Should the US Regulate Broadband Internet Access as a Utility?
Forget Net Neutrality, the argument that is bound to be debated sooner or later will be the really big question: Is Broadband Internet access a public utility and does it need more or less government regulation?
For 15 years, consumers have been waiting for serious competition to arrive, yet there is now less competition than ever.
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Sales Tanking, Nintendo Turns to Action Figurines
That's correct, we said figurines. The figurines would be sold in conjunction with the Nintendo Figurine Platform and would work along the lines of Disney's Infinity customizable characters.
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The Wayback Machine Passes 400 Billion Indexed Webpages
If you are looking for past information on any subject from any website, from as far back as eighteen years ago, chances are you can find it at web.archive.org, otherwise known as The Wayback Machine which has now passed the 400 Billion indexed webpage milestone.
The data encompasses the Web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago.
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Google is Testing a Redesign of Gmail Features
If you like the way Gmail looks and feels, hold on to your seat, you're about to be taken for a ride. Gmail designers are testing out new interfaces and menus that will probably be rolled out for show and tell at the Google I/O conference in June.
With more similarities to the mobile interface, the new Web interface, as seen in the screenshots, has been created with responsive design in mind.
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FDA Approves a Life-Like Prosthetic Arm
Dean Kamen, the inventor behind the Segway has come through again with a robotic prosthetic limb that has just won FDA approval. The prosthetic limb is a DARPA funded project in conjunction with Dean Kamen's DEKA Research and Development Corporation.
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Patch Tuesday Time Again
Microsoft will be releasing eight updates this Patch Tuesday, with two of them rated as critical. This will mark the first time when there will be no updates for Windows XP and Office 2003
In such cases it is inevitable that the bug will be critical on Windows XP as well, but XP is not listed as among the products to be updated.
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Electric Aircraft On the Horizon
French aeronautics firm Airbus is working on the next generation in aviation; the electric-powered aircraft. Airbus is better known for its really, really large aircraft, but is starting small in this new venture electric aircraft known as the E-FAN.
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PlayStation 4's Lightbar Function Revealed
If you have a PS4 and have been wondering all of this time what the heck the lightbar was for when it turned different colors, you will know very soon. Just think Project Morpheus.
Sony hasn't revealed more about the Morpheus prototype headsets since the reveal at the Game Developers Conference in March, but we can expect to learn more next month at E3.
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Walmart Cuts Price of All 16GB iPad Minis by $30
If you have been holding off in buying an iPad mini, now would be a good time to drop by your nearest Walmart and pick one up. Walmart is discounting the price of the 16GB mini by $30 bucks.
Only the 16GB Wi-Fi models are discounted. The 32GB, 64GB and 128GB devices (both regular and Retina) are still normal price
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Windows XP End-of-Life Boosts PC Shipments
The end of support cycle for Windows XP is having an effect on the sagging PC market. Since its support ending, the PC market sales have reversed the long-time spiral and experienced a five percent rise in market share.
PC shipments have been boosted by the demise of Windows XP with shipments up by five percent compared to the previous year.
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Techland's Dying Light Delayed Until 2015
Techland's follow-up game to Dead Island which was due to be released on March 31st, has been pushed back until first quarter 2015. The game, Dying Light, will be ready for release in February.
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Barclays Plans to Cut Up to 5,600 IT Jobs
Barclays financial institution, a worldwide banking concern, has announced its plans to eliminate up to 19K positions, almost 6K in the IT sector alone.
The job cuts will be achieved through automating IT platforms across the group, infrastructure consolidation and moving to digital channels on the retail side.
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4G Is So passé: Japan Already Beginning 5G Trials
While not expected to be readily available until 2020, Japan's DOCOMO is about to begin test runs on 5G working with the world's leading manufacturers.
Trials will first begin indoors at DOCOMO's R&D Center, with outdoor field trials following in 2015. DOCOMO aims to begin sharing its data in 2016 as carriers work to standardize 5G in advance of its eventual launch.
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Adobe to Release Acrobat, Reader Update Tuesday
The second Tuesday of the month seems to have become the favored day for update releases. Adobe is jumping into the update game on Tuesday by releasing fixes for Adobe Acrobat and Reader on both Windows and Mac.
No further details were provided, but the vulnerability or vulnerabilities are rated priority 1, which is Adobe's most severe.
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