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Apple shares hit high for 2013 on holiday hope

Apple products are not only hot selling items this holiday, they are also popular online buying tools The first customer of the tablet iPad in an Apple Store in Amsterdam  Apple shares rose to the highest level this year as investors bet products like the latest iPads and iPhones will be hot sellers this holiday, helping the consumer technology giant kick-start earnings growth again. The stock climbed 1.9% to $556.07 Friday. Earlier in the day, it touched $594.59, a 2013 high. Apple unveiled two new iPhones earlier this year and more recently launched the new iPad Air and an upgraded iPad mini. The iPad mini was among top sellers at Walmart on Thanksgiving, while Target said the iPad Air was a hot item at its stores. On eBay.com, one iPad was selling every second as of midnight on Thanksgiving. "Apple products should be the holiday gift of choice this year," said Brian Marshall, an analyst at ISI Group. "The company has a great product cycle curr

Early iPad Walmart Black Friday 2013 Deals Offer up to $150 Off

When it comes to the iPad Black Friday 2013 deals, Staples is taking an early lead with up to $80 off the current iPads and a special Black Friday deal that takes up to $150 off the last generation iPad 4. Hands down, if you are looking at the Walmart Black Friday 2013 iPad mini deal or the Best Buy Black Friday 2013 iPad 2 doorbuster, stop and check these out for a good alternative that offers more choice and will let you enjoy Thanksgiving with your friends or family. Unlike the Walmart Black Friday 2013 deals, these iPad deals at Staples include more than just the 16GB models and even include LTE models on AT&T and Verizon. Staples offers a collection of iPad Black Friday 2013 deals. These iPad Black Friday deals are available online right now, allowing shoppers to avoid the long lines and crowds that can make even a guaranteed in stock iPad mini at the Walmart Black Friday shopping event a hassle that some will pass on. When it comes to the iPad, we don’

Xbox One launch day hardware issues abound, but fortunately no sign of the red ring of death yet

After the absurd and complicated roller coaster ride of the Xbox 180 pre-launch debacle, the Xbox One is finally finding its way into the living rooms of consumers.  While many users are happily channel surfing and playing with their Xbox Ones, some users are hitting major issues. From faulty Blu-ray drives to unexplained buzzing to iPhone-like scuffs, the Xbox One launch is far from perfect. Hopefully, these failures don’t turn out to be an issue on par with the Xbox 360′s now-infamous red ring of death. By far, the Xbox One’s most obnoxious day-one issue is the broken Blu-ray drives shipped to a number of consumers. When a disc is inserted, you’re not greeted with a nice loading screen or even a sad-faced error message. Instead, all you get is a shrill clicking noise announcing to the world that your shiny new console is broken. It’s almost as if the drive itself is mocking you, really.   Not to be outdone, this video shows an Xbox One making an eery buzzing n

Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL

Winamp Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all. AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through its 1999, $80 million acquisition of Nullsoft in 1999. But today Techcrunch has learned that AOL is talks with Microsoft to sell Winamp, along with Shoutcast, a media streaming service also developed by Nullsoft. We have also learned that AOL has been planning to announce the closure of Shoutcast next week. AOL has declined to comment for this story, and we are still waiting to hear back from Microsoft with a response. From what we understand, the deal is not yet finalized, with AOL and Microsoft still working out the price. It could also be very wishful thinking from those intent on trying to save both services. AOL did not give any guidance yesterday on what would happen with Shoutcast. If this is correct, it would represent an interesting, and strange, twist

Google, Microsoft modify web searches to exclude a lot of porno results

Google and Microsoft have declared plans to censor search results that might direct users to porno, responding to pressure from British authorities. Users exploitation a 100,000 search terms and phrases can not receive content associated with the regulatory offense of youngsters on the companies’ English-language search engines, Google and Microsoft same. Google and Microsoft also will provide bootleg footage distinctive identifiers so those pictures may be mechanically deleted whenever they seem, the businesses same. YouTube engineers ar performing on an identical identification method for videos, per Google, that owns the video service. In a column printed within the Daily Mail newspaper Sunday, Google government Chairman Eric solon same that some search terms associated with porno can still come results, however British users can see a warning at the highest of the search results page. The warning can note that the search came probably bootleg results and direct the

A new iPhone 6 "Air" thought emerged online and included Moto G's new customizable feature

The new thought image is made by brightknight08. The iPhone 6 "Air" options an all-new style with a iPad Air-like body and has customizable colors. There are new buttons likewise, together with a backlit proximity device in situ of the house button and a silent button featured at the highest that conjointly functions because the iPhone's power button. Moreover, brightknight08 packs a four.6 in. Full HD screen show with 450 ppi within the iPhone 6 "Air". The recently discharged Moto G conjointly boasts customizable feature that permits users to vary the colors of the French telephone. Moto G turned the heads of the many shoppers because the smartphone prices $179 for its 8GB variant. According to the most recent rumours, the coming iPhone 6 options could embrace a star wireless charging feature. one in every of the foremost common complaints on iPhones is quick depleting battery capability. This feature aims to supply answer to the aforesaid drawback.

What would I say?: The App that generates Facebook statuses so you don’t have to

New game takes inspiration from your old statuses – and was invented ‘just for fun’ at a US hacking summit Ever wanted you may instantly appear on Facebook as your usual funny, sacred and urbane self while not the trouble of truly coming up with the words? A team within the North American nation has fancied a replacement app that, thankfully, takes all the total of posting a standing on the social media website. It works by accessing each previous post a user has ever done, mix all of them up then regurgitating bits of them in associate degree order that (roughly) is sensible. And it's the dubious another bonus of sounding a bit like you – or a minimum of however you encounter to alternative Facebook users. “What would I say?” is that the product of a team of techies United Nations agency got along for the Hack Princeton 2013 “hackathon” even over the weekend, an area wherever element and package developers meet to figure on real-life, sensible comes. “Tec

Access Most Google Drive Commands With One Keyboard shortcut

Google Drive may be a pretty strong word processing system by itself, however it may be a little frustrating making an attempt to seek out wherever all of the functions you would like are. However, you'll be able to notice everything with one shortcut: hit Alt-/ and search. The Alt-/ shortcut will pull up a groundwork box that you just will use to seek out any command hidden in any of Google Drive's menus. If that command has its own, quicker road, you'll be able to see it listed there moreover. Users of apps like Launchy would possibly notice the motions acquainted, however it ought to be helpful to anyone who's ever questioned wherever the euphemism the page margin settings are.