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ZTE Optik offers 7-inches of Android for under $100
$99 for an Android tablet with 3G? The ZTE Optik demands a few compromises – and a two-year agreement – but the price is right: for your money you get 3G, a 7-inch 1280 x 800 multitouch display, Android 3.2 Honeycomb and full access to the Android Market. Inside is a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, [...]
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Google slaps Microsoft over “Gmail Man” privacy snark
Google has gone back on the offensive over criticisms of its updated privacy policy, taking on Microsoft’s “Putting People First” sniping campaign with a fresh round of myth debunking. The search company took to its Public Policy Blog to shoot down rivals’ claims, paying particular attention to suggestions that the policy tweaks are to make better advertising [...]
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Samsung Galaxy S Advance hits pre-order
With Samsung’s Galaxy S III no longer expected at MWC 2012 later this month, we’ll have to make do with the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, officially announced on Monday and already up for pre-order. An variant of the original Galaxy S, the Galaxy S Advance I9070 is scheduled to drop roughly at the same time as the Barcelona [...]
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NASA beams back video from the Dark Side of the Moon
NASA has released footage of the far side of the moon, beamed back by one of the agency’s twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft as they test their MoonKAM hardware. In the clip – which you can see after the cut – the moon’s north pole is visible at the top of the screen, [...]
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Chrysler does handbrake turn: $183m income after 2010′s losses
Chrysler has apparently done the impossible, turning around dire losses of $652m in 2010 to make $183m in income in 2011, with operating profit doubling to $2bn. Announcing its full year 2011 figures today, the car firm even managed to choke down a $551m debt payment in Q2, and still exceeded operating profit against the previous [...]
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Corning and Samsung Mobile Display team for OLED glass partnership
Corning and Samsung Mobile Display have announced they’ve teamed up to form a new OLED glass partnership. The two firms are establishing a new joint venture to many factors special the glass substrates that will be used in the OLED display manufacturing market. The joint venture will use Corning’s new Lotus Glass and Samsung’s OLED [...]
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Qualcomm and Ericsson demo VoLTE to 3G switch without dropping call
Qualcomm and Ericsson have completed the first VoLTE handover of a voice call from an LTE network to a WCDMA one, paving the way for high-speed smartphones that can handle voice as well as data. The proof-of-concept took place in late December, using a Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 3G/LTE based device on an Ericsson network, seamlessly transitioning [...]
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White HTC Sensation running ICS to land March 1
We have some good news for owners of the HTC Sensation smartphone. A press release has been published that says the HTC Sensation will get the official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update soon. HTC doesn’t give a specific date that the update will come, simply saying it will come out OTA soon. HTC also [...]
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Facebook Phone could break through site’s social mobile limbo
Facebook‘s mobile strategy faces renewed attention IPO excitement cools, with the company citing cellphone users as a huge source of potential growth though warning it is currently at the mercy of Apple and Android. According to Facebook’s SEC filing, 425m active users accessed the social network while mobile in December 2011 alone, more than half of [...]
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French courts slaps Google with $660,000 fine for offering free map services
A French court has fined Google in one has to be has to be one of the most idiotic court cases I’ve ever heard of. The complaint was brought against Google by French company called Bottin Cartographes, who offers mapping services to businesses at a price. Google operates its Google Maps service in France offering [...]
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Kaz Hirai: User experience, not hardware, will turn Sony around
Sony is to become a leaner, swifter, less regimented organization, new CEO and President Kaz Hirai has promised, cutting through the swathes of structure that have seen projects delayed and efforts duplicated. Freshly elevated this week, Hirai’s first challenge was to weather the storm of a worse-than-expected fiscal Q3 2011 report; his next, the WSJ reports, [...]
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Seagate says hard disk drive shortage to continue through 2012
The massive flooding in Thailand has severely limited the supply hard drives for the computing industry all around the world. One of the companies that was hard hit by the flooding was Seagate. I’m sure Seagate, and the computer industry hoped that the hard disk drive shortage would be over this year, but it doesn’t [...]
