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Twitter buys Android lock-screen startup Cover
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A young startup specializing in Android smartphone lock screens that anticipate what "app" a user might want at any give moment said Monday it has been bought by Twitter.
The acquisition comes about a year after the launch of Cover, which said its free application, which hit the virtua
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Twitter is your new migraine doctor
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Welcome to the new migraine attack manual — in 140 characters. Deciphering 21,741 tweets, researchers have found that 74% women shared a real-time migraine attack on Twitter, followed by 17% men.
The higher global peak of migraine tweets occurred Mondays at 14:00 GMT or 10 am Eastern D
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The Best Apps for Managing Your Inbox
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Keeping up with your email can be a real pain. Not only do most of us complain about being buried in messages, we might have several inboxes — one for work, one for personal communications and (if you’re smart) a separate account you use to sign up for services that later will spam you with ads,
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Truecaller ties up with Nokias Android-powered X series
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Aiming to expand its reach in emerging and mass markets like India, phone directory app Truecaller has tied up with Nokia for newly launched Android-powered X series smartphones.
The Truecaller app will be available on the Nokia apps store for all devices in the Nokia X series.
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The Countries With the Fastest Internet
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Asia is solidifying its place as the world's epicenter for top-speed Internet access, according to the latest research from Akamai Technologies expected to be published later today.
The top four places, ranked by their average peak connection speeds, were in Asia. Hong Kong, South Korea
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The ecosystem explodes
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On an unusually warm winter day last December, inside the iconic Bombay Stock Exchange auditorium, a slim and groomed pony-tailed man was being mobbed. The bell rang for the networking lunch, but the crowd wanted to talk to only one man — Rahul Sood, serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur and current
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This app lets you quit your job with an SMS
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Thinking about quitting your job? A humorous new app aims to relieve the stress and anxiety of confronting the boss with the news by sending a text message instead.
Although the new iPhone app is meant to be funny, its creators are hoping it will take off and people will use it to lea
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Thousands of Yahoo visitors hit with malware
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Two internet security firms have reported that Yahoo's advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the past week.
The attack appears to have been the work of malicious parties who have hijacked Yahoo's advertising network.
Fox IT, a security firm ba
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The best media player for performance 2014
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Our best media player article has been fully updated for 2014.
Some media players are bloated monsters, packed with unnecessary features. You've seen the results: open an HD video and they'll keep you waiting while your hard drive thrashes, your RAM is gobbled up and your CPU utilisatio
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The new platform for stars to promote brands, Twitter
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Besides appearing in commercials and other marketing campaigns, Bollywood celebrities have now started using Twitter to promote the brands they endorse, says a new report.
A study of tweets of Bollywood stars by social media analytics firm 'To The New' reveals that around 9 per c
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