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Apple unplugged the rumor mill and fired up new hype machine today, announcing the next-generation iPad and an upgraded Apple TV.
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The new iPad: Apple schools tablet makers again with Retina Display, quad-core graphics, LTE 4G Apple
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We knew it wouldn’t be long before Pinterest, the image-based social network, would attract spammers. We spotted a new scam on the site today, luring users to click for coupons to popular stores.
Pinterest is growing rapidly with an estimated …
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Cloud startup Numecent might completely reshape software distribution, by making it far faster to deliver bits over the internet. For video game players, that potential is nothing short of revolutionary — if it works — and it has huge implications …
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Apple and Blackberry aren’t the only fruit-flavored brands that can cause a stir with new hardware releases. The UK-developed Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized, bare-bones computer selling in two variations for $25 and $35 respectively — slightly less than an …
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What happens when a public relations firm sobers up and realizes it actually has limits? When it realizes clients could benefit from content it doesn’t have the bandwidth to provide? This is a serious question that plagued the founders of …
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Anthony Wood (pictured) is Roku’s CEO, and at his house (he’s married with three kids), each person gets seven hours of TV each week — all sans cable, natch.
The family gets its fix primarily from Amazon’s pay-per-view video selection, …
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Your first words when you start playing Journey, the new PlayStation Network game from Thatgamecompany, will be something like “Wow,” or “Cool!” From the moment you start walking through the sand, you know you’re in for a different kind of …
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Windows 8 is certain to make a huge splash with consumers — not just because it’s the next version of Windows, but because Microsoft has finally managed to crack the code for putting Windows on tablets.
But I think Windows …
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John Schappert is the chief operating officer at Zynga. Today, the company is releasing one of his team’s big projects, formerly code-named Project Z, also known as Zynga.com for consumers, and Zynga Platform for third-parties. The announcement moves Zynga’s games …
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One of the most interesting mobile apps to come out of the Occupy Wall Street protests was Vibe, created by Hazem Sayed, which allowed users to send anonymous messages in a tightly controlled distance. Betaworks recently bought the company, and …
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Goodreads is an app for those who are both bookish and web-friendly, and in a recent call with VentureBeat, founder Otis Chandler told us Facebook’s new Timeline-focused actions are just about the best thing that’s ever happened to the company.…
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At last Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, a startup studio that makes animations, apps, and ebooks won the Best Animated Short Oscar for its film “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.” The 14-minute movie was the first from …
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Many newer-generation video games equate religion with violence, finds a new study from the University of Missouri.
Greg Perreault, a doctoral student in the university’s School of Journalism, recently examined five titles that incorporate spiritual themes in their storylines — …
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The new Windows 8 operating system shows a design sensibility and a clarity of purpose not often seen in a Microsoft product.
I’ve spent about a week with the “consumer preview” of Windows 8, which is available to the public …
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It’s easy to think of mobile wallet solutions from companies Google, PayPal, and Isis as locked in a heated battle for the future of payments. But according to Michael Abbott, CEO of the mobile payments company Isis, that’s far from …
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Pretty pictures make for comely keepsakes, a fact often forgotten in the rush to digital photo sharing. Now there is a growing momentum around taking lovely-looking mobile photos and turning them into tangible items worth sending to friends and family.…
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The founder was home in his kitchen cooking dinner when the call came. It was one of those moments when the color seems to drain out of the food in front of you. The voice on the other line was …
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Alex Seropian was in charge of huge video game business at Disney Interactive Studios, with more than 500 employees and $500 million revenues. But he wasn’t making games as he’s previously done at Halo-creator Bungie. And sometimes he had to …
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As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement. But a site-wide update to Flickr promises to better protect members and their copyrighted works.…
Editor's Pick Facebook's gaming boom has come to an end, according to a report from IHS Screen Digest Media Research. The subject is open to debate and players such as Facebook and Zynga will no doubt dispute this. But IHS Screen Digest has put together an argument that will likely get a lot of attention, as games such as those made by Zynga have driven the growth of the social network...
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