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Pentax K-01 pairs K-mount DSLR lenses with compact body
Pentax has launched its latest interchangeable lens camera, the Pentax K-01, designed by Marc Newson and compatible with standard Pentax K-mount DSLR lenses. Offered in black, silver or Newson-trademark yellow, the K-01 wraps an aluminum frame around a 16-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and a 3-inch 920k dot LCD preview display, delivering Full HD 1080p 30fps [...]
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Cheap Raspberry Pi media streamer will run special XBMC software
We have talked about the tiny little Raspberry Pi media streamer several times in the past. This is a little mainboard you can buy for about $35 that hooks your TV and allows you to stream all sorts of content to the big-screen. In case you forget, the little board has an ARM processor integrated [...]
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Three Web Cube promises broadband for digital nomads
UK carrier Three has answered the (perhaps unasked) question of what you call a mobile hotspot when it’s not actually mobile: the Three Web Cube, packing a 3G HSPA+ connection into a fixed WiFi router. Promising plug-and-play simplicity, the box comes with a SIM pre-installed and a choice of tariffs with up to 15GB of [...]
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Twitter kicks off bigger enhanced brand page rollout
This week twitter started a larger rollout of its enhance brand pages. We first caught wind of these new brand pages back in early December 2011 and the first page we saw was from Pepsi. Enhance brand pages allow different companies, brands, organizations, and others to set up twitter pages that more closely reflect the [...]
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Avid Studio for iPad takes on iMovie
Apple’s iMovie for iPad has some serious competition this morning, with video editing heavyweight Avid releasing Avid Studio for iPad. The new app, which comes in at under five bucks [iTunes link], brings video manipulation tools from Avid’s pro range of software to the iOS slate, accessing media stored on the iPad itself or imported [...]
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Apple boots LG from the third-place mobile phone vendor spot says IDC
IDC has offered up the latest statistics for the mobile phone market with its Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker data that follows the global market. According to the latest numbers, Apple is growing in a big way thanks to the new iPhone 4S that launched recently. In fact, massive sales success of the new iPhone model [...]
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Apple grabs Xbox LIVE chief for App Store marketing
Apple has poached another Microsoft exec, with ex-Xbox LIVE chief Robin Burrowes jumping to the Cupertino company where he will lead App Store marketing in Europe. Burrowes spent seven years in the Xbox division, MCV reports, and before that worked for MSN and media retailer HMV. It’s not the first time Apple has looked to execs with [...]
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Nokia warns major changes will affect most of 2012 results
Nokia is currently in the midst of huge change for its smartphone business and is warning 2012 may be a tough year. Profits and revenue at the company have sagged, and much of the blame is on the lackluster sales of Nokia branded smartphones. Nokia continues to sell hoards of low-end and midrange mobile phones [...]
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iPad 3 debut in March plus “strange” February event tip sources
Reports of an iPad 3 reveal this month may have been premature, sources now claim, with Apple tipped to unveil its third-gen tablet in March but squeeze in a “strange” event before then. Although a February press event is still apparently on the calendar, Macotakara now says, it won’t see the debut of the new iPad: instead, [...]
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White House says “no comment” on calls to investigate MPAA for alleged bribery
In the past, the White House has encouraged Americans to start petitions on the White House website. The White House has even promised to respond to any petition placed on its website that gets 25,000 signatures within a month’s time. Recently a petition was added to the website calling for the White House to investigate [...]
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Facebook borrows Google+ style for UI tweak
Facebook may be looking at a $100m floatation, but it apparently only spent a few cents on photocopying the image gallery UI from Google+ and using it itself. The new Facebook layout floats a comments/Likes box over the right hand side of a black lightbox, Faceblog spotted, with the tweaked interface being rolled out to certain users already; [...]
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PlayStation Network down for scheduled maintenance today
If you’re a big fan of PlayStation gaming, you need to be aware that Sony has announced PlayStation Network will be down for almost the entire day today. Sony is saying that the PlayStation Network will be off-line for routine scheduled maintenance Thursday, February 2 from about 6 AM until midnight PST. This is certainly [...]
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Stripe looks to dethrone PayPal with backing from Peter Thiel and Elon Musk
PayPal has been around for many years now and is the standard for paying for things on eBay. PayPal is generating huge revenues and is the source of some significant ire for many online shoppers. I know many users of PayPal have been waiting for quality alternative for a long time. It looks like the [...]
