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Google unveils Samung Galaxy S 4 running stock Android Jelly Bean

Posted by on May 15, 2013 No comments

Google unveils Samung Galaxy S 4 running stock Android Jelly Bean

Google just dropped a pretty big surprise during its opening day I/O keynote. It’s taken the wraps off a new edition of Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 that runs stock Android Jelly Bean. The device itself is fully unlocked and packing LTE support for AT&T and T-Mobile, along with 16GB of storage and what Google promises will be prompt system updates. Not surprisingly, this won’t quite be the budget-friendly off-contract option that the Nexus 4 is — the phone will run $ 649 when it hits Google Play on June 26th.

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Nikon unveils 1 Nikkor 32mm lens with extra-fast f/1.2 aperture, manual focus

Posted by on May 14, 2013 No comments

Nikon unveils 1 Nikkor 32mm lens with extrafast f12 aperture

Mirrorless camera fans who’ve gone the Nikon 1 route have had a fair selection of official lenses to choose from, but not the Holy Grail of a truly fast telephoto lens. Nikon may have just produced that ideal glass today in its new 1 Nikkor 32mm lens. It shoots at a reasonably 86mm equivalent distance, but with an extremely bright and quick f/1.2 aperture — theoretically, making it one of the better 1 Nikkor lenses for low-light shooting, action and portraits with soft backgrounds. The 32mm could also be the perfect fit for control junkies, as it’s the first Nikon-made mirrorless lens with a manual focus ring. While this premium photography will carry a suitably elevated $ 900 price when the 32mm lens ships in June, the cost might be worthwhile for those who want speedy optics in a very small size.

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BlackBerry CEO unveils new, low-priced Q5 before full house at Jam conference

Posted by on May 14, 2013 No comments

The CEO of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion will deliver a keynote speech amid speculation that he’ll introduce a lower-priced version of the BlackBerry at the company’s annual three-day conference in Orlando, Fla.


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PayPal Unveils New Android SDK, Available To US Developers May 15

Posted by on May 13, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “PayPal on Monday announced a new Android SDK that tries to make it easier for developers to accept in-app payments on Google’s mobile platform. The company says the software development kit will be available for US developers on May 15. The Android debut comes just over two months after the mobile SDK for iOS, which supports iOS 5+ on all varieties of iPhone and iPad screen sizes and resolutions. At the time, PayPal said an Android flavor was coming, and now it has delivered: its SDK will support version 2.2, meaning Froyo (released in May 2010), and above.”

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Google unveils ‘Save to Drive’ button for websites, streamlines content delivery to cloud storage

Posted by on May 9, 2013 No comments

Google unveils 'Save to Drive' button for websites, streamlines content delivery to cloud storage

Google Drive may be playing catch-up to its competitors in some ways, but the cloud storage team in Mountain View is forging ahead in others. Today, Big G announced a ‘Save to Drive’ button that allow users to save content directly from websites to Google-fied cloud lockers. Adding the button’s easy, as it only requires a few lines of HTML, and a JavaScript API allows web admins to control their behavior. Folks looking to take advantage of the new button can learn more about it on the Google Developers portal, and as for the rest of us, we’ll just enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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Nokia unveils the touchscreen Asha 501 with new software platform, we go hands-on (video)

Posted by on May 9, 2013 No comments

Nokia unveils the touchscreen Asha 501 with new software platform, we go handson video

One or more additional members are expected to join Nokia’s Lumia line-up next Tuesday, but today the company has chosen New Delhi as the stage to unveil the Asha 501, a new touchscreen handset that further blurs the line between featurephone and smartphone. While the last touchscreen Asha Nokia launched was very much a tweaked version of its predecessors, the 501 has a radically different design akin to the latest QWERTY device stamped with the Asha brand. The aesthetics aren’t all that’s changed, however, as the 501 is running a re-engineered OS Nokia’s dubbed the “Asha software platform” (the fruits of last year’s Smarterphone acquisition). We were able to spend a little quality time with the handset, so head past the break for more details and our initial impressions.

Gallery: Nokia Asha 501 hands-on pics

Gallery: Nokia Asha 501 press shots

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SpiderOak Unveils Hive, Streamlines Zero-Knowledge Privacy Storage

Posted by on May 6, 2013 No comments

hive-pr-image-hive-illustrationAn old saying states that “security is inversely proportional to convenience.” This explains the slow adoption of many important security technologies. HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol used to browse the world wide web, has been around for more than two decades, but it’s only been in the last couple of years that it has been enabled by default on many major websites.

