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| Microsoft Hires Young Designer Whose Rebranding Project Went Viral | | Remember Andrew Kim, the young design student who proposed an extensive rebranding of Microsoft's many products and services? Well, Microsoft hired him. "I'll be designing for Microsoft as of summer. I promise that I’ll make the my greatest work ever while I'm there," he wrote in a blog post. Kim's ideas for a Microsoft rebranding were noticed by many when he posted his designs online last July.
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| NEC Medias W: A Smartphone With Two 4.3-Inch Screens | | NEC launched the Medias W N-05E for Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo on Tuesday, and it's definitely one of the most interesting smartphones we've seen. Its specs are fairly standard: Android 4.1, a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, an 8-megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage memory that's expandable via microSD cards. What makes the phone stand out is its two 4.3-inch LCD screens, both with a 540x960 pixel resolution.
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| Technology Ranks World's Most-Trusted Industry in 2013 | | The technology industry has been ranked most-trusted for the second consecutive year, ahead of the automotive, and food and beverage industries, according to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer. "As an industry, I think tech companies pre-anticipate and solve problems for consumers," Ben Boyd, Edelman's corporate global practice chairman, told Mashable.
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| Google Removes 'Make Me Asian' App After Protests of Racism | | Monday, January 21, 2013 9:06 PM | Camille Bautista |
| "Make Me Asian," an app that allowed users to slant their eyes and don a rice paddy hat, received much backlash over its stereotypical depictions. On Thursday, Google pulled the app from its Play Store after thousands signed an online petition calling for its removal. App developer KimberyDeiss created the face-changing application which yellowed users' skin and decorated faces with a Fu Manchu mustache.
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| RIM Competes With Google For Attention With Conference Announcement | | Monday, January 21, 2013 6:37 PM | Emily Price |
| RIM is going head-to-head against Google this May, holding its main yearly conference in direct competition with Google’s the third week in May. Renamed BlackBerry Live, RIM will be using the conference to let developers get more hands-on time with BlackBerry 10, meet the leaders behind the platform and to talk about what’s next for BlackBerry. Registration for the event will be open soon.
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| BlackBerry Z10 Looks Like iPhone 5, Takes on Siri | | Monday, January 21, 2013 6:30 PM | Emily Price |
| RIM is set to announce the first devices running its new BlackBerry 10 operating system at an event on January 30. A lucky few, however, have already gotten their hands on what looks to be the new hardware, including German site TelekomPresse. The site has the BlackBerry Z10, a touchscreen device with a similar look to some of the other popular smartphones out there — especially the iPhone 5.
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| Ad Blocking Gets Personal: Chrome Extension Targets Hulu | | Monday, January 21, 2013 5:29 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Technology that blocks or skips TV ads is becoming ever more controversial and more widely known. And with the recent launch of a Chrome extension, it got personal. No Hulu Ads, which is free, isn't the first browser extension to black out TV commercials for your viewing pleasure.
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| First 2014 Corvette Sells for $1.1 Million at Auction | | Monday, January 21, 2013 2:03 PM | Pete Pachal |
| How much would you pay to be the first owner of the all-new Corvette Stingray? Whatever your price is, it's probably not as much as NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick's, who just laid down more than a million bucks for the car. Hendrick bid $1.05 million for the first Stingray to come off GM's production lines — model 0001 — at the Barrett-Jackson car collector event in Scottsdale, Az., Road & Track reports.
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| Google Glass (And Sergey Brin) Ride the NYC Subway | | Monday, January 21, 2013 1:28 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| You never know what you're going to see on a NYC subway. Sometimes it's a Mariachi band, others, one of the tech world's most important people wearing cool technology.
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| 5 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your PC | | Monday, January 21, 2013 11:40 AM | Aubre Andrus |
| When your PC starts its steady decline into sloth-like speeds, the first thing you’d love to do (besides beating it Office Space-style) is head straight to the mall for a fancy new machine. But the reality is there are easy changes you can make to speed up your computer. SEE ALSO: 10 Gchat Tricks and Tips for Power Users From startup to surfing to gaming, here are five ways you can clean up an old PC to make it look young again.
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| Report: Samsung Exec Confirms Galaxy Note 8 | | Monday, January 21, 2013 11:16 AM | Pete Pachal |
| A Samsung executive confirmed to a group of reporters that the company will unveil a smaller version of its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet at a trade show next month, a Korean news site reports. The new tablet will be Samsung's direct competitor to the iPad mini.
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| Rumor: Apple to Launch an iPhone With a 4.8-Inch Screen in 2013 | | Monday, January 21, 2013 9:47 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Apple will launch not one, not two, but three new iPhones in 2013, one of which will have a 4.8-inch screen, a new rumor claims. According to the China Times, which cites sources from Apple's supply chain, Apple will launch a next-generation "classic" iPhone and a 4.8-inch device, halfway between a smartphone and a tablet, codenamed "iPhone Math".
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