Tuesday 31 May 2011

Motorola XOOM 2, Slimline, Targa, Zaha, and more Leaked in Web Mishap

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Someone is very likely in trouble at this very moment as we see a nice little handful of Motorola items leak via an early reveal by a webmaster testing his wares out in a real live environment. Either this fellow didn’t realize that the internet is turned on all the time and people are constantly on it, or this was a very oddly planned out leak for the purpose of stacking Motorola up as the overnight sensation in the Android news world. In this leak you’re going to find

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MacBook Air Supplies Constrained, Refresh Imminent

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Earlier this month it was rumored that the MacBook Air would soon be getting a refresh by a June or July timeframe. Now, retail sources from around the globe are tipping that supplies for the MacBook Air are constrained. This along with major price cuts on current models indicates that the refresh is indeed imminent.


Much like the iMac and MacBook Pro refresh, the MacBook Air would likely have some internal changes, but remain relatively the same externally. The new MacBook Air is

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Call of Duty Elite Service Closed Beta Taking Applications Now

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The much anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is just a week away from an unveiling at the E3 2011 game developer conference. A new service called Call of Duty Elite is being developed that will bring a whole suite of social networking features to the new game as well as to its Black Ops predecessor. The beta version of the service is now ready for testing.


Activision has just begun inviting gamers to apply for the closed beta testing, which is set to start later this

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Toshiba's Qosmio X770 gaming laptop offers 'mind-blowing' 3D

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Toshiba's latest gaming laptop, the Qosmio X770, promises super-speedy response times, mega-powerful processing and 3D visuals that will blow your mind - at least that's what Toshiba says.With a 17.3-inch Full HD screen, the Toshiba Qosmio X770 rocks a quad-core Intel i7 processor alongside 8GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. The stereoscopic 3D graphics are powered by an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M graphics card with 1.5GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory, which all sounds like a perfect 3D

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T-Mobile Sensation 4G Officially Announced

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The fine folks at T-Mobile have sent out a press release regarding the new king of HTC devices, the HTC Sensation 4G. This device has been released in the UK for some weeks now, flying over the pond to hit the USA directly in the T-Mobile. The HTC Sensation on T-Mobile will of course be rolling out on T-Mobile’s 4G network and will be out, as they’re saying, “by June 15th,” which means very possibly a bit sooner. This date is a bit further down the line than

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Twitter to launch a Twitpic rival?

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Twitter is looking to mosey in on Twitpic's territory and launch its very own photo-sharing service.Set to be announced by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at the D9 conference in California this week, the launch of Twitter's official picture-sharing service will certainly be a blow to photo hosts that have made a name for themselves on the microblog and a pretty packet in the process.The warning signs were there for the likes of Twitpic (which is in the middle of its own photo identity

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Apple iCloud To Offer Movies, TV Shows At Launch?

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Apple, in an unusual move, confirmed the agenda for their upcoming WWDC developer conference to include the iCloud, iOS 5, and OS X Lion. Although it seems like they just killed some of the mystery and magic for the event, there’s still so much unknown about the iCloud that it keeps us anxious and the rumor mills cranking. The latest claims suggest that the iCloud could serve up not only music, but also movies and TV shows.


Two insider sources involved in the ongoing

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ViewSonic officially unveils the ViewPad 7x

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After leaking out earlier this month, the ViewSonic ViewPad 7x has got all official over at Computex, promising to be the world's first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet.So if you've been jonesin' for that Honeycomb goodness on a smaller-than-10-inch screen, there's no need to wait around for Acer to solve its Iconia Tab A100 problems or HTC to finally port the OS to the Flyer. It's not clear whether it will come with Android 3.0 or 3.1 yet, but the ViewPad 7x will be rocking a dual-core

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BlackBerry PlayBook 2 Details Surface?

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The BlackBerry PlayBook 4G version has yet to launch, and talk about version 2 is already cropping up. Early this month, rumors pointed to a 10-inch model to arrive sometime before the end of this year, but little has been heard about it since. Now, some insider sources are confirming the claim and providing a few additional details.


Sources from N4BB, claim that the BlackBerry PlayBook 2 will indeed have a 10-inch screen and possibly a higher resolution. They also say that there

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Review: Panasonic DMR-BWT700

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After witnessing the 3D greatness of its latest Viera plasmas, we shouldn't be too surprised to see the Japanese brand go on to deliver the cleverest hi-def machine yet.Do we mean Blu-ray? Well, yes, sort of … the DMR-BWT700 does indeed spin Blu-ray discs of both kinds – 2D and 3D.It even converts the former into the latter, and not just on Blu-ray but DVD and Freeview HD, too. The latter comes from one of its two DVB-T2 tuners that fetch (and pauses/rewinds) Freeview HD

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T-Mobile HTC Sensation Pricing And Date To Be Revealed Tonight?

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The new flagship smartphone for HTC is their Sensation 4G, which is set to launch on T-Mobile very soon. When exactly, is still uncertain, but that uncertainty could soon be put to an end with an announcement this evening. T-Mobile has just posted a suggestive message on Twitter saying they have some “sensational” news coming later tonight.


The HTC Sensation features a 4.3-inch qHD display protected by Gorilla Glass, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 8-megapixel back

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Nokia shares drop to lowest since 1998

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Nokia's share price dropped a whopping 15 per cent on Tuesday and, as a result, is now at its lowest since 1998.The shock tailspin came after the company was forced to realign its profit forecasts for the forthcoming quarter, admitting it may only break even between April and June 2011.The crisis-hit Finns admitted that profits will be "substantially lower" than the 6 - 9 percent margin it had initally expected, due to faltering handset sales across the globe.On top of that, Nokia

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Apple Letter Disregarded, Lodsys Sues App Developers Anyway

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Earlier this month, several iOS developers were threatened with patent lawsuits by in-app purchasing patent holder, Lodsys. Apple had licensed the IP from Lodsys and believes that it extends to their app developers. Apple even sent a letter stating that it would fight for its developers should Lodsys proceed. Well, apparently that didn’t scare the patent troll at all, and today it has proceeded to sue 7 iOS app developers.


Today, Lodsys filed with the U.S. District Court

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eBay complains to Ofcom about mobile internet

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eBay has issued a complaint to Ofcom about the UK's mobile broadband infrastructure, claiming that British companies are missing-out on big money.The online auction site commissioned research, which it claims proves that 16 per-cent of the UK is still an "m-commerce not-spot".In those rural areas, mobile spending is at least 20 per cent lower than the national average and eBay reckons its costing UK company's around £1.3 billion a year.A 4G fix?To that end eBay has taken its data

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Sprint Asks FCC To Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger

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When AT&T announced its plans to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion, the most vocal opposition was third-place carrier Sprint. Very early on, Sprint warned U.S. regulators that the acquisition would “alter dramatically the structure of the communications industry” and said that AT&T and T-Mobile combined would be three times its own size. Today, Sprint officially filed a petition with the FCC to block the merger.


Sprint had just testified before a Senate

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Report: Apple iCloud signs-up all major music labels

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Apple has secured the rights to steam music from each of the four major record labels ahead of the launch of its iCloud service next week, according to reports.Following today's surprise revelation from Apple, that its music streaming service will arrive at WWDC, it appears that there'll be no restrictions on which artists users will be able to access.With the Sony, Warner Bros and EMI deals already completed, Apple will ink an agreement with the last major label Universal later

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Apple Update Removes MacDefender Malware

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Apple customers have been in for a rude awakening with the recent MacDefender malware problem. The trojan malware tricked unsuspecting users to enter their admin passwords and even credit card information. AppleCare staff were instructed not to assist with the removal of the malware, but that may have been because Apple was planning to send out a security update to take care of the problem.


That security update arrived today and it’s called Mac Security Update 2011-003. The

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UK government developing cyber weapons

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The UK government is working on a 'tool box' of cyber weapons as well as boosting its online defences. Understandably, the government won't reveal what kind of online arsenal makes up the cyber armoury, which is being developed by the Cabinet Office and the Cyber Security Operations Centre, with input from the Ministry of Defence. Speaking to the Guardian, the armed forces minister, Nick Harvey, said, "Action in cyberspace will form part of the future battlefield."Sounds like a bad

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Microsoft Imposes “Troublesome” Restrictions On Tablets

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Microsoft Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, is set to demo the new Windows 8 tablet OS at next week’s D9 Conference. The Windows 8 OS is rumored to support both Intel and ARM processors, and will hopefully launch Microsoft into the tablet arena to wrestle with Apple’s iPad 2 and the myriad of Android tablets. However, manufacturers are already complaining about Microsoft’s restrictive hardware rules.


Acer is the number three PC maker in the world, and they’re

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Apple to fix rubber MacBook cases for free

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Apple will offer a few replacement for faulty rubber bottoms on the cases of some MacBook laptops.Many MacBook owners, who bought their laptop from October 2009 onwards, have reported that the rubber casing beneath the device has separated from the bottom.Apple is now offering three free fixes (try saying that five times after a few sherberts) to MacBook owners affected by the fault.Three fixesUsers can take their laptop into an Apple Store where it'll be replaced by those wondrous

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Padfone-Like Tablet With iPhone Dock By ECS

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The big buzz of the Computex 2011 pre-show was certainly the ASUS Padfone, the “revolutionary” tablet and smartphone hybrid. That announcement soon brought attention to similar concepts, including the Smart Book by AlwaysInnovating and the TransPhone by CMIT. And now we can add one more to the roster with an unnamed prototype from ECS.


