SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 18, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 18, 2012 Happy Friday, everyone! We’re wrapping up yet another work week, so let’s take a look at all the stories that made news as we head into the weekend. So the biggest thing of course is Facebook’s IPO, and lucky for you we have a very concise Facebook IPO [...]
Nokia sells New York headquarters
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Nokia sells New York headquarters Nokia has sold its New York headquarters, located north of Manhattan in the industrial town of White Plains. Purchased six years ago for $30 million, the struggling Finnish vendor sold the building to biotechnology firm Histogenetics for $12 million. ”It’s a [...]
ARM CEO expects 20 percent of notebook PC market
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ARM CEO expects 20 percent of notebook PC market ARM’s CEO expects computers powered by the company’s processors to hold 10 to 20 percent of the notebook PC market by 2015. Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, Warren East said (sub. required) he expects that ARM will have a bigger impact on the [...]
Should I Buy Facebook Stock’ (Comic)
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC Collection 2 Gets Video Presentation
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC Collection 2 Gets Video Presentation Activision has just presented the first video for the upcoming Content Collection #2 DLC, which will appear next week for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 owners on the Xbox 360.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 amazed millions [...]
Kiss Aero goodbye: Latest Windows 8 build reveals minimalistic desktop UI
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Kiss Aero goodbye: Latest Windows 8 build reveals minimalistic desktop UI It’s safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we’re still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop [...]
ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft patent (updated: MMI responds)
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ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft patent (updated: MMI responds) At the end of last year, an Administrative Law Judge issued an initial ruling that Motorola’s mobile devices infringe a bit of Microsoft’s IP. Now, the Commission has affirmed that decision and issued an [...]
Swipe Safari brings OS X Lion inspired functionality to Mobile Safari
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Swipe Safari brings OS X Lion inspired functionality to Mobile Safari Meet the brand new Safari. No, Apple hasn’t made any upgrades to Safari themselves, but you can gain a significantly better Safari browser right now by installing Swipe Safari – a new jailbreak tweak that just touched down on [...]
GameStop Mobile launches as AT&T virtual carrier, gives us rare bring-your-own GSM in US
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GameStop Mobile launches as AT&T virtual carrier, gives us rare bring-your-own GSM in US Here’s an expansion of mobile competition in the US that comes out of left field, even for us: GameStop as a mobileular provider. GameStop Mobile, as it’s called, is that rare bird of an AT&T-based MVNO that [...]
Will Windows 8 Work Out For The Average PC User’
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Will Windows 8 Work Out For The Average PC User’ With Windows 8 set for launch later this year, the debate is still raging on about the relatively radical design changes implemented by Microsoft in the OS. Now, before I go on, I want to note that I’m not the type that’s resistant to change. [...]