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T-Mobile USA expands its HSPA+ 42 network to reach more than 220 million people, unveils LTE plans
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It’s CTIA time folks and T-Mobile is using it to tell the world its HSPA+ 42 network is now reaching more than 220 million people in 229 markets across the U.S. of A. As of today, customers in Little Rock, Ark.; Hattiesburg, Miss.; Springfield, Mo. and Madison, Wis. can experience the fast speeds available on the Magenta carrier. Moreover, T-Mobile users in Fayetteville and Little Rock, Ark.; Lake Charles, La. and Springfield, Mo. can experience the faster speeds offered by our HSPA+ 42 network with devices such as the recently launched HTC One S, which delivers download speeds of about 22 Mbps.
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AT&T now offering the HTC One X
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The AT&T variant of the HTC One X is now available from the carrier at a price of $199.99 with a signed two-year pact. The model is not endowed with the quad-core Tegra 3 like the international version of the phone, due to compatibility issues with LTE. But based on benchmark readings, you won't notice any drop off in performance with the dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 under the hood. The Adreno 225 GPU takes care of the graphics side of things.
AT&T has launched the HTC One X
The AT&T HTC One X is equipped with a 4.7 inch Super LCD 2 display offering 720p resolution and a high pixel density reading of 312 ppi. 1GB of RAM is on board and the phone has 16GB of native memory which ca...
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Malware exploits flaw in old versions of Office for Mac
Like UnlikeMicrosoft researchers recently discovered a piece of Mac OS X malware that exploits a three-year-old flaw in old versions of Office for Mac. The threat uses a multi-stage attack, just like a Windows virus would. While Microsoft did fix the problem in 2009, the software giant notes that not every machine is up-to-date. The company’s data indicates, however, that the malware is not widespread. “No operating system that exists outside a laboratory is entirely immune to malware,” Microsoft stated on its blog. “As different operating systems continue to gain in popularity they attract more attention from would-be attackers – especially since, as we see in the example analysis above, the technique...
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Nokia Lumia 610 now on sale in China, unboxed
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The Nokia Lumia 610 is now on sale in China, and is available for 1,699 Chinese Yuan ($269 USD).
WPDang was one of the first customers and posted some unboxing pictures.
They report the 800 Mhz handset is as smooth and fast as all other Windows Phones, and the phone, which is available in black and white, is polished and “very beautiful”.
One interesting point to note is that the packaging is branded Nokia 610 rather than Nokia Lumia 610, similar to the Nokia 800 and 800c in China.
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Xamarin's XobotOS opens prospect of Android port to C#, can of worms
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Would it be ironic if Android developers did an end-run around Microsoft patents by using Microsoft's own C#? Or if Google kiboshed its Oracle brouhaha with the aid of none other than Redmond? We're asking because Xamarin, the wacky open source implementer of .NET, has ported Android to Microsoft's C# with its XobotOS project. Although just an experiment and unlikely to solve Google's issues, the team showed that running the robot on C# instead of Java gave fewer coding limitations, better battery life and direct graphics access. Additionally, Xamarin reports "massive" speed gains on its HTC Flyer and Acer Iconia when running the side-project port -- no surprise given C#'s machine heritage. ...
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EU in no hurry to decide on Google antitrust case
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The EU has said it will not rush into a decision about the fairness of Google's search results.
Speaking to Reuters, EU competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he hadn't decided to formally charge Google yet.
"We are not there yet," he said. "This is a complex case. We are not in a hurry. We are very serious about the investigation."
Thus dispelling that rumour that the EU competition commission was just sitting around eating sandwiches and aimlessly searching for Googlewhacks.
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Enter the Eurovision awards for Enterprise
Like UnlikeIf you're a live in an area with a thriving business community, then your area could be a candidate for the business equivalent of the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is looking for businesses and communities to take part in a nationwide competition that will see a town, city or area crowned as the country's most enterprising place, and who will then go forward to the European Enterprise Promotion Awards in Nicosia.
