Ever since Google announced in April that Austin would become the second fiber city in the U.S., residents there have been given few details on how the tech company will select the first neighborhood to get the gigabit-speed Internet and TV ...
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IDG News Service - Researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an insect-like robot that achieves flight by flapping a pair of tiny wings. The robot is small enough to sit on the tip of a ...
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Sprint warned Wednesday that it will be "slightly delayed" with its full launch of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 on Saturday as planned. Sprint said in an emailed statement that the problem stems from "unexpected inventory challenges from ...
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Users of consumer technology and social media reacted quickly after explosions ripped through crowds near the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week, sending out updates and snapping photos and recording videos that officials said ...
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Blackstone Group has given up its bid for Dell, less than a month after the private-equity fund manager said it was planning to top an offer from founder Michael Dell and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners. In the so-called ...
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The largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., BitFloor, has closed again, this time due to issues with its bank account, according to its founder. Roman Shtylman wrote that the exchange's "US bank account is scheduled to be closed and we can ...
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IDG News Service - An IDC study has found sweeping changes in how mobile display advertisements are sold, with Facebook, Pandora and Twitter successfully wresting away control from advertising networks over the last year. Advertising ...
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Oracle's Unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors late last month marked what could be the start of an expected shift toward standardizing the vendor's two families of Unix servers on a single chip architecture. ...
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Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence. "The Novell Corporation was at one time one of the ...
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Vine's branching out. Videos made with the trendy Twitter-owned mobile app can now be posted anywhere on the Web. Previously, Vine posts could only be shared within users' networks on Vine itself as well as on Twitter and Facebook. But ...
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IDG News Service - An electronics and a recycling trade group are looking for ways to reuse recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass from computer monitors and television sets, with a US$10,000 prize for the best proposal. The Consumer ...
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Widespread adoption of 3D printing technology may not be that far away, according to a Gartner report predicting that enterprise-class 3D printers will be available for less than $2,000 by 2016. With the technology set to become less ...
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With Michael Dell still battling to get his US$24.4 billion buyout deal approved by shareholders, his company needs to avoid a long, drawn-out battle that could erode customer confidence. Dell will soon provide details about any ...
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Although Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that Chrome OS and Android will remain separate operating systems "for a very, very long time," one analyst still thinks the two will eventually merge. Despite Schmidt's comments, ...
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IDG World Expo today announced the full agenda and lineup of speakers for its 2013 Game Marketing Summit (GMS) event. This year's speakers include top video game marketers, developers and technology providers. Featured speakers at the ...
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