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Verizon makes Motorola Droid Razr Maxx available for purchase
In an earlier this week announcement, Verizon had said that it will make the much-hyped Motorola Droid Razr Maxx available for purchase, both online as well as in Verizon stores, on January 26.
Nintendo to launch new Wii U home console at year-end holiday season
During the course of a Friday briefing for analysts in Tokyo, console-maker Nintendo's President, Satoru Iwata, said that his company had plans underway to launch its new Wii U home console in time for the 2012 year-end holiday shopping season.
Twitter to selectively 'censor' tweets on country-by-country basis
In what apparently is part of Twitter's strategic move to expand its business around the world, the popular micro-blogging site said in a Thursday announcement that it has refined its technology so as to selectively `censor' messages on a country-by-country basis, rather than on a global basis.
Megaupload's Kim Dotcom denied bail; fifth arrest made
In the latest developments in the copyright infringement case against the popular Megaupload. com file-sharing website, the site's German founder Kim Dotcom, 38, has been denied bail by a New Zealand judge; and it has been confirmed by an unnamed US official that a fifth suspect has been arrested in the Netherlands.
Apple reports another blow-out quarter
In the first post-Steve Jobs quarter, Apple witnessed a staggering 118 percent increase in its quarterly profits, largely due to the notably robust sales of the iPhone - with the iPhone 4S launched during the quarter - and the increasingly popular iPad.
The Pirate Bay adds a new page containing designs usable with 3D printers
With peer-to-peer sharing site The Pirate Bay having recently set up a new page which hosts Test Drive the Public Cloud for $1, users will be able to download digital 3D mock-up files and print them out on a 3D printer.
Depression might get treated by magic mushrooms
Depression might be treated with magic mushrooms some day. This was stated by Professor David Nutt, the controversial sacked government drugs advisor as he made claims that a mistake was made about 50 years ago when therapeutic psychedelic drugs were banned.
Poots to make statement on baby deaths
A statement will be made by Northern Ireland health minister Edwin Poots on what is being done by the medical staff to find out the reason of deaths that led to deaths of three babies at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast.
Google doubles Google+ membership with brute-force signup process
The impressive Google+ statistics highlighted by the Google CEO Larry Page during the company’s quarterly earnings report last week has revealed that there has been a two-fold increase, to 90 million, in the number of Google+ members quarter-on-quarter.
NY Times article analyses Apple-Foxconn association
In a new, comprehensive article that highlights some interesting details pertaining to the popular Apple iPad tablet, The New York Times’ Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher have shed light on Apple’s practice of overseas production of components of its devices, particularly at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China.
Looming iPad 3 launch likely to halve Kindle Fire orders
According to a new Digitimes’ report, based on unnamed quoted sources from a supply chain, the looming launch of the Apple’s iPad’s next iteration – the iPad 3 – will likely reduce the orders of for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet by half.
Paula Deen to donate a part of her earnings to ADA
Celebrity chef Paula Deen, celebrity TV chef who aggressively promoted her butter-heavy Southern cooking over the past years, recently pledged to donate a fraction of her earnings from a well-paid endorsement deal with a diabetes drug-maker Novo Nordisk to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Scientists for freezing study of deadly bird flu
Following fears that the highly infectious bird-flu virus might escape from the laboratories that are conducting research on the virus, influenza experts have agreed to a two-month voluntary ban on research.
Google’s 4Q earnings plunge due to lower advertising prices, European woes
In what came as a disquieting surprise for most investors, Internet search giant Google Thursday reported weaker-than-projected results for the 2011 fourth quarter, largely due to lower advertising prices and the debt woes that hit Europe.
Microsoft’s ‘flat’ Q2 profit was two cents ahead of analysts expectations
Reporting its earnings for the second quarter, Microsoft said that robust sales of its Office suite of programs and Xbox gaming system helped the company touch a profit figure which was two cents more than the analysts' estimates, even though the figure was `flat' in comparison to the numbers for the previous year.
GameSpot: Capcom teasing ‘Resident Evil 6’ with a viral marketing campaign
According to GameSpot, Capcom has somewhat confirmed that a console game from its flagship Resident Evil franchise may apparently be on the cards later this year; with a viral marketing campaign by the publisher teasing the next episode in the series.
First industrial action by GPs in about 40 years
In about 40 years, industrial action is now being threatened by Scottish doctors after they showed anger over changes proposed to their pension plans.
‘Outright opposition’ aided by unison
Outright opposition is something that the unions representing nurses and midwives have now thought of doing when it comes to the government's NHS plans in England for which the union has joined others.
Concerns in the past have been expressed by the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives and stated that they will support the ministers while working towards this.
Israeli hackers take down Saudi Arabia stock exchange and UAE stock exchange websites
In what apparently was a retaliatory move against the Monday attack on the Tel Aviv stock exchange website and Israeli airline El Al's website by Saudi hackers, an Israeli hacking group took down the websites of the stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: There’s more available on Android platform “in some ways”
In an interesting revelation during the course of a recent interview with The Daily Beast, one of Apple's co-founders Steve Wozniak said that even though the Apple iPhone was his "primary phone," he also uses the Android-based Droid Razr from Motorola.