ECS is more known for manufacturing motherboards, but they took the opportunity at Computex to show off a tablet and phone hybrid

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ECS: Z68 won't be around for much longer

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We spoke to a representative from ECS on the trade show floor at Computex today who revealed that it sees no real future in Intel's latest chipset, the Z68.It did, of course, have its own Z68 board, the ECS Z68H2-M, on display on its stand. However, despite this, ECS said that it was not planning on building many of the boards as it was expecting them to only have a very limited shelf-life.So what does ECS think is the next big thing from Intel then?Well, it's putting all its Intel

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HP Recalls 162,000 More Laptop Batteries

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Remember the battery exploding problem for notebooks shipped almost four years ago? You would think after the various recalls that ensued, including one in 2008, and one just last year, that the issue would be over with. Well, today HP has just issued a recall for another 162,000 laptop batteries.


This new recall was initiated after HP discovered two product model series that was missed from last years worldwide recall. The model series found to be affected was the HP Compaq 6520

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Apple iWork released for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad

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Apple has announced that it has redesigned its iWork software for iOS devices – including the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Not content with announcing just what we will see at WWDC this year, Apple has decided to unveil a mobile version of iWork which is "completely redesigned for iOS and Apple's revolutionary Multi-Touch interface".Office, sweetKeynote, Pages and Numbers have all been given separate app releases, costing £5.99 each. If you are an iPad user and already have iWork,

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Apple iWork Apps Available NOW for iPhone and iPod touch

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The world is about to change via a single app set for Apple mobile users – Apple iWork for iOS, their fabulous productivity suite including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. This set of apps is also available for iPad and iPad 2, of course, now available as an update for FREE! Users on platforms that have not yet purchased any of the iWork apps will be able to today for $9.99 each. Each of these apps is quite established in the Mac OSX world, now it’s time to bring on the

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Acer W4 Windows Phone handset spec emerges

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Acer has shown off a prototype of its first Windows Phone 7 handset, known as the Acer W4. Along with giving the W4 its first photo opportunity, Acer revealed a few juicy spec-related titbits for its Mango-running handset. It will offer a 3.6-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with 480x800 screen resolution, a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM 8255 processor and 8GB of storage. RacerFor connectivity, you're looking at Wi-Fi, quad-band 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1. It doesn't look as though Acer's

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Computex 2011: Day One Wrap-Up

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Hard to believe it, given the torrent of tech yesterday, but Computex 2011 only really kicked off properly in Taipei this morning. Intel delivered the biggest keynote, announcing its Ultrabook platform which, the chip giant hopes, will supplant generic ultraportables and grab 40-percent of the market by the end of next year. Sandy Bridge and, in 2012, Ivy Bridge processors will be inside, with slick sub-0.9-inch chassis and price tags under $1k on the outside. Read on for the rest

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HTC Desire Android 2.3 update delayed again

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The HTC Desire Android 2.3 update will not meet its end of May deadline, according to Three. A tweet from the numerical network apologises for the ongoing delays to the Desire Gingerbread update. It reads, "Re HTC 2.3: V sorry to say that HTC hasn't been able to meet the late May timings that were set. We're awaiting extra info, more news soon."Delicious gingerbreadAt first Three didn't know when the update would arrive, and then it reckoned late April, then early May, then the

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SlashGear Android app updated! Comics, sharing & more

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The SlashGear for Android app has been updated, with v1.1 addressing much of the feedback you gave us after the first release back in February. Now with a dedicated section for our popular SG Comics feature, the other big change is that it’s easier than ever to share articles, editorials, and videos on your Android smartphone.


Hit the share button in the control bar and you can choose from all the usual sharing methods on your Android phone or tablet: email, Twitter,

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Video: Top 10 free iPad games

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TechRadar's list of the top 40 best free iPad games has been a massive hit – so we're celebrating with an exclusive video running down the top 10 best free iPad games. The likes of Bub Wider, Aurora Feint and (old skool) Checkers are all included in the top 10, along with Dizzypad HD and Escape – Norm's World XL. But it is Air Hockey Gold that is given the TechRadar plaudits and number one slot – with the funky two player game praised by the reviewers. So, check out our

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Nintendo DS Lite slashed to $100; Mario goes red in June

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Nintendo has cut the price of the DS Lite console to $99.99, a $30 reduction from its previous RRP. The handheld – which has been superseded technically by the Nintendo 3DS but remains on sale as a budget, 2D-only option – is still a strong seller, with Nintendo shifting 17.52m (and almost 121m games) in 2010.


The discounting follows Nintendo’s earlier move to slash the price of the Wii, which was cut to $149.99. That was seen as a response to poor sales in 2010

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iCloud, Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 confirmed for WWDC

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Apple has announced that it will be indeed be releasing iCloud at this year's WWDC in June, although it looks like the launch of the iPhone 5 will be subject to delay.In a rare email, which maps out what will be shown at WWDC, Apple explained: "Apple CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00am. "At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software

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Joerg “Zombie Killer” Sprave is back with a saw blade slingshot

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Good old Joerg Sprave is back with another deadly and scary slingshot to share with us all. If ever a geek needed to make a cameo in The Walking Dead, this is the guy. His inventions would be the perfect weapons once you run out of bullets during the Zombie Apocalypse. The last time I talked about Sprave he was showing off his machete slingshot. This time around, he has a new slingshot that is flinging blades from a circular saw.


I will say that the machete slingshot gave me a

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Unsung heroes of tech: where are they now?

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Mark Zuckerberg gets all the attention as the creator of Facebook. But there are countless unheralded tech luminaries who worked long hours and rarely slept to make sure we can call up any site on the net, buy a book on Amazon and store our music online.These five superstars are rarely mentioned alongside Steve Jobs - but they probably should be. We tracked them down to find out what they're up to. 1. Jordon Ritter, co-creator of NapsterThey don't make a movie about the technologist

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Apple promise iCloud, OS X Lion and iOS 5 at Steve Jobs WWDC keynote

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Apple has confirmed that Steve Jobs will lead the WWDC 2011 keynote next Monday, June 6, with OS X Lion on the agenda, along with iOS 5 and the new iCloud, described as “Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.” The news confirms long-standing rumors about the developer event.


The exact nature of iCloud is currently unknown, but we’re expecting a significant refresh of MobileMe with new backup and other features. That’s also expected to include an

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iPhone 5 to come with 8MP camera, no SIM

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New sources have claimed that the iPhone 5 will launch at WWDC next week, complete with an 8MP camera, multiple internal antenna and, potentially, a Qualcomm chipset. We've lost track of the number of rumours about the next generation of iPhone, with myriad analysts and anonymous sources suggesting that we wouldn't see hide nor hair of it until September 2011. But, with WWDC just a week away, the rumour mill has shifted back to anticipating that it will launch in June, as is usual

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Samsung AMOLED plant opens ahead of schedule

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Samsung has been working on building up its new production line for AMOLED screens for a while now. These high-end screens have been in short supply and the lack of supply has at times been the reason why some popular and high-end smartphones weren’t available in the numbers the maker would have liked. Samsung has announced that its new 5.5 generation AMOLED plant is now ready to start production ahead of schedule.


The production has commenced at the plant two months earlier

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In Depth: The technology behind FIFA 12

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For a game that lives or dies by its control mechanism, tinkering with something as fundamental as how the contact between players works in EA Sports' FIFA 12 is a risky move. And yet, EA Sports has decided the need to make its football game feel more realistic makes implementing a whole new Player Impact Engine in next season's version worth changing some previously fundamental gameplay. Along with what it is calling 'precision dribbling' 'tactical defending' and 'Pro Player

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Qualcomm dual-core Honeycomb tablet outed [Video]

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Qualcomm‘s own Uplinq conference may be starting later today in San Diego, but that hasn’t stopped the chip company from turning up at Computex with some hardware to play with. Quanta had prepared a 10-inch tablet running on Qualcomm’s latest dual-core Snapdragon, NetbookNews reports, running Android 3.0.


So far the bulk of the Honeycomb tablets we’ve seen have been running NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset; Qualcomm’s dual-core MSM8660 has reached the

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Sony PSN to return in full by end of the week

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Sony has announced that all PlayStation Network functionality, including access to the PlayStation Store, will be restored to the USA, UK and the rest of Europe by the end of this week. However, the company has had to concede that some areas of Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, will still have some services missing - it's not entirely clear what will and won't be working in those territories, with Sony saying that "Details… will be announced as they become

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ASUS ROG range gets dual-GTX 580 MARS II video card, motherboards, more

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ASUS’ glasses-free 3D gaming notebook will likely get most of the attention, but the Republic of Gamers team has also brought along plenty of kit for the DIY enthusiast. In addition to the ROG Crosshair V Formula series motherboard shown yesterday there are the ROG Maximus IV Extreme-Z and ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z motherboards, plus the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 based ROG MATRIX GTX 580 and ROG MARS II graphics cards.


The ROG Maximus IV Extreme-Z and ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z use

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Intel and Asus unveil 'ultrabook' laptop-tablet hybrid

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Intel has revealed its latest laptop-based chip plans over at Computex, putting the emphasis on low power and skinny looks in order to claw back some share from the tablet market. The term Intel has coined for this 'new' category is 'Ultrabook', which we've already reported to the hyperbole police and expect the chip maker to be hauled into the exaggeration station along with Steve 'Magical' Jobs and HTC any minute now. Although no official Ultrabook products have been unveiled,

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Twitter to launch photo sharing service?

