Jury awards Apple nearly $120 million in latest patent case against Samsung

Despite getting the nod from the jury, it was Apple that ultimately
came up short in its latest patent dispute with rival Samsung. After
hearing evidence from both sides for nearly a month and deliberating for
three days, the four man and four woman jury found Samsung infringed on
two...



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For the first time ever, Bill Gates is no longer Microsoft's largest shareholder

For the first time in the nearly 40-year history of Microsoft,
co-founder Bill Gates isn’t the company’s largest shareholder. That
title now belongs to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thanks to a
Gates stock sale that was made public on Friday.



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Apple, Facebook and Google set to expand transparency on government data requests

Google, Apple and other big tech companies have been waiting for the US
government to give them full permission to publish data requests since
last year, and now reports suggest the companies are tired of waiting.
The Washington Post reports that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple
are all about to...



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Weekend Open Forum: What are your essential mobile apps?

Although TechSpot regulars are mostly about desktops -- and all the
tinkering, tweaking, customizing, and performance-squeezing that comes
with it -- there’s no denying that for most of us mobile devices are
increasingly becoming must have items in our tech repertoire, whether
for work or play.



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Comcast, EA reportedly close to signing streaming game agreement

Comcast and Electronic Arts are reportedly close to signing an
agreement that would allow cable customers to stream games over the
company’s X1 set-top box directly from the cloud. The two have been
working on such an offering for the past two years according to nearly
half a dozen sources...



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Nvidia, Falcon Northwest auction off one-of-a-kind gaming PC for charity

Nvidia and Falcon Northwest recently joined forces to create a
one-of-a-kind gaming PC that’s currently being auctioned off on eBay.
All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Philip Scholz Memorial
Foundation which provides needs-based scholarships and promotes physical
activities among today’s youth.



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Groupon launches Basics with bulk deals on household items and essentials

Groupon has been a popular destination to get deals on everything from
electronics to local restaurants and apparel items for a while, and now
the site has launched a new Basics category offering bulk deals on daily
essentials.



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LG G3 specifications and photos hit the web

LG’s next flagship smartphone is coming later this month but until the
official reveal, it’s open season for rumors and leaks. The latest to
come down the pipeline includes both photos and specifications of the G3
– what more could one ask for?



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Weekend game deals: Shadowrun Returns $5, GTA Bundle $10, CoD: Ghosts free multiplayer weekend

As part of its Activision sale, Steam has cut up to 75% off the
publisher's releases as well as offering free multiplayer access to Call
of Duty: Ghosts until Sunday afternoon. Valve's store also offers 75%
off a pack of EA racing titles and a Serious Sam Pack, Amazon has...



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PaperFold smartphone prototype gives a glimpse of where the industry is heading

The idea of a foldable, multi-screen smartphone or tablet has been
around for ages. One shining example of this is the Microsoft Courier,
the dual-screen tablet that first made headlines nearly half a decade
ago. It never made it past the concept stage but that doesn’t mean
interest in the...



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Beats Music 2.0 for iOS brings native iPad support

Just a little less than a day after the company teased a new iPad app
on Twitter, Beats Music added the app in an update that rolled out to
users yesterday. "The iPad is the gateway to streaming music inside the
home", the company said in a blog post. ...



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Twitter is testing a mute function to silence annoying people you can't unfollow

It’s a common occurrence in the social networking realm – you follow /
friend a relative, co-worker or someone you just met at a bar but soon
after, you’re regretting the decision. Perhaps they ramble too much or
don’t share the same views on certain topics as you do. ...



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Vhoto: A new iPhone app that scans your videos to extract amazing still photos

Ever thought there may be some awesome photos hidden in all of the
those videos you’ve shot on your mobile phone over the past few years?
Well, that's exactly what a new startup is betting on with the Vhoto app
for iOS.



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'Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare' trailer hits the web three days early

The reveal trailer for the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise
wasn’t scheduled to drop until Sunday but a flood of leaks forced
Activision to publish the clip early. As many speculated leading up to
the reveal, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will take place in the
future...



