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Digital Trends - Amazon has removed 5,000 e-book titles from its Kindle store after it failed to reach an agreement with distributor Independent Publishers Group (IPG) over the terms of a new contract. IPG was founded in Chicago 41 years ago and entered the e-book business in 2001. Itâs the second largest independent book distributor in the US.
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Reuters - Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to turn off in-app purchases on your iPhone. Some apps let …
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Digital Trends - In January, video game streaming company OnLive decided to enter the remote desktop space with âOnLive Desktop.â The service allows anyone with an iPad (and soon Android or any other computing platform) to access a Windows 7 desktop in the cloud and use it much like any computer. It comes with 2GB of cloud storage and access to Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. All for free. Unfortunately, it was missing one critical element: a browser. OnLive restricted access to the browser and didnât allow the installation of apps. OnLive Desktop Plus changes this.
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Digital Trends - Last month, a federal judge in Denver ordered a suspect to provide the government with the unencrypted contents of a computer she shared with her family. The order was put off while lawyers took the case to an appeals court, arguing the order violates Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination. Now, however, it looks as though the defendant will either have to decrypt her laptop or face contempt of court charges. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to get involved, saying the criminal case has to reach a conclusion before it comes within the appealsâ court jurisdiction. The defendant has until February 27 to hand over her data.
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 AP - Authorities are using a court order to determine if a serial cabin burglar in the southern Utah wilderness is using a cell phone to call his family.
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 Reuters - Sony Corp's Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo's Game Boy and Atari's Lynx. But with gaming habits rapidly changing, it may also be the last of its breed.
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ContributorNetwork - Ubuntu is an African word that roughly translates to "humanity to others." It's also "the third most popular desktop operating system in the world," behind Windows and OS X, according to its developer outreach page. And it might be coming to an Android smartphone near you, turning it into a home desktop PC as well as a media center.
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY| A lot can be made out of the rivalry between Barnes & Noble and Amazon when it comes to selling books. A Reuters report highlights Barnes & Noble saw increased sales over the holiday period, which is good news for the bookseller. But in a news release, Barnes & Noble decided to go head-to-head with the Kindle Fire and introduced a new Nook Tablet with 8GB of memory at $199. Apparently Barnes & Noble just does not get what the Kindle Fire is all about.
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Yahoo! News - Japan may have gotten the early jump on some PlayStation Vita love, but the U.S. launch is finally here and the system is now available for all who desire it. We've already spent some serious time with the new handheld, and if …
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Reuters - Microsoft Corp has asked EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a patent dispute with Google Inc and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc as it stepped up its battle against Google.
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Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to set an alarm on your iPhone. With your iPhone's alarm …
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Digital Trends - Today Ubuntu announced Ubuntu for Android, an app that will sync all your Android apps into a Linux-based interface. The new app is the latest step in the platformâs expanding mobile agenda, part of Ubuntuâs multi-screen agenda. âThis isnât the âUbuntu Phone,â as Canonicalâs Mark Shuttlesworth puts it. âThe phone experience here is pure Android. This announcement is playing to a different story, which is the convergence of multiple different form factors into one most-personal device.â
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 AP - There's a suspicious knock on the wall.
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Mashable - Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps on Tuesday, re-introducing some well-loved features and adding new improvements as well. But the updates don't impact all mobile tweeters equally.
Both updated apps bring back the swipe shortcut. That move allows users to reply to, favorite and share tweets -- as well as retweet posts and view other user profiles -- all without leaving their own timelines. The updated iPhone and Android apps also both introduce a feature designed to expedite the process of finding friends on Twitter via existing email and phone contact lists.
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Mashable - 1. Army Corps of Hell
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 AP - The PlayStation Vita won't replace your smartphone.
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Mashable - Comcast is hoping to prevent its cable customers from cutting the cord by introducing a new streaming video service.
The service, known as Xfinity Streampix, is designed to complement Comcast's existing Xfinity on Demand and TV Everywhere initiatives. Xfinity Streampix will become available to Comcast customers later this week and includes access to full-seasons of TV shows from Disney-ABC, NBC Universal, Sony and Warner Bros. It will also include streaming access to full-length movies and kids programming.
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Reuters - Research In Motion on Tuesday gave its PlayBook tablet computer the ability to handle email as easily as a BlackBerry does, with new software that eliminates a shortcoming that has throttled sales since the PlayBook launched last April.
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Reuters - Barnes & Noble Inc posted strong sales in both its Nook and printed books businesses over the holiday quarter, holding its own in its bruising fight with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle in the digital books market.
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