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Google Glasses Face Serious Hurdles, Augmented-Reality Experts Say — When Google officially unveiled Project Glass — the company's bid to develop Terminator-style augmented-reality glasses — we saw a provocative glimpse of the future. The video Google released yesterday showed us the point …
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X-bit labs, Slate, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, Los Angeles Times and Digital Trends
| John Pavlus / Technology Review: |
An Expert's View on Google's Goggles — Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google's augmented-reality glasses. — Project Glass, the latest sci-fi concept to come out of Google's X Lab, has gotten a lot of attention online in the past 24 hours thanks …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Next Generation Of E-Ink Kindle To Sport New Front-Lit Screen — Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a surprise when you find …
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Good E-Reader, The Verge, Computerworld, The TechBlock, MacNN, SlashGear, Geek.com, Liliputing and Business Insider. Thanks:@elinblesener
| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1-inch) priced at $399, still unavailable for purchase — Office Depot probably isn't the first place you'd think to look for Samsung's incoming Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), but it looks to be the first legitimate retailer to throw a price tag on the aforementioned slate.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
More HTC handsets with Beats headphones? Probably not — The Rezound will likely be the last HTC phone for a while to come bundled with Beats headphones. — (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) — Don't expect HTC to pack Beats headphones or earbuds with the Evo 4G LTE — or any of its smartphones for the time being.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
What's This? A Mac Virus? No, Actually It's a Weakness in Java. — When a computer incident happens on Apple's Mac OS X, it's a headline-making event. When it happens on Windows, it's just another day. — That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media reports on how a vulnerability …
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| Preston Gralla / Computerworld: |
Microsoft subsidizes developers up to $600,000 per Windows Phone app — How desperate is Microsoft to get developers to write apps for Windows Phone? The company is willing to subsidize them up to $600,000 per app. — With an estimated 70,000 apps available for Windows Phone …
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IntoMobile, The Verge, Social Media, Mashable!, Network World, TechCrunch and Bits. Tweets: @dondodge
| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Ex-Intel employee pleads guilty to theft charges — (Reuters) - A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. — Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani …
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| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Why Is AT&T Releasing Nokia's Big Phone on Easter? — AT&T has said that the release of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be its biggest product introduction ever. But the phone is coming out on Easter Sunday, when some AT&T stores won't even be open. — Melissa Havel, a spokeswoman representing Microsoft …
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All About Windows Phone, The TechBlock, The Verge, New York Times and eWeek. Thanks:@gilbertjasono
| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
AT&T Will Unlock Off-Contract iPhones Starting Sunday, April 8 — AT&T has announced it will begin unlocking customers' iPhones once their 2-year contracts have expired. The move will free up the currently-locked devices to use a micro-SIM from any carrier offering a network compatible with the device.
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Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, AllThingsD, Geekosystem, VentureBeat, The Register, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, TUAW, Examiner, DailyTech, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, The Verge, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, Bits, CNET, WebProNews, Macworld and Engadget. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Court Kicks Out Copyright Troll Who Has “No Desire To Litigate” — This particular case, Hard Drive Productions, Inc. -v- Does 1-90, sees the well-known porn company plaintiff follow the now well-trodden copyright troll path. — Gather IP addresses from BitTorrent networks and go to court …
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Ars Technica, WebProNews and Slashdot
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Rdio is working on Pandora-like radio functionality — Nomen est omen for Rdio, the music subscription service founded by the inventors of Skype: Rdio is going to bring a Pandora-like radio functionality to its service, I was told by Rdio VP of Product Malthe Sigurdsson.
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Federico Viticci and MacNN
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