Android Market is dead. Long live Google Play! Today, Google announced that it is changing the name of its Android Market to Google Play, a move it hopes better reflects that the marketplace now offers more than apps, with content like books, video and music available even to those who aren’t using Android.
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This is from FOX News so take it with a grain of salt.
Law enforcement agents on two continents swooped in on top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec early this morning, and acting largely on evidence gathered by the organization’s brazen leader -- who sources say has been secretly working for the government for months -- arrested three and charged two more with conspiracy.
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Google's controversial new privacy policy goes into effect today, and depending on which part of the Internet you're in, it's either a blessing or an act of war against our personal information. There's a lot of confusion out there, and chances are anyone who says they understand it all are probably not being very truthful.
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Recently there's been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business. Specifically, there have been rumors that the company has been toying with the idea of creating a proper set-top console which could potentially pose a threat to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Anonymous supporters who willingly enlisted their personal computers to launch denial-of-service attacks against the groups' enemies may have unwillingly donated their personal banking information in the process.
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When Assassin's Creed III hits store shelves on October 30, 2012, players may be surprised to find the series making the jump from its traditional setting of Renaissance Europe to Revolutionary War-era America.
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Microsoft officially releases Windows 8 Consumer Preview, giving Windows users a chance to take an early test drive of the forthcoming new edition of the Windows OS for themselves. Just when Windows users grew comfortable with Windows 7, and the bad memories of Windows Vista were almost forgotten, today Microsoft quietly announced the release of the Consumer Preview for its latest and greatest version of Windows – Windows 8.
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Sure, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Minecraft are both pretty popular (to put it mildly), so if you combine both games into one, you’ll have the greatest game ever made, right?
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Lightweight program frees Pandora from your browser so that you can listen to Pandora streaming radio from your desktop with nearly all the features, functions, and controls available on the full Pandora.com site.
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MegaUpload's demise has been rather traumatic for the cyberlocker world. Some big sites simply shut down, other disabled third-party downloads, some removed their paid uploads program.
Now, it seems that RapidShare, one of the biggest cyberlocker sites and not exactly a favorite of the entertainment industry, is reacting as well.
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Battlefield 3 players have reached a boiling point, as a major community website has given Electronic Arts and DICE, the publisher and developer of the recent shooter, an ultimatum, asking the two companies to communicate with their fans in a proper manner.
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A group of more than 30 rightsholders have won their case targeted against Grooveshark in Denmark. A court agreed that both the streaming music service and its users infringe recording label copyrights and granted an injunction forcing an ISP to initiate a block of the service. The anti-piracy group behind the action hopes that other ISPs will now follow suit.
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Re: Last one to post wins the internets
That's your smoking gun, kev? A symbolic gesture and a photo op.
megabyteme Today, 02:42 AM