Back when we sucked down email from our ISPs over POP3 connections, all your data was, literally, yours: it was under your control more often than it wasn’t.
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IMAX unveils home theater option

Posted by on May 3, 2013 No comments

If you have a couple million expendable dollars laying around, your days of waiting in line at the theater, getting dubiously-washed recycled glasses, and leaving with your coat reeking of eau de popcorn could be at an end. IMAX has rolled out a personal home theater option, which is currently only open to select clients

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Portal co-creator unveils Ouya-exclusive game Soul Fjord (video)

Posted by on April 30, 2013 No comments

Portal co-creator unveils Ouya-exclusive game Soul Fjord (video)

It’s no secret that Portal co-creator Kim Swift has been developing an Ouya-exclusive game, but details regarding it had been kept under wraps until today. Dubbed Soul Fjord, the Airtight Games-developed title fuses Norse mythology with ’70s Funk and Soul, and charges its main character Magnus Jones with climbing the World Tree to demand an invitation to Ragnarok, “the party that will end the world.” Gameplay hasn’t been shown quite yet, but the experience is described as a dungeon-crawler with rhythm-based combat that’ll see players battle their way through randomly generated areas. Do the hustle past the break to catch the game’s first trailer and a developer video diary.

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Edimax unveils new 802.11ac router and USB 3.0 network adapter combo

Posted by on April 23, 2013 No comments

When it comes the bandwidth for wireless networks, many people always want more. More speed and more bandwidth are very important if you make heavy use of your wireless network for transferring large HD video files or streaming content locally. It’s surprisingly easy to use more bandwidth than is available if you have several computers

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General Motors unveils Buick Riviera concept at Shanghai Auto Show

Posted by on April 20, 2013 No comments

At the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show taking place in China, General Motors has unveiled the Buick Riviera concept, a modern take on a classic car. The concept was made is China, and is the latest to use the Riviera name, applying it to a car that features a sleek design that is said to be

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Harman Kardon unveils new AVR 2700 and 3700 AV receivers

Posted by on April 19, 2013 No comments

Harman Kardon has pulled out a pair of new high quality A/V receivers for home theater enthusiast. The company says that the AVR 2700 and the AVR 3700 are able to bring superb audio and video quality to your home theater system at affordable prices. The receivers also have a very simplistic design that looks

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Twitter unveils new #music app and service

Posted by on April 18, 2013 No comments

Twitter today is releasing a service that the social network hopes will change how people find music and artists.
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Evernote unveils ambitions to build hardware devices

Posted by on April 17, 2013 No comments

The CEO of the maker of popular note-taking app appears ready to try his luck in a new product frontier. [Read more]

    




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Intel Unveils New Atom and Xeon Processors and Future Rack Scale Architecture

Posted by on April 11, 2013 No comments

MojoKid writes “Intel recently revealed a number of details regarding future Atom and Xeon processors and proposed server rack-level enhancements to improve efficiency and ease upgrades. The company will soon refresh its Xeon and Atom processor lines with new products manufactured using Intel’s 22nm process node, which offer improved performance per watt characteristics and expanded feature sets. In total, Intel revealed details of three new low-power, Atom-branded SoCs for the data center, all coming in 2013. Intel is also updating the Xeon E3, E5, and E7 product lines. The Atom processor family will see new SoCs based on designs codenamed Briarwood, Avoton, and Rangeley, while the more powerful Xeons will be updated with Haswell, Ivy Bridge EP, and Ivy Bridge EX-based designs. Xeon E3s will leverage the increased graphics performance of Haswell to improve performance in multimedia-related workloads, like HD video transcodes. OHaswell-based Xeon E3 processors will also offer improved performance per watt over existing Sandy and Ivy Bridge-based designs and Intel will offer Xeon E3 processors with TDPs as low as 13 watts, approximately 25% lower than the prior generation.”

