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The Samsung Galaxy Exhibit aka Galaxy S3 Mini has finally arrived at T-Mobile.

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It’s been rumored for quite some time that Microsoft would be bringing back the Start button in Windows 8.1. This news alone has Windows users jumping for joy, but their celebrations may be premature, as the Start button won’t come back in full force, meaning that it won’t bring up a Windows 7-like Start Menu that we all know and love.

According to ZDNet, various sources says that the Start button will be placed in the same location on the task bar just like it was in past Windows versions, and it’s said that it will most likely be turned on by default, with the option to disable it in the settings if you prefer no Start button.

However, that’s where most of the familiarity ends. It’s said that pressing the Start button will bring up a full-screen view of “All Apps”, similar to the current Windows 8 view that users can get to when they bring up the app bar and select “All Apps.” Users can arrange the icons, though, but that’ll be the closest it gets to getting the Windows 7 Start Menu back.

Of course, that’s not terrible news. Instead of a little window popping up, allowing you to browse your various applications, the new Start button in Windows 8.1 will bring up a full-screen view of practically the same thing that you would see in the Windows 7 Start Menu — it’s just a different look, obviously.

As for the boot-to-desktop feature that has also been rumored, it’s said to be in the latest Milestone Preview of Windows 8.1, along with the Start button, which means that we’ll hopefully see these new features in the final update. The boot-to-desktop feature also works just how it sounds, allowing users to boot straight to Desktop Mode, skipping the metro-style start screen altogether. It’s also said that the update will allow users to set the same background image between Desktop Mode and the start screen, allowing for a more unified look to the OS.

SOURCE: ZDNet

Windows 8.1 Start button won’t do what you expect is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Today Gmail will be appearing with an update on several platforms, each of them allowing the mail environment to sort your messages automatically. This update includes several pre-set categories such as Social, Promotions, and Updates, but can be edited and customized according to the users’ preferences.

The new tabs effectively act as separate inboxes for users and are entirely optional – once they appear, they can be turned off in favor of Gmail’s more traditional all-in-one setup. Individual emails inside the main, single email inbox as well as the new categorizes sets can be further marked by Labels – this ability having been part of the Gmail experience in the past, as well.

This update has the potential to effectively sort spam instantly – what remains to be seen is if the algorithms Google has put in play are as slick as they appear in the first promotional video the team has revealed.

While the Gmail team has noted that this experience will begin rolling out to users today, they’ve also made clear that “the next few weeks” are included in the rollout period. This means that for desktop, Android, and iOS, your update might come today, or it might come two weeks from now – we’ll just have to wait and see.

For those of you wishing to get in on the action as soon as possible, you’re to have a peek at the little gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of your Gmail page on the web browser version of the email client, and from there click “Configure inbox” when it appears – it might not be there yet, but the Gmail team says it will be soon.

SOURCE: Gmail

Gmail update brings automatic, customizable inbox sorting is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook’s billion dollar IPO didn’t just leave a lot of investors frustrated, it also left NASDAQ under the glare of a US Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, which has culminated in a $10m penalty. The fine comes as the SEC deems that NASDAQ ill-prepared for the Facebook floatation, not taking into account the likely demand by investors, and leading to significant disruptions on the day.

“Exchanges have an obligation to ensure that their systems, processes, and contingency planning are robust and adequate to manage an IPO without disruption to the market. According to the SEC’s order instituting settled administrative proceedings, despite widespread anticipation that the Facebook IPO would be among the largest in history with huge numbers of investors participating, a design limitation in NASDAQ’s system to match IPO buy and sell orders caused disruptions to the Facebook IPO. NASDAQ then made a series of ill-fated decisions that led to the rules violations” SEC

As the SEC sees it, NASDAQ was fully aware of the flaw in its market code before the IPO, but a high-level meeting saw executives decide to go ahead nonetheless. That’s despite actually addressing it being the simple matter of “removing a few lines of code” the SEC highlights.

The result was in excess of 30,000 Facebook stock orders frozen in limbo in NASDAQ’s computer systems, with the instructions lingering for more than two hours whereas they would normally be acted on immediately: either with a purchase or a cancellation.

NASDAQ subsequently admitted that it was “humbly embarrassed” by the goof, with executives later conceding that “in retrospect it was incorrect” for the exchange to go ahead with the IPO. A knock-on effect saw sales of shares in other companies, such as Zynga, delayed as well.

“This action against NASDAQ tells the tale of how poorly designed systems and hasty decision-making not only disrupted one of the largest IPOs in history, but produced serious and pervasive violations of fundamental rules governing our markets” George S. Canellos, Co-Director, Division of Enforcement, SEC

According to the investigation, NASDAQ compounded the mistakes by then shorting Facebook stock using an unauthorized error account, making a profit of $10.8m in the process. In total there were at least five rule transgressions, the SEC concludes.

The $10m penalty imposed is the largest ever against an exchange, and reflects the severity of the blunder, the SEC says. NASDAQ has agreed to pay it, though is yet to make any other comment.

Facebook IPO blunder sees NASDAQ hit with record $10m SEC fine is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Several companies have pulled their ad campaigns from Facebook after their ads appeared beside offensive content.

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