Category: Tech News
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Facebook may buy out Opera to improve it’s mobile experience
Facebook may be looking to purchase web browser Opera in an effort to enhance the social network’s mobile experience, but such a takeover would cost it around $1 billion. In many ways, Facebook is one of the internet’s top dogs. It has over 900 million active users, and just recently launched the largest initial public […]
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Apple’s Mac infected by Flashback virus
Mac computer users may think they have nothing to worry about when it comes to contracting viruses online, but a Russian antivirus company, “Dr.Web”, is reporting that 600,000 Macs are currently infected with a nasty trojan horse virus called “Flashback.” Doctor Web posted details on Wednesday that said 550,000 computers with Mac OSX have picked […]
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Seagate paves the way for big hard drive capacity gains
Seagate has become the first hard drive maker to achieve a milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits)(1 thousand gigabytes) per square inch. Seagate has produced a demonstration of the technology that promises to double the storage capacity of today’s hard drives upon its introduction later this decade and give rise to 3.5-inch […]
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Government agencies and colleges demand applicants’ Facebook passwords.
Government agencies and colleges are asking students to log onto their Facebook pages and other social networks during interviews Many use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as electronic diaries of sorts, but they might want to think twice about what they post — colleges and the government are watching. Some government job seekers […]
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What Windows 8 Means for Tablets
Amid the introduction of so many tablets recently, one thing has been clear: There’s room for a viable competitor to Apple. Android tablets are still not crashing Apple’s iPad party, as evidenced by Apple’s runaway sales. Samsung is one of the top se…
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Microsoft Office Suite App for iPad On the Way
Apple has announced a variety of upcoming launches recently, and now, Apple fans can add another item to the list of releases to look forward to — an iPad version of Microsoft Office. The Microsoft Office Suite app for iPad has been completed by a design team and will soon be sent to Apple for […]