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iHome unveils iBT4 Bluetooth boombox with FM receiver

Posted by on April 10, 2013 No comments

With summer almost here, people all around the country are gearing up for warmer weather and spending time with friends and family at the beach, lake, or poolside. One thing that most people no matter where they’re going want to have handy is music. The easiest way to have your favorite music with you everywhere

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Mayo Clinic unveils software that pinpoints risky lung nodules

Posted by on April 8, 2013 No comments

CANARY provides noninvasive method to test for cancer. [Read more]


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Sony unveils Anycast Touch all-in-one production system at NAB

Posted by on April 7, 2013 No comments

Sony unveils Anycast Touch allinone production system at NAB

In addition to announcing pricing for its 55- and 65-inch 4K TVs at its NAB press event, Sony unveiled updates to its Anycast studio-in-a-box. Sony has been offering its live broadcasting all-in-one for quite some time, but the Anycast Touch (AWS-750) unveiled today features several updates, including sliding dual touch displays. (The product looks more like a beefed-up Duo 11 than a bulky suitcase, which can’t be said about earlier models from the Anycast line.) A tilt-screen function lets you split audio- and video-editing functions between the two panels, and you’ll be able to bring up video sources just by tapping their thumbnails on-screen.

Aside from the new touchscreen design, the Anycast Touch offers all the A/V essentials: a video switcher, audio mixer, a special effects generator, an encoder and a scale converter. Video output tops out at 1080p with 10-bit processing, though other specs, such as display size, are TBA. Sony hasn’t discussed pricing yet, but it did reveal that the Anycast Touch will go on sale in September — we imagine additional details will surface before that far-off date.

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BMW unveils Concept X4 Sports Activity Coupe design

Posted by on April 6, 2013 No comments

BMW has unveiled the Concept X4, a sports activity coupe touted as being “the future of the BMW X family.” This snazzy-looking car is boasted as being a mixture of high performance/driving dynamics and eye-catching, with highly detailed design that is a mixture of sophisticated and beastly. Prduction is slated to start in early 2014,

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Facebook unveils Android Home screen and app family

Posted by on April 4, 2013 No comments

Facebook is not building its own smartphone. Instead, it today unveiled Home, a Facebook-focused home screen designed to give Android users quick access to their Facebook friends.
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Ipan Ipan unveils Qi wireless charging case for Xperia Z

Posted by on April 4, 2013 No comments

A company called Ipan Ipan has been producing cases that allow for wireless charging for various smartphones for a while. The company has just unveiled a new wireless charging case using Qi Wireless charging technology. This new case is specifically for the Sony Xperia Z. The case is a flip style with a flap that

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Seagate unveils world’s first 1TB-per-platter hard drive

Posted by on April 4, 2013 No comments

Seagate is smiling big today, having announced that it is the first ever to offer a hard drive containing 1TB platters. There are a total of four platters, making the drive an ordinary 4TB in size, but it is not the overall capacity that is the bragging point. Although it’s not the most exciting announcement,

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D-Link unveils extremely rugged DSC-6210 security camera

Posted by on April 3, 2013 No comments

D-Link is a company that many probably relate more to home networking gear than anything else. The manufacturer also has a full line of cameras designed to connect directly to computer networks for video surveillance and other needs. D-Link has unveiled its latest professional grade security IP camera line featuring a new full HD resolution

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Obama unveils details on brain-mapping initiative

Posted by on April 3, 2013 No comments

President Obama is announcing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries.


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OUYA’s Julie Uhrman Unveils The Android Console’s Interface And Games

Posted by on March 29, 2013 No comments

ouyaToday is a big day for OUYA, the Kickstarter-backed, Android-based game console. The company is announcing that its $ 99 console will be available on June 4 (the news leaked a little early), and it’s also holding a big unveiling party in San Francisco tonight.

We actually met with founder and CEO Julie Uhrman yesterday, where she gave us a quick peek at the final hardware and at the actual interface. My main impression of the (Yves Behar-designed) hardware: Despite the low price point, it looks great. My main impression of the interface: OUYA really is trying to make it as easy-to-use as possible. That simplicity is important because OUYA isn’t just aiming for hardcore gamers, but also trying to create a console for a broader audience, and to offer a more diverse set of games.
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T-Mobile unveils no-contract wireless plans

Posted by on March 25, 2013 No comments

T-Mobile posted new wireless pricing plans Sunday in advance of a press event on Tuesday where the company is expected to tout its LTE rollout and its agenda as an “un-carrier” challenging traditional cellphone operator practices.


