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Acer's Liquid M220 offers Windows Phone on a budget (hands-on) — If you're curious about Windows Phone but don't want to spend much to check it out, Acer's Liquid M220 is an inexpensive option. And while you're saving money, you're also getting a phone with a bit of personality in the design.| Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: |
Acer Liquid Leap+ fitness band has changeable straps, works with iOS, Android, Windows Phone — Acer today announced a new version of its fitness band, the Liquid Leap+. — The Leap+ is based around a touchscreen core sitting in a rubber strap. It can be popped in and out, meaning you can switch straps to get a different colour.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Hands-on with WebOS-based LG Watch Urbane LTE and Android Wear Watch Urbane smartwatches — Our first look at LG's new webOS and Android Wear smartwatches — LG has kicked off Mobile World Congress this Sunday morning in Barcelona by showing off its two Watch Urbane smartwatches for the first time.
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Re/code, Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk and Mashable
| Jonathan Libov / Whoops: |
How innovations in messaging interfaces could fundamentally improve how we interact with computers — Futures of text — A review of all the current innovation in text as a medium — When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I'm forever grateful to the person at the bus stop … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
How Samsung won and then lost the smartphone war — In November 2011, Samsung released the first of a series of ads that would define the company for the next three years. — It started with a bunch of hipster-looking people waiting outside a mock Apple Store for the next iPhone.| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Huawei Watch, an unannounced round-faced Android Wear smartwatch, shown off in two leaked promotional videos — This is the Huawei Watch, One of the Best Looking Android Wear Devices to Date — Huawei is about to make its presence felt at MWC with the announcement of the Huawei Watch.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Dolby dives into virtual reality with Atmos surround sound for VR — As the momentum behind virtual reality slowly continues to build we're seeing more traditional movie companies dip their toes into the medium. Today Dolby is announcing a partnership with Jaunt that will bring …
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| Kevin Roose / Fusion: |
How one guy spent $18K on coupon sites to net 100K shares in Jet from its referral competition — This guy used an insane get-rich-quick scheme to become a start-up millionaire in three weeks — Tech start-ups mint new millionaires every day. Many of these people are young Stanford …
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| Charles Morris / MSDN Blogs: |
How Microsoft built a new web rendering engine for Project Spartan and IE on Windows 10 — A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine — As we announced last month, Project Spartan will be the new browser across all Windows 10 devices, from phones to tablets, PCs and beyond.
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The Register, Web Browser, WinBeta, VentureBeat, Windows Central, Neowin, Slashdot and The Fire Hose
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Vivek Wadhwa, voice for gender diversity in Silicon Valley, shows how not to handle criticism — Vivek Wadhwa, Voice for Women in Silicon Valley, Is Foiled by His Tone — Silicon Valley has lately come to the realization that it is not the meritocracy it has long pretended to be — at least not for women and most minorities.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, Medium, SiliconBeat and Gigaom
| Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress: |
Google makes largest clean energy investment yet with $300M for SolarCity's residential fund — Google Wants To Help You Buy Solar Panels For Your House. Seriously. — If you to want to install solar panels on your roof but haven't yet because it's too expensive, Google really wants to help.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tinder Plus Will Launch On Monday — Tinder Plus, the dating app's first step into the wonderful world of freemium monetization, will launch on Monday for $9.99, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Tinder Plus includes at least one highly requested feature and a few others … Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 14th and 15th November 2026 from 06.00 AM to 07:00 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled …
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 14th and 15th November 2026 from 06.00 AM to 07:00 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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