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NVIDIA is winding down the LTE modem business we didn’t know it had

In an effort to be more than just a graphics card company, NVIDIA threw a bunch of things against the wall to see what stuck. What didn't stick was the...

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Pinterest is trying to entice developers with its new APIs

Pinterest is loaded with visual content that could make the social network a gold mine for developers and marketers, and the company is finally starting to take real steps towards attracting...

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Intel thinks its ready to start dominating the mobile market

Intel's hardware powers the vast majority of PCs out there, as it always has, but the company wasn't able to bring this dominance over to the mobile market when smartphones started...

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Microsoft is killing off Windows Media Center

Bad new for the very, very few of you who used Windows Media Center: Microsoft has announced that it's killing the software. While current Windows versions will obviously still support the...

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Mozilla is pressuring web developers to adopt HTTPS

With more threats to our privacy and security online than ever, companies like Google have been pressuring web developers to start taking security more seriously. Now it looks like Mozilla is...

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Samsung wants to inject $10 billion into its semiconductor business

With its mobile business starting to fail, Samsung has turned to other sources in order to ensure it remains successful, the most promising of which is its semiconductor business. This...

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Freelancer has agreed to acquire Escrow for $7.5 million

Continuing with its impressive expansion, the Sydney-based freelancing marketplace known as Freelancer has agreed to acquire Escrow for $7.5 million. As the name implies, California-based Escrow is provides internet escrow services for e-commerce and online...

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Huawei wants to be one of the top smartphone companies in America

Apple and Samsung have pretty much solidified their position atop the American mobile market for life, but the number three spot is transitory. While that third-place spot is currently occupied by...

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Google is speeding up page load times with QUIC

Almost two years ago, Google unveiled something called Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), which is the company's experimental method of speeding up web connections. QUIC is able to significantly reduce...

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Almost 80% of businesses are running open-source software

While open-source software makes up a disappointingly small portion of the software consumer by individuals, that portion is nearly 80% for businesses. That's the good news. The bad news is...

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Baidu is entering the smartwatch market with its own operating system

Few of us in the West have heard about Baidu, but down in China, there are few who haven't. The technology giant has the same presence there that companies like...

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Samsung is working on two more Tizen-powered smartphones

Samsung's first Tizen-powered smartphone may not have been a success by any means, but that's not stopping the company from releasing more devices running on its homegrown operating system. According...

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