May 21, 2013

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BestBuy Mobile Offers Free “Smartphone” every day in December

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Best Buy offers ahead of Christmas, at least four free smartphones, one for each of the largest wireless carriers in the US, for every day in December. “Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) Friday said its mobile retail unit Best Buy Mobile is giving consumers a holiday event, featuring free smart phones in [...]

WikiLeaks Site Deleted from Amazon Servers due to US Pressure

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Amazon.com stopped hosting WikiLeaks from its Web servers following pressure from members of Congress, prompting the controversial group to move its website to a European provider. WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message it had been “ousted” by the Seattle online retailer, which also sells Web services and online storage. In its message, WikiLeaks said its [...]

More destructive cyber attacks could be made by 2015 : Gartner

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World’s leading IT research and advisory firm Gartner has forecast that by 2015, online sabotages will become multi-modal and very damaging and that even a G-20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by such cyber attacks . “By 2015, a G20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage. Online [...]

Acer goes ahead with Windows Phone 7 developing plans :Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci

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Although Acer has totally been under the radar in the U.S. in terms of smartphones, the company is hoping to change that with a some Windows Phone 7 handsets. And while we’ve been under the impression that the manufacturer would be building Windows Phone 7 smartphones, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci confirmed it today in an [...]

Bell and Virgin Mobile now brings BlackBerry Torch 9800 in red

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Bell Canada and Virgin Mobile are now offering the BlackBerry Torch 9800 in red. All of the specs remain the same as does the pricing which starts at $179.95 with a 3 year contract and runs as high as $599.95 with no contract. With the newest finger-centric OS and the WebKit based browser, the device [...]

Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus to be updated to “webOS 2.0” – HP

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Today, we have some news that will bring a smile to the face of everyone who owns a Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus. All these devices will be getting an upgrade to webOS 2.0. During the ongoing HP/Palm webOS Developer Day in New York City today, Palm Engineer and Developer Relations rep [...]

MacTech benchmarks Office 2011, finds big gains

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“MacTech” has released the results of its extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. The goal was to see how well the new Office applications performed compared to Office 2008 and 2004 across a variety of configurations. The results show significant speed gains all around, particularly in general app launching times, and in [...]