Archive | Technology
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Column: Surface is a dangerous move for Microsoft
During a recent press conference, Microsoft announced the release of their first tablet product, the Surface. The move comes more than two years after Apple’s release of the iPad.
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Some iPhone users choose phone over sex
Kelsey Stinnett would rather give up sex for a weekend than go without her smartphone. Stinnett, a 21-year-old U. Florida political science senior, isn’t alone.
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iPhone update has 200 new features
Students’ iPhones can get an upgrade this fall. At Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference on June 11, the next version of the iPhone’s operating system was announced — iOS 6. There are more than 200 new features, but here are five of the best: 1.
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College newspapers moving toward digital future
With the rise of the digital age and dwindling print-circulation numbers, newspapers across the country have been forced to shut down or remodel to keep afloat.
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Column: Apple, iHate
I hate Macs — overpriced hardware, self-righteous users, and a company that neglects its core users.With the conclusion of Computex last week and the conclusion of Apple’s equivalent computer expo, Worldwide Developers Conference, on Monday, competition in the laptop market is fiercer than ever.
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Column: Assange reveals new perspective
Wikileaks changed the world. Well, perhaps, that’s a smidge of hyperbole, but Wikileaks certainly changed the access to information. More importantly, Wikileaks has challenged people, especially Americans, to recognize perspective.
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Tech review: Wireless headphones convenient, un‘beat’able
The reason every pair of headphones I have ever owned, maybe 12 in total, has broken is because the wire becomes frayed at the plug-in point and the sound cuts out of one ear, and then eventually the other. My new pair of headphones will never do that.
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Column: Facebook stock drops as coolness departs
Facebook stock went public recently, and it has been dropping since. In the weeks building up to the release, the value was being pushed and prodded and paraded around by those in the know to attempt to achieve top dollar as trading hit. Those efforts pushed the stock into an inflated value.
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Supreme Court rejects illegal downloading case
On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Joel Tenenbaum, a former Boston U. student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for downloading and sharing 30 songs.