Saturday, January 5, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Digital Trends) 06/01/2013


Digital Trends Meet Travis Jensen: The pro photographer who shoots with an iPhone Street photographer Travis Jensen talks to us about how he uses his iPhone and Hipstamatic to document life on the streets of San Francisco.
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Jaguar XFR Sportbrake: Does Jaguar need a sporty station wagon? A Jaguar performance wagon sounds very left-field, but Jag is considering building the XFR Sportbrake, if it can overcome a tricky engineering issue.
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Microsoft’s January security update neglects patch for IE zero-day vulnerability In advance of Tuesday’s security updates, Microsoft has announced it will patch Windows OS weaknesses but not provide a fix for a vulnerability in IE6, IE7, and IE8.
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ARCHOS’ TV Connect likely to make waves at CES 2013 Archos manages to cut through the set-top media box clutter with, among other features, one of the most innovative remote controls we've seen yet.
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Hong Kong to receive 150 electric taxis from Nissan In a city with 18,000 taxis, can 150 electric taxis make an environmental difference?
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Mr. Zuckerberg, tear down this wall! The social Web and the Web are now one In the wake of (yet more) reports concerning growing Google+ numbers thanks to Google force-feeding users their accounts, it's time to realize that the social Web is the only Web.
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Angry Birds sold more copies over Christmas week than most games will ever sell The world's favorite bird-flinging casual game made a mint over the recent holiday season: Christmas Day alone accounted for 8 million downloads of Angry Birds titles.
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If you have 4G LTE, chances are you’re using less Wi-Fi, but why? As LTE networks spread across the globe a new report has found that subscribers download more data, use Wi-Fi less, and are more likely to be on metered plans than 3G subscribers.
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Happy 12th Birthday to Runescape! A dozen years later, the game continues Massively popular free-to-play MMO Runescape just hit twelve years old, mere months after seeing its 200 millionth registered player accounts.
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Apple may release an ‘iPhone Mini’ to dethrone Samsung in 2014, analyst says Some analysts have said that Apple could release a smaller low-cost iPhone to oust Samsung from its spot as the top smartphone maker.
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Izik, a search engine for tablets, steps in the ring against Google Now and Siri Izik is the first tablet-oriented search engine, and it wants to be different from your average search engine.
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Buying a used Wii U could give you access to previous owners games According to reports on the Internet, purchasers of used Wii U consoles are finding those systems full of free games, courtesy whoever owned the console previously.
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BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition released in time to capitalize on BioShock Infinite hype BioShock Infinite, after two years of hype, excitement, delays, and cancellations, is just two months away from release. 2K Games is wasting no opportunity to transform Irrational Games’ series from a moderate success and critical darling into one of the best-selling franchises in the contemporary gaming landscape. To that end it’s giving the first two
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Soundmatters to showcase foxL Duet system and Dash7 speaker at CES 2013 Soundmatters hopes its new audio products will stand out at next week's CES, despite their diminutive size.
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Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 Touch quick look Touchscreen all-in-one PCs are so hot right now, but can adding touch to Lenovo's IdeaCentre A720 change our initial review and rating?
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Return of the Pac: Namco plans to open a chain of arcade restaurants Namco is one of the first names in arcade video games, responsible for foundational classics like Pac-man, Space Invaders, Soul Calibur and Point Blank. Arcades are nearly extinct in 2013, but the company is planning a new chain of restaurants to bring them back.
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Spotify’s music download option indefinitely shelved worldwide Spotify shelved its music download feature worldwide, and sources say the move was due to a lack of user interest.
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2014 Audi RS 5 Cabriolet and 2014 R8 to debut in Detroit Is there any finer way to start the year than with the unveiling of a 450-horsepower Audi convertible and the next iteration of the gorgeous R8? We think not.
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Stay warm and connected with winter gadgets to beat the chill If the wintery weather and the freezing cold have got you holed up inside going slowly stir crazy then you need some high tech winter gear to warm you up.
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Newcomer NYNE to bring ‘device-agnostic’ Bluetooth speakers to CES 2013 NYNE is implementing a new strategy in the lead-up to CES. Will its "device-agnostic" approach catch on?
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2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe and Cabriolet get new styling and safety tech Following the E-Class sedan's lead, these two-door Benzes get more aggressive styling for 2014, while remaining basically the same underneath.
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Xbox International: Microsoft lets Live users migrate Gamertags between countries Any Xbox Live users that moved between countries and wanted to move their Xbox Live accounts abroad with them use to be out of luck. Now Microsoft is testing a simple new way to aid expatriates keep gaming.
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Former Windows head Steven Sinofsky launches new tech product development blog If you thought the Microsoft exec was out of the tech limelight, think again. He's still has a lot to say and has launched a brand new blog for to share his thoughts.
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Touchscreen restaurant table forecasts the end of human interactions Moneual has unveiled a design for a touchscreen cafe table that can display apps to help diners browse and order off the menu. Basically, Seamless Web has arrived to a real world setting.
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HTC CEO Peter Chou leaves difficult 2012 behind, saying, “2013 will not be too bad” After a troubled 2012, HTC CEO Peter Chou is looking forward to a more agreeable 2013, saying in an interview that the worst is over and the coming year will "not be too bad."
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Microsoft Surface Pro tablets to debut as early as January 26 Been waiting for the launch of Windows 8 Pro on a tablet? You'll just have to hold out for a little bit longer. Rumors have pinpointed the Surface Pro tablet launch somewhere in the month of January, and as early as January 26.
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Microsoft halts development on free-to-play Age of Empires Online Microsoft and developer Gas Powered Games announced on Thursday that Age of Empires Online has exited the development phase and entered the support phase. Translation: No more new content and no more bug fixes for the free-to-play strategy game.
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Old GM plant to start spitting out startup Elio Motor’s cheap three-wheelers With its eight-gallon tank and 84 mpg on the highway, the Elio three-wheeler will go 672 miles on a single tank of gas.
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Sell anything anywhere in a second thanks to new startup SellSimple Selling online is tough, but 2012 was full of new apps and startups that wanted to make that easier. SellSimple is the newest player in the game, promising to make selling anything on any of the big e-commerce sites simpler than ever
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Maybe an accelerator at sea isn’t so ‘Unreasonable’ after all 11 entrepreneurs will set sail on Unreasonable at Sea's accelerator with the goal to break into the global market to solve the world's most pressing problems with the backing of some of the best tech minds that the industry has to offer.
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