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Last minute Father's Day gift idea: Tablets under $200 [Photos]
Father's Day is just around the corner, and if you still haven't found a gift for your dad, you may want to consider getting him a tablet. Nowadays, finding a quality Android tablet for less than $200 is not only possible but also pretty easy. So if...
Tags: Apple iPad, Father's Day, Tumblr, Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Nexus 7
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Hackers are increasingly targeting Android devices, McAfee warns
When they were listed on the Google Play store, Superclean and DroidCleaner appeared to be useful apps to free up wasted memory on mobile devices. But actually they were dangerous apps that could send an Android user’s text messages, contacts and...
Tags: Computer Crime, Social Media
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Google releases new racing game playable with mobile Chrome browser
Google took a trip back to the 1970s on Tuesday with a new Chrome game called Racer that lets users connect multiple devices to hold slot-car races. The game is one of two new Chrome Experiments that show off the Web browser's capabilities to run...
Tags: Music Industry, Google Nexus 4, Entertainment, Gaming
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Adware is biggest threat to smartphone security in U.S., report says
Nine out of every thousand smartphones in the U.S. likely have annoying or dangerous ad software installed on the device, according to an analysis out Wednesday by mobile security provider Lookout. The company said its report is the first one to break...
Tags: Social Media
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Pandora now top-grossing app publisher for Apple's iOS store
It appears caps on free radio streams have not stopped Pandora’s growth in mobile. The music streaming company is now the top-grossing publisher in Apple’s iOS App Store, based on monthly revenue, according to app analytics firm App Annie....
Tags: Entertainment, Radio, Pandora Media, Inc.
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'The Internship,' now starring ... Google
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson may be the big names in the new comedy "The Internship," but the real star of the film is Google. The company campus in Mountain View, Calif., is the setting for the movie in which Vaughn and Wilson play down-on-their-luck...
Tags: Media Industry, Academy Awards, The Social Network (movie) , Religion and Belief, Science and Technology
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Apple reaches 50 billionth app download with Google on its tail
It has been five years since Apple's App Store launched, and on Wednesday, the digital store reached a new milestone: 50 billion app downloads. The Cupertino tech company celebrated the occasion by rewarding the person who downloaded the 50 billionth...
Tags: Apple iPhone, New Products, Verizon Communications, Music, Staples Center
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Google Play marks subscription music service for internet giant
Google Inc. upended the Internet with its search engine. It launched its own email service, made roads and highways easier to navigate, developed the world's most popular operating system for mobile devices and took a shot at Apple Inc.'s iTunes with...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Entertainment, Pandora Media, Inc.
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Google to sell unlocked Galaxy S 4 smartphones with 'stock Android'
Google will be begin selling an unlocked version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 next month that runs on the latest version of the Android mobile operating system. The smartphone is targeted for consumers who prefers not to have the Android OS modified by the...
Tags: T-Mobile, Computer Hardware
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Google I/O: New features, services from search giant [Live chat]
Google teams took to the stage at the company's developers conference Wednesday to announce new services, features and revamped designs that will all be rolling out soon to users. Join The Times' Michelle Maltais and me at 3 p.m. as we chat about all...
Tags: T-Mobile, Music, Networking, Entertainment
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Fewer Facebook users take a liking to its new Home software
SAN FRANCISCO — It may be too soon to call Facebook Home a flop. But it's clearly not the breakout hit that some expected. One month after its splashy debut, fewer and fewer people are downloading Facebook's new mobile software. It took weeks...
Tags: Media Industry, Samsung Group, Tim Cook, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science and Technology
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BlackBerry rolls out low-cost smartphone, BBM app for Android, iOS
BlackBerry announced its third new device of 2013, a low-cost smartphone with a physical keyboard. The new smartphone, Q5, appears to be a basic version of the BlackBerry Q10, another smartphone by the Canadian company that is set to go on sale in the...
Tags: BlackBerry
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