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Corsair unveils $130 Vengeance K70 gaming keyboard with backlit keys

Posted by on March 22, 2013 No comments

DNP Corsair unveils $ 130 Vengeance K70 gaming keyboard with keybykey backlighting

Just a few months after Corsair revealed its high-end K95 mechanical gaming keyboard, the company has unveiled a slightly lower-end K70 for those who want to save a bit of money. Essentially an upgrade to the K60, the K70 still has those Cherry MX Red mechanical switches, but each key is now individually backlit — the backlighting can be adjusted to four levels of intensity and can be independently enabled or disabled. Other features include 20-key rollover, a 1000Hz reporting rate, contoured keycaps for WASD keys, dedicated multimedia controls, a detachable wrist rest and an extra USB connector. The K70 will be available in April for $ 130 in two different color schemes; silver aluminium with blue backlight and anodized black with deep red backlight.

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NVIDIA CEO Unveils Volta Graphics, Tegra Roadmap, GRID VCA Virtualized Rendering

Posted by on March 20, 2013 No comments

MojoKid writes “NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang kicked off this year’s GPU Technology Conference with his customary opening keynote. The focus of Jen-Hsun’s presentation was on unveiling a new GPU core code named ‘Volta’ that will employ stacked DRAM for over 1TB/s of memory bandwidth, as well as updates to NVIDIA’s Tegra roadmap and a new remote rendering appliance called ‘GRID VCA.’ On the mobile side, Tegra’s next generation ‘Logan’ architecture will feature a Kepler-based GPU and support CUDA 5 and OpenGL 4.3. Logan will offer up to 3X the compute performance of current solutions and be demoed later this year, with full production starting early next year. For big iron, NVIDIA’s GRID VCA (Visual Computing Appliance) is a new 4U system based on NVIDIA GRID remote rendering technologies. The GRID hypervisor supports 16 virtual machines (1 per GPU) and each system will feature 8-Core Xeon CPUs, 192GB or 384GB of RAM, and 4 or 8 GRID boards, each with two Kepler-class GPUs, for up to 16 GPUs per system. Jen-Hsun demo’d a MacBook Pro remotely running a number of applications on GRID, like 3D StudioMax and Solidworks, which aren’t even available for Mac OS X natively.”

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AT&T unveils new insanely expensive shared data plans

Posted by on March 19, 2013 No comments

If you had an original iPhone with AT&T, the company’s new data plans will make you nostalgic for the old days of unlimited data without overages or extra charges. AT&T has unveiled three new data plans aimed at its most gluttonous consumers of mobile data. These plans all fall into the company’s Mobile Shared data

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Samsung unveils Galaxy S4 with novel camera design

Posted by on March 15, 2013 No comments

Samsung has taken the wraps off of its new Galaxy S4 smartphone, which will support global LTE roaming and has front- and rear-facing cameras that can be used simultaneously, the company said.
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Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4

Posted by on March 15, 2013 No comments

adeelarshad82 writes “It’s been leaked, teased, accused of being a copy of its predecessor, and celebrated as the likely champion of the mobile ecosystem for 2013. Samsung has finally unveiled the next in their line of globally available smartphones, the Galaxy S4. The phone carries a 5-inch Super AMOLED display with 1080p resolution at 441ppi, weighs only 130 grams and is no more than 7.9mm think. On the inside, Exynos based Octo-Core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz and the Snapdragon based Quad Core 1.9GHz processor power this beautiful machine. Galaxy S4 is also packing a 2GB of RAM, 2600mAh battery and microSD slot are accessible though the removable rear panel. S4 will include several new features such as Air Gesture, Smart Pause, and Smart Scroll. Samsung’s vice president of portfolio planning said that many of the software improvements in the Samsung Galaxy S4 could make their way into existing Samsung Galaxy S3 phones.”

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AMD Unveils Elite A-Series APUs With Enhanced Performance, Improved Efficiency

Posted by on March 13, 2013 No comments

MojoKid writes “AMD has just announced a new family of Elite A-Series APUs for mobile applications, based on the architecture codenamed ‘Richland.’ These new APUs build upon last year’s ‘Trinity’ architecture, by improving graphics and compute performance, enhancing power efficiency through the implementation of a new ‘Hybrid Boost’ mode which leverages on-die thermal sensors, and offering AMD-optimized applications meant to improve the user experience. AMD is unveiling a new visual identity as well, with updated logos and clearer language, in a bid to enhance the brand. At the top of the product stack now is the AMD A10-5750M, a 35 Watt, 3.5GHz quad-core processor with integrated Radeon HD 8650G graphics, 4MB of L2 cache and a DDR3-1866 capable memory interface. The low-end is comprised of dual-cores with Radeon HD 8400G series GPUs and a DDR3-1600 memory interface.”