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Rumours are rife on the net that Twitter is to launch it's own photo sharing service this week.
TechCrunch and All Things D have both reported the tip that Twitter may compete with Twitpic and Yfrog when, and if, it launches the new service.
Twitter has so far refused to

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ViewSonic V3D245wm-LED 24-inch 3D LCD revealed

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ViewSonic has outed its latest LCD monitor, and it has high hopes for the 24-inch ViewSonic V3D245wm-LED. Billed as “the ultimate 3D monitor” it offers an integrated 3D emitter for use with the bundled active shutter classes, as well as offering HDMI 1.4a input and Full HD 1080p resolution with a 120Hz refresh rate.


There are the usual overblown dynamic contrast ratio claims – a hefty 20,000,000:1 no less – along with a 2ms response time for the 16:9

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Sony: PSN back online on Friday (but Japan & others miss out)

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Sony will miss its May 31 self-imposed deadline for full restoration of the PlayStation Network, instead promising to have all services in the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia – excluding Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea – active once more by the end of the week. The embarrassing, ongoing delay in Sony’s home country is apparently due to more stringent information security mandates from the Japanese government; Sony has declined to comment on delays in

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Monday 30 May 2011

ARM Expects To Conquer 50% Of Mobile PC Market By 2015

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As Intel is attempting to gain more of a foothold in the smartphone market, ARM is hoping to advance in the mobile PC market. ARM licenses its chip technology to the likes of NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and a whole slew of other mobile chip manufacturers and thus ARM leads when it comes to smartphones. But the company would like to gobble up more of the mobile PC market pie, which includes netbooks, laptops, and tablets.


ARM already has a lead in the emerging tablet market, but it hopes to

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Movie Review: The Hangover Part II

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“Chris, I have bad news,” my email starts. I’m sitting in front of my computer, and my room is a mess. My face is dimpled and red. “I messed up,” I continue, “I really messed up. There might be no movie review next week.” I’m about to hit send. My head is hung in shame.


One hour earlier.
I woke up in a dark movie theater in a cold sweat. The theater was empty. My arm was draped over one side of my chair, and my face hurt from being pressed against the cloth seat

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Spotted On Best Buy Site

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The much anticipated Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has just popped up on the Best Buy website. We recently reviewed the Google I/O limited edition Galaxy Tab 10.1, and we’re looking forward to see if the actual production units address some of our concerns. The tablet is rumored to launch on June 8th, and its appearance today on the site suggests that it should be right on track.


Unfortunately, the Best Buy page for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 only shows a “Coming Soon”

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E3 Teaser: Ninja Gaiden 3

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Old school gamers are undoubtedly looking forward to the upcoming release of Ninja Gaiden 3 (also as Ninja Gaiden III or NG3). Not many details have been leaked about the game that many feel will most likely revitalize or bury the Ninja Gaiden franchise. It is set to be released for the PS3 and Xbox consoles. The only official news we have to go on right now is the newly released 30 second trailer. But for avid Ninja fans, a lot of info about the game is hidden in the clip. Read on

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Destroy the Planet by Watering a Plant

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That’s right, the winners of this year’s Rube Goldberg award created a machine that destroyed the world as we know it, just to water a plant. Every year, Geeks and Techies gather to compete in the Rube Goldberg awards, where the winner accomplishes a task using the most steps possible. (They must be applying for a government job). Many people are familiar with the contraptions built in old cartoons to accomplish menial tasks in complex ways, but were not aware that those

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First Sony and now PBS: Look out Big Bird

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LuzSec, the group that preciously took credit for hacking the website for Sony BMG in Japan, has claimed credit for cracking PBS’s website and posting all of its login credentials. According to LuzSec, they were “less than impressed” with the Frontline coverage of the WikiLeaks special entitled WikiSectrets. Is Elmo next? Who knows what Oscar the Grouch has hidden away in that trash can of his. Apparently LuzSec was not the only one critical of the WikiLeaks special. But

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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer To Be In Stock June 2nd On Amazon

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It was certainly a big day for ASUS, with the unveiling of the Padfone, but let’s not forget about the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. The Transformer tablet has been incredibly popular, but getting a hold of it was rather difficult as the device sold out quickly. But if you’ve been searching for one, then the good news is that Amazon is now showing it to be in stock by June 2nd.


Amazon is offering the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 32GB WiFi-only version for $499. The tablet is

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Samsung Infuse 4G Gets Amazon Price Cut

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The Samsung Infuse 4G was unveiled last month as the thinnest smartphone with the largest display in the AT&T lineup. It was also released as the first HSPA+ enabled device on launch for the carrier. If you’ve been wanting this phone, now you’re in luck because Amazon just gave it the usual price slash treatment.


Amazon has dropped the price to $129.99 with a new two-year service agreement. However, do note this deal is only good for new service agreements. For

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ASUS Padfone Not Unique, Behold The TransPhone!

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We just talked about a copycat claim from AlwaysInnovating that emerged soon after the ASUS Padfone announcement, and now there looks to be another manufacturer that may look with disdain at ASUS’s claim to a revolutionary new product. The concept of a tablet and phone hybrid certainly isn’t completely new, as we’ve seen before in this fancy HTC Tube design concept. But, actual working prototypes didn’t seem to exist until now.


Last week, ASUS teased us

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LG Unveils iMac-Like All-In-One PC With Touchscreen And Passive 3D

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The Computex 2011 trade show in Taipei is in full swing, and LG is taking the opportunity to unveil its first ever all-in-one PC called the V300. Designed with the help of Intel, the V300 takes some styling cues from Apple’s iMac but forgoes the thick bottom bezel area and adds a two attention seeking features.


The V300 isn’t your regular all-in-one PC. The 23-inch full HD 1080p IPS display supports 3D with the use of passive 3D glasses. The Film-type Patterned

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iPhone 4S To Have Integrated SIM, iPhone 5 Coming Spring 2012?

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Apple’s WWDC is just around the corner and although no announcements are expected for the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, that doesn’t stop a new crop of rumors on the next-gen Apple smartphones. It was originally speculated that the iPhone 4S would show up in September for Sprint and T-Mobile networks, while an iPhone 5 would arrive in November.


That timeline of having the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 spaced so closely together is a little odd, despite analysts’ claims.

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HTC PLAY To Be HTC’s App Store?

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HTC already has its own video streaming service called HTC Watch and now it looks like the company may be ramping up its own app store to be branded as “HTC PLAY.” The mobile device manufacturer recently filed a trademark application with the USPTO, seeking to secure the mark under three major categories that all point to the selling of smartphone apps.


The filing protects the mark in three major categories that include:
“Retail store services featuring software

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PlayBook 4G WiMAX Version Revealed By Google Search

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The BlackBerry PlayBook has not been getting much attention lately thanks to the slew of new tablet developments including this morning’s ASUS Padfone, but a little Google search revelation has brought the PlayBook back on the radar, if even only a blip. The WiFi version of the PlayBook has been out for some time now, and it’s 4G brother may finally be ready to make an appearance.


It looks like the carrier version of the PlayBook will be making its way to Sprint as a

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Angry Birds Magic brings Rovio’s Game into NFC Reality

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If there’s one formula that’s worked for Rovio thus far with their Angry Birds game series, it’s the promise of extra levels. Rovio’s newest effort in spreading the love is a new Angry Birds game called Angry Birds Magic. Angry Birds will soon have a feature in which when you tap your NFC-enabled phone to a friend’s NFC-enabled phone, you’ll unlock several new levels. This feature was revealed to at WIMA 2011 at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco –

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ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula, SABERTOOTH 990FX and M5A99/97 motherboards outed

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ASUS has brought motherboards to Computex as well as tablets and notebooks, with several new AMD 9 Series models offering things like AMD CrossFireX, NVIDIA SLI and Intel ThunderBolt connectivity depending on ‘board. The ASUS M5A99/97 Series, the TUF SABERTOOTH 990FX and the ROG Crosshair V Formula all support 990FX/990X/970 chipsets and AM3+ CPUs, with the Republic of Gamers ‘board having a ThunderBolt audio/LAN combo expansion card.


It also offers both NVIDIA and

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Computex 2011: Asus unveils the Padfone and new 3D tablet

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Asus has unveiled its latest 'Padfone' hybrid mobile computing device at Computex 2011, a smartphone that also comes with a tablet for the user to dock into.Asus CEO Jonney Shih has unveiled a prototype of its new Padfone in Taipei this week, which features a combined 4.3-inch screen smartphone and a 10.1-inch tablet dock.Convergence in mobile devicesAsus is still to settle on the final dimensions and tech spec for the Padfone before releasing it as a final retail product.The

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ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro packs BlueStacks Android app virtualization

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All of a sudden, ViewSonic’s new ViewPad 10Pro tablet is looking a lot more interesting. Although billed as a dual-OS slate, which led us to believe it would switch between Windows 7 and Android in the same way as the older ViewPad 10, in fact the 10Pro uses BlueStacks, the clever Parallels-but-for-Android-apps-on-Windows software we first mentioned back in April. Rather than demanding that you switch wholesale between Microsoft’s OS and Google’s, you’ll be

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ARM hopes to 'conquer the mobile PC market'

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Mobile chip specialists ARM hope to make significant moves into the mobile PC market over the next five years, with the company's president hoping for 50 per cent of the market by 2015.Cambridge-based ARM is already rumoured to be looking to get its tech used in the next iteration of Apple's MacBook Air. Something that we expect to hear more about later this summer, when Apple is anticipated to announce a new refresh of its ultra-slim laptop range.ARM's president, Tudor Brown, told

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Notion Ink Adam on sale again as Honeycomb hovers in late June

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Notion Ink has reopened orders for its Adam tablet, as well as promising a June 27 release date for a Honeycomb update. The third sales push for the slate, it follows sell-out periods in January and February as the company ramps up its supply chain.


