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• Review: HP Pro Tablet 608

  19-06-2015 23:12
  
  As we march on closer to the Windows 10 launch this July 29, more devices are popping up left and right. One of the latest is the HP Pro Tablet 608, and what a tablet it is. HP's pro slate comes outfitted with quite a bit of kit, including a 2,048 x 1,536 display (which technically measures 7.9-inches) and quad-core Intel Core Atom processor.This is by far the highest-resolution 8-inch Windows tablet to come out yet, putting it on an equal playing field with slates like the iPad Mini 3 and Nexus
  
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• Microsoft prepares Insiders for Windows 10 upgrade

  19-06-2015 22:37
  
  If you're on a Technical Preview build of Windows 10, how will you upgrade to a licensed, unwatermarked copy of Windows 10 once the software is commercially available? Windows 10 Insiders will be able to transition to the final Home and Pro builds of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating starting starting July 29, the same day that consumers will have access, according to Gabe Aul, General Manager of the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft. The final release will be available to Insiders similar to
  
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• Hands-on with the UAG rugged case for the LG G4

  19-06-2015 21:47 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The LG G4 is the newest Android smartphone to hit the streets with a fantastic camera and display. Urban Armor Gear provides solid protection for your investment with a new case.
  
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• Iowa ban on 'telemedicine' abortions struck down by state supreme court

  19-06-2015 20:30
  
  Court decides that rule would have placed undue burden on women’s right to an abortion as activists praise decision: ‘Politics should never trump medicine’The Iowa supreme court has struck down a restriction that would have prevented doctors from administering abortion-inducing pills remotely via video teleconferencing, saying it would have placed an undue burden on a woman’s right to get an abortion.Iowa is one of only two states that offers so-called telemedicine abortions – Minnesot
  
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• New Xbox One interface borrows Windows 10's coolest trick

  19-06-2015 20:30
  
  After two long years, the Xbox One is going to get a desperately needed touch-up. Microsoft announced at its E3 2015 press event that it will release a new update for the home screen that includes its virtual assistant, Cortana, as well as gamers' avatars from their Xbox 360s, enhancements to the community section and faster loading times.The update will roll out to Xbox One preview members in the coming weeks, before coming to every user's system in the fall. Before you get too excited, Cortana
  
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• UPDATED: Fallout 4 special edition bundle with working Pip-Boy is already sold out

  19-06-2015 20:03
  
  Update: In a move we all saw coming, the pre-orders for the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy edition of the game is already sold out everywhere.At $120 (£99, about AU$155), we're hoping Bethesda will restock the little working wearable soon since demand is so obviously high.Original article below ...Bethesda has officially shown off the coolest thing at E3 2015 so far: a Pip-Boy that works with your Android and iOS phone.The collector's edition of the Fallout 4 game releases November 10 this year and will com
  
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• Hands-on review: Sony Xperia Z4v

  19-06-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designSony's latest flagship smartphone, the Z4v, is an offshoot of the Xperia Z4 and Xperia Z3+ that's making its way to US shores by way of Verizon Wireless. The new release aims to provide the best traits of each of those phones, while also offering enough aesthetic and internal boosts to trump last year's Xperia Z3v, which was also available through Verizon Wireless. While the build we got our hands on was only a working prototype and didn't feature final software, the prese
  
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• Why the music industry is fighting the wrong copyright battle

  19-06-2015 18:50
  
  High court ruling highlights inconsistencies between UK copyright law on physical and digital content – and how consumers might foot the billWe all know that it’s possible to share books, CDs and mixtapes, pull them apart, or transfer them to different environments. Their digital equivalents, however, are not so free.On Friday, the high court in London ruled that when you rip your lawfully owned CDs, transfer a DVD movie to a USB-only device, or backup your playlists, consumers are potential
  
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• Facial recognition fears a privacy threat?

  19-06-2015 17:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is facial recognition tech really a threat to privacy?
  
