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Andrew Bachman agrees to pay $100 million for mobile cramming

Andrew Bachman is the latest crammer to run afoul of the feds. Bachman and number of other defendants pitched text message services offering “love tips,” “fun facts,” and celebrity gossip...

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This personal assistant sends your voice search queries to real people

Before Google dominated search, Ask Jeeves depended on a team of humans to answer your internet queries. Ultimately, search algorithms killed the internet's favorite butler, but the idea that humans...

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YouTube has officially arrived on Sky’s Now TV set-top box

Sky's done a reasonable job of bringing new channels to its Now TV set-top box, especially given the rebranded Roku is just a vehicle for selling short-term entertainment and sports...

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FreedomPop is bringing free mobile service to tablets

FreedomPop, the carrier offering free and cheap data plans on Sprint’s network, today announced that it’s bringing its free voice, data, and text plans to tablet users starting with the...

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Baidu is taking on Google with its own self-driving car

Baidu is often referred to as "China's Google," but it's not quite the same. It's true, the company is working on it's own self-driving car, but it thinks Google's no-wheel...

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Chrome for Android gets a material design makeover in latest update

Google’s Android L update is set to be a pretty big one for Google, at least as far as aethetics are concerned. In some ways it is similar to how...

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Wikia has unveiled Wikia Maps, its new collaborative mapping tool

Wikia, the social universe of fandom and the ultimate source for powerful and relevant pop culture expertise, today announces the debut of Wikia Maps, a product designed to enhance Wikia's...

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A British police force has joined Snapchat to connect with the youth

You might be used to following news and updates from law enforcement agencies on Twitter and Facebook, but now West Midlands Police in the UK has made the usual move...

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Twitter is about to make it a lot easier to delete Direct Messages

Direct Message or DM is an integral part of the Twitter experience. If you are on Twitter chances are that you might have sent a DM once or twice and...

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PredictionIO wants to bring machine learning to program developers

PredictionIO, a startup that has crafted an open-source program developers can use to add machine-learning smarts into their applications, might just be the setting the tone for the next wave...

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You can now book a taxi directly from the WeChat app

WeChat users in Singapore can now book a taxi inside the messaging app thanks to a tie-up with EasyTaxi. It’s the first such move by WeChat outside of its native...

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Google Maps for iOS has received a major update

With Google Maps belonging to Google, it is understandable that Google would push out updates for its Android platform first before updating its other platforms, such as iOS. Well the...

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