There might be a sliver of hope for those who want to finish up that last round of Words with Friends or read a Kindle during takeoff. The New York Times’ Nick Bilton — who previously commissioned his own tests to demonstrat…
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‘Borderlands 2′ on PC will go beyond a straight console port
It’s a sad fact that the popularity of consoles today means that PC games are rarely developed to the hardware’s full potential. However, while Borderlands 2 probably won’t push your gaming rig too hard, the post-apocalyptic shoot…
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RapidShare ordered to proactively check user uploads for copyrighted material
A higher regional court in Hamburg, Germany has reportedly ordered file-sharing service RapidShare to proactively filter pirated content from its site. The decision echoes those of a number of lower courts, which ruled that the si…
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Android Central weekly photo contest winners: Photo filters and effects
The winner of this week's photo contest is Cody Griffith, who captured the full hipster spirit with his entry. Taken with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and using the Pixlr-o-matic app, he successfully made an image captured with amazing 21st-cent…
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Refresh Roundup: week of March 12th, 2012
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a…
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On The Verge returns Friday, March 23rd with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson!
On The Verge is back! prepare to have your minds blown: The big show returns on Friday, March 23rd, 2012, with a very special guest: Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dr. Tyson is an Astrophysicist, recently published his tenth book (Spac…
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First CyanogenMod 7.2 Release Candidate "More Than Ready For Everybody To Enjoy"
In a post to the official CyanogenMod blog today, arcee announced that the first CM7.2 release candidate, based on Android 2.3.7, is ready to go for 70 devices. The entry also notes that 7.2 brings with it a few backported features and fixes from…
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Apple to announce plans for its $100 billion cash stockpile tomorrow
Apple has just alerted the media that it plans to discuss what the company will do with its $100 billion in cash tomorrow at 9:00 AM ET. The most logical assumption is Apple will issue a dividend to shareholders. Or buy part of Samsung or something crazy. Press release follows. WHAT: Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, will host a conference call to announce the outcome of the Company’s discussions concerning its cash balance. Apple® will not be providing an update on the current quarter nor will any topics be discussed other than cash. WHERE: Via conference call. The dial-in number for press is (877) 616-0063 (toll-free) or (719) 219-0041. Please enter confirmation code 592016.WHEN: Monday, March
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Apple to announce plans for its $100 billion cash reserves tomorrow morning
A slew of successful, high margin products have left Apple sitting on an almost unimaginable amount of money — $97 billion as of its last earnings report — and led to the natural question of just what to do with it. According to a press release just…
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Apple to announce plans for $100b cash balance on Monday, March 19th
Perhaps the biggest question mark in Apple’s current business strategy is the game plan for its unprecedented cash balance — a pile of money roughly $100 billion deep. Some investors have called for a big dividend payout, ot…
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