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NASA offers best pics yet of Vesta asteroid

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [3]

It has been a while since we talked about the Vesta asteroid and the NASA Dawn spacecraft that went into orbit around the asteroid. The last time we mentioned the Dawn was back in July when Dawn first started to orbit Vesta. NASA has now offered up some of the best photos of the surface of Vesta that have ever been seen. Read The Full Story

Best Buy cancels some online orders days before Christmas

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [11]

If you placed an order for any holiday gifts via Best Buy online that you haven't received yet, you need to check on them quickly. Best Buy has announced that it will not be able to fill all orders made as far back as November before Christmas. Some of the popular products that were ordered online are not able to be filled at this time. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 Dashboard update keeps some offline

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [2]

If you have applied the update to the Xbox 360 dashboard recently you may have found that you can't get online anymore. Kotaku reports that the update has prevented some users from getting back online for playing games. Microsoft is promising to resolve the issue as soon as possible. The issue is apparently not very widespread. Read The Full Story

Intel chops some Sandy Bridge processor prices

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Of all the parts inside the notebooks and other computers that we all use every day, one of the most expensive components is the CPU. As processors come down in price, the PC as a whole gets cheaper. Intel has announced that it will be cutting the price on some Sandy Bridge CPUs. Intel notified its partners of the price cuts that will be made on the Core i3 and Core i5 series parts. Read The Full Story

Air Dictate uses Siri instead of typing on Mac software

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

When it comes to using your voice to dictate your content to a computer rather than typing, there are a bunch of apps out there already. Dragon Naturally Speaking is one such voice instead of typing software package. A company called Avatron has invented a new app for the iPhone that harnesses Siri to enter text. Read The Full Story

FCC green lights AT&T/Qualcomm deal

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

AT&T recently took a $4 billion beating at the hands of federal regulators when its plan to purchase T-Mobile in part to get the wireless spectrum to build out its network more fully failed. The result was a $3 billion cash payment to T-Mobile's parent company for the deal failing along with a bunch of stock. Word came yesterday that the FCC had approved another deal that AT&T had cooking. Read The Full Story

Republic Wireless goes true unlimited

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

I think we all know that there are few truly unlimited plans left out there for smartphone users. They may say unlimited, but those little asterisks tell us that they actually limit most of the time. It may be a fair-use policy that charges you more after a small amount of free data, or it could be that they just slow your connection to the point that you can't even use your device for data. Read The Full Story

Smartphones pushing single-purpose cameras out to pasture

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [3]

I don’t think that anyone will be surprised by this new report by NPD. The company says that smartphone cameras are relegating the normal stand-alone camera increasingly to a thing of the past. A recent NPD study shows that the number of users that shoot photos and video with smartphones is increasing significantly while the number of people using single-purpose cameras is on the decline. Read The Full Story

Apple received more online traffic than eBay or Walmart last month

Paul Fang, Dec 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

The word is in that Apple received more traffic online last month than Walmart or eBay. In fact, Apple is the sole retailer other than internet shopping sites Amazon and eBay to be in the top fifteen most visited websites in the United States in November, according to ComScore. The research company believes that pre-holiday shopping may have been what largely helped facilitate Apple's huge push past some of the largest online stores for internet-based visitors. Read The Full Story

Apple’s iPhone European sales and market share see decline

Paul Fang, Dec 22nd 2011 Discuss [7]

The faltering economy and price-competitive rivals have triggered a decline in the market share and sales of Apple's iPhone in the majority of Europe, except in the UK, based on data shown from European research firm Kantar today. The October release of Apple's new iPhone 4S buttressed its position in the UK as well as the United States, but the new iPhone didn't do much to spark interest in mainland Europe, where Apple's share of the ever-growing smartphone market has fallen. Read The Full Story

Google to pay Mozilla almost $300 million per year in search deal to outdo Microsoft and Yahoo

Paul Fang, Dec 22nd 2011 Discuss [14]

AllThingsD has reported that Google will be on track to pay an impressive $300 million per year to Mozilla, for when Google and Mozilla renewed their search royalty deal, earlier this week. This exorbitant amount of money will allow Google to be the default search engine in Mozilla's Firefox web browser. The deal has apparently climbed to this figure, from previous deals, due to Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing search engine, which have provided ample competition, until now. Read The Full Story

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