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Apple still dominates tablet market despite losing share to Samsung

Even with a decline in iPad sales Apple is still the king of the tablet
market, according to market research firm IDC, which yesterday
published its tablet shipments preliminary results for the first quarter
of the year.



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Samsung sends out invites for a "new conversation around health" on May 28 event
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Looks like health is the new battleground for tech companies. Samsung,
which recently released two smart watches and an activity tracker, has
sent out invitations for a health-related event scheduled to take place
in San Francisco on May 28.



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Despite end of support, Microsoft has patched Windows XP's browser

Following the discovery of a critical, 0-day vulnerability affecting
all versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has decided to release an
emergency update that addresses the security issue. The patch has been
issued for all of Microsoft's recent operating systems including Windows
XP, despite the fact all support for the 13-year-old...



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Vine redesigns website to look and feel like YouTube

Vine has totally reworked its website with the addition of multiple new
features that transform the site into what many are calling a
six-second version of YouTube. In a time when most outfits are moving
away from the web and toward mobile, Vine is seemingly doing the
opposite.



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Amazon expands same-day delivery service to Dallas and San Francisco

Amazon has expanded its same-day delivery service in two markets.
Customers in Dallas and San Francisco join the dozen or so cities that
already quality for Local Express Delivery, the company announced on
Thursday.



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Foursquare unbundles experiences, creates Swarm to manage check-ins

Foursquare has long claimed there’s more to its app than a simple
social check-in service and to highlight that fact, they’ve decided to
separate that feature from everything else and give it an entirely new
name.



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Facebook unveils its own open source, cross-platform app linking program

Facebook is looking to get in on app linking standards with a new
program it unveiled at F8 today. AppLinks is a multi-platform mobile
deep linking standard that allows for direct linking from app to app,
and has already caught the eye of a number of high profile developers.



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Sony follows Microsoft and Samsung, will open 'Experience' shops inside Best Buy retail stores

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft and Samsung, Sony has announced
plans to install mini-stores inside 350 Best Buy retail locations
starting this month. Known as the Sony Experience at Best Buy, the
store-within-a-store concept will be staffed with Best Buy employees
that have been trained to peddle Sony's goods.



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T-Mobile reports best quarter ever, adds 2.4 million new subscribers

T-Mobile may be facing an uncertain future but they’re killing it in
the present in terms of subscriber count. The un-carrier on Thursday
announced the addition of 2.4 million subscribers during the first
quarter, up from just 579,000 new signups in the year-ago period.



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Movie Moments and Reading List apps land on Windows Phone 8.1

In the latest effort to bridge its desktop and phone apps together,
Microsoft yesterday made available two of its Windows 8.1 apps for
Windows Phone 8.1. These apps are Reading List and Movie Moments.



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John Carmack's former employer says he stole technology and used it in the Oculus Rift

Oculus VR and Facebook may soon find themselves in hot water if claims
from ZeniMax are accurate. The former employer of gaming legend and
Oculus VR CTO John Carmack claims he stole intellectual property that
ultimately helped the Oculus Rift go from garage-based pipe dream into a
working reality.



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Mionix Naos 7000 Review
What
happens when Mionix get around to making a mouse that feels as good as
it works? You get the Naos 7000, which is a great mouse. On the outside,
it looks exactly the same as the company's last few flagship mice. Even
feels mostly the same. A few tweaks have been but for the most part
it's a case of ain't broke, don't fix.



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Running Linux From a USB Drive As a Virtual Machine or Bootable Disk
There
are a number of uses for running Linux from a USB drive, from simply
test driving Linux to troubleshooting a Windows PC, or working on the go
from someone else's computer. There are basically two ways to go about
it: from within Windows using virtualization software such as
VirtualBox, or creating a boot disk. This quick guide details both
methods in a few easy steps.



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Auslogics Disk Defrag 4.5.4.0
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Aviator is the best and easiest way to bank, shop, browse, and use
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X-Proxy 5.2.0.6
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OpenVPN 2.3.4
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Dropbox Experimental 2.7.54
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Anvil Studio 2014.05.01
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TSR Watermark Image 3.2.0.1
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SeaMonkey 2.26
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ChrisTV Online! Free 10.10
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between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a
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Camfrog Video Chat 6.7.356
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