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Software defined storage: the 'missing link'
VMware caught the IT industry's attention when it acquired software-defined networking start-up Nicira for $1.2 billion in July last year. The move kickstarted the virtualisation giant's strategic rebranding around the 'software-defined data centre', which looks to virtualise all IT infrastructure so that computing,...
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After hack attacks, Twitter decides it's time for two-step authentication
It took several high profile hacks, but Twitter is finally rolling out two-step authentication to insure a modicum of user security. The microblogging platform played down account compromises as occasional occurrences in its announcement today, saying that every so often account owners alert it to email phishing...
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Hands-on review: CTIA 2013: Lumia 928
Here in Vegas for CTIA 2013, Nokia continues to go all in on Windows Phone 8. The Lumia 928 is its latest plastic rectangle sporting Microsoft's mobile OS. It's a 4G LTE device exclusive to Verizon and it's available now for $99 with two-year agreement. Actually, you can get it even cheaper than that. Amazon...
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Apple to cowboy up with Made-in-the-USA Macs built in Texas
Apple's decision to bring Mac production back to America is a big move for the company, and it turns out the Made-in-the-USA Mac is going to be assembled in the equally big state of Texas. "We're investing $100 million to build a Mac product line here in the U.S.," Cook said in testimony before a U.S. Senate panel...
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AMD launches new mobile chips: will they be in your next laptop or tablet?
Under ever-increasing pressure from Intel, AMD has formally announced its yearly refresh of its mobile processors. Known as APUs (Accelerated Processing Units), the hybrid GPU and CPU chips will be branded A4 and E2 at the value end of the market, and A6, A8 and A10 for performance laptops and what AMD calls...
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Hands-on review: Xbox One Gamepad
Following a full day of presentations, interviews, tours, tech demos, and teases of the Xbox One's game-changing potential, the powers that be at Microsoft finally let us get our mitts on the new hardware's controller. While our time behind the gamepad doesn't allow us to tear up the blacktop in Forza 5 or command...
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EA: On second thought, some Wii U games are in development
Electronic Arts is focusing on games for Xbox One and PS4 and current generation consoles, but is still making software for Wii U, according to the company's chief financial officer. "We are building titles for the Nintendo console, but not anywhere near as many as we are for PS or Xbox," admitted EA CFO Blake...
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Unearth trends and useless facts alike with Google's new Top Charts
Google revealed a new feature of Google Trends today, announcing that Top Charts will now be published every month. The Top Charts are similar to Google's annual Zeitgeist feature wherein Google publishes a year's worth of search trends every December. The new Top Charts will do the same, only monthly. Google's...
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Government pushes back rural broadband deadline
The Government is providing an extra three weeks for proposals to win a share of the third tranche of the Rural Community Broadband Fund. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which is administering the fund, says that anyone after a slice of the £20 million pie now has until June 17 rather...
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New Pandora, Facebook integration takes advantage of new music tab
Pandora today announced a new form of Facebook integration for Pandora mobile apps on iOS and Android and the official Pandora web music player. Pandora sharing to Facebook has existed for some time, but the new social integration is "effortless," wrote Pandora's chief technology officer and executive vice president...
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Blip: Chrome sparks up a conversation, Siri gets jealous
Chrome users are in for a bit of fun today - the conversational voice search shown off at Google I/O is now live with the Chrome 27 update. This means Chrome will respond to you when using voice search function. All users need to do is go to Google.com, clock the mic icon and grant permission to the new feature. And...
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Review: Nook HD+
IntroductionWith the Nook HD, US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble entered the wide-open 7-inch tablet market, but with the 9-inch Nook HD+ it faces a single and much more daunting foe. The full-sized tablet market continues to be thoroughly dominated by the device that defined it - Apple's peerless iPad. When...
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Tutorial: How to connect to your PC remotely with TeamViewer
Here's a familiar yet nightmarish scenario: you've burned the midnight oil to write up that report your boss has demanded for first thing in the morning, but when you get to work you discover you've left the file on your PC's desktop. What should you do? Resign, plead for mercy or just run? Well the answer - if...
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Twitter lands 'pull to refresh' patent but says it won't chase the copycats
Twitter has been granted a patent for its "pull to refresh" feature. That's right, the one that everyone else already uses anyway. It will be the first feature to utilise Twitter's Innovators Patent Agreement (IPA), announced last year, which means that any features designed by developers working for Twitter will...
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In Depth: Is Steam evil?
Is Steam evil?I'm warming my hands over the fire made from the last of my furniture when my phone bings. It's an assignment! From my favourite editor! Starvation allayed for another day! Yet my face falls as I read it: "Prove Steam is evil." My penury means I can't refuse it but... it's mad. Everyone knows Valve is...