Later today, Notion Ink will push out an Eden 1.5 update for existing owners, bringing with it new apps and boosting stability. On Wednesday there’ll be an Android 2.3 variant to try, though Notion Ink is warning that its

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Sony releases official wireless PS3 headset

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Sony has announced the release of the new official PlayStation 3 headset, over a week before the company is set to announce its plans for the coming year and beyond at E3 2011.It's a distinctively Sony style design, as you can see from the press shots of the new wireless gaming headset right here.Hear in-game audio cluesFeaturing 7.1 virtual surround sound, the new Sony wireless stereo headset lets you hear all those minor in-game audio clues clearly and, Sony points out, will work

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M GPU lands in gaming notebooks at Computex

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NVIDIA has offered up the new GTX 560M GPU for notebook computers at Computex bringing the first of the 500M series of GPUs to market. NVIDIA says that the GTX 560M will hit the “sweet spot” for gaming notebooks with the ability to play games in 1080p resolution with support for DirectX 11. This GPU is also the first to offer GTX gaming GPU combined with Optimus technology. That means that the notebooks using the GTX 560M will be able to change between that integrated

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Rumour: NGP to be called 'Sony PlayStation Vita'

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Sony is rumoured to be planning on calling its new handheld console – currently referred to as NGP (Next Generation Portable) – the Sony Vita.Of course, rumours run rife in the games industry in the week prior to E3, as speculation about the new tech and marketing plans to be revealed by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo reaches fever pitch level.Vita, Veta or something else?The latest rumours that the new Sony handheld is to be called Vita are based on domain registrations for for

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HTC Mazaa is 12-megapixel WP7.1 Mango handset? [Video]

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Remember that 12-megapixel HTC Windows Phone we told you about earlier? It’s looking increasingly possible that it could be the HTC Mazaa, which leaked back in April, a so-far unannounced CDMA/GSM World Phone. Eldar Murtazin has shared a lengthy Windows Phone 7.1 Mango preview video (which you can see after the cut) as part of his hands-on with the device, confirming that he had a Mazaa on hand.


That would suggest that the Trophy-alike in the video is, in fact, the Mazaa;

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Opinion: Free software is facing a monumental test

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The last visible supernova in the Milky Way galaxy was the 1604 explosion in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Despite Kepler's best efforts, this was before anyone had hardware powerful enough to study the event in detail and learn from it.As a result, scientists have spent years waiting patiently with their new bits of kit for the next explosion, which is due some time soon. It may not happen tomorrow, but the sheer number of stars in the local galaxy makes it inevitable. There are

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LG P220 notebook has super thin LCD bezel and boxy Mac style

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Generally, with any tech show we see a lot of new products that are talked up to the point where we are tired of hearing about them from some manufacturers at the show. Then we get other products that have interesting features that are never mentioned and you only find if you happen to wander around the company’s booth and see the gear sitting there on display. That seems to be the case with LG and this P220 notebook that has turned up at Computex 2011.


The machine looks

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Early View: Samsung Chromebook vs Acer Chromebook

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The Google Chromebook UK release date is 15 June, when the first units go on sale. Google intends Chromebooks to be a simpler way of browsing the web – the OS is essentially just the Google Chrome browser itself, with no desktop, taskbar or separate app browser. It's a completely cloud based computer and is dependent on being connected to the internet to work properly. The bonus of this is that your files are always updates as is the Chrome OS used on Chromebooks – the software

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MSI announces new full HD LED Super Color screens and more for AIOs at Computex

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MSI has been offering AIO computers for a long time now and the company has announced at Computex that it is giving some of its popular models new screens that users will enjoy. The three machines getting the new screens include the AE2211G, the AE2211, and the AP2011. The machines are also all getting MSI’s new cloud applications Smart Media Link and Smart Sync. MSI is also showing off a new Wind Touch 4 UI that will be used on the AE2410, AS2070, and AE2230 AIO

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ASUS PadFone official

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We’ve already shown you what the ASUS PadFone looks like; now it’s time for all the juicy details. ASUS has given the PadFone its official debut at Computex 2011 today, a roughly 4-inch Android smartphone which can dock into a companion 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 tablet. The tablet’s separate battery can be used to recharge the phone, while the phone’s 3G connection can get the slate online when away from a WiFi hotspot.


ASUS is promising a “seamless”

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WIN! A top-end PC power bundle

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TechRadar has teamed up with ADATA to provide you with some top-end kit for your PC to help your system make the leap to the next level.We've got four pieces of kit to give away, from super-fast solid state drives to cutting edge memory to make your set-up stand out.First up from ADATA is the 240GB S511 SSD, which uses the new generation SandForce SF-2200 series controller, with native support for the SATA 6Gb/s platform. The S511 offers the high-speed performance of solid state

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MSI WindPad 110W and 100A offer 10.1-inch Win 7 or Android

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It’s not just ASUS, Gigabyte and ViewSonic talking tablets at Computex 2011; MSI has also brought along some slates from its updated WindPad range. The MSI WindPad 110W and WindPad 100A run Windows 7 and Android respectively, both having 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 IPS displays. The WindPad 110W gets an AMD Brazos CPU with Radeon HD 6250 graphics to call its own, while the WindPad 100A uses an ARM Cortex A9 dual-core, which we’re guessing is the Tegra 2.


It also has

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ASUS Eee PC X101 official: MeeGo ultraportable

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ASUS‘ press launch today isn’t just about the new PadFone: there’s also the company’s skinny new Eee PC X101 too. Running MeeGo rather than Windows, the X101 has a super-slim chassis and uses Intel’s 1.5GHz Oak Trail Atom processor with GMA 600 graphics.


Ports include two USB and a headphones socket, and inside is a 6-cell battery. The 10-inch 1024 x 600 screen gets a webcam on top of it, along with a dual-microphone array, and there’s

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Sunday 29 May 2011

NVIDIA 3D Vision $99 wired glasses swap freedom for savings

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NVIDIA continues to hammer away at its 3D Vision technology, tweaking both the three-dimensional system itself and the price of the all-important active shutter glasses. Having scraped the wireless set down to $149 back in March, NVIDIA has gone even more basic with its new 3D Vision wired glasses, which come in under the $100 barrier.


$99 gets you the same active shutter lenses as on the more expensive wireless pair, but replaces the wireless sync connection and batteries with a

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NVIDIA Kal-El gaming demo shows real-time dynamic lighting [Video]

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NVIDIA promised big things for their quad-core Kal-El chip, the next-gen Tegra processor that pairs a quartet of CPU cores with twelve GPU cores, and the company is demonstrating some of that goodness at Computex 2011 this week. First up is a gaming demo of a new, homegrown game, Glowball, running on a prototype Kal-El powered Android Honeycomb tablet. As you can see in the video after the cut, the quad-core chip allows for high-quality dynamic lighting effects with responsiveness

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SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – May 29, 2011

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Perhaps the two biggest topics of the week, the Google Wallet announcement and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.1 Mango unveiling, brought exciting new developments for the two mobile platforms. More speculation continued on what Apple has planned for next month’s WWDC, where the company is expected to unveil the new iOS 5, OS X Lion, and possibly the iCloud—iTunes cloud music service. In anticipation, Amazon’s been competing even more aggressively to campaign for

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ASUS PadFone revealed

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ASUS has been running quite the little teaser campaign, but the ASUS PadFone has leaked out somewhat ahead of schedule. Set to be launched at Computex 2011 tomorrow morning, the PadFone consists of an Eee Pad Transformer style slate with a section at the back that opens up to accept a smartphone. Once docked – with what looks to be HDMI and USB ports slotting into the side of the handset – the tablet offers a lot more screen real-estate and, we’re guessing, a fair

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 22 2011

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Welcome to another edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. Monday we put up our review of the HTC Flyer WiFi tablet. We figure that the tablet will win over many people that want something smaller than the iPad with a pen stylus. Monday reports came in that a third worker had died from injuries sustained in the explosion at the Foxconn plant in China. The explosion is thought to be the result of combustible aluminum dust but the investigation is ongoing.


The HTC EVO 3D smartphone

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SlashGear Week in Review- Week 22 2011

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Welcome to another edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. Monday we put up our review of the HTC Flyer WiFi tablet. We figure that the tablet will win over many people that want something smaller than the iPad with a pen stylus. Monday reports came in that a third worker had died from injuries sustained in the explosion at the Foxconn plant in China. The explosion is thought to be the result of combustible aluminum dust but the investigation is ongoing.


