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By early the next morning, iFan had a new post, about how commenters to the first post had detected a reflection in the picture, revealing another iPhone 5 taking the photography. They say you can make out the Apple logo, and the widely separated flash and camera components (which are close together in iPhone 4). […]

In some ways, all the uproar about Apple saving location data on its iOS device users is old news. Guess what? Big Brother, or Big Google, also collects geo-location information from its mobile, Android-powered devices. It’s like anything else in computing: geo-location can provide great services and resources, but it can also be abused.   […]

One of the most common ways businesses waste money is buying software that will never be used, but how much money exactly is being thrown down the drain in this manner? The vendor 1E polled IT managers in an attempt to answer this question, and the number produced is a big one: $15.3 billion in […]

Didn’t we just get Firefox 4 a little bit ago? Mozilla is borrowing a page from Google Chrome and speeding up the development cycle for Firefox releases, setting new iterations of the browser for fixed time periods and bulldozing over features that just aren’t ready to make it into a new browser release. And if […]

There has been a lot of talk about the addition of an NFC (near field communication) chip to the next-gen iPhone. This will allow the phone to be used as a swipe-it-yourself credit card. I consider this technology to be the most onerous ever. I first discussed the idea of your mobile phone becoming your […]

For a five-year-old game console with no major updates in tow, the Nintendo Wii has been in the news an awful lot this month. There was that rumored price cut on May 15, the damning reports about its sales figures, and Kotaku noted that the Wii’s games list has thinned out considerably. So it comes […]

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse on Friday reiterated his opposition to the pending merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, arguing that the deal poses a “serious threat” to the wireless industry. “We just cannot let this happen,” Hesse said during an event in San Francisco, as reported by Bloomberg. “If the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger is […]

Flipboard on Thursday confirmed that it has secured $50 million in funding, which values the company at $200 million. The money will be used “to grow the company and product as well as give us a good runway to build the business model out and create great partnerships in the years ahead,” a Flipboard spokeswoman […]

There was an interesting announcement indicating that the Android system will be the first to allow carrier billing for all sorts of purchases. This opens the door to the inevitable: the phone company becoming your credit card and finance company. This possibility became obvious to me years ago when the first blue tooth devices appeared […]

The Best Protection I torture-tested all of these products, challenging them to clean up 13 malware-infested systems and to block malware from attacking a clean system. Interestingly, the most effective antivirus products in my tests were not those that bulked up with added features. Webroot and Ad-Aware Pro offered the best protection overall, especially against […]

“Yes, Hawk-Eye confirms that the ball is just missing the off stump, so the umpire was right in giving the Not Out decision,” said Ravi Shastri, ex-cricketer and well known television commentator, while commenting on a cricket match for a national TV audience.   Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Training at Certkingdom.com   […]

Microsoft and Toyota said Wednesday that the companies will co-develop Toyota’s next-generation telematics platform around Microsoft’s Azure platform. The two companies said that they plan to deliver the platform to Toyota’s electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, most likely including the Prius, by 2012. “TMC’s goal is to establish a complete global cloud platform by 2015 […]

Amazon.com now offers Dedicated Instances, with which administrators can now set up a private cloud using the Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) that contains server partitions that keep data in one physical location. Specific hardware resources are yours for the duration. They do not move processes and storage from server to server as clouds typically […]

Microsoft has ceased development of the Windows operating system and will be releasing its own Linux distribution, the company revealed in an SEC filing yesterday. The annual 10-K report disclosed plans for the development of the “Winux” operating system and detailed special costs related to terminating the Windows business — including costs associated with supporting […]

Dell updated its enterprise Ethernet switch lineup on Thursday with the PowerConnect 7000 series, adding high-availability features, low power consumption and POE (power over Ethernet) to its equipment offerings for use in several parts of a LAN. The 7000 series consists of stackable Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switches in a variety of configurations with 24 […]