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Xbox One Kinect isn't an Orwellian spy tool
Microsoft might have calmed gamers' fears by confirming that the Xbox One won't need an "always on" internet connection to play, but the new console will still require Kinect to actually function. Naturally, this has sparked some concern that Kinect will be always watching you in your living room like some...
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Big Tent: Miliband: 'Google does great things but it is wrong to avoid tax'
Labour leader Ed Miliband offered a damning indictment of Google's attitude to UK tax law at the US company's own Big Tent industry event this morning, while celebrating Google for its innovations. After praising Google's distribution of Raspberry Pi devices to schools and the open source nature of Android, he...
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Vimeo and Flickr could be integrated in iOS 7
Reports have surfaced that Flickr and Vimeo will be deeply integrated into iOS 7, after deals were struck between the respective companies and Apple. 9to5Mac claims that an unnamed source has confirmed deep integration of Flickr and Vimeo into iOS 7, allowing users to stay signed in using the dedicated Settings app...
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Chrome team bringing app launcher love to Mac
We've known for some time that Google has been looking to bring some of its Chrome OS features to other operating systems, and now new information all-but-confirms that a Mac version of the Chrome OS app launcher is on its way. The leak came from Chrome engineer François Beaufort, who also provided a picture and a...
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Xbox One's next-gen Kinect is coming to Windows
Xbox One won't be the only one getting in on the next generation of motion-tracking – the new version of Kinect will also be coming to Windows PCs. Kinect program manager Scott Evans told Shacknews that Microsoft "will bring [Kinect] to PC", adding that there will be more information "soon". While a firmer date...
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Dell abandons IaaS public cloud
Dell has given its cloud strategy a shake-up by discontinuing its Infrastructure-as-a-Service public cloud "in favour of best-in-class partner offerings" through its IaaS Cloud Partner Programme. It says in a blogpost that solely focusing on partners to provide public clouds in Europe will allow it to speed up its...
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Cortado raises cloud printing stakes
Cloud service provider Cortado is out to extend its role in the market for cloud printing services with the launch of ThinPrint Cloud Printer. It works through an app that can be downloaded onto mobile devices or remote desktops and makes it possible to operate any printer through the cloud. The company is going out...
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Vodafone confirms no 4G network launch until the end of summer
Vodafone will not roll out its 4G LTE network until "after the end of the summer," the company claimed on Monday. The network won big in the 4G spectrum auction earlier in this year, but wants to make sure its infrastructure is ready before offering next-gen speeds to customers. It had widely been expected to open...
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Finding the time for cyber security
Possibly the most disturbing feature to emerge from the Federation of Small Businesses' (FSB) new cyber security report is that making computer systems secure can be a complex and time consuming process that a lot of small firms can't manage. Cyber Security and Fraud: the impact on small business, makes it clear...
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Xbox Reveal: The Xbox One's TV functions will work in Australia at some point
With the big Xbox One reveal, Microsoft took a lot of time to emphasise the entertainment functions of the console But in an interview with TechRadar, Adam Pollington, Marketing manager at Microsoft Australia, explained that the rollout of the TV features won't happen straight away. "The goal is definitely to roll...
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Xbox Reveal: How to jump in line for the Xbox One
If you just can't wait until "later this year" to put your order in for the Xbox One, you've got a duo of options to jump on the bandwagon at this very moment. The Microsoft Store is taking pre-order notification sign ups, meaning you can enter your email address to receive an alert about when you can actually...
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In Depth: PS4 vs Xbox One: which is better?
The first shots have been fired in the PS4 vs Xbox One console war now that both Sony and Microsoft have announced their next-generation systems. While Sony confirmed the PlayStation 4 specs back in February, Microsoft is only now drawing its line in the sand by unveiling the Xbox One specs. To its credit, though,...
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Review: Huawei Ascend G510
IntroductionThe Huawei Ascend G510 sits somewhere in the middle of the Chinese company's Android range, squaring off against the likes of the Sony Xperia U, LG Optimus L5 II and the Windows-toting Nokia Lumia 620. Huawei, the name everyone knows but no one can pronounce, has established itself as a company no longer...
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Xbox Reveal: Microsoft reveals Xbox One, its all new console
The day has finally arrived - after all the speculation, Microsoft has lifted the veil off the new Xbox. It's called the Xbox One and it's Microsoft's effort to put the user at the center of the entertainment experience. Unlike the PS4 reveal, we actually got a look at the console during today's Redmond, Wash....
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XBOX REveal: Xbox One hosting live action Halo TV created with Steven Spielberg
343 Industries general manager Bonnie Ross took the stage today at the Xbox One reveal to tease a live action Halo TV show only referred to as Halo: The Television Series. "At 343, we've put a lot of thought into how we want to evolve storytelling on Xbox One," she said. "I'm excited by the potential of merging the...
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