Facebook Phone Not Coming Anytime Soon

Mark Zuckerberg has officially laid the smack down on rumors circulating around that Facebook is working on a smartphone of their own. Sure, such rumors are more or less guaranteed to drive traffic to any site, but the Facebook founder claims that nothing of that sort is going to happen anytime in the near and immediate future. In...

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Lady Gaga Loses 156 Million YouTube Views on Official Account

Lady Gaga has joined the list of musicians to lose millions of video views on YouTube. Her official account lost some 156 million views, NME reports. According to a YouTube spokesperson, VEVO reduced the play counts on many major artist's videos by up to 2 million views in December 2012 due to articially inflation of view counts. Gaga's account survived that initial sweep. Though many millions...

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Twitter now supports large image viewing from profiles and search, the ability to add videos to galleries

Today on its blog Twitter announced a number of changes to its web interface that should allow users to better view photo and video content while using the service. Photos that are clicked on from either a profile page or a search result will be shown, in large form, in-page, keeping the user where they were, and preventing the need for more navigation. Also announced today is the ability...

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QuikIO adds iPhone-to-iPhone file transfer feature to its media streaming service

On the heels of adding Apple TV integration earlier this month, QuikIO has announced version 2 of its media streaming service and added a convenient iPhone-to-iPhone file sharing feature. QuikIO is hard at work developing a cross-device solution for painless media management. Its iPhone and iPad apps provide an easy way to stream media and access files from Windows or Mac computers. Version 2 is still...

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Want to unlock your phone? Fix the DMCA

The anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA has been stifling research, slowing innovation, and annoying consumers for more than a decade. So why does it still exist? This week, a new federal mandate kicked in that makes it illegal for you to unlock a phone that you bought locked from a carrier. The rule states that unauthorized unlocking of a phone you bought -- even if you paid full price for it,...

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Black Ops 2 Die Rise Zombies Sliquifier for all players (Video)

As most of you are well aware, Die Zombies is finally available to Xbox 360 Black Ops 2 owners with a Season Pass. The new map provides players with a brand new zombies fix and unsurprisingly, hardcore players are already trying to work out how to solve the main Die Rise Easter Egg. We told you that a new wonder weapon would be included in the map and now we can reveal it to be called the Sliquifier. Like...

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Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013

Continuing a long-standing New Year’s tradition, today we present an up-to-date list of the world’s most-visited BitTorrent sites. At the start of 2013 The Pirate Bay continues to pull in the most visitors, followed by KickassTorrents and Torrentz. Household names BTJunkie and Demonoid have dropped off the list as both sites are no longer online. Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the...

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Google walls off public Facebook events without logging in

If you’re not signed into Facebook and try to search for an event on Google, you’ll now encounter a login wall when clicking on the Facebook link. While Facebook brushed off any comparison to Google’s search engine post-Graph Search launch, the parallels are obvious. And though the social network doesn’t coin itself a Google challenger, it seems there’s some competitive spirit. The Register...

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Samsung launches red Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Android tablet for $219.99

I posted a few weeks back about a report that Samsung was preparing a Valentine's Day gift in the form of a red Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 tablet, and today, the company has officially launched that slate in what it's calling "garnet red." Unfortunately, while there's a new color option, the specs haven't been updated from the original Tab 2 7.0, which is also available in silver. The 7-inch tablet (with a screen...

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Facebook app for iOS gets voice and video recording, voice message support and improved Nearby tab

The Facebook app for iOS has gotten the ability to record voice and video right in the app, as well as Messenger’s voice messaging support and an improved Nearby tab. Voice messages originally showed up in the iOS and Android versions of Facebook’s Messenger apps, and later VoIP calling was added to those apps in the US and Canada. Now, the voice messaging capabilities have come directly to the main...

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MacBook Air speculation for 2013 during price drop

Whenever we learn that a product is to receive a price drop there are two reasons for this, the first is just a general sale to help make room for other items, while the other is a new version soon to be released. Knowing this we’re pretty sure that there will be a great deal of MacBook Air speculation for 2013 because you can currently purchase this slim ultraportable computer for $200 of its full...

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Nexus 4 Is All Sold Out?

Is there something that we have missed out on today? It seems that the Nexus 4 is about to arrive in droves, having both Best Buy and Wirefly unveil to the world their respective Nexus 4 pages, with Google switching the page to “Temporarily Out of Stock” compared to the “Sold Out” product pages that we are all so used to.  Do you think that this rather subtle change in wording has more than meets...

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Apple releases iOS 6.1, available for download today

Apple has released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6.1, available for download today. In a statement, the Cupertino, California-based technology giant said the new software will bring 4G long-term evolution (LTE) capabilities to 36 additional iPhone carriers and 23 additional iPad carriers around the world. New LTE markets have been updated on Apple's Web site to include...

