Here are your top tech news headlines for Monday, April 23, 2012: – New York has filed a lawsuit against Sprint Nextel for under collecting $100 million in sales taxes – Sony plans to launch its online photo sharing service PlayMemories Online in 6 countries this week – BarclayCard introduced the Barclay PayTag, a sticker [...]

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The next big thing is right around the corner, and it will instantly make your wristwatch obsolete. Pebble Technology has come up with a new smart watch that acts as a companion to your iPhone or Android phone. Just eight days after putting its Pebble smart watch on Kickstarter, it has raised a staggering $4 [...]

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Here are your top tech news headlines for Friday, April 13, 2012: – Barnes and Noble releases Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight – Google’s profits soared 60 percent in the first quarter – Intel to soon release first Xeon server chips with 3D transistors – Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai discusses how to revive the floundering [...]

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Here are your top business and financial news headlines for April 12, 2012: – Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen makes case for sticking to low-interest-rate policies – S&P 500 has almost doubled since March 2009, even when Apple excluded – State Bank of India to buy loans from banks in U.S. and Europe – Sony [...]

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Here are your top tech news headlines for Wednesday, April 11, 2012: – Facebook announced it will buy the photo-sharing app Instagram for 1 billion dollars – Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are teaming up with the U.S. FCC to combat phone theft – Sony expects its net loss to be more than double what [...]

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Ashton Kutcher has some big shoes to fill. Kutcher will portray Steve Jobs in a big-screen biopic about the late Apple CEO. The new film, “Jobs”, will follow Steve Jobs’ trek from a California hippie to the co-founder of one of the most successful companies in American history. The movie will be directed by Joshua [...]

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Here are your top entertainment news headlines for this Tuesday, March 6, 2012: – Desperate Housewives creator describes his spat with Nicollette Sheridan – 2 in U.K. accused of stealing Jackson music from Sony – Prince Harry continues Queen’s Jubilee tour in Jamaica

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Sony pictures has stated that it will release Whitney Houston’s final film “Sparkle” on August 17. Houston died yesterday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills at the age of 48. “Like all those who knew and loved her, we are shocked and saddened and the world has lost an incomparable talent. Right now [...]

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We seem to be on the verge of some amazing breakthroughs in home entertainment. Just take a look at these amazing series of movie-related filmed videos using “Immersive Imaging”, which takes 3D projection mapping as its starting point, but gives the viewer a supercharged experience with the help of the PlayStation Move controller. By attaching [...]

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Maybe it should really go something like this, “I pledge allegiance, to Steve Jobs…” You see, Apple now has more money than the government. According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government has an operating cash balance of about $73.8 billion.  Apple, meanwhile, has a stunning $76.2 billion in cash, according to [...]

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation today raided three New York-area homes where agents believed three members of the online hacker group known as “Anonymous” were living. Investigators took at least one laptop from one of the residences. Police think the device may have been used in denial-of-service attacks against several large corporations. Almost a dozen [...]

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This is the best news I’ve heard all day.  Spotify is getting ready to launch in the U.S. The streaming music service has posted a landing page to its site stating that, “the award-winning music service that’s taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores.” The page is now letting you sign [...]

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