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HP announces Slate 7: the company's first Android tablet arrives in April for $169.99 — It's officially true: Hewlett-Packard is back in the mobile race. Today, HP is announcing its first Android product: the HP Slate 7. But it looks like the company won't be making a splash right away …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP Slate 7 hands-on (update: video) — Well, this might just be the biggest news to come out of Mobile World Congress. Long after discontinuing the TouchPad (and the rest of its mobile devices, for that matter) HP is back with a new tablet. This time, though, it runs not webOS, but an old safety: Android.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
HP building multiple tablets this year: ‘we want to be the number one computer vendor’ — HP's Slate 7 is just the beginning. The company sees the writing on the wall: if you add in all the iPad sales, Apple — not HP — is selling the most computers these days.
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Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web on Mobile with Firefox OS — Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power the world's first Open Web Devices. — These operators include …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Mozilla CEO expects Firefox OS phones for US in 2014 — At a Q&A session this afternoon, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs mentioned that he expects Firefox OS phones to hit the US “somewhere in the 2014 timeframe.” That would be after the first round of launches that are being spearheaded this summer …
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers — Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy activist Jonathan Mayer.
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| Stephen Totilo / Kotaku: |
The Incredible Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation—And Maybe More — The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn't sound Australian. — I couldn't detect an accent.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Huawei Ascend P2 hitting Europe in Q2 for 399 euros, we go hands-on (update: video) — Just ahead of Huawei's press event, Huawei's treated us to an early viewing of its new 8.4-millimeter smartphone, the Ascend P2. With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft preparing Windows Blue public preview with significant search improvements — Microsoft is working towards a public preview version of Windows Blue. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the software giant is aggressively targeting a summer launch date for Windows Blue … | Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
YouTube denies NASCAR takedown of horrific Daytona Speedway crash video — With the thousands of automatic takedown notices for illegally uploaded videos flooding Google's inbox, it's nice to know that the legitimately bad requests by media companies aren't blindly approved.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla, AT&T And Ericsson Team Up To Demo Seamless Web-To-Mobile WebRTC Integration At MWC — What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers' WebRTC implementations could interoperate.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Monday — During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their a plan to warn and “punish” BitTorrent pirates. — The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information …
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 official: 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad, 1280 x 800 display, HSPA+ 21, Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 — We knew another Note was coming. After all, Samsung Mobile head JK Shin confirmed the news back in January. But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the tablet's finally been made official.
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