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Iron Man 3 is on the way, Thor 2 has a greenlight, and Captain America 2 has been confirmed. But now that we’re living in a post-Avengers world, what else is on the Marvel movie horizon?

Its official: is a hit. It recorded the biggest opening weekend of all time with a staggering $207.4 million take in 3 days. Counting the international numbers, as of today, both domestically and internationally, the movie has made $702.1 million and should clear a billion dollars, probably within the next two weeks at most.

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Small and medium-sized businesses are spending more money on IT, including adopting tablets, cloud services and virtualization to a greater extent, according to Spiceworks’ State of SMB IT survey.

IT budgets at companies with fewer than 1,000 employees grew 6 percent in the first half of 2012 from the second half of 2011, and 15 percent year-over-year, according to the survey.

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The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has issued the first license plates that will allow Google’s autonomous cars onto public highways.

Nevada is the first state to devise licensing procedures for autonomous vehicles, and Google is the one of the leaders in that field, having hired some of the top talent that took part in the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges. Google’s fleet will have red Nevada license plates with a Greek infinity symbol, intended to alert other drivers that a computer has control of the vehicle.

“I felt using the infinity symbol was the best way to represent the ‘car of the future’.” Department Director Bruce Breslow said in a statement.

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Kingston’s Wi-Drive is a nichey product to be sure, but it’s no less useful; the device is a portable, wireless storage drive designed to give mobile device users an extra amount of storage.

Yes, a memory card would do essentially the same thing–add storage to a mobile device–but it’s not always possible to add a memory card (eg, iOS devices), some users would prefer to keep certain files stored on a separate device, and the Wi-Drive is designed to make it easy to share stored data with others.

When we reviewed the Wi-Drive some months back, we noted that support was limited to just PCs, Macs, and iOS devices, but that Kingston had more support options brewing. Today Read more…