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Mobile Security Takes a Front Row Seat at MWC
Not too long ago, nobody really worried too much about mobile security. The worst thing that could really happen to your data on your phone, most people [...]
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For Qualcomm, Making Mobile Browsing Better Starts at the Chip Level
When it comes to browser performance, we tend to talk a lot about what browser developers like Microsoft, Google and Mozilla can do to render web pages [...]
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Small Cells: Not Just for Getting 5 Bars at Home Anymore
Small cells and especially the so-called femtocells that are currently used by mobile phone carriers to give their customers an option to fix bad reception in their [...]
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Hands-On With Ubuntu for Android
A few days ago, Ubuntu announced its plans to marry its full desktop operating system with the Android mobile operating system. Ubuntu, of course, is mostly known [...]
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MWC: Where Cutting Through the Wireless Noise is Hard for Even the Most Advanced Devices
No doubt, LTE is among the hottest topics at the Mobile World Congress this year. For the Congress, Spanish wireless carrier Telefonica expanded its network to 64 [...]
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Opinion
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Now that Google Has Launched a New Social Network, What Will Happen to Buzz?
Google announced its new social network Google+ earlier this morning. Given that the company now has two competing social networks – Google+ and Google Buzz (or three, [...]
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New ICANN Rules Will Soon Spawn Plethora of New Web Suffixes, But Will Users Care?
For the small application fee of $185,000 and $25,000 per year, you will soon be able to buy your own generic top-level domain. Top-level domains (TLDs) are the .com’s, .net’s, edu’s and others that we’ve become so accustomed to. Until now, if you were Microsoft or CNN, you couldn’t register .cnn or .msft, even if you were willing to pay a lot for it, as the organization in charge of administering these domains did not allow for these kinds of vanity domains. Now, however, in what could turn out to be a history decision (at least in Internet terms), ICANN’s board has given the green light for these new generic TLDs.
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What’s Missing From Apple’s iTunes in the Cloud is iTunes in the Cloud
When Apple announced its iCloud service yesterday, the whole presentation led up to the reveal of iTunes in the Cloud, the most anticipated part of the service. As Apple went through its explanation of the service, though, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat disappointed. iTunes in the Cloud is missing a central part of what I was expecting from this service: access to my iTunes library in the Cloud. All the basic pieces are there: Apple knows what music I have on my machine (assuming I pay for iTunes Match once it’s released) and can sync that data to my other Apple devices – but you can’t stream your music from a web-based iTunes interface.
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The New Windows 8 UI: Trying to be Too Many Things to Too Many Devices?
Microsoft showed off the first demos of Windows 8 at the D9 conference and on its blog today. In its current form, it’s basically a blown-up version of the Metro user interface that also graces Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. That’s not a bad thing at all, actually. With its live tiles, the Metro UI provides users with one of the most information-dense “desktops” around without giving up aesthetics for clutter.
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