The HTC EVO 3D smartphone

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Review: Panasonic TX-P42GT30B

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The GT30 range is Panasonic's secret weapon in its continuing war with 3D LED TV vendors. The Panasonic TX-P42GT30B is more affordable than the brand's headline VT30 models yet shares much the same technology, this set oozes enticing functionality. With both Freeview HD and Freesat HD (DVB-S/S2) tuners, it takes just 17 seconds to tune in the standard Freesat channel assortment. More adventurous viewers can journey outside this environment by selecting the TV's 'Other Satellite'

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Buying Guide: Best iPhone alarm clock dock under £100

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With so much technology available, it could take over your whole house if you're not careful. Just look at your bedside table - you've probably got an alarm clock there, your iPhone charger wire will be lying around somewhere (if it hasn't fallen down the back) and you may even have a radio. Now wouldn't it be good to do away with all that clutter and replace it with a single sleek bit of kit that does all those jobs? That's where the dock comes in, and we've put five of the best

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Twitter hands-over users' info in libel case

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Twitter has bowed to legal pressure and given-up the details of five of its users, as part of a landmark libel case.The social networking site has been ordered to hand-over the details in an attempt to unmask an anonymous tweeter, accused of posting libelous messages about members of South Tyneside council.The order could have implications in the controversy which saw scandal-hit, Premier League footballer Ryan Giggs named on Twitter despite an injunction banning his naming.Giggs'

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Google's Flight Search takes off

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Google's Inside Search blog has announced a new service for it's search engine.
Type 'flights from London (eg.) to San fransisco (eg.)' in to the search box, and Google will provide you with all the flight information you need.
Flights from London, UK (all airports) to San Francisco, USA (SFO)










Non-stop flights:
5 per day, 10h 52m duration


Airlines:
United, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic



Schedule of non-stop flights






Valid through 26

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Review: LG ST600 Smart TV Upgrader

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The LG ST600 Smart TV upgrader is a little black box that functions as a means of enjoying the multimedia functionality offered by LG's current 'Smart TV' Connected TV platform on any TV with an HDMI. Its compact (11cm x 11cm) minimal stylings should fit in nicely with most black TVs. It has no onboard storage, instead it gives you a USB port on the right-hand side (next to a 'Reset' button) in which to connect drives of your own on top of DLNA networking functionality. At the rear

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In Depth: Like Flight Control? Then you'll love these games

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Part of the reason Flight Control has been a massive hit is because it offered something entirely suited to touchscreens, rather than try to force control conventions from traditional consoles onto an iOS game. The path-drawing concept that underpins the entire game, with you guiding aircraft to runways and helipads, is intuitive for newcomers, but the game also quickly ramps up the challenge to ensure hardcore gamers aren't left bored. As with any iOS game that spends a number of

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ASUS PadFone leaks again: Tablet/Smartphone hybrid

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As the ASUS leaks coalesce ahead of Computex 2011, it looks increasingly likely that we’ll see the ASUS PadFone, a hybrid docking smartphone/tablet combination, announced at the show. ASUS has kicked out a fresh slice of PadFone teaser image, but NotebookItalia has managed to find a more telling version showing what looks to be an Android handset resting on its companion slate.


That slate is easily recognizable as ASUS’ original teaser, back on Monday last week. The

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In Depth: 3D streaming is coming to your smart TV

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When Samsung recently confirmed that it had started streaming 3D content via at app on its Smart Hub platform, it was unexpected - and a touch disappointing.The appearance of the latest 3D blockbusters would have been a genuine game-changer, but the collection of DreamWorks film trailers and other short 3D clips could still give some consumers their first taste of 3D in the home. Movie streaming in 2D is well underway, with most smart TVs from the major manufacturers hosting either

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Saturday 28 May 2011

Samsung Legal Department Demands to See iPhone 5 and iPad 3

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Well THIS is a wild turn, a wild turn indeed! Samsung and Apple have been at battle for just about forever, this war leading up to the latest streetlight in the courtroom. Apple declared their intent to sue Samsung over copyrights that it said were besmirched by Samsung, while Samsung in turn decided it would sue back. Next step was Samsung revealing their battle plan, and UH oh, Apple won early access to Samsung’s phones/tablets! That’s not the half of it. Now we find

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IDAPT i4 Universal Charging Station Review

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Well would you look at that, it’s a charging station and we’re taking a look at it. This is a station for charging up to 4 devices (three on the top and another via the USB bonus port on the side.) This device is currently available via IDAPT and it’ll set you back $59.99. It’s got interchangeable tips that plug into the dock creating a system which IDAPT notes provides a charging opportunity for over 4,000 devices. This certainly reduces the number of cords

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Apple iCloud could be MobileMe bundle, mirror even pirated tracks

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With Apple’s WWDC 2011 just weeks away, the race is on to finalize the expected cloud music streaming system – aka iCloud – for an official debut at the keynote. According to BusinessWeek, Apple is still yet to clinch Universal Music‘s agreement, though a deal is said to be close; the terms are believed to include the ability to scan a user’s local music collection and then recreate it in cloud storage from high-quality master recordings, even –

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PSN Breach or Not: I Don’t Like Online Gaming Anyway

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When Sony’s PlayStation Network service was hacked in April and the company was forced to take it offline until earlier this month, there were many gamers out there that were upset to see it go. Those gamers had been playing online titles for quite some time on their PlayStation 3 devices, and if they didn’t have an Xbox 360, they didn’t have a worthwhile online-gaming experience to turn to.


While all that was going on, I didn’t miss PlayStation Network one bit. I went

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PlayStation Network Asia back online Friday: Compensation detailed

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Sony’s restoration of the PlayStation Network continues, with Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand all set to get their online gaming and Qriocity streaming media back from tomorrow, Friday May 28. The functionality will include online play for the PS3 and PSP, PlayStation Home, Friend List services and the network functionality for the Torne digital TV tuner.


As with the restoration in other areas, there’ll be a mandatory password change for PSN

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Apple patent hints at new method to avoid exploding battery suits

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If you have been around the tech world for a while, you will remember the massive recalls of a few years back over laptop batteries that were bad and could randomly explode and catch fire. There were photos of notebooks spontaneously bursting into flames on the web and it seemed every time we turned around someone was issuing a battery recall. Even Apple got caught in the recall frenzy and ended up having to pay out to one Japanese man who was burned when his MacBook caught

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Asus tweet tips Eee Pad Slider coming “soon”

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Back during CES in January, we spent a little hands-on time with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and the Eee Pad Slider. The tablets were both cool and while months have passed since then and the Slider still hasn’t made its official appearance and some are getting impatient. If it’s been so long you don’t even remember what the tablet is about, I will run down the specs for you. The key feature is that the Slider has a slide-out keyboard.


When the keyboard is exposed,

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Apple App Store far more paid-app friendly than Android Market

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Developers looking to sell paid apps will likely find richer pickings in the iOS App Store rather than the Android Market, according to research firm Distimo, which has discovered that around 80-percent of paid titles for Android devices are only downloaded less than 100 times. Meanwhile, only two paid Android apps have been downloaded more than 500,000 times worldwide since the Android Market launched, versus six paid iOS apps breaking that milestone over the past two months in the

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Buying Guide: 5 best replacement iPhone and iPod earphones

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Apple called the iPhone "the best iPod we've ever made" when it was launched, and while you'll hear no argument from us, it's nevertheless ironic that the company that has so completely reinvented the music industry ships headphones with its iPods, iPhones and iPads that are mediocre at best. You're really not letting your music shine if you stick with Apple's standard white earbuds, and their leaky sound is likely to turn fellow passengers on public transport against you. In this

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LEGO ukulele can actually be tuned and played

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LEGO has to be one of the more impressive and geeky building systems ever dreamed up. The people that invented the little bricks should win a Nobel Prize for something. It never ceases to impress me that geeks can build some very interesting gear using the little blocks. The last time I talked about a LEGO build was when a geek built himself a Master Chief suit out of the bricks. Now a guy has taken a box full of bricks and made his own musical instrument.


The instrument in

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Review: Samsung SMT-S7800

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Samsung has thrown its hat in the Freesat receiver ring with the SMT-S7800 500GB PVR. The new Freesat G2 specification will bring, at some unspecified time, further integration of broadcast and broadband delivered programming. Samsung sees no need for delay here in delivering a twin-tuner PVR with a sprinkling of its Smart TV magic, saying that when G2 boxes become commercially available it will issue a software update. First impressions of the SMT-S7800 are that it looks as

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Tunny code breaker bought to life

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After six years of rebuilding, The National Museum of Computing, have finally finished their rebuild of a Tunny machine.
First built in 1942 by British engineers, the Tunny, deciphered German encrypted messages sent between the German High Command in Berlin and Nazi troops throughout Europe.
No original Tunny machines existed, only partial circuit diagrams and a few photographs, making the task of rebuilding it a huge achievement for the staff at Bletchley

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Vodafone VIP Truck can charge 2000 mobiles at once

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If you take your smartphone with you and head to a concert or other festival where you end up tweeting how all your pals should be there, shooting video and taking pics all with your phone you know how fast your battery can go dead. If you are in the UK and on the Vodafone network the company is going to 11 of the biggest festivals this year with a massive truck to keep its customers charged up and using data.


The giant 18-wheeler weighs 44 tons and has stairs that lead up to the

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Tutorial: How to use the Photoshop clone tool

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Almost since the concept of composition was first introduced, photographers have found all kinds of ways to get it wrong. Lamp posts growing out of people's heads, dust spots on film, and people's legs walking into or out of a frame can all conspire to ruin an otherwise great shot. Luckily, the ability to remove these objects from photos is almost as old as the medium itself, and as is the case with most aspects of photography, the digital practice is unbelievably easy. It's known

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Windshield of 2020 packs Augmented Reality [Video]

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Projecting a head-up display onto your windshield is so passé; Autoglass reckons the future of digital driving is having augmented reality baked into the glass itself. The company has thrown together a video demo of what it believes the windshield of your car will be like in 2020, throwing in intelligent location-based services that can hunt down gas stations, flag up cyclists and pedestrians angling to get run over, and warn you when there’s a speed camera nearby.


There

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Review: Zotac GeForce GTX 570

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The Zotac GTX 570 is the daddy in graphics cards terms. At a chunk under £300 it's a card that will more than likely take up most of your upgrade budget, so is it worth that outlay on a single component? Well, as we've seen before the answer is not that easy. Dropping in the fastest, most expensive GPU is not always the magic pill to deliver instant frame rate bonuses for your favourite games. But this GF 110-powered graphics card is a quite excellent example of just why the Fermi

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Man constructs homebuilt airplane in basement, knocks down wall to get it out

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Undoubtedly, some of you will think that building your own airplane is the weird part of this story. There are actually a large number of people that want to get into the private pilot game, but can’t afford the hundreds of thousands of dollars that commercially built private aircraft sell for. For these folks there are a number of homebuilt airplane kits that you can buy in sections and then put together yourself.


