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McCain Asks Apple to Stop Making Him Update His Apps
It wasn’t the most germane back-and-forth during a Senate panel’s grilling of Apple’s top brass over the company’s offshore tax avoidance practices, but it may have been the funniest. Sen. John...
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Sprint Takes On the Check-Cashers
LAS VEGAS—Check-cashing places and payday loan providers are the bottom-feeders of the financial industry. Serving people too poor, too undocumented, or too mobile to have real bank and credit card accounts,...
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Hands On With Sprint’s Tri-Band Modems
LAS VEGAS—Sprint is all over the spectrum map. The “truly unlimited” carrier has a truly confusing array of airwaves, including old Nextel spectrum at 800 MHz, Sprint spectrum at 1.9 GHz,...
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AMD Hits Game Console Trifecta With Xbox One
It’s been an open secret for quite some time, but now it’s official—Advanced Micro Devices has hit the trifecta with the selection of its chips for all three of the major...
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Dish Adds On-Demand, Social Access to iPhone, Android Apps
The Dish Network mobile app just got a makeover, adding access to On Demand programming on Android and iOS, as well as Dish Anywhere integration with social networks. iPad owners are...
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Is Your Teen Sharing Too Much Online?
The first generation of Facebook and Twitter users is growing up, making way for a new wave of social media-ites who seem more eager to open up online. A recent Pew...
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Opera for Android Exits Beta, Lands on Google Play
Attention Android users — Opera is finally ready for prime time on your phone. The WebKit-based Opera for Android Web browser on Tuesday finally graduated from beta, and became available for...
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New Intel CEO Institutes Big Changes
New Intel boss Brian Krzanich wasted no time making changes at the company, including the creation of a “new devices” business unit and announcing a push to develop marketable mobile chipsets...
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Senators Grill Apple Execs Over Tax Scheme
Apple’s top brass faced off against a Senate panel today over tax practices that members of Congress claim has robbed the U.S. Treasury of billions in revenue. In lengthy opening statements,...
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New Acting Chair Champions FCC’s Spectrum Efforts
The Federal Communications Commission is “moving full speed ahead” to make more spectrum available, acting Chair Mignon Clyburn assured the wireless industry during a keynote speech Tuesday at CTIA in Las...
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Xbox One Doubles Down on Kinect
Microsoft has blown the lid off of its new Xbox, and it looks promising. It also looks uncomfortably familiar, with a camera control system we’ve seen before. Yes, the next Xbox...
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Could 3D Printed Food End Hunger Once and for All?
It’s not quite the replicator from Star Trek, but Anjan Contractor’s idea for a 3D printer capable of synthesizing food could point the way towards a future in which hunger and...
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Samsung Galaxy S III Coming to Boost, Virgin Mobile Next Month
Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile are adding the Samsung Galaxy S III to their pre-paid smartphone lineups. The popular device will launch in June, running on Sprint’s 3G and 4G LTE...
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‘Pandora Premieres’ to Stream New Albums Before Launch
Dying to get your hands on the latest from former Credence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty? Just launch Pandora. The online radio service today introduced Pandora Premieres — “a new kind...
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Microsoft Unveils Xbox One, Arriving Later This Year
As expected, Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation gaming console, the Xbox One. The updated gaming and entertainment device will debut “later this year,” Xbox chief Don Mattrick said during a launch...
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Confusing Always Online with Always On
The idea of being always online turned into a major point of discussion a while back, insofar as the new Xbox One game console is involved. I thought this was long...
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iPhone Loses Ground to Galaxy Lineup on Customer Satisfaction
Satisfaction with the wireless phone industry is making a comeback this year, gaining 2.9 percent after a two-year decline, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Satisfaction with wireless service...
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Guantanamo Wi-Fi Access Shut Down Amidst Cyber Threats
Officials at Guantanamo Bay prison shut down access to wireless Internet service as well as social networks over the weekend amidst concerns about a coordinated cyber attack. Service has since been...
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Rapper Eminem’s Publisher Suing Facebook Over Home Ad
Facebook is facing allegations of doing shady business from none other than Slim Shady himself, Eminem. The Grammy-winning rapper is suing the social network and its ad agency, claiming they infringed...
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Watch Live: Microsoft’s Xbox Reveal Event
UPDATE: Microsoft today unveiled the Xbox One, which is scheduled to arrive on store shelves later this year. Microsoft today is set to unveil its next-gen Xbox, rumored to be called...