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Google Glass Moves Beyond Photography

Dante D'Orazio has seen Google Glass trotted around more than a few times now on the faces of plenty of Google employees and even on a handful of models, but information on how the device functions and what its capabilities are beyond photography have been extremely difficult to come by. Yesterday he got precious few more details about voice commands and other functionality courtesy of The Wall Street Journal's Spencer Ante, who recently got a moment with a pair of the glasses and Sergey Brin.

September 13, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google

Google Wallet to Discontinue Prepaid Cards

After seemingly overcoming a series of security issues, Google is cashing out of the prepaid payment card market next month. The Web giant began telling users yesterday to get busy spending whatever balances that remain on their cards because they will be discontinued on October 17. The prepaid card was made obsolete with the introduction of the ability to use any debit and credit cards with Google Wallet.

September 11, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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General

YouTube Launches New iPhone App

Days before iOS 6 lands on iPhones without the familiar pre-installed YouTube app, Google has released a new version with some significant upgrades. Tens of thousands of additional videos can now be played through the iOS app, notably major-label music videos. That will be made possible by advertising, which was forbidden in the original Apple-designed app. The new YouTube also includes an easier way to browse any channels you've subscribed to - just swipe right from the left side of the screen to see a list of them - and new options for sharing videos with friends, including Facebook and Google+.

September 11, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Private Browsing Bug Fixed in Firefox 15.0.1

Browser maker Mozilla has patched a bug in the latest major version of Firefox that could have exposed the websites of those using the "Private Browsing" mode. Private Browsing, a feature implemented in most modern browsers, allows users to browse the Web without leaving any trace of the websites visited on the user's computer. But shortly after the latest Firefox release was dished out to end-users, a bug report was filed to claim that any site visited while in the privacy-conscious mode could be found through manual browser cache inspection.

September 10, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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HP Announces Spectre One Desktop

HP has announced their Windows 8 desktop lineup, leading off with 23.6-inch Spectre One. It's the first all-in-one in the company's premium Spectre line and a scant 11.5 millimeters thick — HP's thinnest all-in-one to date. The desktop also lacks a touchscreen, a curious omission in light of finger-friendly Windows 8. You'll still be able to get your multitouch-gesture fix, as HP has bundled a wireless touchpad with the PC.

September 10, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft

Windows Server 2012 Launched

Microsoft launched Windows Server 2012 on September 4, making the final, released-to-manufacturing versions of the product available to customers for test and purchase. As part of the launch, Microsoft officials are webcasting demonstrations of some of the estimated 300 new features that are part of the product. But the overarching message of launch day is that Windows Server 2012 isn't about all the new bells and whistles in Windows Server 2012. Instead, it's about Windows Server 2012 being a key component of Microsoft's 'Cloud OS' vision and strategy - one where the very idea of what consititues an operating system is morphing.

September 7, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Mobile

Android, Apple Still Going Strong among U.S. Users

Android and Apple continue to bite bigger hunks out of the U.S. smartphone market. As of the three months ended July, Google's mobile OS held a 52.2 percent share of the market, a gain of 1.4 points from the prior three months. In second place, Apple's iOS grabbed 33.4 percent of the market, up 2 points from the prior period. That left the rest of the top five platforms still spinning down the drain.

September 6, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Apple

Apple's Sept. 12 iPhone 5 Event

The wait is almost over. Apple has officially announced a September 12 press event in San Francisco, confirming months of rumors. And the invitation leaves little doubt that the event will be the rollout of the iPhone 5 (or whatever name Apple chooses for its sixth-generation iPhone). Rarely has a product ever been so analyzed, so rumored, and so leaked as Apple's next-gen phone. Not a day, or even an hour, goes by without a new picture of the rumored case, screen, connector jack, even headphones. Has all the excitement already been spilled, or is there something completely different yet to come? Here's a rundown, all rumors aside, of what to expect.

September 5, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Opera Software Preparing Opera for Windows 8

Third party software developers who want their programs to function properly under Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8 need to focus their attention on two new areas. The start page is the first and without doubt the most difficulty to work with as it is restricting apps significantly that run here. The second area is touch, which is one of the improved features of Windows 8, and if you take the hardware announcements of this year’s IFA as an indicator, one of the main focuses of hardware manufacturers when it comes to Windows 8 powered devices.

September 4, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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HP Releases Two Beta Versions of Open-Source WebOS

Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the "OpenEmbedded" development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new devices. The August Edition, as the webOS team calls the latest release on the project website, consists of 45 open source webOS components and 450,000 lines of code. The two versions were released under the Apache 2.0 license, which is one of the most liberal and accepted in the open source community.

September 4, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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