The much awaited December security update released by Microsoft comes with 13 security bulletins that fix three critical security flaws, including the one utilized by the now infamous Duqu malware.
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Phone addicts may have their days of chatting and texting while driving numbered.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a recommendation Tuesday that urged a nationwide ban of all non-driving-related use of portable electronic devices, including ones that can be operated hands-free, while driving a vehicle.
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Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, passed $1 billion in sales in just 16 days, according to Activision Blizzard, the game’s distributor. Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment of the game, took 60 days to reach the same milestone.
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A man described as the main administrator of movie streaming portal Kino.to has been sentenced to 3 years in jail for criminal copyright infringement. The 27-year-old is said to have made around 230,000 euros profit from the site, which was shut down earlier this year as part of the biggest anti-piracy operation ever to take place on European soil.
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Sony is making the PlayStation Vita at a Chinese factory. And, surprise, another Chinese company is releasing a new device that looks an awful lot like the Vita. Anyone remember the iPed?
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Motorola has officially acknowledged a win against Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. after a German court ruled that Apple’s European sales office is infringing one of Motorola Mobility's core cellular communications patents.
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Microsoft has the right to kill/delete any Metro style app in Windows 8. Recently, it has been discovered that Microsoft holds the right to kill any app installed in Windows 8 powered device downloaded from Windows Store.
Microsoft might have its founder and former CEO Bill Gates back to working for the company, so as to give it a boost that it so much needs; at least this is what Fortune says.
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OnLive, the pioneer streaming game service, yesterday (Dec. 8) launched an app for touch-screen tablets and smartphones, bringing casual gamers into the fold. The company has reprogrammed 25 of its games for handheld devices that were previously only available to PC and game console users.
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It seems that the copyright infringement issue picks up a new facet every day. Reportedly, in the future advertising networks could be accused of contributing to copyright infringement on websites if they facilitate that infringement (by financially aiding filesharing websites).
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The free version of uTorrent just came out with a new stable release that adds a media player and support for external devices such as smart phones and game consoles. On the same day, BitTorrent Inc. also made their paid client uTorrent Plus available to the public. For $24.95 uTorrent Plus gives users extra features such as file-conversion and a built-in virus scanner.
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Android Market, the official, Google-sanctioned app marketplace for Android, is announcing a major milestone today: 10 billion total downloads. More important, the rate of growth is surging. Google says that it’s now seeing 1 billion app installs every 30 days.
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You’ve wreaked havoc on Liberty City before — but have you ever done it on your phone? Just imagine it! You can hijack a (virtual) taxi… while in an (actual) taxi! It’s all of that good ol’ early 2000′s controversy, on the go!
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