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Best Buy adding Samsung Stores in time for Galaxy S4 launch
— Over the last two years, Best Buy stores have dramatically increased the number of smartphones and tablets they carry. Starting next month, you may find that Best Buy employees are much more inclined to offer you a Samsung product …
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Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble
— Google's quest to continue unifying their products is about to enter its next phase. According to multiple sources, the company's next step includes unifying their messaging platforms into a single service, which is expected to be called Babble.
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Google to announce paid YouTube subscriptions at $1-5 a month
— Google has been working hard to change the face of original content on YouTube in recent months to feel more like television. Now, with millions tuning in every week to subscribed content, Google is looking to roll out paid subscriptions for qualifying content.
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Demo shows how easily malicious extensions can infect Firefox
— Firefox is widely regarded as a very secure web browser, and that's a reputation that Mozilla has worked tirelessly to build over the past eight years — blacklisting extensions, shutting down insecure plug-ins, revoking certificates …
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Times of London offers $80 Nexus 7 to new digital subscribers
— News readers in the UK now have the chance to sign up for one heck of a good deal on a tablet bundle. The Times of London is offering a 32GB Nexus 7 for around $80 with an 18-month commitment to its digital pack.
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Steam for Linux now available to beta testers
— Valve opened the Steam for Linux beta applications at the end of October, but it hasn't taken long for them to select the first round of lucky Linux gamers. Steam for Linux is now available to a select few, with free-to-play game Team Fortress 2 being the main supported title.
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Uncovered: Google creating a “Nexus Call Center” for device support
— One of the big complaints surrounding the Nexus 7 launch was the lack of customer support when dealing with the device. Google was not initially prepared to handle the volume of users that required support …
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Raspberry Pi gets a 1GHz turbo mode
— The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic bit of kit out the box, offering a complete PC for just $35. But of course, as soon as you start using it you would like it to go a bit faster than the stock 700MHz clock frequency, and then you start editing the config.txt …
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Ubisoft Uplay DRM found to include a rootkit
— Ubisoft is one publisher that has fully embraced the use of always-connected DRM in its games. They believe this cuts down of privacy, but at the same time it frustrates gamers who legitimately purchase Ubisoft titles because without …
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Video: Nexus 7 touchscreen defect
— As Nexus 7 pre-orders start filtering out into the world, users are finally getting acquainted with Google's 7-inch slate. There is a lot to like about the device; it's fast, solidly built, and has great software. I should say, these things are true in most cases.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).