Weekend Open Forum: Your ideal smartphone and tablet size?
Over the last three years we've seen screen sizes on smartphones vary from a smallish 3 inches to a massive 5.3-inch on the Galaxy Note. It's a similar story with tablets, only those started out at around 10.1-inches and have gotten smaller from there. 
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Verizon shows increases in malware, hacktivism, security breaches
Making note of the social unrest which unfolded in 2011, Verizon's 2012 data breach investigation report (very large pdf) highlights a tumultuous year for computer and network security. Although a couple of numbers were down from previous years, attacks related to hacktivism rose sharply while malware and hacking itself remained prolific. 
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Apple overtakes RIM in smartphone sales on their home turf
Apple has knocked off Research in Motion as the top smartphone provider in Canada for the first time. Canadians have remained loyal to RIM through some hard times over the past few years but the troubled company based in Waterloo, Ontario wasn’t able to fend off Cupertino in 2011. 
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Weekend game deals: Shogun 2 $7.49, Hitman Collection $6.24
Steam is holding another publisher sale, discounting Square Enix/Eidos titles by 50% through March 26 with a new game or franchise reduced by 75% every day (Tomb Raider today). It's worth noting that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will likely be chosen at some point, making the game about $7.50. Meanwhile,... 
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Online movie streaming will overtake DVD sales this year in U.S.
For the first time ever, more films will be watched online (legally) than purchased in the United States, according to IHS Screen Digest. The analytics firm estimates that Americans will watch 3.4 billion movies online in 2012, a figure that is considerably larger than the 2.4 billion DVD and Blu-ray discs expected... 
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Americans lost $30 billion worth of mobile phones in 2011
Americans lost nearly $30 billion worth of mobile phones in 2011 according to a new study from mobile security firm Lookout. Globally, over $7 million worth of handsets are lost each day and that number only increases on special occasions. 
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Rumor: Intel releasing new 300 and 700 Series SSDs in May
Following up from the release of its SSD 520 Series in February, Intel is reportedly getting ready to unveil a couple more drives in May. According to DigiTimes' sources with Taiwanese PC vendors, the company will introduce a new 300 Series model (codenamed Maple Crest) aimed at the mainstream consumer... 
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T-Mobile cutting 1,900 jobs, closing seven call centers nationwide
T-Mobile has announced that they will be cutting 1,900 jobs and closing seven call centers throughout the US as part of a plan to reduce overhead and stockpile cash to invest in a restructuring plan after AT&T failed on their planned acquisition. AT&T intended to buy the fourth largest US... 
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Facebook threatens legal action against password-demanding employers
Facebook has updated their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities which now makes it a violation to share or solicit a profile’s password. Furthermore the social network vows to take legal action against offenders when appropriate. The revisions come in light of recent stories regarding potential employers asking job seekers for... 
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Intel's next-gen 'Valley View' Atom to sport Ivy Bridge graphics
Intel is preparing a 22nm Valley View Atom chip with Ivy Bridge-class on board graphics, according to leaked slides detailing the company's plans. The CPU is codenamed Valley View and it'll be part of the Balboa Pier platform launching in early 2013 as a follow-up to the Cedar Trail platform... 
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Facebook purchases 750 patents from IBM, doubles portfolio
Social networking giant Facebook has moved to increase its patent portfolio by purchasing 750 patents from IBM Corporation for an undisclosed figure, which is thought to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars according to Bloomberg. 
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Republic Wireless will invite more beta users this summer
Several months after shipping handsets to its first batch of beta testers, Republic Wireless has announced that it will invite a second wave of users sometime this summer. The cellular startup reports that its initial program is "going very well" and although many users hoped to join the service in... 
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Megaupload: MPAA wants data kept for lawsuits, scammers target users
The Motion Picture Association of America has requested that Megaupload's host, Carpathia, retain about 25PB (yep, that's petabytes) of data. According to Wired, this move follows an earlier appeal made by Carpathia where the hosting company had asked the court to relieve it from its obligation of hosting Megaupload's enormous data... 
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Commodore unveils Amiga Mini PC with i7-2700K, Blu-ray
Steadfast in its mission to deliver retro machines, Commodore USA has unveiled a modern take on the Amiga. Called the "Amiga Mini," the system is compact enough to serve as an HTPC at 7.75in x 7.75in x 3in (197mm x 197mm x 75mm), yet powerful enough to be a workstation.... 
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Report: new iPhone will carry 4.6-inch Retina display
The latest reports from the rumor mill indicate that Apple’s next iPhone will ship with a 4.6-inch Retina display. If true, the sixth generation handset from Cupertino would be the first to deviate from the 3.5-inch display that first shipped with the original iPhone in 2007. 
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Zynga pays $200m for "Draw Something" developer OMGPOP
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Kepler goes mobile: the new Nvidia GeForce 600M GPU range
Nvidia's new desktop GPU flagship, the GeForce GTX 680, is certainly getting most of the attention from PC enthusiats and gamers today but the company is also taking the wraps off a whole range of products aimed at the notebook market. We already knew about the GeForce GT 640M that... 
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Facebook improves photo experience with high-res, full screen images
New features and updates continue to roll out for the world’s largest social network as Facebook has now made it possible to view user-uploaded photos in a high resolution format that can fill the entire screen. 
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Angry Birds Space now available for Android, iOS, Mac and PC
Mobile game developer Rovio has released the next installment in the popular Angry Birds franchise. Dubbed Angry Birds Space, the latest update takes our feathered friends to the final frontier in an attempt to once again reclaim their precious eggs. 
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta now available as free download
Adobe has released a beta version of Photoshop CS6 that is free to download and try. The latest installment of the popular photo editing software for PC and Mac is said to have 60 percent more features than CS5 including around 65 user-requested features. 
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Acer Iconia Tab A510 unveiled, packs Tegra 3 and ICS
We first heard about a Tegra 3 successor to the Iconia Tab A500 back in November. Curiously, Acer never publicly acknowledged the tablet, even though Nvidia briefly showed it off at CES, but it looks like they are now ready to finally make it official by kicking off pre-orders for... 
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AMD Radeon HD 7990 details leaked as Nvidia GTX 680 launches
AMD has been on a roll of late, with six new 7000-series graphics cards in the first quarter of this year alone. Now we’re hearing details about team red’s upcoming range-topping, dual GPU Radeon HD 7990 model, which could be here as early as next month, after Chinese website inpai.com.cn... 
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Nvidia reclaims performance crown with GeForce GTX 680
After months of rumors, Nvidia has finally unleashed its next-gen 28nm graphics tech, codenamed "Kepler." As usual, the series kicks off with a flagship single-GPU, the GeForce GTX 680, which is said to be the company's fastest and most power efficient offering to date, courtesy of the new GK104 graphics... 
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Apple iPad (3rd-Gen): The TechSpot Review
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