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Windows Phone 8′s YouTube app goes from glorified bookmark to full application in latest update

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The Windows Phone 8 YouTube app has been woefully underutilized, acting more or less as a bookmark that redirects users to the web. No more, as the app’s getting a major update today that makes it act more like a standard WP8 app — you can pin va…


Hulu Plus comes to Windows Phone today

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It was six months ago that Hulu Plus made its official debut on Windows 8 PCs and tablets. Now, Windows Phone users are about to suffer a similar loss of productivity. The WP8 app will be available today as a free download, featuring unlimited str…


EC says Motorola broke antitrust rules, abused its patent position

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It was almost a year ago to the day that the European Commission began investigating Motorola over reported abuse of its standard-essential patents (SEPs), and now the regulators have a little more to say on the matter. The Commission has issued M…


Angry Birds Friends now available on iOS and Android, is totally free

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It’s hard to believe, but there is seriously another Angry Birds game headed to mobile today, dubbed Angry Birds Friends. Like its Facebook counterpart, the game is focused on social versions of standard Angry Birds mechanics — flinging various b…


Microsoft launches Bing Offers to round up local bargains, gives Bing Deals the axe

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Call it a deal, offer or a bargain — isn’t a discount by any name just as sweet? Microsoft seems to think so, and it recently retired Bing Deals in favor of a locally focused newcomer: Bing Offers. Like its predecessor, Offers culls discounts fro…


Google joins the FIDO Alliance, supports its two-factor authentication standard

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Google’s already investing in two-factor authentication, but it’s making a bigger commitment to the security method by joining the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance’s board of directors. Founded in-part by heavyweights Lenovo and PayPal, the gr…


Apple patent outs system for turning video game choices into comic books, is all about Mass Effect

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Commander Shepard is not someone we expected to pop up in an Apple patent from 2009 (granted today), but here we are, staring into his icy visage. He and the rest of the Normandy’s crew are used as just one example of a system that Apple patented,…


Now may land on Google’s home page, come to the web

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While everyone else speculates about new Nexii and what sweet treat the next version of Android will be named after, we’re anticipating some exciting news about Now at Google I/O. Specifically, that it might be coming to both iOS and the desktop. …


SES demos first Ultra HD transmission in more efficient HEVC standard

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We’re still a bit away from Ultra HD becoming the standard for television. One of the things standing in the way is just how much bandwidth pushing that many pixels demands. SES recently demonstrated an Ultra HD transmission that uses the up and c…


KrystalBoard wants to replace blackboards and whiteboards with liquid crystals

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If you ask most people, they’d tell you there’s nothing wrong with the standard classroom set-up of a blackboard and chalk, or a whiteboard and dry-erase markers. Nicholas DePorzio isn’t most people, though. At Northeastern University’s Husky Startup…