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Ultrabooks from Toshiba, Acer, and Samsung remain at relatively low prices at major retailers like Best Buy compared to analogous offerings from Apple. Prices for the 13-inch Toshiba Portege (Z835-P330) and 13-inch Acer Aspire S3 (S3-951-6646) have stayed at $799 for many weeks since they were announced last fall. Currently, both are listed at Best Buy [...]
SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage product, will be getting a Metro-style app with Windows 8, the company announced today. Also coming for SkyDrive will be a desktop app for Internet Explorer and the ability to fetch remote files from the Web, the software giant revealed on its Building Window 8 blog. Microsoft intends for SkyDrive to “evolve with [...]
This week’s revelations thatGoogle Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies. They are the latest in a long line of missteps by largeInternet companies that have faced little punishment for pushing privacy boundaries, which are already more expansive [...]
Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers. There’s one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on February 22, may be turned away from many of the parties because he [...]
The New York Times has long been the most-visited newspaper site on the Web, but Britain’s Daily Mail is making a run at its crown. According to figures from tracking firm comScore, the Mail Online surpassed the Times in unique visitors in December — 45.35 million for the Mail to 44.8 million for the Times. Not so fast, said the Times. [...]
Nokia Oyj reported a 73 percent fall in fourth-quarter earnings as sales of its new Windows Phones failed to dent the dominance of Apple Inc’s iPhone or compensate for diving sales of its own old smartphones. The world’s largest cellphone maker by volume unveiled a year ago a major strategy shift to Microsoft Corp software for its smartphones [...]
Netflix Inc won back Wall Street’s affections on Thursday after adding more U.S. subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter, a rebound that prompted analyst upgrades and the company’s biggest one-day stock jump in two years. The Los Gatos, California-based company’s shares soared 23.5 percent to $117.40 in afternoon trading. Shares had dropped to a [...]
Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in specific countries, renewing questions about how the social media platform will handle issues offree speech as it rapidly expands its global user base. Until now, Twitter had to remove a Tweet from its global network if it received a takedown request from a government. But the company said in a [...]
The iPhone 5 will feature a larger screen than current models, according to a recent report attributing the information to an anonymous source at gadget manufacturer Foxconn. It may also debut as early as this summer. If word about the larger screen is accurate, it will mark the first time the iPhone’s display exceeds its [...]
If you have good upstream speed and adequate bandwidth but you still don’t get a good picture, cause a stink at your ISP. I had an occasion recently when the TV and Internet splitter used for my cable connection was discovered as being TV-grade, not Internet grade. Replacing it and changing out the three-year old [...]