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MySpace out of UK's 'top 10 social networks' list
Like UnlikeThe arrival of Justin Timberlake hasn't stopped the downward spiral of MySpace, with Experian Hitwise's latest figures revealing that the social network has fallen out of the top 10 social networks in the UK.
Now, the 10 sites that are classified as social networks do have to be taken with a pinch of salt – some we wouldn't actually class as being a true social network – but the mere fact that the likes of Moneysavingexperts and Moshi Monsters are now bigger stats-wise than what was once the essentially hangout for web-savvy networkers.
"MySpace traffic has been on the decline for at least three years now but this is the first time the social network has fallen out of the Experian Hitwise to...
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Google pulls Android Market malware that exploits SMS hole
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Google's reportedly pulled 22 malicious apps after two security firms tipped them off that the malware was tricking users into sending SMS messages to premium-rate phone lines. Android.RuFraud poses as popular games like Angry Birds, Assassins Creed or Tetris and can affect users across Europe and Russia. Fortunately the apps are easily spotted and deleted, but were downloaded 14,000 times before being pulled -- so if you see anyone experiencing similar issues, you can let 'em know how to solve it.
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UK public the most savvy online but Smart TVs a turn off
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The UK is filled with tech-savvy individuals who find getting online a doddle, according to new report by Ofcom, but another study reveals that Brits aren't that enamoured with Smart TVs.
The Ofcom study found that the UK is "leading the way" in using the internet, citing the fact that 79 per cent of people with internet access managed to order goods online, while the British were the most likely to visit retail websites online, with 89 per cent claiming to have done this in the past year.
And the UK's passion for the web isn't just computer-based, smartphones are also a web browsing device of choice with nearly half (46 per cent) of people with internet access using their phones to go onlin...
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Epson introduces a new 3LCD Projector and iOS Support for business ones «
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Epson’s new EH-TW400 is the company latest All In One video projector made to be used either at the office, at home for your movies needs and even for your basic Video Game needs. With a 1280×800 resolution a 3,000:1 contrast ratio and its 2,6000 lumens, the EH-TX400 comes as a very capable projector at an affordable price of 50,000 Yen.
Also, alongside the EH-TW400, Epson announced the “Epson iProjection” an iOS application that will be available next January in Japan that will give you the possibility to stream PDF, Word, Excel, PowePoin, JPEG and PNG from your iPad, iPod touch and iPhone to any LAN or Wirelessly connected Offirio series video projectors.
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Scientists Achieve Record 186 Gbps Two-Way Data Transfer Rate
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Think your USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt port delivers blazing fast transfer rates? You must not be a high-energy physicist. While the rest of the world was patiently waiting for Intel to drag Thunderbolt ports from Macs to PCs, a group of the aforementioned scientists and network engineers decided to get a little more proactive and develop a technology that transfers two-way data at a rate of 186 friggin’ Gbps per second – a new world record that makes the 10 Gbps offered by Thunderbolt absolutely sluggish.
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How to Benchmark Your Android Phone for Free
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Car nuts race their rides to see whose machine is the fastest. Fitness fanatics run marathons to test their physical limitations and endurance against that of their fellows. Geeks and gearheads? Our battles are fought and won on the basis of how capable our hardware is. While our desktops and laptops might be a thing of wonder to behold, carrying them around with us for the sake of collecting the accolades we deserve isn’t always convenient. Carrying around a smartphone or tablet, however, is. Benchmarking also provides the added benefit of telling you how well your phone manages the current version of your handset’s operating system and apps, as well as whether future OS upgrades will slow ...
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Where Does webOS Go From Here?
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Praise tech Jesus, webOS still has a pulse! The mobile OS seemingly doomed to a cold eternity in a digital graveyard has been granted an open source reprieve. Great! Only question is, what comes next?
Obviously webOS is a platform built for smartphones and tablets, but HP making it open source means people can find some weird uses for the little OS that could. How would webOS be best put to use? We already know we'll probably see another tablet from HP. They've conceded that much and we like that. A lot. But we've got some other ideas for how webOS could be used.
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Microsoft Epiphany: Silent Updates are Great, Coming to IE in January
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Starting next month, Microsoft will begin automatically upgrading some Windows users to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PCs, the Redmond software juggernaut announced in a blog post today. These silent updates are deemed an "important step in helping to move the Web forward," though consider this a trial run.
