With Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer taking steps to transform the company back into a top-tier player, reports are out that Yahoo is in talks to buy Hulu for as much as $800 million. Yahoo bid between $600 million and $800 million for Hulu, a ...
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A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
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Inspired by the latest James Bond movie, Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include "personalization technology" in their weapons. The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 ...
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Cricket Communications, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone builds on the success and innovation of its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3, and provides a suite of new ...
LIKE several Japanese technology firms, Toshiba has its back to the wall. The vagaries of the yen, decline in demand for TVs and computers and Japan's earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 left manufacturers wounded. Case in point is Toshiba ...
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DURANGO, Infinity, 720, whatever the name, it seems clear Microsoft will launch the next generation Xbox console on Wednesday. It's been nearly eight years since the Xbox 360 was launched and while it's had its ups and downs, there can be ...
At an event today called, appropriately, Xbox Reveal, Microsoft announced the next generation of the Xbox, the first new version in eight years: It's an "all-in-one" entertainment system called the Xbox One. Not only has the console's ...
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In classical antiquity swimming and bathing were done naked. There are Roman murals which show women playing sports and exercising wearing two-piece suits covering the areas around their breasts and hips in a fashion remarkably similar to ...
This week during the Google I/O developers conference, Vivante Corporation announced product readiness for the latest Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 operating system update. Today's Google TV? products featuring the Vivante GC1000 IP cores ready ...
Dell intends to move workstations into the data center and then serve up intense multimedia and engineering applications to remote users over the cloud or in virtualized environments via thin clients. To that end, the PC maker Thursday ...
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IDG News Service - Dell's thumb-sized PC called Project Ophelia, which is the size of a USB stick, will start shipping in July for around $100. The Android-based device will plug into a display's HDMI port so that it can run applications ...
Samsung has launched a mirrorless camera with detachable lenses, smart camera functionality, dual channel WiFi that takes 3D photos and video. It's inbuilt dual band WiFi gives it the capacity to upload photos to social networks, and with ...
Hewlett-Packard has given the "Android treatment" to its latest laptop-tablet hybrid, which is called SlateBook X2 and has a detachable 10-inch screen that can independently function as a tablet. The X2 is HP's second device with Android. ...
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The Can Makers, the body representing the UK manufacturers of beverage cans, has revealed the winners of its student video competition in partnership with the British Film Institute The winners are Jens Christensen, Louis King and James ...
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LG Electronics today announced that its Google TVs will be updated with the latest version of the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system (OS). LG is showcasing Google TVs with the new operating system at the Google I/O developer ...
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