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Broadcom developing chipsets to bring 4G to low-cost smartphones

Broadcom is developing chipsets that officials said will make it easier for device makers to bring 4G connectivity to low-cost smartphones. Company officials said the new reference platform, which supports...

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Intel develops low-power graphics core that is 40% more efficient

Graphics hardware can rapidly drain a laptop's battery. If Intel brings a new low-power graphics core to market, though, high-performance visuals and long battery life won't be mutually exclusive concepts. The experimental...

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Foxconn to invest $1 billion in Indonesia in order to build factories

Foxconn, the Taiwanese maker of Apple's iPhones, has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $US1 billion in Indonesia, officials said. The Taipei-based technology giant is also known as...

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Pwn2Own will offer $645,000 in awards to hackers who find unknown exploits

For a while, late in 2013, things didn't look too good for the annual Vancouver-based security conference CanSecWest, or for PWN2OWN, the elite hacking sideshow at the event that has in many...

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Fone Free Feb encourages people to take a break from their mobile devices

Fone Free Feb is, like Dry July and Ocsober, encouraging Aussies to give up something for a month. In this case it's smartphones. The charity is encouraging people to sign up...

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Australian lawyers accept Bitcoin as valid currency

Technology continues to amaze us and revolutionize the way we interact with the world. For those slow to embrace change, technology also can be challenging. Challenges include gaining a basic understanding...

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Blinkx contests Harvard professor’s concerns about its business model

London-listed video search and ad company Blinkx said it "strongly refutes" assertions made in a blog post that raised concerns about its business model and sent shares in the company...

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Facebook stores “cold data” on 10,000 Blu-ray discs

When the average person thinks about 10,000 Blu-ray discs, they likely imagine an impressive movie collection, but when Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh and Director of Infrastructure Jason Taylor thought about 10,000 Blu-ray...

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Family sues Uber over the death of their daughter

A San Francisco family that lost its six-year-old daughter, Sofia Liu, in a local traffic accident involving an Uber driver last month has now sued the smartphone-enabled black car firm for wrongful...

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Law enforcement documents stolen from Microsoft by hackers

Microsoft has revealed this week that documents "associated with law enforcement inquiries" were stolen during recent attacks on employee email accounts. The software giant has been the subject of a...

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CNN is the latest victim of Syrian Electronic Army hackers

CNN's social outlets and even one of its blogs were briefly compromised by hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army on Thursday. SEA has performed superficial but highly visible hacks of...

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New iPhone sales cause Samsung profits to drop

Samsung, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones, posted its slowest profit growth since 2011 as new Appl iPhones lured high-end customers and gains in the Korean won curbed the value of overseas...

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