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AT&T 4G LTE NETWORK REACHES MORE THAN 300 MILLION PEOPLE

AT&T 4G LTE NETWORK REACHES MORE THAN 300 MILLION PEOPLE

September 6, 2014 | Comments Off on AT&T 4G LTE NETWORK REACHES MORE THAN 300 MILLION PEOPLE

DALLAS, sept. 4, 2014 — AT&T* announced today that its 4G LTE network – the nation’s most reliable — now reaches more than 300 million Americans.*

“The strong performance we saw in our mobility business in the second quarter is continuing, not only because of our new service and device plans, but because more customers can get it all on a fast, reliable 4G LTE network that now covers more than 300 million Americans,” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO. “Great service and strong customer loyalty begin with having a great mobile network for customers where they live. That’s our number one priority and that’s why our mobile business is hitting on all cylinders.” …


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Apple TV Live Streams iPhone 6 Release

Apple TV Live Streams iPhone 6 Release

September 4, 2014 | Comments Off on Apple TV Live Streams iPhone 6 Release

 Dan Moren@dmoren  Sep 4, 2014 11:35 AM
On the off chance that you can’t tune in to the usual witty banter between yours truly and our own editorial director, Jason Snell, as we live blog September 9’s Apple event, good news: Apple will be streaming the whole shindig on its site, in living color.The page, posted on Thursday, features a countdown clock, merrily ticking away the seconds, minutes, hours, and days until Apple releases, well, whatever the heck it’s going to release. Apple promises that live video from the event “will be right here,” adding tantalizingly, “And so will a whole lot more.” The stream kicks off at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern on Tues.

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Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: AI Cage Match

Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: AI Cage Match

September 4, 2014 | Comments Off on Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: AI Cage Match

Hi Cortana

by    @jdolcourt  April 14, 2014 5:00 AM PDT

Not everyone likes speaking commands into their phone, but for those who do, Microsoft’s new Cortana voice assistant for Windows Phone 8.1 is exactly the viable competitor to Apple’s Siri and Google Now that the company needs to keep its Windows Phone OS current.

Like Siri and, to a lesser extent, Google’s voice actions, Cortana is a personable (or vaguely person-like) voice-activated system for taking dictation, looking things up, and opening apps. (Yes, Halo fans — Cortana is named for Master Chief’s AI companion, and even voiced by the same talent: actress Jen Taylor.) Even in its early beta stage, Cortana mostly keeps pace with its rivals, and introduces one or two minor innovations that Apple and Google can learn from.

While Cortana isn’t revolutionizing the field of voice assistants, it does give Windows phones a sorely-needed boost in the voice option department — the previous generation, fueled by TellMe, was limited and impersonal. Out of all the additions to the Windows Phone 8.1, it’s Cortana that pulls the most weight keeping the Windows Phone in the OS game.

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Five ways to keep your student's digital life safe

Five ways to keep your student's digital life safe

August 29, 2014 | Comments Off on Five ways to keep your student's digital life safe

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Christopher Breen
  • Aug 20, 2014 6:00 AM

As students return to school, technology goes with them. That technology—and the data generated by it—is valuable not simply as a means for getting school work done, but also as entertainment for those brief hours between one assignment and the next. It’s for this reason that it pays to plan for disaster. With a single massive power burst, storage media that suddenly heads south, or interaction with a light-fingered ne’er-do-well, the technology your student depends on can vanish. Take these five tips to heart, however, and the loss of a device or data need not be catastrophic.

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What to expect from Apple's September 9 event

What to expect from Apple's September 9 event

August 29, 2014 | Comments Off on What to expect from Apple's September 9 event

Dan Moren@dmoren
Roll them bones, strain the tea leaves, and consult your crystal balls. WithApple’s September 9 event now a matter of public record, the only sensible way to while away the hours over the next week and a half is to speculate about what precisely the company might have hidden up its sleeves strange temporary building.There are any number of rumors afoot about what Apple has in the works, but that doesn’t mean that every single theoretical device from Cupertino will pop up at September’s event. But there are certainly plenty of options to choose from, especially given Apple’s coy “wish we could say more” invitation.

