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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 … | 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.
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| 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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| The Mozilla Blog: |
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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Google's Android Reborn as Network-Hacking Kit — The folks at security tools company Pwnie Express have built a tablet that can bash the heck out of corporate networks. Called the Pwn Pad, it's a full-fledged hacking toolkit built atop Google's Android operating system.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nvidia Tegra 4: the first benchmarks — Nvidia's next-generation mobile processor, the Tegra 4, may have been announced at CES last month, but it's only today that the company has truly let us get an idea of its pixel-pushing potential. Running a trio of the most popular Android benchmarks …
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