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FBI spyware not Skype responsible for spilling MegaUpload secrets
FBI investigators may have infected MegaUpload‘s computers with spyware so as to monitor Skype and email messaging, it’s been suggested, with sources within the Microsoft-owned VoIP company claiming it was not asked to turn over conversation logs. Multiple chat records were included by the FBI within its case against MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom and other [...]
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Vizio prices 58-inch 21:9 TV: $3.5k for home theater experience
Vizio has confirmed pricing for its 21:9 aspect HDTVs, the Vizio XVT 3D CinemaWide TrueLED Smart TV, a 58-inch set whose name is almost as broad as its LCD panel. Announced at CES last month, the CinemaWide promises to deliver the authentic movie theater experience to your living room, with a 2560 x 1080 display, though it’ll [...]
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Sony’s dire Q3: Revenue ditches $2bn, TV and PS3 slump
Sony’s new CEO and President Kazuo Hirai has his work cut out for him: the company’s fiscal Q3 2011 results are out, and Sony’s revenues are down roughly $2bn (159bn yen) pointing to an even more miserable full-year loss than hitherto expected. Sony blamed Thai flooding, an increasingly competitive market landscape – particularly in the smartphone [...]
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Google TV update will bring Chrome improvements, Blu-ray 3D support
If you happen to be in the slim minority of people who owns a Google TV-equipped Sony device, there’s an update heading your way this week. The new version of Google’s operating system for the big screen will make the TV-optimized version of Chrome run a bit speedier. It also adds support for Blu-ray 3D [...]
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Russian scientists about to enter Antarctica’s largest subglacial lake
We’ve all heard the expression that space is the final frontier. But for scientists who have been drilling for 20 years to get through to a vast, untouched lake buried under Antarctic ice, there’s still new places to explore right here on Earth. And soon that lake, having been trapped for more than 20 million [...]
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Match.com: Android users more willing to put out
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Match.com decided to figure out what the correlation was between promiscuity and smartphone platform ownership. That’s Match.com for you. The result was that 62% of Android phone owners are willing to have sex after the first date. That sets Google’s mobile operating system ahead of all other competitors. The least [...]
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TomTom GPS systems now offer more Simpsons voices
D’oh! Homer isn’t the only Simpsons character who can tell you when the next left turn you’ll need to make is. TomTom has just landed a new agreement that brings the blue-headed wife Marge, as well as Mr. Burns into the picture. It isn’t talked about as much since the novelty wore off, but celebrity [...]
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Capcom putting Resident Evil 6 demo on Xbox 360 first
PS3 owners who want to get a taste of the latest is survival horror action will have to wait a couple months. That is, unless they also have an Xbox 360. Publisher Capcom has decided to bring the Resident Evil 6 demo to Microsoft’s console ahead of its Sony rival. No doubt it has some [...]
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Netflix’s Facebook sharing calls up antiquated law
Did you that it’s actually illegal for Netflix to share your movie “rental” history with the public? There’s a law called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), passed in 1988, to that effect. And now Netflix is facing a Congressional subcommittee because of its Facebook app that allows users to willingly share their streaming information [...]
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FDA says your body is a “drug” and subject to gov’t regulation
In what is perhaps one of the most controversial cases the Food and Drug Administration has ever participated in, there’s a new argument that’s making some pretty heavy waves. In essence, the FDA says that a person’s individual body can be categorized as a “drug” and is thus subject to all the government-mandated regulations about [...]
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Microsoft’s Halo 4 will reportedly be unveiled on Leap Day
There’s an extra day in February this year, and Microsoft will apparently capitalize on that extra time as the date for which the next iteration of Halo will be revealed. Halo 4 will be the focus of a company ‘Spring Showcase’ event, according to translations of a Finnish magazine. The game was announced in a [...]
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Samsung ‘Galaxy S II Plus’ may be on the way
Samsung might be taking a page out of the Apple playbook and preparing to launch a smartphone that falls in between the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy S III. What will potentially be called the “Galaxy S II Plus” has appeared in a benchmark database, An3DBenchXL. This could be the reason why the manufacturer [...]
