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New HP Laptops Focus on Portability, Power
HP today announced its newest consumer notebooks, with an  emphasis on power and portability. They feature new processors from AMD and Intel, and most feature touch-enabled screens. These laptops will debut...
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Shazam iPad App Gets Makeover, Adds Auto-Tagging
Shazam is well on its way to being more than just a music discovery application, as today’s iPad redesign demonstrates. The revamped app now includes a new discovery home screen, an...
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Samsung Sells More than 10M Galaxy S 4 Smartphones in a Month
Samsung on Thursday announced that sales of its Galaxy S 4 smartphone have topped 10 million units globally less than one month after its debut. In fact, it took the uber-popular...
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iPhone-Only Mailbox App Expands to iPad
The formerly iPhone-only Mailbox application is now available for the iPad. Owners of Apple’s tablet can download today’s iOS update, complete with bug fixes, to access the iPad-optimized app. The much-hyped...
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Google Acquires Wind Power Firm Makani Power
Google is known for putting its resources into some novel technologies like self-driving cars and wearable computing devices. Now, the Web giant is moving into yet another field—wind power. After previously...
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HP Unleashes Affordable, Powerful Desktops
HP today unveiled a new series of desktop PCs, including a budget desktop, higher-end gaming towers, and all-in-one PCs. The Bay Area-based company hits all the major price points, with the...
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Verizon, J.Lo Partner; Twitter’s Two-Factor Login; GIF Pronounced ‘JIF’
Topping tech headlines Wednesday, Verizon Wireless announced its newest venture: A retail chain targeted at Latino customers, which is partially owned by Jennifer Lopez. Viva Movil will provide a fully bilingual...
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Hands-On With a $55 Android Tablet at CTIA
LAS VEGAS—How low can Android go? Well, we’ve taken a look at a $40 Android tablet, the Ubislate 7ci, but you can’t actually get that in the United States—it’s for India...
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Xbox One Promises to Change How We Watch TV (But So Did the Wii U)
The Xbox One will let you watch TV! Well, you probably can already watch TV, but the Xbox One will let you watch TV better! At least, that’s what Microsoft claims...
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Google Glass Explorer Edition Turns Up for Sale on Craigslist
A Google Glass Explorer Edition headset turned up in an ad on Craigslist last week in violation of Google’s rule against reselling the augmented reality heads-up displays. The Craigslist ad was...
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Nvidia Releases GeForce GTX 780, Updated GeForce Experience
Nvidia today released its new GeForce GTX 780 card, as well as updates to its GeForce Experience utility. In addition to the new hardware, Nvidia also upgraded its underlying drivers and...
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Ask Alex: Can I Reply to Calls by Text?
I still have friends that prefer talking on the phone to texting. Is it rude to let their call go to voicemail and respond with a text? —Texting My Patience It...
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AMD Releases New Temash, Kabini, and Richland APUs
AMD today announced the availability a new set of dual- and quad-core processors for the so-called convergence form factors between mobile OS tablets and Windows-based, high-end performance notebooks. The APUs are...
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Hands On With the HP Envy Rove 20
HP’s Envy Rove 20 is the latest entry in the rapidly growing field of portable all-in-one desktop PCs pioneered by systems like the Sony Vaio Tap 20. The HP Envy Rove...
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Square Payments System Expands to Japan
With a history of embracing technologies such as QR codes and touchless NFC (Near Field Communication) readers, Japan is often ahead of the rest of the world in terms of mobile...
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Microsoft Hints at Xbox One-Windows Phone Integration
LAS VEGAS—Hey, you know what we didn’t hear about at this week’s Xbox One launch? Windows Phone. While Microsoft’s mobile platform has only 3 percent market share and a unique connection...
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Samsung Wins Big at CTIA’s 2013 E-Tech Awards
Samsung was the big winner for its consumer mobile devices at Wednsday’s 2013 E-Tech Awards announced at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas and Verizon earned a “Best of Show”...
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Cricket Reveals Galaxy S 4, Future Smartphone Plans
LAS VEGAS–Cricket is moving on up. At the CTIA Wireless trade show this week, the nation’s No. 5 carrier outlined an ambitious plan to stock more high-end smartphones supporting nationwide LTE,...
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Hands On With the Nokia Lumia 925 for T-Mobile
LAS VEGAS–The Windows Phone gang’s all here. Nokia brought its full U.S. lineup to the CTIA Wireless trade show here in Las Vegas, including the brand-new Lumia 925 for T-Mobile. I...
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HP Posts Losing Quarter as Struggles Continue
Hewlett-Packard’s struggle to turn things around continued in the second quarter as the computing giant reported double-digit year-over-year declines in revenue and net income. But CEO Meg Whitman on Wednesday promised...