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In a somewhat surprising move, Adobe and Google have announced a streaming version of Photoshop for Chromebooks (Chrome OS) and the Chrome browser. This is potentially massive news for Chromebooks, as the lack of Big Software — those big, killer software suites for Mac and Windows — has always been
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Ebay has just announced that it's to split PayPal off as an independent, publicly traded company in 2015. The separation—which will see PayPal spun off, tax-free, naturally—means that Ebay's e-commerce business will be distinct from its PayPal payments unit. Devin Wenig, president of eBay Marketplac
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Lenovo has finally received approval from US and EU regulators for its acquisition of IBM’s low-end x86 server business. The $2.1 billion acquisition should be finalized by Wednesday this week (October 1). The original story, when IBM originally announced its intention to sell its x86 server group t
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In 1987, Mr. Fox, then a young programmer, wrote Bash, short for Bourne-Again Shell, a free piece of software that is now built into more than 70 percent of the machines that connect to the Internet. That includes servers, computers, routers, some mobile phones and even everyday items like refrigera
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Instead of calling a toll-free number and waiting on hold or sending an e-mail and waiting days for an often irrelevant boilerplate response, you can just post a public query to the company on Twitter and wait for a response to roll in from a service representative or even a helpful bystander who se
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Two days after the iPhone 6 went on sale in Hong Kong, customs officers patrolling a backwater pier came across several men loading boxes into a speedboat. When the officers approached, the men jumped into the boat and sped off, leaving behind 15 boxes packed with new iPhones. The smuggling operatio
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Follow this advice from actual hackers, and you'll be a lot safer online. 1. Turn off your phone's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.Hackers are religious about this. Keeping these features "on" all the time makes it easy for strangers to slip into your phone. The problem? If you keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth active,
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In the video, a small bend near the volume buttons is easily bent much further by applying a bit of intentional finger pressure to the iPhone. Ouch. As near as I can tell, I don't believe that Apple warned any customers that putting their iPhone 6 or 6 Plus inside a front jeans pocket could result i
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Computer security researchers have discovered a flaw in the way many devices communicate over the Internet. At its most basic, it lets someone hack every device in your house, business or government building -- via something as simple as your light bulb. With this flaw, criminals can potentially bre
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Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi Model B+ powered build-your-own-laptop kit, soon could enable users to learn computer programming, designing and 3D-printing skills. The Pi-Top team recently released details on its construction of a prototype computer in a Reddit post. The developers plan to use the model in
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John Collison thinks it should be as easy to move money around the Internet as it is to move information. The 24-year-old Irish entrepreneur and his brother Patrick, 26, had already built and sold one startup. As they tinkered with ideas for their next project, they were struck by the antiquated mob
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Within a year, Google is aiming to have a continuous ring of high-altitude balloons in the Southern Hemisphere capable of providing wireless Internet service to cell phones on the ground. That’s according to Astro Teller, head of the Google X lab, the company established with the purpose of working
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