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Amazon is doing pretty much everything it can to keep cloud costs down

James Hamilton, the vice president of Amazon Web Services, claims that there has been more innovation in the world of computing in the past 5 years than in the previous 20 years....

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Netflix rolls out a new UI for smart TVs and connected devices

Netflix has ditched WebKit and HTML5 for its revamped user interface in order to bring the same features to less powerful devices. Netflix rolled out a big revamp of its...

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Samsung will no longer be Apple’s only supplier of A-Series chips

Apple will soon begin producing some of its A-Series chips, the backbone of its mobile devices, at a factory in Malta, New York. Samsung was previously Apple's only source of...

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AT&T is cannibalizing its 2G and 3G networks in order to boost LTE capacity

By cannibalizing its 2G and 3G networks, AT&T hopes to boost LTE capacity in order to better compete with other mobile service providers. AT&T has been laying the groundwork for its...

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Verizon introduces its own 7-inch tablet

Verizon already offers several tablets from various companies, but now it's going to be releasing it's very own tablet into the market. The specs are relatively comparable to other mid-range...

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Cox is planning to launch an internet TV service

Cox is working on a commercial pay service that will allow users to stream television shows over the internet making it one of the first cable companies to break away...

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The importance of cloud glitches

With all technology, there will be problems. No technology is perfect and there will be errors, broken aspects, and malfunctions that often result in the geek's least favorite word: glitch....

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The FCC officially has a new chairman

Everyone's second favorite government agency (just behind the NSA) is going to have a new sheriff in town. We have a new Federal Communications Commission chairman. The U.S. Senate unanimously...

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Samsung differentiates its version of Android even more

Amazon has already paved the way for a completely different experience on the Android platform with their tablets. Now, Samsung is heading in the same direction by getting more third...

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Is HBO on its way out of the bundling constraints of Comcast?

If you have Comcast and you want HBO, chances are you have to pay for a lot of other things that you don't want. Comcast may be singing a different...

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75% of AT&T customers own smartphones

When the smartphone rush began in 2008, even the most aggressive estimates put feature phones in the lead until at least 2018. Oh, how wrong they were. You would think...

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Same day eBay deliveries coming to 25 more cities

Sometimes when you want something, you want it now. eBay acquired Shutl to help make that happen for you. In an effort to expand its same-day delivery service to cities...

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