MacBook Pro Gets Price Drop, Could Mean Refresh Is Ready for WWDC Unveil

Up until now, we were sorta, kinda expecting Apple to hit us with a MacBook Pro refresh at this year’s WWDC on June 11, but now we’re 99 percent sure. The laptop has been marked down $100 on Best Buy’s online store, signaling that a next generation model is right around the corner. The drop

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Amazon Offering $40 Credit With Verizon 4G LTE Phones

Amazon just started offering a $40 credit for anyone who purchases any of Verizon Wireless’s 4G LTE smartphones. The deal applies from handsets priced at just $0.01, such as the DROID RAZR or DROID BIONIC 4G, which means you’ll basically be paid to purchase the device, and even high-end best-sellers such as the Samsung Galaxy

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Chrome Surpasses Internet Explorer as Most Used Web Browser

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has long remained the top Web browser on the market, but it seems its glory days are long gone. According to StatCounter, a digital analytics site, Google Chrome pulled in 31.88 percent of the world’s Web traffic last week, making it the most popular browser available. IE barely trailed behind with 31.47

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Is Nikon’s Answer to Canon’s G1 X Coming Soon?

The fixed-lens point-and-shoot market has been forever altered by the release of the Canon PowerShot G1 X and Fujifilm X10. As I adumbrated earlier this year, sensors on point-and-shoots are getting larger, and they’re beginning to compete with DSLRs. I saw it on the Canon PowerShot G1 X and Fujifilm X10. Both of those models

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Nintendo Set to Stream E3 Presentation

Once again, Nintendo will be among the companies to stream their E3 presentation for the world to see. The confirmation of this year’s plans came to us today by way of press release. You can read that full thing by hitting the fancy button at the base of this post. Science! Nintendo’s show will kick

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Android 4.0 Now Available for T-Mobile’s HTC Amaze 4G

Attention HTC Amaze 4G owners, the wait for Ice Cream Sandwich is finally over. Starting today, T-Mobile is officially rolling out an over-the-air push to HTC Amaze 4Gs across the land, but if you’re unable to wait, you can initiate the software update via your phone’s settings. Please note that in order to get this

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Foxconn to Build $210 Million Dollar Production Line for Apple Products

Foxconn has announced that it is building a new $210 million dollar production line to produce unspecified Apple components in the city Huai’an in the eastern province of Jiangsu.

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U.K.’s Waterstones Scraps Plans to Release Own E-Reader, Will Sell Kindles Instead

Waterstones, the U.K.’s biggest bookseller, has scrapped plans to launch its own e-reader lineup and decided to partner up with Amazon to sell Kindle devices instead. The move will see Kindle e-readers introduced to over 300 Waterstones stores throughout the U.K. as part of the retailer’s big refurbishment. In many stores, Amazon’s device will get a

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Videographers Unite: 30 Min Recording Cap May Be Gone Soon

One of the most frustrating things about your digital camera is that it can’t record videos continuously for more than 29 minutes and 59 seconds. This applies to all digital cameras in existence, and is severely limiting to those who just want to set their camera up at a show and let it roll. In

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Cable Internet Providers Team Up for CableWiFi Initiative

If you’re looking to enjoy Wi-Fi access wherever you go, it looks like that may become more of a reality in the near future if you subscribe to the right provider.

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Borderlands 2 Set to Host Massive Variety of Enemy Types

I loved the original Borderlands. The combination of solid first person shooter gameplay, multiplayer gaming and sweet, sweet loot made it one of my favorite games to launch for this generation of consoles. Playing the title, though, left me with two major complaints: the game’s story was terrible and there wasn’t enough diversity. When I

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Sony Xperia U Coming to Three U.K. From £15 Per Month [Update]

Three U.K. has confirmed that it will soon be offering the new Sony Xperia U on contracts starting from just £15 (approx. $24) per month. The handset will be free, as long as you’re willing to sign up for a two-year commitment. Alternatively, Three is also offering the handset with a pay-as-you-go SIM for just

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Samsung Now Blocking S Voice Requests From Unsupported Devices (UPDATED – Work Around Found)

Samsung has begun blocking S Voice requests from unsupported devices after its flagship voice-controlled assistant was leaked online yesterday.

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iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak Just Days Away From Public Release

If you’re the owner of an iOS device and you’ve been installing Apple’s latest software updates, you’ve probably been waiting for the latest untethered jailbreak for many, many months. But thankfully that wait is nearly over. Chronic Dev Team member Pod2g has confirmed on Twitter that the latest iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak is “near ready

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Samsung Galaxy Note Olympic Games Edition Leaked Ahead of Launch

Samsung confirmed it would be an official partner for this year’s Olympic Games during its Galaxy S III unveiling earlier this month, and the Korean company is going all out to show its support. It will be producing a number of special edition handsets to celebrate the event, one of which has surfaced ahead of

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HTC Phones Beginning to be Released by U.S. Customs

Good news for those looking for out-of-stock HTC phones: U.S. customs have started releasing them.

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Samsung Mobile Chief Sees Some Hope in the Patent Wars with Apple

On the eve of court-mandated talks between Apple and Samsung, the Korean manufacturer offers a glimmer of hope.

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Why You Should Always Backup Your Data: A Cautionary Tale from Pixar (video)

If you ever needed a cautionary tale about making sure your backups are in order, make sure you watch this story from Pixar about how it almost lost all of Toy Story 2.

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T-Mobile: People Don’t Want “One Size Fits All” Shared Data Plans

T-Mobile is in no way, shape or form moving toward shared family data plans, even if other players in the industry are. Following news that Verizon is nixing grandfathered unlimited data in favor of shared family data plans, Andrew Sherrard, T-Mobile Senior Vice President of Marketing, said it just ain’t gonna happen on its network.

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Connecting Your Mobile Device to Your TV – Tech Savvy Episode 3

Connecting Your Mobile Device to Your TV — powered by ehow Jon Rettinger returns with another episode of Tech Savvy, his new show on eHow. In this episode, Jon discusses the easiest ways to connect your mobile device to your TV to show off pictures of your dog, or play Angry Birds on a large screen.

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Doctors Without Distraction: Is Hyper-Connectivity Bad for Health Care?

Do it all, hyper-connected mobile devices just might be as distracting and dangerous as they are useful and utopian.

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Japanese Scientists Break Speed Record – Hit Fastest Wi-Fi Known to Man

Japanese scientists are a crafty bunch, and this time, they’ve gone where no Wi-Fi users have gone before: They’ve managed to hit a new threshold in wireless Internet speeds using something called the T-ray band, a non traditional terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Ranging from 300 gigahertz to 3 terahertz bands, T-ray allowed the

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Google Agrees to Keep Android Free and Open for Five Years

For Google to secure the approval of Chinese authorities to purchase Motorola Mobility, it had to guarantee that Android would remain free and open for five more years.

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Berry Pink Galaxy Note Headed to the U.K. in June

Those of you in the U.K. who have hoped to pick up the Berry Pink Galaxy Note are in luck. It appears to be heading your way in June.

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Nokia Lumia 900 Screen is Tough as Nails (Video)

Just how tough is the screen on the Nokia Lumia 900?  Well, have you tried the hammer app yet? Despite the Techcraver YouTube channel giving a demonstration of the phone being able to survive nails being pounded against, or, in turn, using the phone as the hammer, we wouldn’t recommend you attempt this yourself.  That

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