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Motorola DROID 4 hits DroidDoes website, release imminent
Though we do not yet have an official release date for the fourth of the self-titled DROID family from Verizon, it has officially landed on the site which always deploys a DROID before it’s dropped in real life to Verizon. At DroidDoes.com you can plainly see this next in a long line of Motorola Android [...]
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 1, 2012
Welcome to February! We’re hitting the ground running as we steam ahead into the shortest month of the year, and there’s no bigger news today than the launch of Facebook’s IPO, which makes Mark Zuckerberg a filthy rich man. Not that he wasn’t already. For something a bit more relatable, Max OS X 10.7.3 has [...]
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Minecraft LEGO set confirmed, cult gamers rejoice
The cult classic video game still undergoing development and exploding in popularity on both the web browser and mobile platforms has been approved in LEGO form. There’s a brand new set coming through officially through the LEGO project known as CUUSOO – this program being a socially judged creation platform for LEGO fans who want [...]
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Facebook depends on Zynga for 12% of revenue
Facebook officially filed its IPO today and the documents reveal that the social network’s $3.71 billion revenue in 2011 has been dependent largely on its successful partnership with Zynga. Although Facebook generates a majority of its revenue from advertising, Zynga is responsible for almost all of the network’s “Payments” revenue, worth 12% of total revenue. [...]
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Symantec changes their mind on Android malware
Not one week after the security group known as Symantec announced that they’d discovered the largest malware attack in the history of Android planted firmly in the guts of the official market, they’ve announced that there is no such infection. In fact, the malware the group said it’d found, Android.Counterclank, is actually just an overly-aggressive [...]
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Mac OS X 10.7.3 hits with bug fixes, new languages
Apple today released its latest Mac OS X Lion update with version 10.7.3 that also includes Safari 5.1.3. The update brings several bug fixes for improved performance and compatibility. It also adds several new languages and RAW image file support for new cameras. Specifically with bug fixes, the updates resolves a WiFi connection issue that [...]
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Facebook IPO launched officially
The social network known as Facebook has officially signed its Initial Public Offering, authorized by Ernst & Young LLP as having shares of its common stock available to the world today. Facebook seeks to raise $5 billion USD, just about half of what analysts were expecting on the whole. In the filing, its apparent that [...]
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Google buys online ads to defend new privacy policy
Following the outcry over Google’s new privacy policy, including opportunistic attack ads from Microsoft, the search giant is planning to put out its own campaign to clear up any misconceptions. Google is purchasing ads on websites such as the Washington Post in an attempt to define its new privacy policy before critics further misconstrue the [...]
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Qualcomm reports record Q1 fiscal results
Manufacturer of all things wireless: products, technologies, and services, Qualcomm, have announced their first quarter earnings, Q1 being for them a season ending on December 25, 2011. “This quarter,” said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm, has been “another record quarter with revenues, earnings and MSM shipments reaching all-time highs.” They can [...]
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PS Vita games will be cheaper downloaded
A Sony rep has confirmed that PlayStation Vita game titles coming to the US will be cheaper if purchased and downloaded directly from the PlayStation Network as opposed to buying the boxed copies. Discounted digital copies have been confirmed for the PS Vita in Japan, but the company has yet to make an official announcement [...]
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iPod Nano 7G with camera leaked in photos
Not one whole heck of a lot of news is written or read these days about the iPad Nano, one of the last devices to have been designed and released by Apple since their attention switched to purely iPhone and iPad in that sized market. But what we’ve got here appears very much to be [...]
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NASA, Pentagon hacker arrested in Romania
Police in Romania have arrested hacker TinKode, who is notorious for hacking into US military and government websites. The 20-year-old IT student, Razvan Manole Cernaianu, was accused of breaking into NASA and Pentagon servers, stealing confidential information, and then posting it on his personal blog. Cernaianu also offered for sale software that he claimed would [...]
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Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera teased in press photos
A wave of cameras is coming to crash upon the shores of the public late this winter, and the most recent tease is a Pentax K-01 mirrorless shooter designed by no less than Marc Newson. It may seem a bit odd to those of you who are familiar with the work of Newson as his [...]