The silent updates will kick off in January for customers in Australia and Brazil only, and branch out to other markets over time. Microsoft didn't say when it plans to flip the automatic update switch specifically for Windows users living in the U.S.
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CarrierIQ execs meet with FTC and FCC officials to address privacy concerns (update)
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CarrierIQ is having a difficult time making friends. Nearly two weeks after Massachusetts congressman Edward Markey asked the FTC to open an investigation on the data collection company, it appears his wish may be granted. According to anonymous government officials close to the Washington Post -- and confirmed by CarrierIQ itself -- senior officials from the company visited the nation's capital yesterday to discuss the matter with representatives from the FTC and the FCC, as well as a few congressional staffers. The Federal Trade Commission itself hasn't confirmed that it's opening a probe into the situation; regardless, it's certainly evident that the government's beginning to look very cl...
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Ice Cream Sandwich gets its HTML5 scorecard
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Sencha has put together an HTML 5 scorecard for Ice Cream Sandwich using the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and has found that ICS is a huge step forward for Android, but still lags behind iOS just a bit in features. In testing ICS, Sencha used a variety of tests including: Acid3, SunSpider, Modernizr, Animator and Touch Kitchen Sink.
In most of the tests, ICS did extremely well, and represents a huge step forward compared to previous versions of Android. It got a perfect score on the Acid3 test, although as sometimes happens with that test, even though it got a perfect score, the Acid3 test image didn't render exactly right. Modernizr showed that the innards of the ICS browser also look good wi...
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Intel inks deal with French NFC chip maker
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Intel doesn’t have much of a presence in the mobile phone market right now, but that could change soon. The Santa Clara-based company announced recently that it has reached a deal with Inside Secure in which the French chip maker will supply Intel with NFC chips for upcoming products. “We are highly interested in NFC but we are not announcing any product plans at this time,” an Intel spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal, noting that Intel might include Inside Secure’s technology in future reference designs. Google Wallet emerged as one of the first NFC-based mobile payment systems to launch in the United States, but it’s only available on one handset, the Nexus S, and is only currently s...
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Galaxy Nexus now available at Verizon, $299 with free overnight shipping
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Right on time, the Galaxy Nexus made its debut on Verizon Wireless’ website. The monster of a phone is available online for $299 with a two-year contract or $649 without a contract. Overnight shipping is thrown in for free. If you must have the handset today, then you will have to scope out your local Verizon Wireless store and hope there’s not a line. While you wait to get your Nexus, you can check out our review of the GSM version. We think its worth the wait, let us know in the comments if you agree.
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Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos coming soon?
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Samsung will be launching a dual SIM version of its Galaxy Y Pro Android smartphone soon. And while we don’t know when this will happen exactly nor which markets the Korean company is targeting with such a device, we do notice one change the Galaxy Y Pro Duos brings – a front-facing camera, which doesn’t come included with the original Galaxy Y Pro model (aka Galaxy Txt in the Netherlands).
Rest of the specs seem pretty much unchanged (though we can’t tell this with 100% certainty) and include such a things as a 2.6-inch QVGA touchscreen, HDSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 3.2-megapixel rear camera, 832MHz processor, microSD memory card slot, while Android 2.3 Gingerbread is running the show.
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Intel creates new business unit focused on mobile, Apple VP to lead it
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Believe it or not, between 2002 and 2006 Intel made processors for mobile phones that used ARM’s architecture. The division responsible for all that amazing work was known as XScale. Intel sold XScale to Marvell during the summer of 2006, one year before Apple released the iPhone and redefined what a mobile phone was capable of. I bet Intel’s kicking themselves in the ass over that. Anyway, since then Intel has been trying to get someone, anyone, to build a smartphone that uses their x86 chips. In layman’s terms: they want a company like HTC or Samsung to build a mobile phone that uses the same kind of processor that’s inside a laptop computer. Intel has obviously failed to convince anyone t...
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6.05 million American homes depend on wireless for broadband access
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Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to test out DNA Finland’s 4G LTE network before it was launched to the public. In short, I absolutely fell in love with the kind of speeds I was seeing. With just a bar or two of signal in my home office (read: the kitchen table) I was pulling 40 megabits down consistently. That got me thinking, why do companies bother digging up roads to install fiber or fresh copper wires when they could just give people a little USB modem or better yet a dedicated router that has 4G LTE connectivity built-in? Apparently 6.05 million American households think the same thing according to Strategy Analytics. Ben Piper, Director of the Servi...
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