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Examiner.com
Microsoft Virtual-Reality Glasses patent surfaces
Examiner.com
The console manufacturer seeks means to augment game reality through the use of special glasses. Related topics. Video Game News · Microsoft · patent · Multiplayer. Advertisement. A 2012 Microsoft patent for virtual reality glasses surfaced today, according ...

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Just Push Start
EverQuest's Next Landmark
Forbes Digital Download (blog)
EverQuest Next Since 2009, Sony Online Entertainment has been promising fans of the online role-playing game EverQuest that the 14-year old franchise would get a much-needed facelift. Today they took off the bandages –and surprised players with news ...
Sony Online Entertainment Everquest NextVentureBeat
SOE Live: EverQuest Next shocker - two EQ games comethDestructoid
SOE Live 2013: Introducing EverQuest Next LandmarkJoystiq
Kotaku -IGN -Just Push Start
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NDTV
Twitter Boosts Web-Based Search Results
PC Magazine
Twitter is beefing up its search results page with the addition of photos and accounts, as well as recent searches and social context as you type a query. Most notably, photos now appear in the results timeline, offering thumbnail shots of images that would ...
Twitter improves Web search with photos, contextCNET
Twitter Search Overhaul: Find a Tweet, Now with Photos and ContextDesign & Trend
Twitter Search Updated With Photo ResultsUbergizmo
NDTV -Broadway World -Engadget
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Times of India
Thanks, Moto X: Google finally announces its own Android phone tracking tool
VentureBeat
It may have taken it whole, but Google finally has its own Android phone tracking service. Android Device Manager, which will be available later this month, will let Android owners locate their lost devices from afar, greatly increasing the chances of recovery if ...
Google Will Soon Let You Locate, Ring and Remote Wipe Your Android Phone ...TechCrunch
Google announces Android Device Manager appThe Droid Guy
Android Device Manager arriving this month to locate a misplaced deviceAndroid Community
PhoneDog -androidandme.com -Times of India
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Yahoo adds social networking browser Rockmelt to startup portfolio
ZDNet (blog)
Continuing to strengthen its social media strategy and portfolio with fresh talent and assets, Yahoo has bought Rockmelt. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup produced a mashup of digital news reader app (similar to Flipboard and Google Currents), ...
Yahoo Acquires Rockmelt Social Browser, Will Shut Down AppsForbes
Yahoo Has Acquired Rockmelt, Apps To Shut Down On August 31stTechCrunch
After trying to reinvent the browser and failing, Rockmelt gets acquired by YahooThe Next Web
TheStreet.com -The Full Signal -All Things Digital
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Morning Ledger
T-Mobile Will Support Moto X, But Won't Sell in Stores
PC Magazine
The new Moto X will be available on all four top wireless carriers, but some companies appear more enthusiastic about the smartphone than others. Though Motorola said that Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile - as well as US Cellular - would offer the Moto ...
A day with Moto X: The anti-Droid made for everyone, not just geeksVentureBeat
Links 2 Aug: Google's Moto X, Apple's iPhone And Henry Ford's Model TForbes
T-Mobile's Moto X will not be available from T-MobileGigaOM
Stark Insider -Morning Ledger -PhoneDog
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Livemint
Justice Department Seeks Oversight of Apple's iTunes Store
Wall Street Journal
After winning its antitrust lawsuit over Apple's e-book pricing, the Justice Department said Friday it wants to prevent Apple from engaging in anticompetitive conduct across the content sold in its iTunes store, including movies, music and television shows.
DOJ floats Apple ebook price fixing remediesZDNet (blog)
US, states propose remedy for Apple e-book price-fixingReuters
DOJ proposes ways to halt Apple e-book price-fixingCNET (blog)
PCWorld -Apple Insider -CNNMoney
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The Guardian
Xbox One wireless controller to cost £44.99
Computerandvideogames.com
The price was revealed on the official Microsoft store, which also lists a containing the Xbox One controller with a play and charge kit for £59.99. The website has also priced the standalone play and charge kit and the official Xbox One headset for £19.99 each ...
Toys'R'Us leaks PS4 and Xbox One launch datesTelegraph.co.uk
Microsoft makes Xbox One faster, still can't match Sony PS4Times of India
Microsoft levels up the Xbox One's graphics capabilities with a GPU clock boostPCWorld
Ars Technica -Engadget -Videogamer.com
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Headlines & Global News
Apple Acquires Passif Semiconductor; Will Use Technology to Develop iWatch
Headlines & Global News
Apple, Inc. achieved another modest milestone when they bought Passif Semiconductor, a communication chip developer in California that focuses in low-power gadgets. Its current products include wireless radios for Bluetooth Low Energy profiles. (Photo ...

