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Microsoft touts Xbox One as future of entertainment
Xbox One, a next-generation entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment.It will go on sale later this year.Don Mattrick, president of its interactive entertainment business, said the company has spent the past four years working on the "all-in-one home entertainment system".The console was ...
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First Look New Xbox elegant but much unknown
REDMOND, Wash. — Will gamers want One? After four years of development, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One entertainment console and touted it as an all-in-one solution for playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be central to your living room and packed the new Xbox with such features as the ability to change TV channels through voice ...
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Tech 21 shows Impact Shield screen protector
CTIA gave me the opportunity to see a new screen protector from Tech21. If you haven't heard of the UK-based company, it makes some pretty durable cases for popular smartphones like ...
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Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action
WASHINGTON -; Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the ...
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Nokia brings LiveSight to Here Maps on Windows Phone 8
CityLens app , LiveSight pulls up nearby locations and displays relevant information like the type of business or attraction, the hours, the address and phone number, and customer ratings. You access LiveSight mode through a dedicated control in the Here interface. Once activated, you'll see the points of interest either overlaid on the standard map or in a mode that resembles ...
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Liar Liar
After a mostly unsuccessful attempt to branch out into black comedy with last summer's "The Cable Guy," Jim Carry returns to what he does best -- pure slapstick antics -- in his new film "Liar Liar." While the humor is absolutely hilarious, the sentiment is overly sappy, and several times that conflict risks sinking this otherwise sturdy vehicle. Carrey plays Fletcher Reede, a habitally fibbing la ... ...
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Power utilities claim daily and constant cyberattacks says report
U.S. Congressmen Ed Markey and Henry Waxman pen a report outlining the increased hacks on power grid computer systems, saying that one utility receives about 10,000 attempted cyberattacks per ...
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Bits Blog GIF Creator Steve Wilhite Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award
Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as ...
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Bits Blog The New Flickr Is Pretty but Is It Social
unveiled a new version of Flickr, a photo-sharing Web site. It sure is pretty, with lots of high-resolution,rectangular photos and a clean, grid design. The company is also offering everyone on the site a free terabyte of space to store their photos. That’s potentially enough to stores hundreds of thousands of photos. But the new Flickr still feels like it’s missing one thing: ...
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Oil Prices Drop After Gasoline Stocks Jump
U.S. crude futures prices fell below $96 a barrel on Wednesday after an unexpected increase in U.S. gasoline stockpiles ahead of the summer driving season in the world's largest oil ...
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Google+ rolls out a redesign for mobile Web similar to desktop
(Credit: Google) After unveiling an extensive revamp for the Google+ news stream on desktop, Google is now updating what users see when accessing the social network with their cell phones. The Web ...
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Nothing will ever completely replace playing the game I love, however I feel like I'm starting a new adventure and I'm genuinely excited about what lies ahead. I'm fortunate to have been given many opportunities throughout my career and now I feel it's my time to give back.
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Le Meridien Dubai
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