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Ahead of its ‘small’ Surface event in New York, Microsoft hints at the Surface Pro 3

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by on May 14, 2014 at 11:21 am
Posted In: Around the Web

The Surface Pro 2 was unveiled roughly eight months ago, but it seems Microsoft will soon be ready to launch its successor. As The Verge reports, a Microsoft support page references a “Surface Pro 3 camera” at the moment, which adds weight to the tablet-hybrid’s existence. While there’s always a chance it could just be a typo, the online tidbit comes less than a week before Microsoft’s next dedicated Surface press event. The invite’s “small” wording suggests a Surface Mini is in the offing, but perhaps a refreshed Surface Pro could also rear its head? Either way, we’ll be covering…

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Messaging app WeChat climbs to 396 million monthly active users

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by on May 14, 2014 at 10:55 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia

Tencent today published its financials for the first quarter of 2014 and hidden inside was a new milestone for its WeChat messaging app. The cross-platform service has risen to 396 million monthly active users, which is up from 355 million the previous quarter. The new record, which covers both WeChat and Weixin – the version Tencent offers in China – is up 87 percent from the same three-month period last year. It’s unclear where WeChat is seeing the greatest amount of growth, however. In its earnings report, Tencent said it “continued to drive user engagement” for the app internationally, but…

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Nintendo takes down popular iOS Game Boy emulator GBA4iOS

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by on May 14, 2014 at 10:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

It was only a matter of time. GBA4iOS, a popular Game Boy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPad, is no more. While game emulation is hardly a new trend, the simple set up – the app didn’t require a jailbreak – made it a smash-hit with the gaming community. If you head over to the site’s GitHub page, you’ll notice that it’s now out of commission. Riley Testut, the creator of GBA4iOS, said Nintendo sent him a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice requesting the takedown. Well it’s official, @NintendoAmerica has sent a DMCA Notice requesting http://t.co/2egsx0sRNS to be…

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Adobe Senior Creative Director Russell Brown on the past and future of Illustrator

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by on May 14, 2014 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Profiles and Interviews

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In the era when the ruler, triangle, and T-square reigned supreme — when the concept of desktop publishing was radical — a young company called Adobe launched its first program, Illustrator, a tool for graphic designers. While pixel-based photo and video apps, like Adobe’s own Photoshop and many others, stand front and center in the consumer consciousness, designers continue to rely on vector graphics apps. Russell Brown, senior creative director, Adobe With that in mind, Adobe today honors its debut product — launched in 1987 — with a three-part documentary video series chronicling the birth of Illustrator, which, not coincidentally, intersects with the rise of…

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