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Microsoft Unveils Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 Tablets
Even though Microsoft wrote down the value of their Surface tablet inventory by $900 million back in July and slashed the retail price of their tablet offerings to try to increase sales, they haven’t given up on their entry into the tablet market. On Monday, Microsoft launched their second salvo in the tablet market by unveiling their new and improved Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets.
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BlackBerry Sold for $4.7 Billion
Just when you thought BlackBerry might be dead after their weekend from hell, it looks like that a consortium of buyers still see some life in the old girl yet. A group led by BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings, will buy the outstanding shares of BlackBerry in an all-cash deal totaling $4.7 billion.
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BlackBerry and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend
Just when you thought that BlackBerry was turning a corner and making a comeback with the launch of BlackBerry 10 earlier this year, it turns out that the only way they can make news is when things go catastrophically badly for them. BlackBerry stole the Friday and Saturday headlines from Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5S with announcements of $1 billion in inventory write-downs, a massive staff cut and the failure to launch of BBM.
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Facebook Likes Considered Free Speech
It’s not something that you would think of as a hot button human rights issue but a US court has ruled that using the Like button on Facebook constitutes exercising the right to free speech and is deserving of the same protections as afforded other substantive speech.
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Canadian Mobile Phone Companies to Provide Government Access to Data
It’s not just the NSA and the United States government that are monitoring your data. Ahead of this week’s wireless airwave license auction, the Canadian government has required all phone companies bidding to agree to allow the government access to data transmitted on their networks, including the monitoring of phone calls.
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Apple Announces the iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C and iOS 7
The worst kept secret in the mobile world was made official yesterday. The next phones in Apple’s line-up are the iPhone 5S and the budget-conscious iPhone 5C. Both will be running on the latest mobile operating system from Apple, iOS 7.
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Microsoft to Buy Nokia for $7.2 Billion
Microsoft and Nokia have been fairly reliant on each other in the smartphone market for a while now with Microsoft trying to make a dent with their Windows Phone OS and Nokia trying to differentiate itself from the scads of Android running competition. It only made sense that their alliance was made a bit more formal.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it is buying most of Nokia, including the devices and services division of the company and a licensing deal for the company’s patents and mapping service, for just under $7.2 billion.
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US Congress Investigating Bitcoin
You’ve heard of Bitcoin and you might even actually understand how Bitcoin works but that doesn’t mean that it’s above scrutiny. The US Congress has launched an investigation into Bitcoin and the world virtual currencies to gain understanding of them and determine what, if any, regulations should be placed on them.
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Report: Apple’s Next Big Announcement on September 10th
Apple fans, mark your calendars. AllThingsD say that their sources tell them that Apple is planning its next big announcement on September 10th.
The expected big news to come from this year’s big iPhone event is Apple launching a lower-priced iPhone 5 to compete with some of the lower cost offerings running Android and Windows Phone without selling year-old models at a marginally lower price.
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Obama Administration Considering Making Streaming a Felony
A part of the defeated SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation has been recommended to make a return to Congress to become law.
The Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force issued a report last week recommending the implementation a part of SOPA that would make the illegal streaming of copyrighted works a felony.
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