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Google unveils talking shoes that ‘motivate’ you to move

Posted by on March 12, 2013 No comments

Because inventing Google Glass wasn’t impressive enough, the tech giant unveiled a pair of talking shoes at SXSW.


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Ferrari Unveils World’s Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid

Posted by on March 11, 2013 No comments

Hugh Pickens writes writes “Fred Meier reports that Ferrari has unveiled its fastest car ever, a nearly 1000 hp. gas-electric hybrid dubbed LaFerrari that does 0-62 mph in less than 3 seconds, 0-124 in less than 7 seconds, 0-186 mph in 15 seconds. “We chose to call this model LaFerrari,” says Ferrari’s President, Luca di Montezemolo, “because it is the maximum expression of what defines our company – excellence. …Aimed at our collectors, this is a truly extraordinary car which encompasses advanced solutions that, in the future, will find their way onto the rest of the range.” LaFerrari is the company’s first hybrid and has a system that incorporates technology developed for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One race car’s KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) setup. In LaFerrari, the hybrid (HY-KERS) version uses a 6.26-liter, non-turbo, V-12 gas engine rated at 800 hp coupled with a 163 hp. electric motor for a combined rating of 963 hp. A second, separate electric motor drives the power accessories.”

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MakerBot unveils Digitizer 3D desktop scanner

Posted by on March 9, 2013 No comments

MakerBot is known for its amazing consumer-level 3D printers, but today the company unveiled a new toy unlike anything they’ve done before. MakerBot announced and unveiled the Digitizer at SXSW today. It’s essentially a desktop 3D scanner that can scan any object and upload it onto your computer for 3D printing later on. The company

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Facebook Unveils a New-Look News Feed

Posted by on March 7, 2013 No comments

Live updates from the launch event at Facebook headquarters.

1:45 p.m. And we’re out! Zuckerberg has left the front of the room. I’m running over to join the Zuck scrum … thanks for tuning in!







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Chevrolet officially unveils 2014 Corvette Convertible

Posted by on March 6, 2013 No comments

Chevrolet officially unveiled the 2014 Corvette Convertible at the Geneva Motor Show this week. We obviously already saw the regular fastback version of the car when it was initially unveiled back in January, but now we finally get to see the car with its top down, ready for some summer driving on California’s Highway 1.

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State Department unveils Innovation in Arms Control Challenge winners

Posted by on March 4, 2013 No comments

The State Department sought submissions from the public on how to use modern technology to help solve some of the world’s most pressing arms control and international security problems. [Read more]


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Thanko unveils a new USB-powered air purifier

Posted by on March 4, 2013 No comments

It has been several months now since we talked about a bizarre USB-powered product from Thanko. Last time out it was a hairbrush that automatically misted your hair with water as you brush. The new product from the purveyor of strange gadgets this time is a USB-powered UV Air Purifier. The air purifier is able

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Sony unveils MDR-X05 on-ear compact headphones

Posted by on March 2, 2013 No comments

Sony has unveiled the newest addition to its X line of headphones, the MDR-X05. These compact headphones feature over-the-ear swivel cups, and are boasted as offering excellent sound reproduction in an attractive, colorful body. Check out a couple pictures of the headset, as well as its specs and other particulars, after the jump. The X05

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Dell unveils Latitude 10 Enhanced Security tablet

Posted by on February 27, 2013 No comments

Dell‘s Latitude 10 was originally launched back in October 2012. A few months later, we saw the Essentials configuration pop up at CES 2013, with Dell aiming the device at schools and small businesses. Now the company has unveiled a new iteration of the tablet, this one aimed at the government, law enforcement, and banks

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LG unveils Optimus F5 and F7 4G LTE smartphones ahead of MWC

Posted by on February 21, 2013 No comments

Ahead of the upcoming Mobile World Congress, LG has unveiled two new handsets in the F-series, the Optimus F5 and the Optimus F7. These 4G LTE smartphones both feature mid-to-high range specs, and feature both the convenience of QSlide and the functionality of Live Zooming, which was previously only available for Optimus G. Both smartphones

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Samsung unveils TV Discovery for finding and watching video content

Posted by on February 21, 2013 No comments

Samsung unveils TV Discovery for finding and watching video content

Mobile World Congress is just a few days away, but that hasn’t stopped Samsung from pulling back the curtain on TV Discovery: a new service that lets users search for and watch live TV, on-demand video and even online content from outfits such as YouTube. The platform, which will work on Samsung’s mobile devices and Smart TVs, serves up recommendations and even hones its ability to gauge your interest in programs the more often its used. When loaded on a tablet or smartphone, TV Discovery can act as a universal remote control, slinging commands to cable and satellite boxes, Blu-Ray players, home stereos and more.

