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Facebook IPO plans released

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Facebook IPO plans released

Facebook has announced its IPO plans on Wednesday and with it open the doors for the first time for the general public to see how the social networking site works, and revealing some of the juicier stats it has been hiding up until now. Those looking to invest will no doubt be interested to hear [...]

Megaupload user data could be deleted in days

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Megaupload user data could be deleted in days

All data stored on the Megaupload servers could be deleted by this Thursday (2 February), including subscribers’ personal and legitimate files. A letter filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia states that the storage companies used by Megaupload to house files, Carpathia Hosting Inc and Cogent Communications Group Inc, may [...]

BBC News for Android tablets Begins Broadcasting

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BBC News for Android tablets Begins Broadcasting

  The BBC has announced that its popular BBC News app is now available on Android tablets. The app, which launched for smaller sized Android handsets back in May last year, is on offer for tablets sized 7.2 inches and above, running Android 3.0+. The design has been optimised for larger displays and it offers [...]

Sony ‘Tapioca’ and ‘Nypon’ spyshots

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Sony ‘Tapioca’ and ‘Nypon’ spyshots

Spyshots of the Sony Tapioca and Nypon have leaked, and each show us a little bit more of what may be shown off at the end of February in Barcelona, Spain during Mobile World Congress 2012. We had recently seen what looked to be the Sony LT22i ‘Nypon’ a few days back, but now it [...]

Samsung Galaxy S III may miss MWC to time US blitz

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Samsung Galaxy S III may miss MWC to time US blitz

Samsung’s defining 2012 phone, the Galaxy S III, could be missing its expected Mobile World Congress debut to time it around the US, a pair of sources claimed Wednesday. Although the phone would be ready “before summer,” both BestBoyZ and The Verge understood from contacts that Samsung wanted to wait until the Android phone was [...]

Sony claims to lead UK’s non-iPad tablet share

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Sony claims to lead UK’s non-iPad tablet share

Sony staked out an odd consolation prize Tuesday for tablet market share. It pointed to GfK data that showed the Tablet S and Tablet P as the most popular Android tablets in the UK at least as of October, the combination of the two amounting to 26 percent of the market. The figure was calculated [...]

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom Denied Bail

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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom Denied Bail

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has been denied bail by a New Zealand court. The presiding judge, David McNaughton, accepted prosecution arguments that Dotcom posed a flight risk and remanded him in custody until February 22. At that time, US authorities will put forward their grounds for the extradition of Dotcom to face criminal charges. “The [...]

The White House Joins Google+

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The White House Joins Google+

You might associate the White House with Obama right now, since he’s the president and all, but it doesn’t matter whether you’re an Obama supporter or not (he actually joined Google+ last November), because this is about the institution itself. It means future presidents and their administrations will keep using it, too. So this is [...]

New Plan of Google: Annoy You Into Compliance

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New Plan of Google: Annoy You Into Compliance

Google Plus users just got a pretty horrible new feature: search your name, and instead of finding out information about yourself, you’re asked to provide it. Quite simply, Google doesn’t want to give you information until you give it information. Guh. As Drew Olanoff of The Next Web noted today, if you are using Google’s [...]

Protect Smartphones From Water

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Protect Smartphones From Water

Getting a smartphone waterlogged is the quickest way to get it thrown into the trashcan – which is par for the course for most electronics. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to avoid the dreaded element when your device is supposed to go with you everywhere. Don’t worry though, Samsung and Apple are on the case. [...]

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