These planes have to go through a FAA inspection before being

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Microsoft’s $150m Android windfall dwarfs Windows Phone revenues

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Microsoft may be pushing ahead with Windows Phone Mango, but it seems the company’s biggest mobile success of the moment is actually from Android devices. Citi analyst Walter Pritchard has crunched the numbers and figured out that HTC pays Microsoft $5 for every Android smartphone it makes, Asymco reports; with HTC shipment figures at around 30m units, that adds up to $150m in Android revenues for Microsoft, a number Pritchard reckons is around five times what the company is

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Apple A5 based MacBook Air prototype reportedly in testing

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Apple is not only rumored to be considering ARM-based MacBook notebooks but has apparently already been experimenting with prototypes, according to the latest leaks out of the company. The test mule resembles a MacBook Air, Macotakara reports, only with the same dual-core Apple A5 processor inside as used by the iPad 2.


The source, who is being kept anonymous, doesn’t specify whether the test machine was running OS X, as usual for a MacBook Air, or iOS as on Apple’s

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Friday 27 May 2011

3G on my Ereader, not my Tablet

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Amazon and B&N are taking pot-shots at each other this week, each competing on whose ereader lasts longest. As ereaders gain in popularity and become more mainstream, too, I’m increasingly asked which model I’d go for and, more often, whether I’d pay extra for those with integrated 3G or save my money and opt for WiFi-only instead. Funnily enough, my stance on 3G ereaders is the complete opposite of my thoughts on 3G tablets.


Last week, I kicked off a new

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Displays Breaking [Google I/O Limited Edition]

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At this year’s Google I/O developer conference, the 5000 attendees each got to walk away with a limited edition Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The limited edition tablet had an army of Androids etched on the back, was sleek and generally fabulous. You can check out our unboxing and review of the tablet. However, the buzz and delight of having ownership of such a tablet didn’t last long. There are several folks now that have reported a physical defect with the tablet, having to

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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer To Get Android 3.1 Honeycomb OTA Next Week

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We recently said that the Android 3.1 Honeycomb update would be coming to the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer and the Acer Iconia Tab A500 starting in June. Well, one of those tablets may be getting the update just a tad sooner. According to inside sources, the ASUS tablet update will be heading out over-the-air starting early next week.


The Android 3.1 Honeycomb update will bring several new UI features including more advanced widgets, a new multi-task switcher, and overall improved

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Facebook eyes music, TV shows, movies, world media domination

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Facebook is looking to all manner of media for the next step in its plans to take over the virtual world, according to a report in the New York Times. As well as its ongoing talks with Spotify, two anonymous sources have said that Facebook is in discussion with a number of other music services.The plan is to create a widget to show a Facebooker's most recently played tracks and an easy way for friends to listen to the same songs. But it's not just music Facebook is eyeing up; the

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No MGS5 at E3!

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The latest podcast from Kojima Productions has a segment where Hideo Kojima (creator of the Metal Gear Solid series and all around awesome guy) answers some simple yes and no questions. While the answers are short, the information is rather important! You can listen to the whole podcast here. Hideo gets interviewed at the 33:09 mark. Fair warning, it’s in Japanese, but listen to it anyway. The interviewer’s voice is hilarious and Hideo replies as fast as he can.

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Review: HTC Sensation

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HTC has gone from being an unknown manufacturer for bigger brands to one spewing out leading Android smartphones. The Desire was a landmark phone in the fight against the iPhone, but now tech has moved up a level - can the HTC Sensation stay at the sharp end?With the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S2, the Motorola Atrix and (to a degree) the LG Optimus 2X, dual-core phones have become the darling of the tech enthusiast.Our colleagues at T3.com grabbed some HTC Sensation video footage,

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AT&T Gets More FCC Questioning About T-Mobile Acquisition

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When AT&T first submitted its pitch to the FCC on why it needed to buy T-Mobile, they’re general theme was that it would be better for customers. They claimed that their current network would not be able to sustain the impending influx of smartphone data traffic and that the acquisition of T-Mobile would boost network coverage and build-out. Well, now the FCC has shot back its first round of questions for AT&T’s response.


The FCC posted a set of 50 questions

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Review: Sharkoon X-Tatic SX

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There's a big flash on the front of the Sharkoon X-Tatic SX box, proclaiming their greatness as an Xbox 360 headset. That doesn't necessarily mean it's not also a darned good set of PC cans, though. The Sharkoon Xtatic SX comes with a normal 3.5mm stereo connectors to jam into your PC's soundcard holes, so it's very much PC-compatible. That said, it's not really as simple as that. I've been happily using a set of Plantronics GameCom 377 earbashers for ages now, and if you just use

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10 best iPad and iPhone news apps

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The iPad is a news junkie's dream. With a few taps you have the whole world's media at your fingertips, and with a little careful curation you can easily create a customised flow of news and comment that allows you to keep track of what's happening anywhere in the world. You don't have to be a news junkie to appreciate the news apps available for both iPhone and iPad. You can read your favourite daily newspaper or magazine, watch clips of important events, or just keep abreast of

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Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY Review – To Play or Not to Play?

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The Xperia Play is being touted as the “World’s First PlayStation Certified Smartphone”. Does that make it a good phone? Or even a good gaming system? We’ve been putting the phone through its paces. Sony Ericsson certainly has a great idea of adding a gaming pad to a mobile phone. Will it satisfy your mobile gaming needs, or leave you sad and depressed like a cold little puppy in the rain? Find out after the cut!


Hardware
The first thing you’ll

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HTC opens up bootloader on Android phones

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In a move that's sure to win the smartphone company brownie points from the modder community, HTC has announced that it will unlock the bootloader on its devices going forward.The decision comes straight from the top, with Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, bowing to public demand and deciding that it will not lock the bootloader on its smartphone range.Unlock and load"There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones," said Chou in a

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Slashgear 101: What is Google Wallet?

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You may not have heard much about Google Wallet, but it could have a very big impact on your future. It’s also one of the most exciting announcements to come from Google. Even though you might guess Google Wallet helps you search for things in your actual wallet, you’d be quite wrong. If Google has their way, their Wallet would allow you to pay for almost anything by using your mobile phone. No sliding cards, no waiting for checks to clear, just a quick and easy way

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PS4 rumours: what you need to know about the PlayStation 4

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When it comes to rumours about the next Xbox, there's some wild speculation to get your teeth into.Over on the PlayStation 4 rumour mill, things were, until recently, turning much slower. As Kaz Hirai said earlier in the year: "we're not deliberating on a PS4 or a next generation machine, whatever you call it."But on 26 May 2011, that stance changed when Sony's executive vice president and chief financial officer Masaru Kato confirmed that Sony is working on the PS4. The revelation

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iPad 2 Touch Panels To Come From Chimei Innolux In June

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Despite the seeming abundance of iPad 2s in Apple Stores around the country thanks to the recent 2.0 revamp, the tablet is still struggling through supply issues. iPad 2 supplies around the globe have not been able to meet demand, with current ship times here in the states still at about one to two weeks. However, things may start to turn around as Apple works through its procurement process and adds new vendors.


The latest company added to Apple’s major supplier list is

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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB

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With the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950, we're getting into serious graphics card territory here, and inevitably that means serious money too. At over £200 that's a lot to spend on a single component if you're talking about an upgrade purchase. But it's AMD's latest, and arguably greatest, GPU technology inside that Cayman processor and it's got some heavy-weight DirectX 11 graphical architecture backing it up. Taking the seriously GPU taxing DirectX 11 tessellation-heavy benchmark of

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AMD “Desna” Chips For Tablets? Roadmap Leaked

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Early last month we talked about AMD possibly heading into the tablet market, with announcements brewing up as Computex 2011 approaches. Well, it looks to be the case now that a massive multi-page company roadmap for AMD has been leaked. Currently, the company has its C-30 and C-50 chips aimed at the notebooks market that includes an iterated AMD Radeon graphics core capable of handling 3D graphics acceleration and 1080p video playback.


Building on top of this for their tablet

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Rumour: Apple testing MacBook Airs with iPad 2 processors

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Apple may have been fiddling around with the MacBook Air's innards and trying out the A5 processor found in the iPad 2, if new reports are to be believed. An anonymous source says that the company has ripped out the Intel iCore 2 Duo chips and replaced them with its own proprietary Apple A5 ARM-based processor, currently the beating heart of the iPad 2. "According to this source who saw live A5 MacBook Air actually, this test machine performed better than expected," says Macotakara,

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Are We Really Ready For A PS4?

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It was a no brainer that Sony was already working on their next gen console, but it’s nice to see it go from rumor to official. If you haven’t heard, Sony had an investment meeting yesterday that confirmed the news. With Nintendo planning to announce their next gen console at E3, and Microsoft asking for next gen engineers back it March, it’s nice to see Sony drop some hints. So it looks like the next generation of consoles is coming sooner rather than later.

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Review: LG Optimus Black

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Sitting alongside the LG Optimus 2X, the LG Optimus Black is a top-end smartphone, slipping in at just over £400, attempting to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S2 and Apple iPhone 4 for the smartphone crown, but with considerably fewer features and less processing power than its LG stablemate.First things first – the LG Optimus Black is light. Weighing a featherweight 109g, it even reaches a skinny 6mm side edge curvature, and 9.2mm thickness at its deepest point, besting the

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Nokia To Release A Windows Phone Every Two Months?

