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Apple Authorise Cheaper USB-C To Lightning Cables
Apple Authorise Cheaper USB-C To Lightning Cables Apple, as a company, has always proven to be exceptionally reluctant to give out licensing to third-parties. Just off the top of your head now, can you actually name a manufacturer that produces Apple products or peripherals (more accurately) with their blessing? Although…
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HP Pre-Programmed Third-Party Printer Cartridge Failure Date
On 13th September, thousands of HP printer users who had unofficial ink cartridges installed received the same failure message – “The following ink cartridges appear to be missing or damaged. Replace the ink cartridges to resume printing” – regardless of the state or ink reservoir status of the cartridge. A…
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Developer “Guarantees Nintendo NX Won’t Have Third-Party Support”
Nintendo’s upcoming console codenamed, ‘NX’ is shrouded in secrecy, and no-one really knows what the latest device will entail. There are various rumours stemmed from patents which suggest the product will be a hybrid mobile/home console unit and create a brand new experience. Unfortunately, Nintendo’s previous effort, the Wii U, fared…
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Microsoft Will Not “Force” Consumers to Upgrade to Windows 10… Or Will They?
Microsoft has been somewhat pushy concerning the adoption of Windows 10, from the many “forced upgrade” attempts, relentless hidden updates to the secretive file downloading system which launches an installer without explicit user acceptance, the tech giant has clearly overstepped its remit. Well, apparently no, no it has not, if…
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Intel Skylake K-Series Will Ship Without the Boxed Cooler
Intel has geared up and is almost ready with their latest desktop processors from the Skylake family and we know quite a bit about the processors already. The latest news on this front is for those who plan to buy one of the unlocked 14nm CPUs, namely the Core i5-6600K…
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Tumblr TV Is the Latest GIF Video Player on the Web
Tumblr just added a GIF search engine earlier this month and it now launched yet another GIF dedicated feature, namely Tumblr TV. From the looks of it, the feature aims to be a 9GAG.tv service, but for GIFs. Unlike its GIF search engine, users don’t have to be logged into…
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Facebook Messenger Gets its First Game
Facebook seems to be thinking of allowing games on its Messenger platform in the near future. The first one spotted on the platform is said to be Doodle Draw Game and although it’s nothing fancy, it still is the first one to pave the way for developers eyeing the platform’s…
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Google Admits it is Scanning Android Phones For “The Right Reasons”
You may not be shocked that the search engine giant, Google, is scanning every single app on your phone, even if you downloaded it from third-parties and not from the Google Store. But is it really doing it for ‘the right reason’? Google has confirmed in a security report that…
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OS X Yosemite Kills Third-Party SSD Support
The new OS X 10.10 Yosemite was received pretty well upon release, sure it had a few minor hiccups, but overall it was an improvement. But not everything is visible right away, especially not when it’s done in secret. Apple has silently and without any warning killed support for third-party…
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Pebble’s App Store Is Reported To Launch This Monday
It appears that Pebble officially confirms its app store will be launching tomorrow on iOS devices with the Android version not too far behind. The Pebble app store will integrate with the Pebble smartphone app for iOS and Android devices for searching, browsing and downloading new Pebble apps on the…
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Moto G Notification LED Fix Released
Android Central reported that the newly launched Motorola Moto G’ notification LED doesn’t seem to work at all, and there’s no software switch for it anywhere in the Settings app. Emails, texts and missed calls all failed to trigger the flashing white LED. Motorola responded with the following statement to…
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SwiftKey 4.3 Released And Available On The Google Play Store
SwiftKey has once again updated the third-party Android keyboard, releasing version 4.3 out onto the Play Store. Among the features in this update are a selection of three keyboard layouts, optimized for different screen and hand sizes. Particularly useful, I’ve found, is the Compact layout, which makes the entire length…
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iGoogle Has Been Shut Down As Planned
Google introduced a personalized web portal where users could create its own homepage with the most important information named iGoogle back in 2005. Although the service was promising at the beginning, plenty of things have changed since then. After Google issued a thirty-day warning to iGoogle users, the end of…
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