Of course, if you’re feeling social, the solution will also let you share what you’re watching with others and check up on your friend’s TV-viewing habits. Netflix and Blockbuster will be on tap for the platform in the US, while Europe will have access to Acetrax, Wuaki, MovieMax, FilmIn, Chili, Pathé and SF Anytime. TV Discovery will hit all of the firm’s 2013 Smart TVs in the US, Korea and 12 European countries — including France, Germany, Italy and the UK — during the first quarter of this year. Slates and smartphones in those countries, however, will see nab the experience during Q2.

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NASA unveils 1st radar video of asteroid flyby

Posted by on February 20, 2013 No comments

NASA has revealed the first radar video of an asteroid flyby that sent a space rock half the size of a football field buzzing by Earth last week.
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Jabra unveils Motion Series, offers integrated motion sensor for environmental adaptability

Posted by on February 20, 2013 No comments

Jabra has unveiled its new Jabra Motion Series of headsets, which includes the Jabra Motion UC and the Jabra Motion. The line is unique due to its use of motion sensors and microphones to monitor and react to environemental situations intelligently. For example, audio will be optimized based on the ambient noise levels in the

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Nvidia unveils first mobile processor with integrated LTE

Posted by on February 19, 2013 No comments

The Tegra 4i chip, with 60 GPU cores versus 72 in Tegra 4, will be targeted at smartphones. [Read more]


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Cisco unveils software, hardware for hybrid wireless networks

Posted by on February 19, 2013 No comments

Cisco Tuesday introduced small cell hardware and intelligent software designed to help carriers and enterprises improve wireless connections over hybrid networks made of 3G and 4G cellular and Wi-Fi technologies
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Accel Telecom unveils Voyager, an Android smartphone that wants to stay in the car (video)

Posted by on February 18, 2013 No comments

Accel Telecom launches first carconnected smartphone, Voyager

Remember the days of yore when carphones used to be attached to the car — permanently? Accel Telecom wants to take you back there with the Voyager, an Android smartphone with car-centric functions that can stay put in your vehicle. To start with, the handset will feature a dedicated Waze launcher key for GPS navigation duties, and will also sport “high level noise reduction and echo cancellation,” along with hands-free voice activation. Other features include a 3G-WiFi hotspot, a “driver-centric” design with large physical keys, multiple car-focused apps and “crystal clear, echo free sound quality.” Interestingly, it’ll also connect to your vehicle’s on-board diagnostics system via RS232 or Bluetooth and ping you if any parts are about to break off. Accel told us that it’ll launch Voyager in Europe and the US “with operators that offer a second sim device,” to let you share your current phone number. There’s no sign of pricing yet, but there is PR and a video after the break.

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Archos unveils new Platinum line of tablets with high-res display and quad-core CPU

Posted by on February 14, 2013 No comments

Archos may not be a main competitor in the tablet marketplace, but they’re doing whatever they can to become more relevant. Case in point: the company just outed three new tablets, all of which come with Retina-quality, high-resolution IPS displays and quad-core processors. The tablets come in 8-inch, 9.7-inch, and 11.6-inch flavors. Archos is calling

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Library of Congress unveils plan to preserve early US sound recordings

Posted by on February 14, 2013 No comments

Library of Congress unveils plan to preserve early US sound recordings

Historic audio recordings aren’t exactly easy to access and play back since they’re often in obscure or aging formats and sit within giant repositories and private collections, but the Library of Congress is gearing up to help change that for researchers and the average joe. The outfit’s freshly announced National Recording Preservation Plan is headlined by a recommendation to create a publicly accessible national directory of sound recordings that’ll act as an “authoritative discography” with details regarding their production and where copies are housed. You’ll still have to take a trip to a library to hear the recordings for the time being, but the Library of Congress is hoping to hammer out licensing agreements that would allow for online streaming. Developing new preservation standards and creating university-based degree programs for audio archiving are also among the 32 short- and long-term recommendations spelled out by the document. Click the second source link to peruse the paper yourself.

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