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Verizon Cloud backup app now on iOS

Buck Howard — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:07:36 +0000

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Following a limited release on Android last month, Verizon’s Cloud app is now available on iOS in the US. The app will let you backup your photos, and videos to cloud storage, as well as facilitating access to contacts, documents and music you’ve stored in the cloud via your PC. Additionally, if you’re already using [...]

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Intel: Haswell will boost laptop battery life by 50 percent

Charity Woods — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:13 +0000

Tags: Battery, boost, Haswell, intel, Laptop, Life, percent

When Intel launched Haswell, it promised a generational leap in battery life, and now the chip giant’s talking numbers to back that up. Architecture Group VP Rani Borkar said that laptops packing the chipset should get 50 percent more battery life than current Ivy Bridge models and go up to 20 times longer in standby [...]

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What versions of facebook for android work with th archos 5 tablet?

Buck Howard — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:31:23 +0000

Tags: Android, Archos, facebook, Tablet, versions, work

Question by Amy H: What versions of facebook for android work with th archos 5 tablet? The android os is 1.6. Best answer: Answer by YuuuupA Faster Facebook for Android | Facebook Today we’re launching an updated Facebook app for Android. It’s now quicker and easier to view photos, get messages and navigate around the [...]

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BBC iPlayer for Android adds support for 10-inch tablets, improved user interface

James Cliff — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:15:05 +0000

Tags: 10inch, Adds, Android, improved, interface, iPlayer, support, Tablets, user

It’s simple: the numbers don’t lie. Clearly aware of the many, many hours viewers are squeezing out of their tablets, the BBC has, for the better, made its iPlayer for Android more friendly with 10-inch models. What this means is folks using the app will no longer have to rely on a shortcut to the [...]

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US Cellular getting ready to launch Home Phone service

JohnnyBells — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:15:04 +0000

Tags: cellular, getting, Home, launch, Phone, ready, service

Keen to capitalize on the ever-growing segment of landline cutters, US Cellular appears to be launching a home phone service similar to the Home Connect offerings by Verizon and Sprint. According to information we’ve received, all you have to do is plug in a regular cordless or corded phone into the provided base station and [...]

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Team LunaCY Robot Demonstration

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:07:46 +0000

Tags: demonstration, Lunacy, robot, Team

The ISU Lunabotics Club has been hard at work making a robot to compete in the 2013 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition May 20-24th. Team LunaCY will be compe… Video Rating: 0 / 5 Popular Posts: Installing Virtue OLED Board & Laser Eyes in Dye DM9 Paintball Gun Bridging Digital and Physical Worlds With SixthSense Official [...]

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5-Million Piece Full Size LEGO X-Wing Fighter Model

Markus Smith — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:35:26 +0000

Tags: $5Million, Fighter, full, Lego, model, piece, size, Xwing

This is the 5,335,200-piece LEGO X-wing fighter, a full-scale version of the 560-piece set the company actually sells. It’s not pure LEGO though, it has a steel armature inside so the whole nose doesn’t fall off when some tourist turns around and farts at the thing. Facts and figures: Weighs 45,979.61 pounds (including bricks and [...]

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Microsoft founder Paul Allen rocks out with Joe Walsh and Chrissie Hynde on major label debut

Brandon Zimmerman — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:38 +0000

Tags: Allen, Chrissie, debut, Founder, Hynde, label, Major, Microsoft, Paul, rocks, Walsh

Multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is set to release his next project this summer: the major label debut of his band, The Underthinkers. The LA Times reports that the record features Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders, Neville Brother Ivan Neville, and former Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, and that all the money from album sales will [...]

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MC Escher Inspired Interlocking Wooden Floor Lizards

Gabe Hall — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:49:55 +0000

Tags: 'interlocking', Escher, Floor, Inspired, Lizards, Wooden

These are the wooden floor tiles cut by Spanish flooring business Arbore. They were motivated by MC Escher’s famous ‘Reptiles’ drawing, even if the company declines to confess it. They did admit it though, so we’re cool. No have to make indicators and go stand apart front of their workplaces picketing. I imply unless you [...]

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AT&T adding iPhone, 4G LTE / HSPA+ support to GoPhone starting tomorrow

Jon Mitchell — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:15:05 +0000

Tags: adding, AT&T, GoPhone, hspa, iPhone, starting, support, Tomorrow

AT&T’s official GoPhone prepaid policy has always officially prevented network data access for iPhones (and other 4G devices except for BlackBerry), but a tipster reports that will change tomorrow. The new policy adds 4G HSPA+ and LTE support as well as Visual Voicemail access to the GoPhone package, with customers able to bring their own [...]

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