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• Review: LG 65UF850V

  19-06-2015 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and featuresLG is pushing hard with UHD this year. No less than 65 percent of its TV range offer 4K resolution, and the 65-inch UF850V screen reviewed here sits at the premium end of its many Ultra HD offerings.While the UF850V sells for less than LG's UF950V flagship, it's still a fully tooled 4K telly. The UF850 is part of the brand's ColourPrime family of screens, an umbrella term that describes both Quantum Dot and Wide Colour Gamut panels, both of which offer richer hues than t
  
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• Was the Nokia 3210 the greatest phone of all time?

  19-06-2015 16:35
  
  Endless battery life, colourful fasciae and Snake (obviously) – as Nokia plans a return to the phone market, in praise of its most enduring product: the 3210 Hold the phone – Nokia has announced its return to the mobile (cell) market. The Finnish telecoms giant, which was once the biggest producer of mobile handsets in the world, has agreed with Microsoft to begin designing phones again in 2016. Microsoft bought the company’s faltering mobile phone unit for €5.44bn (£4.6bn) in 2013
  
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• Saucy QR porn code too hot for Heinz

  19-06-2015 16:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A QR code on a bottle of Heinz ketchup directed browsers to a site that was hosting porn.
  
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• VIDEO: How to monitor your kid's driving

  19-06-2015 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How to be a back seat driver - even when you are not in the car
  
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• Robots, dogs and the apocalypse: seven game design trends from E3 2015

  19-06-2015 15:33
  
  Every year the E3 event in LA tells us what the industry is thinking about – and this year it’s female characters, virtual reality and post-nuclear droid petsIf you want to know what’s going on in the collective consciousness of the global games industry, just hang out at E3 for a day. This gigantic three-day celebration of mainstream gaming has just closed up in Los Angeles, and it made a heck of an impression. So here are the key trends that we picked out among the many hundreds of annou
  
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• Facebook drops photo app in Europe

  19-06-2015 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook's photo-synching app Moments will not be launched in Europe because of its use of facial recognition technology.
  
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• Review: HP Omen

  19-06-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designLate last year, HP turned plenty of heads announcing a gaming laptop when the company was better known for its affordable, consumer mobile computing systems. The introduction of the original Omen not only came as a surprise, but a genuinely pleasing one at that, as a gaming laptop sporting with more than decent parts and a unique design.Now with a new line of Maxwell graphics cards out in the wild, the HP Omen has seen one of the industry's quickest refreshes – less than
  
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• Payday 2: Crimewave Edition review

  19-06-2015 14:30
  
  PS4, Xbox One; 505 Games; £31.50Cops and robbers have been such an enduring inspiration for Hollywood, it’s curious that games haven’t really bothered with the genre. Battlefield Hardline may have grafted policeman onto its game of war, enabling full scale urban combat, and Grand Theft Auto V does let you perform heists, but neither is as detailed or ambitious as Payday 2. You’re one of a team of four criminals taking on jobs that range from quick jewellery shop knockdowns to complex oper
  
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• Visual Studio 2015 RC, First Take: A one-stop shop, from phone to cloud

  19-06-2015 14:23 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  This is a Visual Studio for the world of distributed teams and continuous delivery, for cross-platform apps and for shared development environments.
  
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• Lego Jurassic World review

  19-06-2015 14:20
  
  PS3/4/Vita, Xbox One/360, Wii U, 3DS, PC; Warner Bros; £24.99-39.99It’s dressed in the trappings of Jurassic World, but this is a Lego game from top to shiny plastic toe, which means you’ll be wandering around smashing everything into its component bricks, before reassembling them into useful machines that eventually lead you to the next area. Arriving on Jurassic Park’s Isla Nublar, you can choose to play through either the original film’s story or that of Jurassic World, in both cases
  
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• The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited review

  19-06-2015 14:09
  
  PS4, Xbox One; Bethesda; £49.99The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a game so titanically vast you could lose yourself in it for hundreds of hours and still stumble across new places. The fact that Skyrim is just one region of Tamriel tells you all you need to know about the mind-blowing potential of The Elder Scrolls Online, which splices this scale with a population of thousands of real players. While the landmass is just as intimidatingly endless as you’d imagine, the experience of playing Tamr
  
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• Zero Day Weekly: LastPass, Samsung, baseball hacks, US Navy buying zero days

  19-06-2015 14:03 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A collection of notable security news items for the week ending June 19, 2015. Covers enterprise, controversies, application and mobile security, malware, reports and more.
  
