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Nintendo celebrates the GameBoy’s 25th anniversary

Nintendo’s trailblazing Game Boy marks its 25th anniversary Monday with the portable device’s legacy living on in cutting-edge smartphone games and among legions of nostalgic fans. The Japanese firm released its...

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Google runs out of Glasses to sell after just one day

Tuesday, for the first time, Google Glass was made available to the general public. As part of the one-day-only offering, anyone in the U.S. could buy the $1,500 face-mounted computers...

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Google is bringing its Cloud Platform support to Asia

Google has created a new “Asia” region and two new zones – “asia-east1-a” and “asia-east1-b” - for its cloudy Compute Engine service. The new region uses Ivy Bridge CPUs, which means...

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Facebook reportedly preparing to launch its own e-money service

Social media giant Facebook is setting its sights on getting into the financial services sector, according to various reports. Mark Zuckerberg's site has applied to Irish authorities, close to Facebook's European...

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LithiumCard “supercharger” can turbo-charge your gadgets

Battery life: It's the wall our gadgets are always running up against. Today's smartphones and tablets can do wonderful things, but staying connected and running apps consumes power, which is...

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Apple fan created his own iPad concept back in 2004

Even before Apple set foot in the smartphone industry, rumors of a tablet iDevice ran wild. Like today, overzealous designers jumped at the chance to imagine Apple’s future iPad. In fact, this recently surfaced mockup...

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New portable printer is like a Roomba for printing

Printing that doesn't have a 3D in front of it might seem dated, but it's still needed by many people. So why not make it mobile? That's exactly what Zuta...

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eBay offers 20 free listings a month for U.K. users

Amazon might now be the defacto marketplace to buy and sell online goods in the UK, but eBay believes its "good surprise" might just lure customers back into the world of online...

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Sesame Street gets its own video-on-demand service

Elmo and Cookie Monster are taking on Netflix. The Sesame Workshop has just launched its own streaming service that lets you stream as many Sesame Street episodes as you want for a...

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Google’s in-depth articles Search feature comes to the U.K.

In August of last year, Google introduced in-depth articles in the US search results. Since then, Google has upgraded the design and functionality of those articles a couple times. Now, Google announced on Google+ that the in-depth...

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Microsoft cracks down on adware

Microsoft has toughened its criteria for classifying programs as adware and gave developers three months to conform with the new principles or risk having their programs blocked by the company’s...

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Samsung adds message recalling and 1GB file sharing to ChatOn

There is an ancient Chinese saying that goes something like this, once a word has been spoken, even the fastest horse in the land is unable to catch up with...

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