Tim Berners-Lee at MIT. Martin LaMonica/CNET The man who invented the World Wide Web believes that Net neutrality laws are critical for the future of the Internet. In a guest blog post written for the European Commission’s website, Berners-Lee discussed threats to “the openness that underpins the Web and the broader Internet.” He aimed his …
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Amazon, like Sprint, mulls acquiring RadioShack stores
Amazon may be in the market for some RadioShack stores. RadioShack Amazon may be eyeing RadioShack stores as a way to expand its online operations into the brick-and-mortar world, according to Bloomberg. Hit by plummeting sales over the past few years, RadioShack is reportedly considering the sale of half of its stores to Sprint and then closing the rest, unnamed …
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CUPERTINO, Calif. — It’s not just Apple’s iPhone that attracts long lines. It’s also the possibility of being in the new Steve Jobs movie that gets Apple fans up at the crack of dawn. I found that out the hard way when I showed up on a beautiful Saturday morning to be an extra in the unnamed Jobs biopic penned …
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Picturesque Lock Screen is now available in the Google Play marketplace. Microsoft Microsoft Garage, the public lab where the company’s employees share experimental ideas, has cooked up a new lock screen for Android. Picturesque Lock Screen is designed for Android only and presents Bing’s home page imagery from the last six days on the Android lock screen. The free app …
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Sarah Tew/CNET The iPad is nearly 5 years old. That product, ever since, has continued to ride a thin dividing line between iPhones and Macs: mobile, and computers. Apple’s world has since become all about the iPhone. Look at the latest sales numbers, and they’re shockingly lopsided: iPhones now represent almost three-quarters of Apple’s revenue. Macs and iPads, while still …
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Apple’s combination of Macs and iPads helped the company lead the PC market in the fourth quarter. Sarah Tew/CNET The PC market had a rough fourth quarter but a relatively decent 2014, new data from research firm Canalys shows. Total worldwide PC shipments, including notebooks, desktops and tablets, reached 148 million units in the fourth quarter, a 6 percent decline …
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James Martin/CNET Announced back in September 2014, Lumia Denim is an update to the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. While a few devices, such as the Lumia 830, the Lumia 1520 and Lumia 730, have been running Denim for a while now, the update has been slow to trickle down to other Lumia products. Microsoft Devices has just announced that …
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Read More »Razer’s latest Blade gaming laptop cuts with sharper Nvidia graphics
The new Razer Blade, with a Quad HD screen. Razer Perhaps you remember the Razer Blade , one of the very best thin gaming laptops on the market? We absolutely loved the last version, with its 3,200×1,800-pixel resolution screen, powerful Nvidia graphics, super-thin aluminum chassis and ultra-responsive programmable Razer keyboard. Now Razer has announced a new version of the Blade, …
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A conceptual image of the ARM’s newest processor design, which will come to smartphones next year. ARM If the personal computer is ever killed off, ARM is hoping it will have had something to do with it. The British chip-design firm, whose technology is used in nearly every smartphone, unveiled Tuesday more-powerful technologies — the Cortex-A72 processor and Mali-T880 graphics …
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