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Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops
— Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their “Ivy Bridge” predecessors, Intel said on Thursday. — Haswell chips were designed …
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Asus Chromebook coming in the second half of 2013
— Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. — The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but …
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Amazon accidentally leaks world's first small-screen Windows 8 tablet
— The first-ever small-screen Windows tablet made a brief appearance on Amazon.com today, before quickly being yanked from the online retailer's e-shelves. — While Acer was busy showing off a smattering …
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Novell offers mobile file sharing for the enterprise
— In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Google Drive.
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Russian malware mines bitcoins via botnet, security firm warns
— A Russian porn site is delivering malware that uses the victims' computers to mine bitcoins, according to research from ThreatTrack Security. — The malware, named “Fareit,” has been circulating on the Internet for at least six months and infects Windows computers.
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Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware
— The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. — “We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together,” said Phil Libin …
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Android founder: We aimed to make a camera OS
— The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of “smart cameras” that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode.
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