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Amazon Launches ‘Kindle Worlds’ Publishing Platform for Fan Fiction
Amazon on Wednesday announced a new commercial publishing platform, dubbed Kindle Worlds, which will let any writer publish fan fiction based on a variety of well-known stories and characters, and earn...
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Hello Xbox One, Goodbye Freedom
Microsoft’s big Xbox One reveal showed off a lot of new features coming to the console. However, underneath many of those features are limitations that have had gamers worried about the...
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Chrome Update Adds Conversational Search, Speed Boost
At its I/O developer conference last week, Google gave us an early look at what it has planned for its suite of software services. Now one of those enhancements, called “conversational...
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Microsoft Unveils Xbox One; Senators Grill Apple Execs; Teens Oversharing Online
Microsoft was the talk of the tech world yesterday after unveiling its next-generation gaming console, the Xbox One. The updated gaming and entertainment device will debut “later this year,” Xbox chief...
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AT&T: We Won’t Get Bashed By the ‘Dumb Pipe’
LAS VEGAS–Big wireless carriers are terrified of the dumb pipe. The carriers’ nightmare for years has been to be turned into simple ISPs, competing on cost and speed rather than on...
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Coolpad’s Stock Android Smartphones Target T-Mobile, Sprint
LAS VEGAS—Coolpad may only have one phone out in the U.S., but it’s now the tenth-largest phone maker in the world, bigger than HTC, Motorola, or BlackBerry, according to research firm...
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Study: Electronics Use on U.S. Flights On the Rise
The use of electronic devices by airline travelers in the United States has been surging over the past four years and grew again in the first several months of 2013, according...
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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...