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Apple continues to dominate the US smartphone market

Having taken a 40.6% share as the top smartphone maker in the US, Apple continues to dominate despite major growth from Samsung. In the US, Apple’s dominance as the top...

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Google is revamping caller IDs in their new Android update

KitKat, the latest version of Google's Android, will implement Google Places and Google Apps into your contacts. This will enable several features including allowing you to see exactly where someone...

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Creator of Lavabit wants to develop a dark mail project for encrypted email

Ladar Levison, the creator of Lavabit, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his new open-source, dark mail encrypted email project. The project is looking to raise $196,608 to take the Lavabit...

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The Thai government is considering taxing mobile transactions

Based on the billions of dollars that mobile transactions generate for companies all over the world it's a surprise that governments haven't already started taxing them. The Thai government is...

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Twitter’s biggest financial woes are coming from Japan, Korea

They are really making a push to be a big-dollar social network in preparation for their IPO, but holes are starting to show in their model centered around a pair...

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The right way to kill a startup

Often, there are dreams attached to startups. Entrepreneurs, geeks, and visionaries alike that put their time, money, and effort into a project often find it hard to read the writing...

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Nokia passes Motorola

In the United States, there are plenty of viable options for smartphone manufacturers. Nokia, once the top dog in mobile, bounced back from the bottom to move ahead of Motorola...

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Custom Google+ URLs opens to most

If you meet a very simple set of minimum criteria, you can get your own custom Google+ URL just like on Facebook and Twitter. Now, you just have to wait...

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Google makes the reCAPTCHA even more effective

The fight against spammers will go on forever. Google has a new way to combat them. Google today released an update to its reCAPTCHA system that creates different classes of...

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@Buffer got hacked but your passwords and billing are safe

There's a good thing about getting hacked. It gives you an opportunity to show that by using OAuth, your clients won't have their private information or passwords exposed. That's of...

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Medium opens to anyone with a Twitter account

The blogging platform, which we recently noted was a great place to post content, is opening to all who want to share their thoughts. In its weekly digest email, publishing...

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BlackBerry denies involvement in fake BBM reviews

When good reviews go bad, the potential beneficiary is always fingered. That's the case with BlackBerry whose popular BBM instant messaging app was "hit" with a ton of suspicious positive...

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