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• Music groups win court battle over private copying of CDs

  19-06-2015 13:56
  
  Judge rules government erred in law by not introducing compensation scheme for rights holders when it changed rulesMusic industry organisations have won a high court battle over measures introduced by the government allowing people to lawfully copy CDs and other copyright material bought for their own private use.
  A judge ruled that the government erred in law when it decided not to introduce a compensation scheme for songwriters, musicians and other rights holders who face losses as a result of
  
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• EyeEm puts your smartphone photos up for sale

  19-06-2015 13:16
  
  Mobile app connects amateur photographers in the UK with potential buyers in a bid to democratise stock photographyThe photographs that we share on social networks often have emotional value, but could they have a commercial value too?Although nobody is going to pay for your filtered KFC big-bucket snaps anytime soon, the idea of people paying for amateur smartphone shots is not as strange as it may seem. Continue reading...
  
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• Uber's business model under attack in California but drivers remain pessimistic

  19-06-2015 13:00
  
  ‘The company is rich and the drivers go back home with empty pockets’ says one ‘freelance’ operator as commission rules drivers are employees, not contractorsShifera Sahilu thought Uber would be his passport to a better life in America. Instead, he said, the ride-sharing company almost ruined him. The fast-growing tech company has built a global business promising new sources of revenue for “freelance” drivers like Sahilu. This week, in a major blow to the company, a court questioned
  
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• Heinz says sorry for ketchup QR code that links to porn site

  19-06-2015 12:27
  
  Ketchup buyer mistakenly exposed to porn after Heinz allows a competition domain to lapse, allowing adult entertainment firm to buy itHeinz has apologised to a German customer after a QR code on one of its tomato ketchup bottles linked to a porn site.
  After using a smartphone to scan the code, which was meant to provide information about a promotional campaign that offered personalised ketchup bottle labels, Daniel Korell was sent to a German adult site rather than a Heinz-run page. Continue rea
  
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• Just because your business is boring, doesn't mean they're not out to get you

  19-06-2015 11:59 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A new book on cybercrime is urging companies to be more aware of the security risks their businesses face, even if they think their comparnies are too small to be worth attacking.
  
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• Sun to relax paywall as part of drive to exploit social media

  19-06-2015 11:45
  
  Growth of news sharing on sites such as Facebook and Twitter prompts tabloid to make selected digital content available for freeThe Sun is to start to make content available outside its digital paywall for the first time as the tabloid aims to capitalise on the explosion of news sharing on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.Mike Darcey, the chief executive of News UK, said that from early July “select digital content” will be made available for free. Continue reading...
  
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• Twitter unveils 'Project Lightning' to bring live events to life

  19-06-2015 11:45
  
  The feature will allow users to follow live events through curated streams of tweets, photos and videosTwitter is going live. After years of attempting to compete with market leader Facebook on its own turf, Twitter is poised to embrace the key aspect that differentiates the two social networks with a new feature, the code-named Project Lightning, which will allow users to follow live events through curated streams of tweets, photos and videos.Those events could be organised events such as the W
  
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• Will Google's $5m plan make cycling in the rest of Silicon Valley easier?

  19-06-2015 11:32
  
  Cycling is safe and easy inside the search giant’s Mountain View HQ, but getting to the site from elsewhere in Silicon Valley means crossing fast-moving expressways and busy train tracks. Is Google’s new bike plan the answer?Inside the Googleplex – the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California – hundreds of multi-coloured bikes are scattered around. With bright yellow frames and big blue and green rubber tires, they’re seemingly everywhere – clustered at the edges of p
  
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• Getting started with mobile printing

  19-06-2015 11:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Printing from your smartphone or tablet while on the move is easy with a little preparation.
  
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• The Last Guardian: Fumito Ueda's quest for epic minimalism

  19-06-2015 11:16
  
  Finally confirmed by Sony, the latest adventure from the creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus marks the return of a singular talent in gamingWhen the Japanese game designer Fumito Ueda was a child, he loved to capture and care for wild animals. He was obsessed with the way they moved; and later as a young game designer he imported a copy of the Amiga classic Lemmings, seeing in it something other than a colourful puzzler. “I sensed life on the TV screen for the first time in my life,” h
  
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• VIDEO: The bridge that prints itself

  19-06-2015 11:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's LJ Rich looks at some of the best of the week's technology news.
  
