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Eric Schmidt believes government censorship will be wiped out within ten years

Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, said in a speech at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies that believes government censorship will be wiped out within ten years. He claims...

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Nokia Music rebranded as Nokia MixRadio

Nokia has Nokia Music rebranded as Nokia MixRadio and has relaunched its Windows Phone app. The new app has a Play Me feature that offers you a “personalized mix” based on your...

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Alibaba gives free smartphones to retailers in China in an effort to boost m-commerce

Alibaba, a Chinese Internet giant, is giving away free smartphones in an effort to encourage merchants to shift from PC-based online shopping to shopping via mobile phones. From e-commerce to m-commerce: that...

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Samsung looks to London for better software

Brendon Kim, senior director of Samsung’s Open Innovation Center, has said that a London-based center is likely to launch in two years. The company already set up a similar center...

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Twitter removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower

Twitter recently released the option to let users receive direct messages from any follower. All you needed to do was enable this feature in your account settings but now the option...

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Google greatly extends its proactive Patch Reward Program

Google recently started providing financial incentives for proactive improvements to OSS. Less than six weeks later, Google is already expanding the program to include Android Open Source Project, Web servers, and more. Google...

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McDonald’s is rolling out free 2Mbps Wi-Fi across China

Several McDonald's restaurants in Shanghai already offer free 2.0 Mb/s Wi-Fi to diners but that number will rise to 1,400 restaurants all across China by next year.  With more and more public...

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Amazon announces the release of Fire OS 3.1

Amazon's Fire OS is a forked build of Android 4.2.2. that supports Android apps and HTML5 apps. The OS will soon be getting a major update that will include several new features for Amazon's latest...

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Chinese smartphone makers are trying to change the ‘Made in China’ stigma

The stigma for products made in China has made most consumers wary of any product that comes out of the country, and smartphones are no exception. Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer,...

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Supercomputing startup PiCloud joins Dropbox

PiCloud will be closing its service in late February because the startup will be joining with Dropbox. However, its service wills till live on as an open-source project called Multyvac. ...

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Google and Microsoft are taking steps to block links to child porn in Internet search results

Google has finetuned its algorithms to clean up the results for more than 100,000 queries that might be related to the sexual abuse of children and Microsoft will be rolling out...

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Google Play Music is worlds better than Spotify

If you're a music lover, chances are you've used Spotify at some point. You may have even tried Google Play Music. Here's a breakdown of why the latter is much...

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