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Netflix and YouTube account for nearly half of all the traffic in the U.S.

A new study from broadband service company Sandvine estimates that YouTube and Netflix account for around 45% of all total traffic in the United States.  There are lots of people who want to stream Web video to...

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Lenovo plans to learn from iPhone 5C’s shortcomings

If you're going to learn what not to do, you might as well learn it from the top dog. That's what Lenovo is planning with their mobile strategy. One of...

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Microsoft goes big with Surface advertising push

While the US government does a tech surge to fix their ailing healthcare website, Microsoft is starting a surge of their own to get a chunk of the Christmas cash...

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Xbox One and PS4 hard drives will only have room for about a dozen full-sized games

Microsoft and Sony are trying to turn their next-generation consoles into digital distribution platforms. By pressuring console owners to download games from their console's digital store, Microsoft and Sony hope to...

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If you don’t like the new Twitter layout, here’s how to change it

We aren't saying that it's bad. It might be the Facebookification of Twitter, but some people will like it. For those of you who do not, here's a way to...

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Apple looks to LG for iWatch

Certain partnerships between competitors make sense for the benefit of both. In this case, Apple and LG don't compete often enough for it to even be an issue. Life’s about...

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Both sides agree: the NSA must be curbed

In a political environment so divided along partisan lines, there's one topic that seems to be bringing both sides to the same conclusion: the NSA. Given that surprising new allegations...

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Is T-Mobile finally relevant?

Relevance is normally associated with the top one or two players, which makes T-Mobile's standing as the number four US carrier more precarious. However, they're making some strides (and fans)...

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HTC market value down 90%

Move over, BlackBerry. HTC is challenging you for the most failed smartphone manufacturer title with a 90% market value drop in two years. They say that deaths come in threes,...

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100 million wrists will be adorned with smartwatches within 4 years

They haven't taken off yet, but most of the big players haven't made their entry into the smartwatch segment yet. When that changes, analysts are expecting the trend to explode....

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20% of all Yelp reviews are written by paid shills

How many of the Yelp reviews you read would you guess are forged by the companies being reviewed? MarketWatch reports that 20% of Yelp reviews are fraudulent, typically written by freelance writers from the Philippines,...

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Elop won’t take smaller failure bonus from Nokia, claiming divorce requires $25M

When CEOs get overpaid for tanking their company in order to make them easier to purchase, they aren't normally willing to accept less. In the case of Nokia and former...

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