 

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Gizmodo Comparison Chart of TV Streaming Devices

Gizmodo Comparison Chart of TV Streaming Devices

August 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Gizmodo Comparison Chart of TV Streaming Devices

 

 

 

 

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Will Roku bring smart TVs into the cool crowd?

Will Roku bring smart TVs into the cool crowd?

August 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Will Roku bring smart TVs into the cool crowd?

Low-price Hisense and TCL sets with Roku’s brains built in may have the best shot yet at moving smart TVs from niche shopping consideration to popular norm.

Smart TVs have long been exiled to the outcast table, but Roku televisions may be arriving at just the right time and the right price — cheap — to move connected televisions into the mainstream.

Roku is integrating its popular TV streaming-box capabilities for the first time into television sets from TCL and Hisense, big Chinese manufacturers that are making their largest concerted pushes into the US with the Roku lines. Originally announced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, Roku sets from TCL are now available for preorder from Amazon and to be sold by major retailers in the coming weeks, with the Hisense TVs set to hit stores late next month, the companies said Monday.

Most importantly, they’re priced to move. A 32-inch set from TCL, for example, costs $229.

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Steve Balmer Leaves Microsoft Board

Steve Balmer Leaves Microsoft Board

August 20, 2014 | Comments Off on Steve Balmer Leaves Microsoft Board

Former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer quit his post as a company director after 14 years, giving new CEO Satya Nadella an even freer hand to reshape the company.

Mr. Ballmer, fresh off his $2 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise, indicated that his duties as team owner, among other interests, wouldn’t leave enough time to stay on Microsoft’s board.

“I think it would be impractical for me to continue to serve on the board, and it is best for me to move off,” Mr. Ballmer said in a public letter to Mr. Nadella, who became CEO in February. “I see a combination of the Clippers, civic contribution, teaching and study taking a lot of time.”

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Meet the new, reversible USB!

Meet the new, reversible USB!

August 15, 2014 | Comments Off on Meet the new, reversible USB!

USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced that it has finalised its redesign of the USB.

Called USB Type-C, the specification — which was announced last December — aims to solve several problems with current USB design; possibly the most exciting of which is the eradication of “right way up” with a reversible plug. Like Apple’s Lightning connector, it can be plugged into its port either way.

The new USB is also designed both to be small enough to fit mobile devices, yet robust enough for laptops and tablets.

“Interest in the USB Type-C connector has not only been global, but cross-industry as well,” said USB 3.0 Promoter Group chairman Brad Saunders. “Representatives from the PC, mobile, automotive and IoT industries have been knocking down our door anticipating this new standard. This specification is the culmination of an extensive, cooperative effort among industry leaders to standardize the next generation USB connector as a long-lasting, robust solution.”

The USB is comparable in size with micro USB 2.0 Type-B connectors, with a port size of 8.4 by 2.6mm, yet will be compatible with

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Finally A Good Use for Touch ID:1Password

Finally A Good Use for Touch ID:1Password

August 15, 2014 | Comments Off on Finally A Good Use for Touch ID:1Password

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By Jason D. O’Grady for The Apple Core |

At WWDC14 Apple announced that it was opening up Touch ID to all developers.AgileBits, developer popular password vault 1Password, has demonstrated several promising new applications of the biometric fingerprint sensor built into the home button on the iPhone 5s.

In a blog post and accompanying video, AgileBits shows how Touch ID can be used to:

  1. unlock the 1Password app (replacing the master password)
  2. enter passwords in Safari (via the 1Password browser extension), and
  3. enter login credentials into third-party iOS apps (via the 1Password app extension)

Make no mistake about it, this is revolutionary. These three features alone make Touch ID a viable and powerful security technology, a generation ahead of the anemic unlock code and App Store purchases that Touch ID is limited to today.

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