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Google News adds real time updates and Google+ comments
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Google is constantly working behind the scenes to improve its services, and today it seems fate has smiled on Google News. Google has posted to its blog detailing the latest changes to Google News, which includes real time news updates, Google+ comments on news items, and a boost in the default size of images. The changes have already taken place for some, and for everyone else in the US they’ll be rolling out over the next few weeks.
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Kickstarter scam ‘Mythic’ pulled down, no money exchanges hands
Like UnlikeA Kickstarter campaign for the development of a game called “Mythic” has been officially declared a hoax, and yanked from the social funding platform. Either the person/people behind the scam did not estimate the amount of interest the campaign would get, or just simply did not have any sort of intelligent thought process when announcing the project through Kickstarter. The project page showed screenshots that were of other games and blatantly ripped from other websites.
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Scientists Invent Graphene for Wearable Electronics, Mirrors
Like UnlikeThe new material is call GraphExeter and is based on two graphene layers with ferric chloride molecules between them. According to the research report, ferric chloride greatly improves the electrical conductivity of graphene, but do not affect its transparency.
The inventors believe that their GraphExeter is more flexible than indium tin oxide (ITO), which is the primary conductive material used in electronics today. Due to its transparent and flexible characteristics, GraphExeter could be used in a wide variety of electronic devices including traditional products such as computers, phones and solar panels, but also in wearable electronics such as digital t-shirts and even "smart mirrors".
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Verizon takes the lead on text to 911 services
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The FCC first outlined its intention to allow texting to emergency services back in 2010, and since then despite more talk of accepting photo and video messages, nothing official came to be. This week, however, Verzion has taken the initiative, and announced its own plans to enable text to 911 for its customers. Working with TeleCommunication Systems, the big red hopes that it can facilitate the sending of SMS messages to emergency call-centers as soon as early 2013. Texting isn't just about adding communication options, it also provides a valuable tool to the deaf, hard of hearing and situations where talking is dangerous, or not possible. The service will use existing CDMA and SMS networks...
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Yahoo said in talks to divest 15-25 percent of Alibaba
Like UnlikeYahoo is said to be in talks to divest 15-25 percent of its holdings in e-commerce giant Alibaba in a buyback initiated by the Chinese-owned company. According to its sources, Reuters says that the transaction is aimed at removing some or all of the issues that arose when Alibaba’s CEO Jack Ma attempted put together a deal to gain control of Yahoo. Yahoo, which owns 40 percent of Alibaba, could stand to make anywhere between $4.8 billion to $8 billion if the deal goes through.
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US judge sanctions Samsung, kills important defense against Apple
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US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal imposed a severe and rarely used penalty yesterday on Samsung in its case against Apple by eliminating one of Samsung's infringement defenses from the lawsuit. The defense was an important one: Samsung had argued that its recent implementation of the "blue glow" feature in TouchWiz is a non-infringing workaround to Apple's patent — US 7,469,381 — on the iOS "scrollback" behavior that displays a background texture when you scroll beyond the edge of a document or webpage. The court's reasoning for yanking this defense is hard to argue with.
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OS X Lion update accidentally outs user passwords in plain text, stumbles over FileVault
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Are you an avid user of OS X's FileVault encryption and running a recently updated version of Lion? It may be time to consider changing your passwords. According to security researcher David Emry, users who used FileVault prior to upgrading to 10.7.3 may be able to find their password in a system-wide debug log file, stored in plain text outside of the encrypted area. This puts the password at risk of being read by other users or enterprising cyber criminals, Emry explains, and even opens the door for new flaw-specific malware. FileVault 2, on the other hand, seems to be unaffected by the bug. The community doesn't currently have a way to fight the flaw without disabling FileVault, so users ...
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Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
Like UnlikeFederal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four "pre-release" music tracks gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recording industry delays in confirming infringement, according to court records obtained by Wired.
The Los Angeles federal court records, which were unsealed Wednesday at the joint request of Wired, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Coalition, highlight a secret government process in which a judge granted the government repeated time extensions to build a civil or criminal case against Da...
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