloud Block Storage, a new approach that is touted to offer the flexibility to create cloud-based storage volumes and interact with them independently of servers. Powered by OpenStack, Cloud Block Storage is ...

Galaxy Evolution Discovery Surprises Scientists
Huffington Post
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 10/23/2012 07:20 AM EDT on SPACE.com. Disk galaxies like our own Milky Way put the finishing touches on their stunning shapes relatively recently, a new study suggests. The find will likely surprise many scientists, who had ...

MapR simplifies and extends HBase for Hadoop
Register
Back before the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) came out of stealth mode in May 2011, Hadoop distie MapR Technologies didn't like the way it worked, so it rejigged it to look more like a Unix file system from the outside and beefed up its availability.

Dead whale washes ashore in Rockport
Boston Herald
The carcass of an 55-foot finback — which had spawned a kind of grisly “Where's Waldo”-esque interest in its remains following its startling posthumous appearance in Boston Harbor Oct. 7 — has washed up in the Cape Ann town of Rockport 40 miles north, ...

Ruby natural gas pipeline may endanger protected fish species
Las Vegas Review - Journal
Courtesy El Paso Corp. A pipe is unloaded for the Ruby natural gas pipeline in this undated photo. A three-judge federal appeals panel ruled Monday that federal regulators erred in allowing the pipeline to be built across hundreds of rivers and streams in ...

Las Vegas Review - Journal

New Navy robot will fight ship fires
NavyTimes.com
Damage controlmen aboard Navy ships could be getting a new tool to fight fires — a humanlike robot named ASH. Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing ASH, or the Autonomous Shipboard Humanoid, a firefighting robot sponsored by the Office of ...

Soyuz rocket sends US-Russian crew (and fish) to space station
NBCNews.com
A Soyuz rocket launched an American astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts and 32 small fish into orbit Tuesday, kicking off a five-month mission to the International Space Station for the human and aquatic explorers. The Soyuz rocket roared into a clear blue...

NBCNews.com

Samurai sword flashed on Ariz. train discourages would-be brawl
CBS News
(CBS/AP) TEMPE, Ariz. - A man on a light rail train in Arizona had just the right technique to break up a brawl-in-the-making: He brandished a samurai sword. Everyone go back to their seats, now. KSAZ-TV reports that the man pulled out his weapon after a ...

CBS News

Acura to launch in Brazil in 2015
LeftLane News
Seeking to capitalize on the fast-growing Brazilian economy, Honda says that it will begin selling its Acura premium brand in the market in 2015. The announcement was made at the Sao Paulo auto show by Honda CEO Takanobu Ito. Similarly, Ito confirmed ...

Leak reveals Borderlands Legends for iOS will launch by the end of October
BGR
4:59 AM. Borderlands fans who can't get enough looting on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will soon have another platform to play Gearbox's franchise on: iOS. It seems silly that a “hardcore” game such as Borderlands could even work with touchscreen ...

BGR

US presidential debates' great unmentionable: climate change
The Guardian
The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the US economy billions of dollars every year – and yet it has proved the great unmentionable of this election campaign. Amid unprecedented melting of ...

The Guardian

Sprint Expands 4G LTE Network, Now Available in 32 Markets
PC Magazine
Sprint is making headway on its 4G LTE rollout, firing up its ultra-fast network in several new markets in Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas. The wireless carrier on Monday announced it turned on its 4G LTE network in a number of Chicago suburbs, ...

Dishonored PC Game
Benchmark Reviews
BmR Featured Content. AMD FX-8350 Vishera Desktop Processor · Use PlayStation3 Gamepad with PC Games · Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard · JVC HA-NC250 Noise Cancelling Headphones · RHA CA-200 Black Noise Isolating ...

SEMA 2012: Chevy Spark Sinister Is Menacing
GM Authority (blog)
The folks over at Chevy have given what is an otherwise cute and lovable Spark city car an ominous appearance with the Spark Sinister concept. As you might have noticed, the SEMA-exclusive car's black theme and aggressive motif looks at ease in the ...

GM Authority (blog)

Mars Rover Curiosity Takes a Fourth Scoop
WebProNews
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its fourth scoop of Martian soil over the weekend and yesterday was issued commands to place a bit of the sample into the rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument. Another sieved portion of the scoop was to be ...

Lisa Webber finds meteorite in backyard
KSDK
Novato, CA (KTXL/CNN) - What a California woman thought was a heavy pine cone hitting her roof turned out to be piece of meteoric debris. Lisa Webber says the object hit the roof of her Novato home Wednesday evening. When Webber searched her yard...

KSDK

Jeff Bezos' Secretive Spaceship Project Tests Rocket Escape System
Space.com
The private spaceflight firm owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos launched a suborbital crew capsule on Friday (Oct. 20), a major rocket escape system test that brings the secretive company a huge step closer to carrying astronauts. Bezos' Blue Origin ...

UPDATE 1-Nissan recalls new Altima in US on loose steering bolts
Reuters
Oct 22 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co is recalling 13,919 of its top-selling Altima sedans in the United States because bolts that may not have been tightened properly during production could fall off, increasing the risk of a crash, according to U.S. safety ...

