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January 26, 2012 Off

Mario Is Too Mainstream [Video]

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Jumping around, stomping squat bad guys, rescuing maidens–it’s all in a day’s work for members of the jumping platformer club. For the curious, the characters that make an appearance are Super Mario, Tim (from Braid), Shadow Boy (fro…

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January 26, 2012 Off

Nokia reports big loss despite strong Windows Phone sales

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Nokia posted its third consecutive quarter of hefty losses, despite strong sales of its new Windows Phone portfolio.

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January 26, 2012 Off

Quick Digital Makeup Tips To Make Yourself Look Ten Years Younger

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It may not be a fountain of youth, but Photoshop is the secret of beauty experts everywhere. Here’s some tips on  how to reduce wrinkles and make the people in your pictures look younger in virtually no time at all. Whatever you might think about u…

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January 26, 2012 Off

Lumia 710 busting through Rogers’ door in February for $149 or $99, you call it

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Rogers subscribers are about to get their very first taste of Windows Phone, and as you know, it’s coming in the form of the Lumia 710. Said to debut during the first week of February, a leaked internal memo has outed the structured price tiers for th…

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January 26, 2012 Off

AT&T reports ‘blow-out’ Q4, revenues up 3.6 percent, 7.6 million iPhones activated

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AT&T is all smiles again, as it announces a quarter in which it managed to sell 9.4 million smartphones. It nearly doubled handset sales from Q3 and managed — perhaps unsurprisingly — 7.6 million iPhone activations, with the majority being Appl…

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January 26, 2012 Off

Samsung dissects Galaxy Note, confirms NFC support for LTE version

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Teardown fans rejoice! Samsung’s chosen to dissect the Galaxy Note for all to see — and on its official blog, no less. Strangely, the pictures show the global Galaxy Note with its physical home button but the specs match those of the Galaxy Note LTE …

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January 26, 2012 Off

Pentax Optio VS20: hold it any way you want, as long as you love it

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Standing on the Hoover Dam, you’re trying to encapsulate the majesty of the engineering feat before you. Turning the camera on its side, you try and get a perfect portrait shot, but find the vagaries of evolution mean your fingers won’t stretch to the…

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January 26, 2012 Off

Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million to adopt Windows Phone, Q4 earnings report reveals

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Microsoft and Nokia have historically been pretty tight-lipped about the value of their Windows Phone partnership, but the cat leapt out of the bag this morning, courtesy of Espoo’s Q4 2011 earnings report. As SlashGear’s Chris Davies noticed, Nokia …

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January 26, 2012 Off

Nokia plans board of directors refresh, chairman to step down

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Following on from today’s mixed bag of Nokia financials, the Espoo-based company will see some changes on its directorial board, after its Annual General Meeting in a few months. As forecast last year, non-executive chairman Jorma Ollola joined Nokia …

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January 26, 2012 Off

How to Optimize Safari for Maximum Privacy

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Apple’s Safari browser can defend against tracking by advertisers, ask websites not to track you and prevent insecure transmission of important data, but not all of these features are enabled by default. Safari doesn’t contain as many privacy-conc…

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January 26, 2012 Off

Nokia releases Q4 2011 earnings report: operating profits drop, Lumia sales break one million

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Nokia released its latest quarterly earnings report today, following up on a somewhat disappointing Q3 with a similarly bleak Q4. The Finnish manufacturer finished 2011 with a little more than €10 billion ($13.1 billion) in net sales — 11 perce…

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January 26, 2012 Off

Microsoft patents method for secure pairing of devices wirelessly and a 3D rangefinder camera

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IBM may be the king of patents, and Apple’s patent applications grace these pages rather frequently, but Microsoft’s not one to rest on its IP laurels, either. A couple of newly published patents out of Redmond have made their way to the web: one for …

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January 26, 2012 Off

How to Make Programs Start Automatically in Linux Mint 12

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In Windows we have the Startup folder where we can easily place a shortcut to a program that we want to launch automatically. In Linux Mint there is a way easier way to manage startup applications–here’s how to do it. Note: Since this is j…

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January 26, 2012 Off

New York planetarium to host 200-player space game tonight (video)

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Got plans for this evening? Cancel them now, and do everything you can to sneak into New York’s Museum of Natural History. Because tonight, the museum’s planetarium will play host to a 200-person space game, courtesy of Brooklyn’s Babycastles arcade….

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January 26, 2012 Off

Strategy Analytics: Apple still owns tablet market, but Android narrows the gap

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Strategy Analytics has come out with another report on the state of today’s tablet market, which, not surprisingly, remains dominated by Apple. Cupertino’s iOS comprised about 58 percent of the global slate market during Q4 2011 — well ahead of Andr…

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