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| Developers: Microsoft Wants to Put Your App in a TV Ad | | Microsoft unveiled a neat contest for developers, giving them a chance to have their app featured in a Windows Phone television ad. The contest, which officially started Monday, is called Windows Phone Next App Star, and is open to Windows Phone developers worldwide. Participation is easy: Just have a killer app, and you'll get a chance to be featured in a primetime TV ad in the U.S.
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| Watch This Touchscreen Transform Into a Physical Keyboard | | For tablet- and smartphone-owners who love their touchscreens but occasionally yearn for the tactile feel of a physical keyboard, Fremont, Calif.-based company Tactus has unveiled new technology that unites both features on one gadget. It developed a tactile user interface for touchscreen devices: transparent physical buttons that emerge from a tablet or smartphone's surface on demand.
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| Whale-Shaped iPhone Case Is Surprisingly Functional | | When it comes to designing a functional iPhone case, whales don't typically come to mind. With their wide bodies and protruding fins, it makes more sense for the ocean-dwelling mammal to stay under water than in your hand. But that didn't stop designer Seyook Lee from creating the iWhale, a case that "mimics the silhouette of a whale coming to the water's surface to breathe," according to Yanko Design.
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| RIM Adds 15,000 BlackBerry 10 Apps in a Weekend | | One of the biggest struggles RIM will likely have with the release of BlackBerry 10 is on the app front. In preparation for the operating system's debut, the company held a Port-A-Thon this past weekend. The 36-hour event let developers port over their existing apps to the BlackBerry 10 platform, and earn cash -– and developer devices -– in the process. Starting at 12 p.m.
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| DARPA Eyes Pop-Up Deep Sea Sensors | | Monday, January 14, 2013 6:23 PM | Nextgov |
| In a proposal almost as fanciful as the fictional 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a research project last Friday to develop sensor systems that could be placed miles below the surface of the ocean and activated when needed by a remote command.
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| Hacker Olympics Draws Top Students to Silicon Valley | | Monday, January 14, 2013 6:00 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Imagine a place where computer nerds are revered like jocks and rockstars. That was San Francisco this past weekend. A carefully selected group of 100 college students flocked to the Bay Area to powwow with veterans of the famed tech startup scene.
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| Another Sign Microsoft Surface Is Struggling | | Monday, January 14, 2013 5:47 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The Surface was supposed to be Microsoft's real answer to the iPad — a Windows-based tablet that would satisfy both casual users and digital workers. Now it looks like it's appealing to neither. UBS analyst Brent Thill estimates Microsoft has sold only 1 million Surface RT tablets, reported by Business Insider. He had previously estimated 2 million.
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| Straight Talk iPhone 5 Data Plan Is Not Unlimited | | Monday, January 14, 2013 3:46 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Walmart last week announced the availability of iPhone 5 on a Straight Talk no-contract plan with unlimited voice, text and data, but like most so-called unlimited plans, this one too has a limit. For $45 a month, you can use up to 2GB of data, which these days isn't a whole lot. Stream a movie on your shiny new iPhone? Not likely.
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| Star Flaws: What the Millennium Falcon Really Saw | | Monday, January 14, 2013 12:54 PM | Chris Taylor |
| When Star Wars first hit theaters in May 1977, one scene that always had audiences gasping and whooping — according to multiple contemporary reports — came when Han Solo's ship escaped Tatooine and zoomed into a field of suddenly-stretched stars. "The sequence where Han Solo's ship hits light speed -– hyperspace –- gets a cheer every single time," Rolling Stone's Paul Scanlon told George Lucas that summer.
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| The 10 Coolest iPhone and iPad Cases From CES | | Monday, January 14, 2013 12:23 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Instead of standard rubber cases and hum-drum colors, there's a whole vibrant world of fun and creative ways to dress up your mobile device.
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| World's First 4K TV Channel Goes Live | | Monday, January 14, 2013 11:10 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Hot on the heels of CES, where 4K TVs stole the show, comes news that the world's first 4K TV channel is now live in Europe. Eutelsat, a French-based satellite provider, has just begun broadcasting in 4K on a demo channel. 4K, also called "Ultra HD," has four times the resolution of current high-def broadcasts. The format doubles the pixel count in both directions, which can result in a much sharper picture at larger screen sizes.
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| Microsoft to Issue Critical Internet Explorer Patch Today | | Monday, January 14, 2013 9:53 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Microsoft will issue a critical security patch for Internet Explorer today, Jan. 14, the company has announced. The patch fixes an issue with a severity rating of "Critical", and affects Internet Explorer versions 6-8 but not the latest two versions, 9 and 10. The vulnerability allows a malicious hacker to remotely execute code on the victim's machine.
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| Samsung's Giant Ultra HD TV Up for Pre-Order in Korea | | Monday, January 14, 2013 8:51 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Samsung's 85-inch Ultra HD TV set, the UHD TV 85S9, is up for pre-order in Korea. The huge TV, showcased at CES 2013, sports a 4K resolution, built-in 2.2 channels speakers, a quad-core CPU and Samsung's diamond black panel. Samsung UHD TV 8559 is priced at 40,000,000 won ($37,872) in Korea, which is quite high compared to some other 4K competitors' offering, for example Sony's Sony's 84-inch XBR-84X900 which costs $25,000.
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