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PressReader Review for iPhone 4S and iPad 2
Today we’re taking a look at an application which will allow you to continue your everyday reading of the newspapers you love, minus the paper, and minus the web browser formatting. This is PressReader, and with it you’ll be getting the newspaper you love delivered to your iPad, your iPhone, your Android tablet, or your [...]
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Urbanears 2012 Spring/Summer explodes with dazzling flat colors
The newest set of everyone’s favorite set of one-tone over-ear headphones are headed your way with Urbanears 2012 Spring/Summer collection. This headphone brand is known for its optimization of sound and matching preferences in size, style, design, function, and close relation to the music they’re blasting. This newest collection includes Cream, Sage, and Grape colorways [...]
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Facebook IPO timing and filing with Morgan Stanley named
The market is preparing itself for one of the largest IPO openings in recent memory with the launch of Facebook, the group today being said to be choosing Morgan Stanley to take the lead at the start. This Initial Public Offering is said to be setting Facebook up for 10 billion in raised funds. Four [...]
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Zynga CEO applauds concept theft in leaked memo
I can’t say I approve of what’s going on in the gaming industry today when I read something as nasty as what you’re about to experience. What follows is an internal memo sent out by Zynga CEO Mark Pincus to his developers, engineers, and the like, congratulating them on their hard work in the face [...]
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US Cellular debuts LTE network with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy S Aviator
Regional wireless carrier US cellular debuts its LTE network plans today, and while they’re not the first provider in the US to get true 4G, they hope to grow their network quickly. To start there’s four markets getting the upgrade: Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in Wisconsin, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport in Iowa, Portland and Bangor, [...]
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Microsoft revisits #DROIDRAGE bash Android “malware” incident
Over the past few weeks, the folks at Symantec have gathered and released a “malware” warning for millions of Android Market users, and today Microsoft is taking advantage of the breakdown. Though the idea that the spread of what Symantec said was malware might NOT have been malware in the first place, just a powerful [...]
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Apple loses sales ban attempt against tweaked Galaxy Tab 10.1N
Apple’s attempts to ban Samsung’s redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany, along with the Galaxy Nexus, have failed, with the courts ruling that Apple’s touchscreen patent was likely to be revoked in short order. “Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that [...]
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Samsung Retro style NX200 shooter announced for Germany
The Samsung Retro style NX200 has been announced for Germany, the same country where we first laid eyes on the NX200 just a few weeks ago at IFA. This device is a brand new outer-shelled version of the original NX200 with a two-toned silver and black design with essentially the same set of specifications as [...]
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Peek axes first-gen emailer service in favor of cloud
Dedicated email messenger specialist Peek has finally killed off its first-gen device, dropping support for the handheld in favor of its multi-platform cloud strategy. Launched in September 2008, the Peek promised a far simpler – and cheaper – mobile email experience than what you’d get from a smartphone, pulling in unlimited messages over GPRS for around [...]
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Galaxy Note given teaser for full Superbowl ad
Yes, you read that right, there’s a teaser for an advertisement, one that’ll be longer we must expect, made by Samsung for the Superbowl reveal of the newest version of the Samsung Galaxy Note. This device will be more than likely basically the same as the one we’ve gotten our hands on back at CES [...]
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Facebook IPO could see Zuckerberg reward 800m users
Facebook‘s much-rumored IPO isn’t enough for the tech industry; they want social network founder Mark Zuckerberg to throw in some of that old razzle dazzle with a tidbit to loyal users. Widely expected to be announced later today, the IPO will supposedly see Facebook attempt to raise as much as $10bn, with big investors tipped [...]
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 1, 2012
This morning we must cross our hearts and say goodbye to the sinking pirate ship – or its crew, anyway, as the Swedish Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal of the Pirate Bay. On a more positive note, Sony has named Kaz Hirai their new President and CEO. His biggest challenge will be to [...]
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Dropcam HD Review
Webcams aren’t new, and WiFi isn’t new, but it’s taken a while for WiFi-enabled video streaming cameras to come down to a level where remote home surveillance is reasonably affordable. Dropcam’s second-gen offering, the Dropcam HD, is a compact webcam with integrated wireless network connectivity, together with a suite of online and smartphone apps that [...]
