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ALL DEALS 
February 9, 2017 10 Features of Apple’s iOS 10 Small Businesses Need to Know About
The new iOS 10 by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been described by the company as its biggest release yet, and as an operating system with more personal, powerful and playful features. The good thing for small business owners is that the new features would seem to drastically enhance the way you can run your business on […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 9, 2017 Viber Adds Video Calling for Android and Apple Devices
Viber, the VOIP service purchased earlier this year by the Japanese eCommerce company Rakuten, now has the ability to make Viber video calls on mobile. Previously, Viber users could only make video calls using the app’s desktop platform. Mobile Viber users – both iOS and Android – were limited to making voice calls and sending text […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 9, 2017 Acer Swift 7 and Spin 7 Seem Useful for Mobile Business — If You Don’t Mind the Price
When Apple launched the MacBook Air, it introduced a new level of portability in computing with a very slim form factor and functionality that got everyone’s attention. Although it has taken a while, Acer (TPE:2353) has one upped Apple with the announcement of its new laptop and a two-in-one, called the Swift 7 and Spin […]
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NEWS 
February 8, 2017 Pixel is the rebirth of Google’s unrealized Motorola dream
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ELECTRONICS 
February 8, 2017 Lenovo’s Yoga A12 is super-slim budget version of the Yoga Book
Lenovo’s Yoga Book was received well by the internet, with many praising its unique and innovative design, but criticizing the software. The Chinese company is back again with a new Android tablet that builds on the Book’s success, the A12, with a larger screen and a modified version of Android on board. The A12 has […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2017 Motorola’s OneCompute uses a Moto Mod and a dock to turn the Moto Z into a desktop computer
Still a concept that is part of the Motorola Moto Mods developer kit, OneCompute is a system that will turn the Motorola Moto Z into an Android powered desktop computer. Displayed at Lenovo’s Tech World last week, the system requires the use of a particular Moto Mod that is embedded with a chip from Keyssa. […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2017 Lenovo anunciará un nuevo Motorola en el Mobile World Congress
David Hernández 14 Enero 2017, 15:19 @mrdavidhs lenovo, motorola Queda poco para que la mayor feria de electrónica y de teléfonos móviles del mundo, el Mobile World Congress, comience en Barcelona a finales de febrero, y donde los mayores fabricantes presentarán sus propuestas anuales en términos de telefonía móvil. Si bien se esperan anuncios importantes […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2017 Moto G5, Moto G5 Plus UK release date, price, specification rumours: New Moto G expected to hit UK stores mid-March
Ah, the Moto G. One of the UK’s best-loved budget phones, and one of PC Advisor’s biggest headaches. Don’t get us wrong, it’s a great budget phone, but until 2016 when new owner Lenovo announced the Moto G4, Moto G4 Play and Moto G4 Plus, Motorola had launched a long string of very similar […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2017 City to collect $2.5 million settlement over failed computer aided dispatch system
File photo INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The City of Indianapolis will collect $2.5 million from a contractor that failed to provide a workable Computer Aided Dispatch system for public safety that wildly out promised the capabilities of an untried technology. The agreement with Colossus Incorporated, which took over InterAct Public Safety Systems and N. Harris Computer […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2017 This Photo Shows How Computer Chips Were Made in 1975
Re-Exposure is an occasional Motherboard feature where we look back on delightful old tech photos from wire service archives. ADVERTISEMENT “It looks like a three-dimensional skyline. You can get totally lost in it.” Last year, photographer Christoph Morlinghaus gained notice in Wired for a project of his that involved taking very high-resolution shots of microprocessors […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 8, 2017 Lenovo Thought It Knew How to Fix Tarnished Brands—Then It Bought Motorola
Lenovo Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing, shown in his office in Beijing, has vowed to restore the Motorola brand. PHOTO: STEFEN CHOW FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By KATHY CHU and JURO OSAWA Updated Jan. 16, 2017 12:12 p.m. ET 71 COMMENTS When China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. took over fading mobile-phone pioneer Motorola Mobility in […]
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February 8, 2017 The Microprocessor: A Computer Revolution
A microprocessor is a small silicon chip — rectangular in shape — and usually one square inch. It is made up thousands of transistors that are inter-connected with one another by electronic means. Microprocessors are embedded on motherboards. The function of a microprocessor is to control the arithmetic and logical operations of the Central Processing Unit […]