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Microsoft recently unveiled its Windows Phone 7.1 Mango update and revealed the manufacturers that will be on board to pump out the next-generation of Windows Phones. Noticeably not mentioned as much was Nokia, who has a unique relationship with Microsoft that may give them more privileges than the other phone makers. However, when exactly Nokia plans to actually exercise those privileges is still not certain, although we now hear that when they do, they intend to crank out a lot of

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Sony could be skimping on NGP features

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Not only is Sony tightening the PS4 purse strings, but it seems the company is finding ways to cut costs on its NGP handheld console too. A report on a French tech site claims that Sony is opting for lower-spec components in order to compete with the Nintendo 3DS on price, according to developer sources. For example, the original plan was apparently for the NGP to offer 512MB of RAM; this has been slashed to 256MB. Memory lossSimilarly, the site claims that 16GB of internal memory

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Apple May Announce Back-To-School Deal At WWDC, Including $200 Off iPads

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So the whole secret operation to celebrate Apple’s 10th anniversary is over now, and whatever pertinent rumors there were about a revolutionary new Apple Store 2.0 have now been confirmed or debunked. But, that still leaves out the rumor of an upcoming back-to-school sale. Sources now claim that the promotion will be unveiled at next month’s WWDC.


Although it seems odd that a back-to-school sale would start now since school will have just gotten out, but Apple along

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George Lucas: We got into 3D a long time ago

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Star Wars director George Lucas has been speaking about his upcoming plans to remaster his space opera in 3D, explaining that his team at Industrial Light And Magic have been working on 3D conversion for a long time.Star Wars is set to be released in 3D in 2012, with Star Wars: Episode 1 hitting cinemas on 10 February.Rather than this re-release being a cash cow for Lucas, he is hoping that it will revitalise the films for a modern-day audience. There are hurdles, however, like

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Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Android Tablet Listing Appear (with v3.0 Honeycomb)

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A listing has appeared and subsequently disappeared and/or “sold out” on a couple of sites, this listing containing no less that Lenovo’s IdeaPad K1, aka the LePad if you’re in China. This device is slated to be released in June, but these seemingly early-placed spots are popping up as we speak. The two sites that have the listing thus far are Buy.com and Krex.


The Krex listing, which you can see here, shows the device out of stock and has it listed at

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Updated: HTC phones mysteriously running 10 mins fast?

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UPDATE: We've had a response already from HTC, and it has acknowledged the problem: "It has come to our attention that certain HTC handsets appear to be showing the wrong time, we'd like to reassure you that we are currently working to rectify this and will have an update for you shortly."We apologise for any inconvenience this may be causing."Here's an odd one for Friday - it seems HTC phones on Android have started running 10 minutes fast over the last 24 hours.We first noticed it

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Polymer Vision 6″ rollable display demoed; Phone/tablet hybrid teased [Video]

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The Polymer Vision saga continues, and after new owner Wistron failed to deliver the folding ereader promised for 2010, they’ve gone back to prototype basics with a new rollable display. The 6-inch panel is capable of monochrome images, and runs at 800 x 600.


That’s the same resolution as the 6-inch Kindle, which certainly bodes well for ereader duties. According to Polymer Vision, the flexible display can be rolled up 25,000 time without damage, and will furl up

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Review: Canon PowerShot SX230 HS

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Scanning the specifications for Canon's latest high-zoom travel compact, it certainly looks as if the new PowerShot SX230 HS leaves very little to be desired. Replacing the older SX210 IS, the SX230 HS offers an array of upgraded features that bring it bang up-to-date. One of the most notable changes is that the old model's 14.1mp sensor has been replaced with a brand new 12.1mp BSI-CMOS, which features Canon's latest back-illuminated design and promises higher light sensitivity and

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Sony PS3 Wireless Stereo Headset offers 7.1 virtual surround sound

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Sony has announced its latest gaming accessory, the official PS3 Wireless Stereo Headset. Pairing with your console via the bundled USB dongle, the headset offers 7.1 virtual surround sound and has a retractable microphone for voice chat in games.


Controls include dedicated volume and microphone mute buttons, while the headphones’ status – including battery and volume – are shown on-screen. It’s worth noting that the virtual surround system will only work

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Week in Tech: Facebook is coming for your children

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For many people, social networks are the internet: they'll spend all day on Facebook or Twitter, with the odd break to visit an online shop or do some work. But the big networks aren't satisfied. They want more. Much more. They want your kids. Not literally, of course. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn't like the way the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act prevents Facebook from giving accounts to under-13s. But it's not because he wants to make money from advertisers

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Blockbuster drops price of in store rentals to compete with Netflix and Redbox

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Blockbuster went into bankruptcy after its expensive rentals and high late fees helped to drive the average consumer to kiosk rentals and streaming services. Blockbuster was for a long time the biggest rental chain in the country and had multiple stores in many areas. The company isn’t alone, the entire DVD market is seeing profits drop. Blockbuster was recently purchased by Dish Network and the rental store has now announced some changes to their in store rental

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LG Optimus 2X problems continue, no fix for 'several weeks'

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LG Optimus 2X owners may be stuck with malfunctioning handsets for the foreseeable future as LG struggles to fix a bug with the handset. Despite intentions to offer a patch to fix the 'black screen of death' issue that sees handsets randomly freezing and rebooting, LG has admitted that it's struggling to make the problem go away. Although the company originally stated that it would have a software update to fix the problem by the end of May, the latest communiqué from LG posted on

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Huawei Windows Phone “probably” arriving 2012

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ZTE’s decision to jump on board the Windows Phone train with a mouthful of tasty Mango has seemingly pushed arch-rival Huawei’s hand, with the company’s CMO confirming that it will “probably” release a WP-based device in 2012. Exec Victor Xu told ZDNet that Huawei has “had some discussions with Microsoft” but has so far been “just watching” the market’s response to the Windows Phone platform.


ZTE’s involvement as a

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SeeSaw VOD service to close in June

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SeeSaw, the on-demand service which offers content form BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV, has announced that it is to close – citing a strategic review by business partner Arqiva as the reason.Created from the scraps of Project Kangaroo, SeeSaw was meant to be an on-demand service which was channel agnostic. In short: a one-stop shop for online video content.Although it houses 3,000 hours of free content (if you could bear the pre-roll advertising), SeeSaw started to pride itself

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Lions shoot their own documentary with photographer’s camera

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Wild animals are creepy, especially the large ones that could eat me if I happened on them in the wilds. Even the animals at the local zoo can give you the creeps when the lions stare at you as if they would like a snack. In fact, one time my daughter turned her back to the glass front of the tiger cage about the time it pounced at her behind the glass. She steers clear of the tiger enclosure now. I do like to see the shows about the big cats in Africa on Discovery Channel, they are

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Bloomsbury sees e-book sales take off

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Bloomsbury, the book publisher, has thanked its lucky stars for the rise of e-readers as it announced e-book sales of £1.5 million for January 2010 to March 2011. That's an 18 times increase in revenue from digitised books for Bloomsbury year-on-year, reflecting the rise and rise of the e-reader, no doubt somewhat fuelled by the explosion of the tablet market. Interestingly, £1.1 million of the sales were made in the first three months of 2011, suggesting that the boom times for

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Sony NGP speculative specs shaved to cut costs

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The Sony NGP sounds like it will be a very cool portable game system. Sony is hoping that the NGP will be able to compete with the Nintendo 3DS in sales the way the original PSP was never able to compete with the Nintendo DS. Whether or not the competition will be what Sony hopes for remains to be seen. So far, we really don’t know all the official specs for the NGP. We do know a few things though like the console is supposed to come in 3G or WiFi versions.


A few other specs

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PlayStation 4 development confirmed by Sony

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Sony has begun development on the PlayStation 4, with the games giant confirming that work on the console was already underway.In Sony's year-on-year results of its Networked Products & Services division – which comprises the PlayStation brand and PCs – Sony hinted that it was working on the PlayStation 4 but would not give any more details.PlayStation 4 plans"For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life," said Sony's Masaru Kato. "But this is a platform business, so

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Intel: We’d make custom chips possibly with rival cores

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When it comes to the computer realm Intel supplies the vast majority of all the processors that are used inside computers today. When it comes to the mobile market with tablets and smartphones, Intel has no chips that can compete with rival ARM and others on low power consumption so it’s not a force in those markets. Intel is apparently willing to consider making processors in its foundries using its high-end manufacturing tech that aren’t based on Intel core

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Apple iCloud service to replace low-quality tracks with pristine ones?

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Apple's iCloud music service is set to upgrade your low-quality tunes to higher bit-rate tracks stored in its cloud-based music locker, thanks to its licensing agreements with major record labels. Business Week cites three sources who confirm that the license deals Apple is in the process of putting in place with labels will allow the company to scan a user's music collection and 'mirror' it virtually, avoiding the hassle of uploading your 1,000 song strong collection.Apple has

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PayPal sues Google over mobile wallet

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Paypal is suing Google for stealing trade secrets.
The row came about after two former executives of Paypal appeared on stage to launch Google's new mobile wallet scheme.
Both executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, worked for PayPal and it's owner eBay, for approximately nine years.
Tilenius joined Google in February 2010 and has been accused of recruiting Bedier from PayPal in January this year and also attempting to recruit other Paypal staff.
Bedier is accused in

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Android developers next in line for Lodsys in-app patent punch

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In-app patent holder Lodsys hinted that Apple developers wouldn’t be the last to find patent licensing demands dropping into their inbox, and now it seems the company’s attention has turned to Android. At least one Android developer has apparently received documentation claiming they have infringed Lodsys’ IP, after implementing in-app payment systems in their app.