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• Google and Local World strike deal to launch 10 evening editions

  19-06-2015 10:26
  
  Regional publisher to launch titles such as the Bristol Post and Leicester Mercury through apps that launch at 5pm dailyLocal World is to launch digital evening editions for 10 of its titles, including the Bristol Post, Leicester Mercury and Nottingham Post.The regional newspaper publisher has struck a deal with Google that will see the titles make a return to the evening market through an app edition that will launch at 5pm daily. Continue reading...
  
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• Defence examines breaches of on-printer, unaudited, and misdelivered matters

  19-06-2015 08:32 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A computer within the Australian Defence Force's joint operations headquarters was changed to skip the audit logs for most events, with the Defence Security Agency unable to say how the change occurred.
  
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• Viral video chart: Ed Sheeran, Madonna, Andy Murray and 1D's Liam Payne

  19-06-2015 08:18
  
  Clare Balding and Jack Whitehall court danger, a birthday greeting from Game of Thrones, Nicki Minaj joins the queen of pop, and Toy StoryWe start this week with a dream come true for an Ed Sheeran fan who was surprised by her hero as she sang hit song Thinking Out Loud. Sydney Bourbeau was performing at her Canadian music school’s fundraiser for the Edmonton Humane Society when Sheeran walked out of an HMV store and on to a stage in the shopping mall. Bourbeau, 13, said: “I was like, should
  
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• Telstra to end dial-up services in December

  19-06-2015 07:46 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The remaining Australians on dial-up internet services with Telstra will need to upgrade soon, with the company announcing that it will retire the legacy product at the end of this year.
  
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• Is 'corporate wellness' the big new thing that will keep Fitbit ahead of the pack?

  19-06-2015 07:00
  
  Activity tracking pioneer is valued at $4bn and could be about to come to a workplace near you as personal fitness goes corporate You may have heard of Fitbit, you may even have worn one of its trackers to count your daily steps, but it’s unlikely you would have expected the clamour for its shares to send them soaring 50% when they floated in New York yesterday.Shares in the firm responsible for the gadget took off at a sprint, jumping from their $20 initial price to more than $30 in early US
  
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• Zoos SA brings people closer to animals with Skype

  19-06-2015 06:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Off the back of overhauling its IT infrastructure, Zoos South Australia implemented Skype for Business, which has helped the organisation boost membership numbers, visitor engagement, and staff workflow.
  
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• Pantech potentially saved from bankruptcy with last-minute buyer

  19-06-2015 05:53 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  South Korea's third-largest smartphone maker may make an unlikely comeback from facing bankruptcy after a potential buyer finally showed interest before a deadline.
  
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• South Australia to invest over AU$40m in IT infrastructure

  19-06-2015 03:26 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  South Australia's justice system, police force, and emergency services are set to receive core IT upgrades and assistance in the state's 2015-16 Budget.
  
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• Dallas Buyers Club investors sue firm suing Australian ISPs

  19-06-2015 03:09 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  While Voltage wants to know how much alleged infringers earned, it is being accused of hiding from investors how much Dallas Buyers Club earned outside of the United States.
  
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• Close-up on 'most ambitious game'

  19-06-2015 02:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Get close to a 'most ambitious game'
  
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• Businesses slowly increasing web, social media presence: ABS

  19-06-2015 02:03 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Australian Bureau of Statistics has identified that while most Australian businesses are connected to the internet via broadband, only 33 percent of businesses take online orders.
  
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• Internet NZ ignites net neutrality debate

  19-06-2015 01:42 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Net neutrality is barely discussed in New Zealand, but market changes make a conversation necessary, says Internet NZ.
  
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• Africa discovers the power of crowdfunding

  19-06-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Africa discovers the financial muscle of the crowd
  
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• ​CommBank takes 'Silicon Valley' approach to tablet app refresh

  19-06-2015 00:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched an app for tablets in the hopes of improving the user experience.
  
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