Category Archives: Breaking News

Apple iPhone 3GS to be free on contract following iPhone 5 launch, analyst says

    Apple is set to finally hit the $0 on-contract mark with its entry-level iPhone 3GS once it launches the next-generation iPhone 5 later this year. In a note to investors on Wednesday, RBC Capital Markets General Manager Mike … Continue reading

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MediaPost Publications Hispanic Audience Turning Up On E-Readers, Tablets 06/27/2011

Tablets may have more glamour — but e-readers are proving more popular so far this year, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project. The number of U.S. adults owning an e-reader has … Continue reading

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Google Launches Its Answer to Facebook: Introducing Google+ [PICS]

  Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of Google into one giant social network.Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test on Tuesday, is the culmination of a year-long project … Continue reading

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Teenage girl in China offers to sell virginity for iPhone 4

  A teenage girl in China has offered up her virginity in exchange for an iPhone 4, Chinese news site Biznewschina reports. The young girl recently took to Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter, to seek out someone … Continue reading

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Apple will release iPhone 5 and second prepaid iPhone model in September, analyst claims

  Apple will release not one, but two new iPhone models this September, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore wrote in a note to investors on Monday. The Cupertino-based tech giant has a new iPhone 5 model lined up to replace … Continue reading

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Lytro’s light field camera captures ‘unprecedented’ images, lets you choose focus later — Engadget

  Woah, could this really be as game-changing as it seems? A Silicon Valley start-up called Lytro claims it’s working on a consumer camera that uses light field technology to radically change the way we take, edit and experience photographs. … Continue reading

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Apple may have iOS powered TV planned for fall launch

  Apple may have an iOS powered TV in the works. According to Daily Tech, one former Apple executive recently said that customers will soon be able to “go into an Apple retail store and be able to walk out … Continue reading

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Apple iPhone 5 to be major update after all; announcement and availability in August?

  While Apple has indeed been giving some developers access to a device known as the iPhone 4S — an iPhone 4 with upgraded internals — BGR has independently confirmed that the next-generation iPhone will not merely be an upgraded … Continue reading

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The FBI Just Gave Itself Permission to Follow You and Go through Your Trash

  The easiest way to change the rules that apply to you is to just rewrite them yourself. So the FBIs done exactly that, the NYT reports, self-releasing a new edition of its rulebook. Lets dig through some garbage, Fed … Continue reading

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IATA’s Checkpoint of the Future uses biometric IDs to separate do-gooders from terrorists (video) — Engadget

This, ladies and gentlemen, could be your Checkpoint of the Future — a new airport security prototype that promises to move away “from a system that looks for bad objects, to one that can find bad people.” Unveiled at the … Continue reading

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