Lodsys argued that it deserved a slice of the developer’s profits – around

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Google Wallet launches as PayPal sues over tech secrets

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As expected, Google launched its NFC-payments scheme called Google Wallet an event in New York last night and, to celebrate, PayPal has launched a lawsuit against Google. PayPal claims it schooled Google in mobile payments while negotiating a deal for the search giant to use the PayPal system on Android phones, but that Google took all that lovely information and launched its own independent product. PayPal's lawsuit is all about trade secrets – corporate espionage! –

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Microsoft board refuses Ballmer roust

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Despite calls for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to be toppled, the company’s board of directors are apparently standing behind the outspoken exec. According to a source close to the board talking to Reuters, the nine-strong directorial team – which includes ex-CEO and current chairman Bill Gates – all support Ballmer; earlier this week, notorious hedge fund manager David Einhorn led demands that Ballmer be replaced.


“ continued presence is the biggest

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Leica launches 16x zoom V-Lux 30

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Leica has unveiled the latest addition to its range of compact cameras with the 14.1-megapixel V-Lux 30.Among the highlights of this latest Leica compact camera include a 16x optical zoom, Leica DC Vario-Elmar 4.3 - 68.8mm f/3.3-5.9 lens (24-384mm in 35mm format) and a 3in touchscreen LCD screen with a resolution of 460,000 pixels. The new Leica camera also offers GPS tagging, where the V-Lux 30 records the geographical coordinates of the user's location and the local time with

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PayPal sues Google over stolen Wallet secrets

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Google Wallet is only just official, and already it has its first lawsuit. PayPal has sprung out of the gate with accusations that Google used trade secrets gleaned from ex-PayPal employees now working on the Google Wallet project. According to the eBay-owned payments firm, ex-exec Osama Bedier took with him “intimate knowledge of PayPal’s capabilities, strategies, plans, and market intelligence” which he disclosed to Google after being recruited by Stephanie

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Google Wallet for Android to launch today

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A leaked memo from a US retailer confirms that Google is launching a near field communications (NFC) payment taking plan, dubbed Google Wallet, at an event later today. We already knew that the search giant has plans for NFC, particularly since it sparked a rush for Android manufacturers to include the necessary chip in a host of recent handsets by including NFC in its flagship Google Nexus S. But now we know the name of the scheme – Google Wallet – and that it will be launching

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Thursday 26 May 2011

Why I Can’t Stand Hulu Plus

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As someone who streams Netflix content through several different devices, including my HDTV, the iPad, and others, I recently decided to give some other streaming offerings a chance to win my affection. My first choice among the many out there was Hulu Plus.
Now, I should note that I’ve used Hulu quite often. While I’m having lunch, I’ve been known to surf to Hulu’s Web site and watch some episodes of shows I might have missed recently. I guess you could say that I’ve been

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iCloud: 10 things we want to see

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Although it's been rumoured for years that Apple will somehow finally fully embrace the cloud, it's only lately that it feels Cupertino's moving in the right direction.Apple's rumoured to have splashed out $4.5 million on the iCloud.com domain, is said to be striking deals with a number of record labels (in stark contrast to the gung-ho approach taken by Google and Amazon for their respective cloud-based music services) and has even posted a job advert for a 'Media Streaming

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Buy Your Mom A Digital Camera

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I’ll admit it. I still have family members who walk around with disposable cameras. Yes, it’s embarrassing, and yes, it’s completely unnecessary. Don’t get me wrong, I love film photography. Medium and Large format cameras can produce some of the best images you’ve ever seen, and old Polaroid cameras are just plain fun. However, when you’re buying a disposable camera from Wal-Mart for the family’s weekend vacation, it’s time you check yourself, before you wreck

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HTC Puccini 10-inch tablet primed for summer release?

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HTC is looking to swiftly follow up the launch of its 7-inch HTC Flyer tablet, with a 10-inch model codenamed Puccini.This is according to Digitimes, which has re-confirmed previous leaks with word that HTC has ramped up production of the 10.1-inch tablet readying it for a summer release.The tablet is said to be powered by a Qualcomm MSM8660 1.5GHz processor and will be running Android Honeycomb. It looks like HTC will be sticking with its tried and tested stylus, dubbed HTC Scribe,

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The Siren Call Of E3

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Every year E3 rears its majestic, multi-screened face, right in the heart of LA. For three days, we are accosted with explosions, shiny graphics and amazing trailers. We get to see the biggest games that will dominate our time for the next several weekends. We also get tons of swag and smell a lot of body odor. A small price to pay for all of the awesomeness you get to see. But is it really worth it?


The great thing about E3 is that it gathers every major game developer

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Review: Acer Iconia Tab A500

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In the contest to replace your laptop – and maybe even your TV – Android 3.0 tablets such as the Motorola Xoom are ganging up on the Apple iPad 2 by sheer quantity. We absolutely thrilled over the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, for example. Now it's time for the Acer Iconia Tab A500's day in the sun.In many ways, this is all about the operating system, so we'll admit that the differences between the three main Android 3.0 tabs are marginal at best. You have to choose your OS poison

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Sony Xperia Play: Dream Come True, Or Frankenstein’s Monster?

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Even before the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play was officially announced, rumors where running rampant. As the rumors flew, two camps seemed to emerge. Those that thought a PlayStation Portable smashed into a phone would be the greatest thing since Linux, and those that thought it would turn out to be the worst phone ever. Well, the phone has been announced for a while now, and if you pre-ordered the phone on Verizon, you might already have it in your twitchy little fingers.


The

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New Mac Defender malware launched, bypasses Apple's fixes

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The group behind the Mac Defender scareware has released a new variant which bypasses Apple's short-term fixes and renders the malware more potent than before. The new version does not require the user to type in their password for the software to install itself on the machine, after it has been automatically downloaded.Once downloaded, the installer opens automatically and prompts the user to click 'continue', which it's not outrageous to assume a lot of people will do on autopilot

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Why You Should Buy A Webcam

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I moved away from home when I was eighteen. Even though my parents only live 2 hours away, I don’t see them as much as I’d like to. Many of you probably have parents or children that you wish lived closer as well. The good news is, with today’s technology, it’s easier than ever to stay in touch with those you love. Just don’t get to pushy, nobody wants to webcam with mom five nights a week!


Above – Logitech TV Cam for Skype
Webcams used to be an extremely novel

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BlackBerry Torch 2 pictured again

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The BlackBerry Torch 2 has hit the catwalk once again, being papped in fairly low quality showing off its shiny new back plate. It doesn't look like this metal (?) back panel is made of the same cross-hatched glass that the Bold Touch 9900 is rocking; in fact, it looks a bit low-rent for RIM's premium agenda. But, having been so fashionably late to BlackBerry World that it missed the entire convention, the BlackBerry Torch 2 is yet to get its official reveal so we know nothing for

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HTC Unlocking Bootloaders Across the Board [OFFICIAL]

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In a giant announcement for those who love to get to the insides of their phones almost before they even feel the outside, HTC has announced that they have heard the call of the people and will no longer be locking bootloaders on their devices. This point has received quite a bit of flack recently, and HTC is certain to receive a ton of props for this move. The next question we’ve got is the following: will the HTC Sensation be included in this move?


We’ve already got

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Skype offers up fix after outage

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Skype users around the world seem to be having problems with the VoIP service at present, with many reporting problems with the desktop application. It looks as though some users are having difficulty signing in to Skype, and some who have signed in can't make calls; crucially, not all users are affected. Skype is aware of the issues and has posted a temporary fix on its blog for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP and Mac desktops.SkyprosoftIt's not clear what caused the problems,

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OmniVision Report Hints At 8MP iPhone, Nintendo Wii 2 Camera

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OmniVision has been a longtime supplier of Apple’s iPhone camera sensors, so speculation about it supplying an 8-megapixel camera for the next-gen iPhone is no surprise. But with an earnings report today, the company may have confirmed not only those rumors involving the next-gen iPhone but also some rumors involving an upcoming game console.


During OmniVision’s quarterly results call, the company said that it was shifting most of its smartphone camera sensor

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Apple to use Samsung for iPad 3 AMOLED screens?

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The iPad 3 could launch with a Samsung-made AMOLED screen, if rumours that Apple has been in talks on the matter with Samsung execs are true.The story goes that Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, hopped on a plane to South Korea last week where, The Korea Herald's sources claim, he was visiting Samsung to offer "an advance" for the displays, with a view to launching the iPad 3 towards the end of this year. This undisclosed "advance" is supposedly intended to guarantee

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T-Mobile G2x Price To Increase Tomorrow?

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Since T-Mobile pulled the LG G2x from its online store yesterday, there has been plenty of speculation on what’s going on and what’s to happen next. At first it was thought that the phone was pulled due to quality issues, but that was later rebutted by T-Mobile reps saying that popularity and inventory constraints were the reason. And although they admitted to some issues that needed fixing, the phone is apparently still popular enough that they intend on raising its

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Competition: Vote for your favourite mobile network of the year

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The TechRadar Phone Awards 2011 are now fully underway, but there's a crucial question that's still unanswered: which network do you think deserves the most credit over the last 12 months?The question of 'best network' is highly subjective, with most customers simply either thinking their provider is perfectly adequate or the worst in the world - but with swathes of them now competing for our dollar, there are a multitude of decent deals to be had no matter what you're after. With

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