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Motorola Droid 4 coming to Verizon on Feb. 10

By doris | Published: February 8, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com It’s official: The Motorola Droid 4, that slender beast of a smartphone, is headed to Verizon’s speedy 4G LTE network on Feb. 10. As you might already know, the gadget is skinny — it’s less than half-an-inch thick — and offers a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, a five-row QWERTY keyboard, a [...]

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Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox

By doris | Published: February 7, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. Verizon and Coinstar Inc., Redbox’s parent company, said Monday that the service will be national and available to non-Verizon customers as well. It adds another dimension [...]

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Amazon Kindle Fire surges ahead in Android tablet use:

By doris | Published: February 6, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com A new report analyzing app usage purports to show that, in just three months, Amazon’s Kindle Fire has dethroned the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the top Android tablet — at least when it comes to people actually spending time on their devices. Flurry Analytics compared application sessions among all Android tablets [...]

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8 things you should know before building a mobile app

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with just a small investment of time and cash, it’s not hard for would-be mobile moguls to turn a concept into a steady stream of [...]

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Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call

By doris | Published: February 4, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LONDON (AP) — Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on [...]

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Apple presses pause on high-def music, says Neil Young

By doris | Published: February 3, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Laguna Niguel, California (CNN) — Apple’s ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young. Apple consulted with the influential musician, along with many others in the music industry, for a project to develop electronics and distribution channels [...]

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School bans fuzzy boots used to hide cell phones

By doris | Published: February 2, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com PHILADELPHIA — Singer Nancy Sinatra may have had boots made for walking, but she never attended Pottstown Middle School. Starting Monday the Philadelphia suburban district is banning the wearing of fuzzy open-top boots, including the popular Ugg brand, to middle school classes because students have been stashing cell phones in the [...]

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It costs over $17,000 a year to be a gamer apparently

By doris | Published: February 1, 2012

Full Story at ingame.msnbc.msn.com Bloomberg recently ran a piece called “The Real Cost of Being a Video Gamer.” The query was answered by calculating the expenses that a gamer will accumulate, as part of a family of four living in San Francisco. Turns out, the final price tag is $17,077. The article lists everything a [...]

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AT&T outduels Verizon in iPhone

By doris | Published: January 31, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — AT&T handily beat Verizon in the battle for iPhone customers last quarter, but the company lost $6.7 billion in large part due to its failed merger with T-Mobile. The nation’s second-largest wireless company said Thursday that it sold 7.6 million iPhones during the holiday quarter, which bested [...]

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Sony tablets, smartphones to get Android 4.0 upgrades

By doris | Published: January 30, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com The upgrades to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich continue with the entire Sony Xperia line of smartphones, starting this spring, according to reports. Those say updates may be applied to applied to Sony’s Android tablets as well. According to The Verge, sources say that Sony’s Tablet S and Tablet P “are [...]

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Startup Makes ‘Wireless Router for the Brain’

By doris | Published: January 29, 2012

Full Story at TechnologyReview.com Optogenetics has been hailed as a breakthrough in biomedical science—it promises to use light to precisely control cells in the brain to manipulate behavior, model disease processes, or even someday to deliver treatments. But so far, optogenetic studies have been hampered by physical constraints. The technology requires expensive, bulky lasers for [...]

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How smartphone camera tech will evolve in 2012

By doris | Published: January 28, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (WIRED) — We love documenting our lives. If we didn’t, well, there probably wouldn’t be a hugely successful online behemoth called Facebook. And smartphone photography wouldn’t be the thriving phenomenon that it is today. Smartphones accounted for more than a quarter of all photos shot in 2011, according to research from [...]

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