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The world of smartphone optics has been getting a lot more attention in recent years. Just three or four years ago, a 3MP camera on a cellphone was a huge deal. Now, that doesn't really cut it on a modern, high-end smartphone. People expect more, and lots of people are using their phones in place of their point-and-shoot cameras. Ambarella...
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If you blink, you'll probably miss out on another tablet announcement. IN Media is releasing one this week, but unlike the bulk of them, this one is using Windows 7. Few Win7 tablets have been released on the market, and there definitely needs to be increased competition in that area. The company's Windows 7 Tablet PC has a 1.66GHz Atom processor,...
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Looking for a new graphics card to spruce up your holiday season? No one wants to play laggy titles, particularly with all of this time off, and MSI is looking out for the Elves who are interested in making those FPS numbers head sky-high. The company has just released their R6850 Cyclone 1GD5 Power Edition card, which uses the AMD Radeon...
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Shopping for headphones? Obviously a lot of other folks are as well. With the proliferation of digital audio players, there has been a huge boom in people looking for aftermarket headphones that'll actually sound decent. If you're interested in buying headphones that may actually cost more than your media player, Westone has a new pair that...
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Blu-ray, and 3D. Like peas in a pod, they go together. If you've invested in a 3D HDTV and now just need to make the leap to Blu-ray, Pioneer has a new Blu-ray player line that bring your home theater system to completion. The company has announced this week that they're shipping their first line of Blu-ray 3D players in the U.S. These were...
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The iPad 2 will get some ergonomic tweaks, according to a report in a Japanese tech blog, MacOtakara. The report cites an anonymous Chinese source, which could mean a worker at one of Foxconn's plants. The report states that the screen size of the iPad 2 will remain the same, which is logical since Steve Jobs famously...
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The iPad's app store continues to flourish. With many tablet makers still scrambling to catch up with Apple's bombshell, the iPad's app store is showing no signs of slowing down. The amount of applications available for the 9.7" version of iOS is impressive, and now, there's even a customized version of the Fandango app. Fandango is a movie...
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To get you all into the holiday spirit, we joined up with our friends from Digital Storm and put together yet ANOTHER monster sweepstakes give-away! This time around we gave you all a chance to win an Intel Core i7 950-infused gaming rig with 6GB of DDR3 memory, a 1TB hard drive, a Radeon HD 6870 graphics card and water cooling...
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As you wait in the checkout line just before Christmas, your observation is correct. That other line is moving faster than yours. That's what Bill Hammack (the Engineer Guy), from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois - Urbana "proves" in this YouTube video. The video was released just in...
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Another carrier billing option has come to Android. Until Wednesday, among U.S. carriers, only T-Mobile allowed carrier billing for the Android Market, but that is no longer the case. Google announced on their Android developer blog that AT&T carrier billing is rolling out the the Android Market. Rolling out is the key phrase: you may...
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If there's one automotive company that's really making a play to integrate with those on the cutting-edge of tech, it's Ford. The company made a big stand when they announced that Microsoft's SYNC system would be behind their in-car NAV and entertainment options, and that has been rapidly branching out ever since. This week, the SYNC AppLink...
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The online music business is booming. The success of iTunes is proof of that. Companies are flocking to get a piece of the pie, particularly subscription-based services. Sony is no different, with the company's Qriocity hoping to grab the attention of those who have previously relied on iTunes, Napster or Rhapsody. First announced earlier...
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Wireless standards are confusing. There are so many to consider, and a lot of them do very similar things. It's tough to wade through what's what, and it's tough to know what is compatible with what. Home automation is a particularly sticky subject, with a few players in the market and hardly any that are compatible...
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Well that didn't take long! A month after Rahul Sood resigned his post at HP, he has now found a home at a rival company: Microsoft. Rahul Sood is a major figure in the PC gaming world. He founded VoodooPC, which was then swallowed up by HP and woven into the "Envy" line of computers. But HP never really felt like a great fit for Sood, at...
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Yesterday, a sharply divided FCC voted to 3 to 2 to approve new Net Neutrality rules. The vote went down as expected with Democrats voting in favor of rules intended to prevent broadband service providers from blocking content, and Republicans opposed, claiming that such rules are an unjustifiable (and potentially illegal) power grab by the...
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The cell phone has almost become an extension of the human body as of late. Whether it's texting, tweeting, Facebooking, web-surfing, picture-taking, it has become more and more evident that Americans use their phone to do just about anything and everything. Ubiquitous would be a word that comes to mind but that doesn't quite capture the situation...
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Lenovo recently celebrated the milestone of selling 60 million ThinkPad notebooks. That's a ThinkPad for every person in the United Kingdom, to put it in perspective. Moreover, the PC maker claims these things sell like electronic hotcakes, to the tune of 14 per minute. Lenovo doesn't reach these types of numbers by selling outdated hardware...
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It's time to officially retire the notion that Apple's magical iPad is capable of casting a death spell on Amazon's Kindle. We're not saying the iPad isn't popular -- because it is -- but any fears that it would spell doom for the eBook reader market, and Amazon's Kindle in particular, can now be put to rest, and here's why. According to reports,...
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Speaker wires are never fun to deal with. It's never a joy to deal with a surround sound installation that involves running wire over your entire den, so anytime a new wireless speaker setup emerges, it obviously attracts our attention. Aluratek has just introduced the new "Bump" wireless speaker line, which includes four new products: the...
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Lenovo recently celebrated the milestone of selling 60 million ThinkPad notebooks. That's a ThinkPad for every person in the United Kingdom, to put it in perspective. Moreover, the PC maker claims these things sell like electronic hotcakes, to the tune of 14 per minute. Those are iPad sort of rates. But Lenovo doesn't reach these...
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It was once said that loose lips might sink ships, but in today's day and age, loose lips, leaked slides, and a bevy of rumors have drummed up nothing but excitement for the upcoming PlayStation smartphone that's almost destined to be a hit. So what's the latest being heard around the water cooler? For starters, it looks like the phone could...
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Intel, the largest chip maker on this or any other known planet, cleared at least one major hurdle in its attempt to acquire security firm McAfee. That hurdle? The Federal Trade Commission, which has given the proposed $7.68 billion deal its stamp of approval. "The Federal Trade Commission has concluded its review of the proposed McAfee transaction...
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