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Twitter looking to make money from commerce

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ASPEN: Twitter could potentially generate revenue from commerce in addition to advertising, its current money-maker, the chief executive of the company said Tuesday. Dick Costolo, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in this Colorado ski resort, also dismissed reports of management turmoil at the San Francisco-based company and said it is still seeing explosive [...]

Google Labs shutting down

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SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Wednesday said it is shutting down its Labs website for creations-in-progress in order to better focus its resources and energy. Google Labs was an online playground where people could dabble with early versions of new services or products being worked on by engineers at the Internet powerhouse. Pulling the plug on [...]

Google+ to get via Social Games Stream

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If you’ve been hanging out at Google+ and wondering how long it would take for the service to get social games, wonder no longer. Inadvertently, according to SlashGear and TheNextWeb, Google has tipped an unannounced feature called “Games Stream” on a page labeled “Content that appears on the stream” at Google+. Regardless, it seems all [...]

The mobile company of Black Berry PlayBook stands alone with government security approval

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RIM has always been strong in the enterprise. The company remained steadfast in its support for corporate environments with the launch of the PlayBook, calling it the only business-grade tablet. The NIST is now ready to back that claim, giving the BlackBerry PlayBook its stamp of approval — meaning it’s now the lone tablet that [...]

The Hybrid Ferrari of Tomorrow

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When the top brass at Ferrari like your car design, you’re onto something. Kim Cheon Ju, Ahn Dre and Lee Sahngseok took first place in the Ferrari World Design Contest in Maranello, Italy. The three budding designers, students at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, were personally congratulated by none other than Paolo Pininfarina, chairman of [...]

Seagate GoFlex Satellite wireless storage device

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According to BBC Latest News: Seagate’s GoFlex Satellite is a wireless storage device that features built-in Bluetooth connection and USB 3.0 port in order that you can connect the wireless hard drive with your computer or bluetooth-enabled devices like iPad, iPad 2, other tablets, smartphones, and more. The 500 GB of storage capacity allows you [...]

uTorrent Plus premium BitTorrent client launching this fall

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BitTorrent has seen a lot of success with its free-to-use and tiny client going by the name of uTorrent. It’s many people’s software of choice for handling torrent downloads, and with the recent release of version 3.0 the development team added remote access, video streaming, chat, and a ratings system to name but a few [...]

HTC infringes 2 Apple patents, could see all Android devices banned

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A U.S. Trade Commission judge has dealt a potentially fatal blow to HTC and the wider Android community by ruling that the company infringes two Apple patents with its Android devices. Specifically, the judge found that HTC infringes patents 5,946,647 and 6,343,263. The first relates to receiving information that can then be used by a [...]

Microsoft: $100 Windows Phone 7 smartphones a reality in 2012

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Look down a list of Windows Phone 7 smartphones being offered without a contract and you’ll notice the price hovers around the $300-$400. There are some $200 models, but they are few and far between and make a few feature compromises to achieve the lower price point. The price of buying a smartphone outright is [...]

Google + could reach 20 million users by this weekend

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Google + already at 10 millions users.It has been live for just two weeks and now it could reach 20 million by this weekend and in that time only those with access to an invite have managed to sign up. Even then, the invites didn’t always work due to overloading of the system, and Google [...]

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