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Apple iPad 3 leak tips global LTE and quadcore A6
Apple’s iPad 3 will use the quadcore Apple A6 chipset and offer a combination GSM/CDMA/LTE radio, according to a new leak from a source claiming to have access to the next-gen tablet itself. Details of the third-generation iOS slate were culled via debutting tool iBoot, BGR‘s source suggests, with the same J1 and J2 model references as spotted [...]
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Windows 8 has tablet advantage over Android says ARM chief
ARM processors and Microsoft’s Windows may not be commonly found cohabiting the same device, but ARM CEO Warren East reckons Windows 8 could have the edge over Android in tablets thanks to the platform’s brand recognition. “Consumers are familiar with Microsoft and very familiar with Windows and they’re less familiar with an Android environment” East [...]
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Apple in Smart TV component negotiations tips analyst
Apple television obsessed analyst Gene Munster claims the Cupertino company has entered negotiations with a “major TV component supplier” over the possibility of using its parts for the much-rumored smart TV. The supplier itself is unnamed, but the Piper Jaffray analyst claims to have been informed by employees that Apple had been in contact “regarding various [...]
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Microsoft “Putting People First” adverts targets Google fears
Microsoft has launched an anti-Google campaign, suggesting its rival’s privacy policy changes “make it harder, not easier, for people to stay in control of their own information” and arguing Hotmail, Bing and Internet Explorer are better options. “Putting People First” is Microsoft’s somewhat opportunistic attack on the search giant, a series of newspaper adverts alleging [...]
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Hirai’s Big Challenge: Selling us Four Sony Screens
Freshly-appointed Sony CEO Kaz Hirai faces the difficult challenge of delivering on predecessor Howard Stringer’s ambitious four-screen strategy: convincing users to buy not just one Sony device, but as many as four of them. Stringers’ grand design – of tablets, TVs, smartphones phones and computers all interacting – is an determined attempt to follow Apple’s lead [...]
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MSI unveils new AMD R7950 video cards
MSI has unveiled three new video cards that all use the AMD R7950 GPU inside. One of the three new cards also use the special MSI Twin Frozr cooling solution to help the GPU run up to 10°C cooler while producing 13.7 dB less noise than traditional cooling systems. Improved cooling allows for more overclocking [...]
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MegaUpload users offered data lifeline with EFF’s MegaRetrieval
MegaUpload users with non-copyright infringing content trapped on the sized file-sharing site’s servers could have a lifeline, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and one of MegaUpload’s hosts exploring data rescue possibilities. Frustration at the site’s downtime turned to panic last week, when reports from US prosecutors suggested MegaUpload’s inability to pay hosting bills would [...]
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Strange objects found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea create a stir
The Captain and crew of an ocean salvaging operation made an interesting find in the Baltic Sea, which was apparently originally discovered by a company called Ocean Explorer. The new crew is a company specializing in deep-sea salvage, and it appears that they have happened on the same wreck that the Ocean Explorer company found [...]
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Kinect for Windows ships today; SDK v1.0 released
Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows hardware has shipping from today, along with v1.0 of the Kinect Windows SDK and runtime, bringing motion-sensing from the Xbox 360 to the desktop. The sensor bar is priced at $249 – with an educational discount of $100 promised in the pipeline – while the software supports up to four bars [...]
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Russian blames space radiation for Phobos-grunt failure
Russia has been strongly hinting for a while now that the US might have had something to do with failure of its Phobos-grunt probe. The probe failed to fire its engines and move out of Earth orbit to head towards Mars, and eventually fell back into the atmosphere where most of it burned up. Many [...]
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FCC changes Lifeline home phone subsidy program to help fund low income broadband
One of the things that the FCC has been pushing hard is for the expansion of broadband into rural America. Many rural Americans don’t have access to broadband, and some in rural America can’t afford broadband if they do have access. The FCC has announced changes to the Lifeline subsidy program, which was a subsidy [...]
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Redbox refused to sign Warner agreement, ending 28-day DVD delay
I mentioned last week that Warner Bros. was forcing Netflix to implement a longer delay on availability before shipping DVDs to customers of 56 days for new releases. Warner had also forced a delay of 28 days before allowing customers to add its movies to their Netflix queue. Warner tried to force the same 56-day [...]
