BlackBerry sales tumble 64% amid weak BB10 adoption

BlackBerry CEO John Chen speaking at an event at Mobile World Congress in late February. BlackBerry continues to struggle in getting customers to adopt its newer BlackBerry 10 platform. The embattled smartphone maker posted a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $423...

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Amazon launches new way to work in the cloud

A screenshot showing what WorkSpaces access looks like from a Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon Web Services If your company has adopted Amazon Web Services, you could find yourself using Amazon's new WorkSpaces to access...

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Microsoft 'EMS' biz suite due, for 'bring your own device' scenarios

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to unveil the long-rumored Microsoft Office for iPad suite on March 27. But there's another Microsoft "suite" that I'm hearing will debut on March 27, too. That suite, a licensing bundle known as the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS),...

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NASA spots Washington mudslide from space

NASA took this photo of Oso, Wash., on March 23. NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen A tragic and massive landslide in rural Washington state this week cut off the tiny town of Oso while also claiming lives and property....

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Box builds out platform with first standalone service Box View

Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie at Box Dev 2014. Nick Statt/CNET ...

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Microsoft's new CEO to host press event on Thursday

Microsoft may finally unveil its long-awaited Office for iPad this Thursday.An email sent Monday from Microsoft to members of the press confirmed the briefing for March 27 in San Francisco with new CEO Satya Nadella delivering the opening remarks. The topic of the event will be "news focused on...

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Android app pirates plead guilty to copyright infringement

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Tumblr boosts security with two-factor authentication

(Tumblr introduces two-factor authentication. Tumblr)Tumblr has joined the ranks of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Dropbox, and many others in beefing up users' online security with two-factor authentication. The blogging platform announced on Monday...

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3 Spritz-like speed-reading apps for Android

When the Samsung Galaxy S5 was announced, details emerged about Spritz -- a speed-reading feature that comes built-in to some apps on the phone. Spritz uses rapid serial visual presentation, or RSVP, to display words one after another using a single focal point. The company calls this point the...

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Obama said to announce legislation halting NSA’s phone record collecting

Major legislative proposals to the government’s surveillance programs -- specifically those that gather bulk call data on US residents -- are expected to be revealed this week. The days of the National Security Agency's bulk phone record collecting...

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Firefox 28 aims for easier media playback

  Firefox 28 debuts with an emphasis on under-the-hood improvements to keep the browser in line with the latest plug-in-free media playback tools. VP9 decoding and Opus support in WebM keeps Firefox current with the royalty-free codecs that power media playback in HTML5. They're...

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iPad with Retina Display makes $399 comeback, knocks out iPad 2

Apple tweaked its iPad lineup Tuesday morning, bringing back the fourth-generation iPad with Retina Display in place of the elderly iPad 2. Available with only 16GB of storage, the comeback tablet is listed on Apple's US Web site either with just Wi-Fi for $399, or with Wi-Fi and cellular...

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Moga iPhone controller makes unique gift

The Moga Ace Power game controller plays well with iOS 7, Filip smartwatch for kids gives parents piece of mind, and students get free Sprint mobile service at Best Buy.   Price Range  $79.99 to $99.99 The good: The Moga Ace Power adds dual analog sticks and tons...

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Facebook makes wrong call on anti-Semitic page

 Facebook's refusal to delete a page about "Jewish Ritual Murder" rekindles a simmering debate over how to respond when bigots use social networks to spread racist speech and hateful propaganda. For the past several years, Facebook and several other prominent social-media companies have...

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What are the biggest issues with Wii U, PS4, Xbox One?

Troubleshooting service Fixya has released a new report on the issues affecting today's latest game consoles, and the results aren't pretty. Fixya combed through 40,000 troubleshooting requests shared on its Web site and found that 35 percent of Wii U owners complain of freezing problems, while...

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US government begins loosening decades-old grip on the Internet

(ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade) After incubating the Internet and overseeing it for decades, the US government announced Friday it's releasing the last elements of control it has. The Department of Commerce originally handled core parts of the Internet, but gradually backed away from those duties...

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Transcend gives Mac Pro a 128GB memory upgrade option

  For folks like video editors who really, really need a lot of memory, Transcend announced new memory modules that can bring Apple's new Mac Pro machines up to 128GB. The option doubles the 64GB of RAM available in Mac Pros from Apple, but there's a catch: the DDR3 memory modules have a...

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Mozilla kills Metro version of Firefox, citing low interest

After more than two years of work, Mozilla has scrapped its effort to build a Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8, saying that users have shown almost no interest. Microsoft designed what it previously called the Metro interface for touch-screen devices like tablets and introduced...

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Flipboard

Flipboard is a social-network aggregation, magazine-format application software for Android, Windows 8, Blackberry 10[2] and iOS operating systems. The software collects content from social media and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through their social-networking...

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Apple's 'spaceship' campus architect dishes details

Stanford University's campus has a large central quad full of plants, flowers, trees, and pedestrian walkways -- this was Apple late co-founder Steve Jobs' vision for the design of the company's upcoming futuristic spaceship-like campus. Architecture firm Foster + Partners is heading the project...

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Snowden at SXSW: The NSA set fire to the future of the Internet

  Edward Snowden accused the National Security Agency and the US government today of "setting fire to the future of the Internet." In a high-profile video appearance at the South by Southwest festival -- his video was beamed over Google Hangout from Russia to Austin, Texas, apparently jokingly...

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HOW TO ROOT TECNO P3 AND P5 ANDROID PHONES

  1 -Download and install the Android SDKfrom Google and install the USB drivers package and Android tools.2 -If it is not present, download the fastboot.exe file (available on various places online, like here) and place it in the SDK/Tools (or Platform-Tools) folder. This will be the same...

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Aviate organizes the Android apps you want, when you want (hands-on)

Aviate is a free Android launcher that transforms your home screen to show you apps it thinks might be useful, depending on where you are and the time of day. It does that by grouping your apps into themed collections, such as Home, Morning routine, Photography, and Going somewhere, and then will...

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Use EasyDownloader to save Instagram photos, videos

When you're checking out Instagram in a Web browser, it's easy to save a photo that you like. Videos might require a bit more work, but are still relatively simple to obtain. However, when you're using an Android device, saving photos and videos is a bit more difficult. Your choices are to crop...

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Disney Interactive lays off 700 workers, adios social gaming

After dismal earnings, Disney announced Thursday that it's laying off one quarter of its gaming and Internet division -- that's about 700 people, according to the Associated Press. The cuts are in the company's Interactive unit and will most likely affect people who work on Disney's social games,...

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Microsoft leaks Windows 8.1 update early

The rumored Windows 8.1 update is here -- sort of. The official update isn't expected until April 8, but numerous reports on Thursday are claiming that by jumping through a few hoops, it can be installed. But it's not recommended. One method that reportedly works involves making changes to the...

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Drones allowed to fly the US skies, for now

Drone enthusiasts should get flying while they can. All commercial use of small drones became legal in the US on Thursday -- but it's unclear how long it will last. National Transportation Safety Board Judge Patrick Geraghty ruled Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration's six-year ban...

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Microsoft plans to patch critical Windows, IE bugs next week

Microsoft has marked two of the five security updates it plans to release next week as "critical," including one that addresses a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is currently being exploited in the wild. One of the updates announced in a security bulletin Thursday will patch a flaw...

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