us-hotdailynews: 2015-01-04 U.S. Technology

Apple iOS 8 Lawsuit Claims False Representation of Storage Capacity
Latin Post
A new lawsuit in California claims Apple misleads its customers on how much storage is actually available for personal use on iPhones, iPads and iPods. At the heart of the debate? The size of the brand new iOS 8 operating system. Miami residents Paul ...

Apple Deceptive & Misleading? iPhone & iPad Users File Lawsuit Over iOS ...   Latino Post
iOS 8 storage lawsuit says that Apple's 16 GB iPhones are a big fat lie   Consolidate Times
Tech Five: Apple facing suit over iPhone storage   USA TODAY
Capitalberg
The Register
The Verge
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Valve wins big with Steam this holiday season
SMN Weekly
When it comes to online storefronts and gaming platforms, there was one big winner this holiday season: Valve's Steam PC gaming service. Unlike console competitors like the Sony PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live online multiplayer platform, ...

Steam hits 8.5 million concurrent users, shows PC gaming still has plenty of life   PCWorld
Steam Adds Frame Rate Counter, Hit Nearly 8.5 Concurrent Users on New ...   Arcade Sushi
Concurrent Steam Users Top 8.46 Million In Early Hours Of 2015 - (Time)   Full-Time Whistle
Game Informer
PC Gamer
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Due to Downtime, Sony Extends PlayStation Store Holiday Sale
PC Magazine
Sony's big holiday sale and flash sale at the PlayStation Store should have ended by now. However, the company has announced that it is extending these sales as a result of of the PlayStation Network's recent downtime, which might have unfairly caused ...

Sony tries to make good after PlayStation network outage   Los Angeles Times
After outage, Sony makes peace offering to users of PlayStation Network   CNET
Sony looks to appease PlayStation users after Christmas outage   Computerworld
The Register
Mashable
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ZDNet

CES: Acer introduces first 15.6" display Chromebook
ZDNet
Las Vegas -- After Chromebooks conquered the consumer market during the holiday with Amazon's top three laptop sellers, Acer seems to think that the Chrombeook is ready for the business market. acer-chromebook-15.jpg Acer thinks the business market is ...

Acer unveils biggest-yet Chromebook 15   Sacramento Bee
Acer is now the proud owner of the largest Chromebook on the market   AfterDawn
Acer tags Chromebook 15 at $250; adds to the previous versions   The Next Digit
Food World News
TechnoBuffalo
Full-Time Whistle
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NDTV

Microsoft And Yahoo Confirm Search Outages
TechCrunch
Microsoft's search engine Bing.com and other sites, including live.com, suffered a brief outage of somewhere around 20 minutes today, give or take, according to reports on Twitter and other website-monitoring services. While Bing.com and others have since ...

A Bad Bing Update Took Out Yahoo Search Yesterday   Gizmodo Australia
Bad code update triggered Yahoo, Bing search crash: source   Reuters
Microsoft's mistaken Bing update takes down Yahoo search   SlashGear
The Register
Mashable
NBCNews.com
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Obama asks FCC to regulate Internet as utility
The State
Regional cable companies Comporium and TruVista are wary of President Barack Obama's call to regulate Internet service providers as utilities. The cable companies fear that regulations like those frequently imposed on utilities would affect the ability to ...

FCC to vote on net neutrality rules in February   Computerworld
FCC plans to vote on Net neutrality in February   CNET
FCC Will Vote On Broadband Internet Rules in February   Wall Street Journal
Home Media Magazine
New York Times
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PCWorld

Acer opens up its Aspire Nitro notebook to gestural control and 3D modeling
VentureBeat
It's a good idea in general, but it could be essential if the kind of in-the-air gestural control that Acer announced today for its Aspire V17 Nitro gaming notebook becomes commonplace. This version features Intel's RealSense 3D camera, which can detect ...

Acer Adds 3D Camera to Aspire V 17 Nitro   PC Magazine
Acer to unveil V 17 Nitro with 3D camera during CES 2015   The Next Digit
Acer's new laptop has a crazy Kinect-like 3D camera   Haverzine
SMN Weekly
Modern Readers
BetaNews
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CES 2015: Preview of the new tech on show in Las Vegas
BBC News
Millions of gadgets have only just been unwrapped for Christmas, but the giants and minnows of the tech world are gearing up for a fresh barrage. More than 3,500 firms will exhibit new wares at this years' International Consumer Electronics Show in Las ...

Consumer Electronics Show opens Tuesday in Las Vegas   SFGate
Automakers aren't a trend at CES anymore — they're here to stay   The Verge
Troy Wolverton, Tech Files: Gadgets to take center stage at CES this year   Santa Cruz Sentinel
Newsy
Chinatopix
VentureBeat
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Alcatel's Pixi 3 phones come in four sizes with your choice of three OSes
Ars Technica
The first Windows Phone with on-screen buttons enters the battle for the low end. If you're worried about the smartphone market becoming homogenized, budget smartphone maker Alcatel has an interesting proposition for you: its new Pixi 3 smartphones are ...

Alcatel OneTouch reveals their first budget smartwatch for the masses   AfterDawn
Alcatel Onetouch reveals PIXI 3 with support for three OSes, WATCH round ...   androidandme.com

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Price Is Right Contestants Think iPhone 6 Costs $7500: Watch the Hilarious Video
Us Magazine
Game show fail. Two Price Is Right contestants revealed that they have absolutely no idea how much a new 16GB iPhone 6 costs when they had to guess the retail price on a recent episode of the game show. PHOTOS: Best dressed hosts. The first contestant ...

'Price Is Right' Contestants Think An iPhone Costs $7500   Businessinsider India
'Price is Right' contestants are way wrong about the cost of an iPhone 6   National Monitor
'Price Is Right' contestants think iPhone 6 costs $7500   CNET
ABC News
TheBlaze.com
Today.com
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