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Facebook tipped for IPO by June
Facebook has been around since 2004, and has had investors since the beginning. The rumors keep swirling that Facebook is set to make an IPO, and according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, that IPO could come within the next five months. Sources have tipped that Facebook is targeting sometime between April and [...]
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Swedish Supreme Court rejects Pirate Bay founders final appeal
It’s certainly not a good day to be a founder of The Pirate Bay. The legal saga centering on the founders of the file sharing site Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström has been ongoing for several years. So far, the founders of been appealing the court decisions further and further up the Swedish [...]
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Boxee kills computer clients to focus on Boxee Box
If you are a fan of the Boxee app on your Mac or PC, you had better hold onto your copy the software and be sure to back it up. Boxee has officially killed support for its computer clients and the last version of the software for Windows, Mac, and Linux has been removed from [...]
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Barnes & Noble claims against Microsoft apparently tossed out ahead of trial
In November of last year, Barnes & Noble called for a US investigation of Microsoft over the use of Android patents. The call for investigation had to do with patent licensing fees for Android and kicked off shortly after Barnes & Noble entered the Android market with the Nook Tablet. Barnes & Noble decided to [...]
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Samsung Galaxy S III pre-June reveal confirmed but MWC no-show
Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S III will not make its debut at Mobile World Congress 2012 later this month, with Galaxy S II follow-up expected to launch at an independent event sometime in the first half of the year. The later reveal will be “closer to commercial availability of the product” Samsung told TechRadar, fitting in with [...]
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Mopar modded Dodge and Chrysler vehicles at 2012 Chicago Auto Show
The 2012 Chicago Auto Show is running right now and at the show, Mopar is showing some modified Dodge and Chrysler vehicles, including the Chrysler 300, a new Dodge Dart, and a special Mopar Jeep Compass. All three of the cool vehicles are modified using factory Mopar parts. There is also a Fiat dubbed the [...]
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Nano Quadrotor robot swarm video is mesmerizing, terrifying
If you fear the rise of intelligent, collaborative robots swarming together and gathering human prey for the battery tanks, look away now: the Nano Quadrotors have taken to the skies and they’re terrifyingly adept. The handiwork of researchers in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, the latest-gen Quadrotors can not only handle being tossed, [...]
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Nikon COOLPIX L810, L26 and S30 target snappers on a budget
Nikon‘s final three cameras of the morning borrow a little from both the P510 superzoom and the S-series compacts, a mongrel collection of zoomers, rugged snappers and super-simple models each promising HD video recording. The COOLPIX L810, L26 and S30 can each be run on AA batteries, and all come in at under the $280 mark, [...]
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Nikon COOLPIX S-series keeps compact cameras shining
Gobfuls of new Nikon compact cameras this morning, with a four-strong update to the COOLPIX range that promises something for everyone, whether you demand GPS tagging, lengthy zooms or sub-$140 pricing. The Nikon COOLPIX S9300 leads the charge, with an 18x optical zoom squeezed into a 1.5-inch thick body with a 16-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor for [...]
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Nikon COOLPIX P510 42x superzoom and low-light P310 outed
Nikon has outed a new superzoom, the COOLPIX P510, pairing a 16.2-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor with a whopping great 42x optical zoom. Offering a 24-1,000mm focal range, the P510 uses Vibration Reduction (VR) image stabilization to keep shots steady at the higher-end of zoom, with 5fps burst shooting and integrated GPS. Meanwhile, there’s also the Nikon COOLPIX P310 for [...]
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Sony makes Kaz Hirai CEO and President
Sony has announced that Kazuo Hirai has been named CEO and President, with previous chief exec Sir Howard Stringer taking the role of Chairman of the Sony board. Previously tipped as a done-deal in early January, and rumored for months beforehand, Hirai – who until now has been Executive Deputy President at Sony – will take [...]
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T-Mobile to offer Square card reader to business customers
Anyone with an iPhone can apply for a free Square credit card reader. But now the process is easier than ever, as T-Mobile will begin offering the revolutionary small business solution at the point of purchase to customers who sign up for a business plan. It’s a move that will increase awareness not only for [...]