Google's Big Nexus Event: What's at Stake
TIME
If Google announces a Nexus phone and several tablets next week as expected, it'll be both a major turning point and a test for the company's Android platform. The launch of new Nexus hardware will represent Google's biggest effort yet to regain control over ...

TIME

Google's $249 Laptop: Can It Really Hurt Apple?
TheStreet.com
It's lighter. Thinner. Cheaper. Cooler (temperature-wise). And Wahlman is in love with the thing. I hate to be a party pooper, but I'm here, armed with a wet blanket. Wahlman calls the Chromebook "revolutionary" because it doesn't have a fan. I call my ...

Stop Rachel's robocalls and win $50000
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) "Rachel," the recorded telemarketer working for the pseudonymous "Card Services," is an outlaw. A 2009 telemarketing law banned so-called "robocalling" unless the telemarketing company first gets your written permission. But the Federal ...

Apple and Samsung reportedly will cut display ties
Inquirer
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung reportedly is plotting to cut its display ties with its arch smartphone rival Apple, deciding it will no long supply displays for the Iphone and Ipad. That's according to the Korean Times newspaper, which has heard from its ...

Inquirer

Toyota Prius best selling car in California
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Toyota Prius is the best-selling car in California. Combined, the Prius, Prius V, Prius C and Prius Plug-in have outsold every other passenger vehicle sold in the Golden State so far this year, according to data from Experian ...

38 Studios returns to auction block
NECN
(NECN) - The second of two auctions for Curt Schilling's failed video game company, 38 Studios, was scheduled to be held on Tuesday. The remnants of 38 Studios go up for sale at the company's former Providence, R.I. headquarters. Boston Globe Business ...

Firefox's Social API debuts with Facebook Messenger
CNET
Mozilla's Social API has activated in Firefox Beta today with its first partner, Facebook Messenger. The innovation has the potential to forever alter how browsers interact with social-networking sites, but the project is still in its infancy. The Social API (turn it on ...

Cox, Time Warner Cable Expand Verizon Wireless Partnership New Bundle ...
Dslreports
Time Warner Cable and Cox say they've both expanded markets where users can bundle Verizon Wireless services, as Verizon's co-marketing relationship with the cable industry grows. According to a Cox statement, they're now offering bundled Verizon ...

Analysis: Most companies won't be early adopters of Windows 8
Reuters
SEATTLE (Reuters) - There was once a time when the launch of a new Windows operating system was a huge deal for the technology departments in many businesses. Not anymore. Microsoft Corp's release of Windows 8 on Friday is likely to be a non-event ...

Microsoft's Sinofsky way unavoidable for Windows 8
ZDNet
Microsoft's Windows President Steven Sinofsky is billed as polarizing and a central planner who keeps products on time, but has ruffled a few feathers along the way. In this view, the success of Windows 8 could be a referendum on Microsoft's software ...

Gartner: 'Every budget is an IT budget'
ZDNet
ORLANDO---Global technology spending will surpass the $4 trillion mark in 2016 and digitization of industries will ultimately force a rethink on what is IT overall, according to Gartner. In other words, the technology pie is going to get a lot larger, but murkier.

IBM Refreshes Analysis Offerings
CIO
IDG News Service (New York Bureau) — At IBM's Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a number of new add-ons and services designed to help organizations analyze their ...

Amazon Web Services outage takes out popular websites again
PCWorld
Just five months after storms took down Amazon-powered sites such as Instagram, Pinterest and Netflix, issues at Amazon's Northern Virginia datacenter gave Amazon Web Services customers fits on Monday. The outage started around 2:11pm Eastern Time, ...

Research: Android smartphone apps leave user data open to attack
IT PRO
Android users are at risk of exposing personal information to third parties as thousands of apps fail to encrypt data in transit, research shows. The investigation, carried out by German researchers at the University of Hannover and Philips University of Marburg, ...

Droid Razr MAXX HD - 4G LTE Speed and True HD Display, Introductory Price
Mobile bloom News
The Droid Razr MAXX HD finally hit the tech hungry United States consumer-electronics marketplace on October 18, and is currently exclusive to the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system in that country. Motorola wisely retained the most popular features of the ...

Chrysler Group sweeps Texas Truck Rodeo with Ram, Jeep
Dallas Morning News (blog)
The Chrysler Group swept the Texas Truck Rodeo last weekend in San Antonio, winning “Truck of Texas” with the 2013 Ram and “Sport Utility of Texas” with the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Ram also won “Truck Line of Texas” for its various models of pickups ...

Dallas Morning News (blog)

Amazon Kills Kindle Touch In Favor Of The New Paperwhite
ValueWalk
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is embracing a less is more stance, and has condensed its Kindle product line. Starting on Monday, the company will end sales of its $99 Kindle Touch. In place of the Kindle Touch, the company is directing consumers to ...

'Bioshock: Infinite' Brings The Boss Fights
Uproxx
Bioshock: Infinite is starting to get some attention that doesn't involve human resources questions ahead of its February release date. And a lot of that seems to be around the enemies that are going to kick your fancy turn of the century butt. Reaction among ...

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