According to The Telegram and sources close to French news outlet L'Express, politically-driven U.S. hackers were responsible for a cyberattack that occurred just days before French voters cast their ballots in April. Those sources claim hackers were able to infiltrate French networks and obtain important documents and strategic plans of then French…

TechSpot Holiday Gift Guide 2012

Julio Franco
With barely a month to go before Christmas, the race is on to clear your holiday shopping list — or, for the procrastinators out there, to start putting one together. Although you're working against the clock, the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales make this a fairly sensible time…

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Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Teardown: A Samsung Tablet By Another Name?

Jamie Condliffe

With its little brother having already spilled its guts, it was always going to be interesting to see how the new 9-inch Fire compared. Turns out it owes an awful lot to Samsung. More »

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Weekend tech reading: Asus undercuts MS Surface with VivoTab RT

Matthew DeCarlo
Asus undercuts Microsoft Surface with $549 VivoTab RT It remains to be seen how many opponents will show up to each battle, but the Windows RT price wars have begun. Asus is now offering their VivoTab RT tablet — which launched October 26th alongside Windows 8 — for $549, down $50 from its initial price…

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Apple’s Going to Have to Pay All of Samsung’s Legal Fees Because It Didn’t Apologize Well Enough

Eric Limer

And Apple’s apology to Samsung as order by the UK court just got even messier. After posting an apology they had to rewrite, and then pushing the rewritten one down the page with Javascript, a UK court has ordered Apple to pay Samsung’s legal frees in full to even things out. More »

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