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Here Is Why You Should Try ‘Mageia’ Linux Distro!

Last year in December, we had released a report of the top 10 Linux distributions and the newbie we are talking about was sitting safely on spot two!    Monday, January 28, 2013:  The...

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Apple to include 128GB model in next-generation iOS devices?

On Saturday, Apple released iOS 6.1 beta 5 to developers, giving them a chance to test the software before being released to the masses. Interestingly, a few developers noted code hinting to a 128GB model coming in Apple's product line at some point.  First spotted by iDownloadBlog, the 128GB system partition key was found in the "iOS 6.1 BuildManifest" file, but not the in iOS 6.0 currently...

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Samsung Galaxy S3 vs. potential Galaxy S4

When Samsung released the Galaxy S3 to the world last May (well in certain countries) the handset was greeted very favorable, so much so that in the UK several months before Christmas it was shifting more units that the iPhone 5. The smartphone continues to do very well even though a new version is due in a few months time. The release of the Galaxy S4 has certainly got us a little excited because...

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Sure Way To Get Fired: Post ‘I Wish I Could Get Fired Some Days’ On Facebook

We've all had work days in which we wished we'd be asked to leave and never come back. Then comes the hard-hitting reality that unemployment is about as bad as it gets in the professional world. Phoenix resident Amy McClenathan, who is still heartbroken over the loss of her mother, learned this lesson after updating her Facebook status with the confession, "I wish I could get fired some days, it...

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IBM relying on more cloud services, software to accelerate social business

ORLANDO -- IBM giving its social business strategy a significant push this week through a nearly week-long conference along with the debut of several new software and cloud services products. Announced at the start of IBM Connect 2013 on Monday morning, the latest releases from Big Blue are a direct result of its recent acquisition of HRM software provider Kenexa. Thus, the intention...

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Red Nokia Lumia 822 Offers Valentine’s Day Gift Options

If you are a Forever Alone dude, then February 14th would most probably pass by you without anything significant happening.  I mean, you need not worry about what kind of gift to purchase for your other half, and neither do you need to stress yourself out with the different kinds of bookings that you need to make for shows, dinner, and perhaps even a hotel room to romance your other half all...

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Facebook Cuts Down Twitter's Vine

Facebook has blocked Twitter’s new Vine app from being able to find your Facebook friends on the service. The app launched this morning, and previously offered users a way to see which of their Twitter and Facebook friends were also using the service, in addition to contacts stored in their phone. A request to search for Facebook friends on Vine now yields a pop-up message indicating that the...

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Microsoft Surface Pro features touted by Microsoft

Earlier this week we talked about the gaming performance capability that the Microsoft Surface Pro has, considering it is equipped with integrated graphics via an Intel HD 4000 chipset. The jury is still out on that topic, but after Microsoft finally confirmed a solid release date for the upgraded tablet, the company has now released a promo video explaining some of the other features on offer. We...

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Scientists Discover Method to Store Data on DNA

Storage density achieved results in single gram of DNA being able to hold nearly half a million DVDs of data. Scientists have developed a method to store data on DNA and expects it to become an adequate alternative to hard discs within a decade. Researches from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) have successfully created a way to store data in DNA-centric strands. MP3s, PDFs, text files and...

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Never mind iPhone 6 and iPads next, in 2013 it's all about iOS 7 and iCloud

There'll be an iPhone 5S and iPhone 6. There'll be a Retina iPad mini. There'll be a thinner, lighter iPad 5. There'll be an Apple A7 system-on-a-chip. There'll be an LTE radio that can do simultaneous voice and data, and eventually voice over LTE. There may be curved displays, biometric sensors and security, 4K AirPlay, onboard voice parsing, in-air gesture and face recognition, and much, much more....

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Microsoft Posts Record Revenue of $21.5 Billion in December Quarter

t looks like Microsoft had a decent end to 2012. Microsoft reported earnings-per-share of $0.76 on revenue of $21.46 billion in the December quarter, beating EPS estimates by a penny but coming in just shy of Wall Street's consensus estimate for revenue of $21.6 billion. Nonetheless, Microsoft's revenue for the quarter set a new high. The Windows division of the company had a particularly strong...

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My next notebook: 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display

It will soon be time to retire my Dell XPS 13 notebook. The machine has been a solid workhorse but it is now almost four years old and out of warranty, so it's living on borrowed time. That means it is time to choose a new portable system. After a lot of careful consideration, I've chosen my next system: the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. So, why have I decided to pick up an OS X system...

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How to Install I9100XWLS8 Official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Upgrade on Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100

The long awaited official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update on Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 is currently hitting in Spain, other countries might also follow soon. But for those advance users who couldn’t wait much longer and wants to upgrade their devices right now can manually install the original I9100XWLS8 stock ROM. This method has been also useful for those devices that is now rooted or installed...

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