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Li-Fi - an alternative for Wi-Fi?

Visible light communication (VLC) or simply "Li-Fi" uses rapid pulses of light to transmit information wirelessly. Now, with a new generation of high-brightness light-emitting diodes, it may be ready to compete with conventional Wi-Fi. VLC enc...

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802.11ac - next generation high-speed WiFi

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has shown what might be the next version of high speed WiFi. Currently named 802.11ac, the new proposed standard is able to deliver 120Mbps throughput to three receivers at the same time. 802.11ac uses...

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Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters declared illegal

If you've been thinking about buying a one piece Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable to bring videos from your Macbook to an HDTV, you may want to get it now. According to a report from TechRadar, the group behind HDMI has decided they don't meet th...

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Netflix price hike angers users, many customers...

Some Netflix customers called it a slap in the face. Others a betrayal. Many threatened to drop the movie service. On Wednesday, many of them vented on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, seething over Netflix Inc.'s decision to raise its prices by u...

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Cyber attack hits Governments, IOC and UN

IT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks. It lists 72 different organisations that were targeted over five years, including the International Olympic Committee, the UN and security firms. McAfee...

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Apple made Lion OS X too much like iPhone, iPad?

The newest version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system is finally here, and Lion has brought with it both minor tweaks and some big changes, but is it all for the better? Apple's iPhone and iPad lines have been selling at a rate that puts hotc...

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Google+ iPhone app now available

We've been playing around with Google+ for a few weeks now, but until today the mobile options for the iPhone owners among us were limited to a clunky phone browser version of the G+ website. Today that changes with the launch of the official Googl...

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Google promises to speed up websites!

Google launched a new service on Thursday that can automatically speed up a website's page load times. That's a good thing, as separate studies from Google and Aberdeen Group have shown faster-loading sites boost customer satisfaction and ad re...

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A-Team hacked LulzSec

A group calling itself the A-Team has posted what they contend are the names, locations, aliases and even family members of the hacking cabal known as Lulz Security. Could this be the real reason the high-profile hacking group disbanded this weekend?...

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Google+ changes coming this week

Google is moving swiftly with its brand new social network that launched last week, and is pushing a large list of changes and improvements over the next week as an ongoing effort to improve the product. The speed at which this release has been announc...

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