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BerryReview
FBI spooks use MALWARE to spy on suspects' Android mobes - report
Register
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is using mobile malware to infect, and control, suspects' Android handsets, allowing it to record nearby sounds and copy data without physical access to the devices. That's according to "former officers" interviewed by the ...
FBI said to be taking a hacker approach to spyingCNET
The FBI Is Using Hacker Tactics To Follow SuspectsFast Company
FBI Can Remotely Record Audio From Android Devices, PCsThe Inquisitr

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NDTV
Deadline looms for US sales ban on ...
CNET (blog)
Apple faces a ban on some of its older iDevices next week, though there's still time for a presidential pardon, as it were. Josh Lowensohn. by Josh Lowensohn. August 2, 2013 4:00 AM PDT. Follow @Josh. The clock is ticking ahead of next week's sales ban ...
US ITC delays word on whether Samsung infringes Apple's patentsReuters
ITC delays ruling on possible Samsung product banApple Insider
Possible sales ban for Samsung in patent infringment case to be ruled on next ...PCWorld
Register -Bloomberg -The National Law Review
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Telegraph.co.uk
Apple 'losing its grip on the tablet market'
Telegraph.co.uk
Apple appears to be losing its stranglehold on the tablet market, with new figures showing that shipments of iPads and iPad Minis have declined 14 per cent in the last year, and the company's market share has dropped to 43 per cent. Apple's decline in ...
Small Android tablets gain as Apple 'buzz' fadesCNET
Strategy Analytics finds millions of Android tablets, rewrites iPad historyApple Insider
Apple tablet market share down from last yearGant Daily
eWeek -ZDNet (blog) -Register
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Android Community
Speck Supports New Motorola Lineup with CandyShell Cases
MarketWatch
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug 01, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Speck, a leader in the market for protective cases for the latest and greatest devices, announced today that it has joined the M4DE(TM), Made For Motorola, program. As part of the program, Speck ...
Verizon's New Motorola Droids Packed With Power in Slim, Tough FrameseWeek
Verizon HTC One release could come in exclusive colourPhones Review
Motorola X8: 5 Things To Know About The Processor Powering Droid Ultra ...International Business Times
Brighthand -Android Community -Wireless and Mobile News
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Microsoft Windows 8 rebound must begin with Steve Ballmer firing
Stabley Times
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is shaking off the failure of Windows 8 by announcing a sweeping corporate reorganization of the company which scraps its longtime business model of pitting each of its internal units against each other for competitive purposes, ...

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Philly.com
LinkedIn, Up 12%, Masters Art Of A Very Bullish Earnings Call
Forbes
LinkedIn didn't just delight investors today with a bullish earnings report that sent its stock up 12% by the end of after-hours trading. Company CEO Jeff Weiner and his sidekick, chief financial officer Steve Sordello, also mastered the art of making LinkedIn's ...
On the Call: LinkedIn CEO Jeff WeinerBusinessweek
LinkedIn Earnings Streak ContinuesWall Street Journal
LinkedIn soars after hours on earnings upsideUSA TODAY
NBCNews.com -Reuters -VentureBeat
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GameZone
Xbox team creates community deputies to fight trolls
PCWorld
Angry, mocking murmurs rattled off the walls of the player lobby. The caped avenger barely paused. Then the epithets began: stinging, hateful words that juxtaposed one toon's manhood with his mother. That did it. The hero spun, hurling his all-powerful mallet ...
Microsoft deputizes gamers for Enforcement United beta, awards XP for policing ...Engadget
Report awful Xbox Live players to earn loot with Microsoft's new community ...VentureBeat
Xbox Enforcement United adds user moderation to Xbox LiveComputerandvideogames.com
Complex.com -Joystiq
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Amazon rolls out Pinterest-like 'Amazon Collections' feature
CNET
The e-commerce giant quietly launched a new feature that lets users add items to shopping wish lists and follow others with similar tastes and interests. Dara Kerr. by Dara Kerr. August 1, 2013 3:26 PM PDT. Follow @darakerr. Amazon Collections.
Amazon Launches Pinterest-Like 'Collections' FeaturePC Magazine
Amazon Experiments With Its Own Take On Pinterest Called “Amazon Collections”TechCrunch
Amazon Collections: like Pinterest, only for stuff Amazon sellsEngadget
Wall Street Journal (blog) -Business Insider -The Verge
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Telegraph.co.uk
Icahn files lawsuit to force Friday vote on Dell buyout
PCWorld
Carl Icahn filed a lawsuit against Dell and its board of directors on Thursday as he continued to take steps to prevent the company's founder and investment company Silver Lake from taking the company private. The lawsuit, filed in the Court of Chancery of ...
Icahn Sues Dell to Stop Changes to Voting RuleseWeek
Icahn in Suit Accuses Dell Board of Trying to Force Buyout (2)Businessweek
Carl Icahn Sues to Stop Dell From Delaying VoteWall Street Journal
New York Times (blog) -Reuters -USA TODAY
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Pocket-lint.com
Moto X accessories pictures and hands-on
Pocket-lint.com
The Moto X is customisable in terms of colour options, but Motorola has also unveiled a range of accessories with their own set of colours that can either match or mismatch your Moto X. First up is a wireless SOL Republic Bluetooth speaker called the Deck.

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BBC News
Apple update to tackle charger hack attack
BBC News
Apple plans to issue a software update to help its products avoid falling victim to booby-trapped chargers. The update has been prepared in response to research that created malicious chargers that could upload code onto devices plugged into them.

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