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BlizzCon is now in full force, and there is a steady stream of news escaping the convention center. One of the most interesting tidbits for gamers on the prowl for freebies is that you’ll be able to grab Diablo III, the upcoming action RPG, for free – if you pay to play World of Warcraft. But there's a catch.
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Tablets are excellent for watching movies. The big, beautiful displays are able to render detail that you simply don’t receive while squinting at a 4.3” LCD, making the mini-theatrical experience that much better. This has made it all the more strange that Netflix hasn’t been quick to offer support for Honeycomb-powered Android tablets, but now that issue has finally been rectified.
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After a week’s delay due to Steve Job’s death, Google has unveiled Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The new version was released on the new and anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which was also announced in the same event. With Ice Cream Sandwich, Google got rid of the tablet/phone separation, and Android 4.0 is aimed at revolutionizing the user experience.
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Google is working hard on their Docs platform. Just recently, they rolled out a huge update to almost all of their Docs programs. Now, they are continuing to move forward with a nice update to Presentations. The major change in the new update is the way users collaborate on a project. They added a chat, a color marker for each users changes, and a history of all revisions.
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For a long time, Adobe Reader has been the universal cross-platform desktop application for opening and reading PDFs. This week it released the first version of Adobe Reader designed for the iPhone and iPad. Compared to similar iOS PDF readers, Adobe Reader is lacking in many features, such as annotation and markup tools. But it is still an industry standard.
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Yet again, another iOS application pushes out a game changing update to go along with the release of Apple's latest software version, iOS 5. The changes to this version of Instapaper are pretty extensive, and it is clear that Instapaper takes browsing your articles on iOS very seriously. The layout of the app has completely changed on iPad. Now it uses a grid instead of a list.
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A Trojan recently made the rounds for Mac that appeared to be an update for Flash, but was actually a piece of malicious software called Flashback.A. Apple has since updated XProtect to block this dangerous piece of software from infecting your Mac, but the bad kind of hackers will not be stopped, and they brought out an even more malicious piece of software.
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RIM was recently was struck by a network outage specific to their devices. Users in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and eventually the Americas had to go without their BlackBerry specific services, such as BlackBerry Messenger. For some users, the service blackout lasted three days. That would be a problem for any company, but it’s particularly bad news for a company that focuses heavily on enterprise users.
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Almost a year ago, Apple introduced Find My iPhone, an iOS app that locates your iPhone, through an Apple me.com account. It allows you to either send a display message to your phone, a new passcode that will lock it down, or permanently wipe all of the data. With the introduction of iOS 5, Apple has created a similar app for finding your friends and family members called Find My Friends.
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Seems like every other week Google is rolling out new features and enhancements to Google Plus. It has now added real-time searching and support for hashtags to its ever-expanding social networking site. These enhancements come a month after Google introduced its search feature for Google+. These two new features are designed to make the search process more interactive.
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FourSquare has a very cool update that adds some great new features. The major change is their new feature called Radar. This takes advantage of iOS 5's region monitoring service. Basically, it monitors for things nearby that you should take note of.
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If you and your Facebook friends are active readers of Yahoo-posted news, Yahoo has recently developed a way for Facebook members to share links to news articles they read from within the Yahoo News site. Called Yahoo News Activity, the service was launched at the Facebook f8 conference held a few weeks ago in San Francisco.
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Sony can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to user account security, nor can the company’s customers enjoy refuge from the constant hacking attempts. The PlayStation Network has once again come under attack. This new intrusion has compromised about 93,000 accounts, although Sony claims that there was little activity on the accounts before they were locked down.
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iOS 5 is ready to go, and with it comes a slew of updates to major applications. The latest of these is the default Twitter app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This new update brings a number of improvements to the application, as well as some general bug fixes and performance improvements that seem to come standard with any major application update.
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Nobody likes to be informed that they’ve received a speeding ticket, but in today’s world of speed cameras and intersection flash-blubs, the practice of receiving a ticket without encountering a cop is becoming more common. Some enterprising ne’re-do-wells have apparently decided to take this to their advantage, and are now spreading a virus via fake email speeding tickets.
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