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Nintendo DS is platform of choice for 100-year-old ‘gaming granny’
She’s been dubbed “Britain’s oldest gamer” but Kit Connell she doesn’t “feel a day over 80.” Part of the strategy to her youthful spirit and sharp mind? She plays her Nintendo DS a few hours a day. And she’s pretty active with it too, owning around a dozen games that she regularly rotates between. There [...]
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Google’s YouTube might be considering subscription service
There is no shortage of ways for YouTube to monetize its site right now. It has sponsored videos, ad-supported content, and pay-per-click overlay ads. But that might not be enough, as the head of the viral video site has suggested there might be premium content on its way to YouTube, effectively ending the great legacy [...]
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CUPP Computing’s PunkThis board puts Android on any laptop
Want to double, triple, even quadruple the battery life of your laptop? Want to swap out the stale Windows software with a more flexible operating system known as Android? That’s the promise of an impending product from niche tech company CUPP Computing. Called the PunkThis board, it is easily installed into any laptop and brings [...]
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Sony’s The Tester season 3 will be crazier than ever
Coming face-to-face with a box full of cockroaches, dressing up in camo gear, and trudging through mud-filled obstacle courses. That’s what it takes to be a game tester at Sony Computer Entertainment America. Yes, the reality show with the worst prize in all reality shows is back, and Sony is giving a preview of what [...]
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note will star in company’s first-ever Super Bowl ad
Don’t believe all the hype you hear on TV – next Sunday isn’t about Eli Manning or a rematch of 2008′s big game or even about football at all. The real excitement will be when Samsung makes its debut in the biggest commercial time slot of the year. The game itself will be boring – [...]
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Square mobile payment system hits the Obama, Romney campaigns
If you’ve ever been to a political rally and thought, “This is cool but I wish there was some way for me to make a donation right now with my credit card,” then Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate for you. Or if you happen to play for the other team, Obama’s re-election campaign has [...]
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Google’s Android platform is a favorite among bathroom phone users
Do you occasionally use your phone while you’re doing your business? If you said “yes,” then statistically you are more likely to own an Android phone than a Blackberry or iPhone. That is, at least, if you believe a new report that was just released from marketing agency 11mark. The results are anything but a [...]
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EA’s Madden NFL 12 chooses NY Giants to win Super Bowl
Yep, it’s that time of year. For the tech heads out there, the Super Bowl means it’s time to look for HDTV sales, get excited about geek-oriented Super Bowl ads…and see what team was predicted to win by the most sophisticated football video game in the industry. According to an official Madden NFL 12 simulation, [...]
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BlackBerry 10 Smartphone press photos leaked
The next RIM vision of a BlackBerry smartphone, or Superphone as they’re calling it at the source for this leak, is a fully touch-sensitive candybar-style device. This device comes from CrackBerry and appears to either be code-named London or will be released in London sometime soon. This image also shows off how the device will [...]
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 31, 2012
Not only are we wrapping up the news of the day today, we’re wrapping up the first month of the year. As we steam ahead into 2012, here’s what made news today – for starters, Acer has plans to bring $699 Ultrabooks to the market later this year. What else can you expect as we [...]
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Neil Young to continue Steve Jobs music legacy
One of the most famous musicians of all time, Neil Young, spoke this week with Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD about the future of digital music, and how he’d be continuing Steve Jobs legacy in pioneering for it. A device which allows you to download music with the highest possible resolution is what [...]
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 launch next month, Android apps due February 6
The long overdue BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 update may finally be arriving in February, if RIM follows through on its latest promise. According to a post today by RIM’s Developer Relations team, the update will be available next month, packing the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps feature that allows Android apps to run on the [...]
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Apple Retail Will Be the Last Tech Stores Standing (And That’s OK)
When I think back over the years, I can remember countless technology-focused brick-and-mortar stores I enjoyed shopping at. From CompUSA to Circuit City to the ridiculous number of other stores that came and went, there was a time when a large portion of my life was spent shopping in the brick-and-mortar. [Image credit: Trey Ratcliff] [...]
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ZTE Optik offers 7-inches of Android for under $100
