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Latest News - November 2011
- Fujifilm's Beastly X-S1 Offers 26x Optical Zoom, Major Power
- Domino's Pizza Hero For iPad: Get Rid Of That Turkey Aftertaste
- Sony's First-Ever "TV Intimacy Poll" Finds That "Size Matters"
- ECJ Rules That ISPs Aren’t Responsible For Monitoring Piracy
- HTC Adjusts Its Q4 2011 Revenue Forecast
- YouTube Now Offers Disney, Pixar, And DreamWorks Movies For Rent
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Despite Early Criticism, Amazon May Sell 12 Million Kindle Fire Devices in 2012
- Boxee Box Gets Enhanced, Adds SlingPlayer App
- T-Mobile USA Gaining White Galaxy S II "In The Coming Weeks"
- NVIDIA Quadro GPUs Help Render Scenes In "The Muppets"
- Nokia To Slash 17,000 Jobs In Global Restructuring
- China Overtakes U.S. As World’s Largest Smartphone Market
- HP Asks EU To Investigate Oracle's Decision To Dump Itanium
- Toshiba's Introductory Ultrabook Now Available to Order
- Leaked Black Friday Ad Outlines Apple Product Discounts
- OCZ Octane Series SATA III Solid State Drive, HH Tested and Burned In
- Is Lenovo Prepping A 5-Inch Android Tablet?
- New Opteron Servers Struggle Badly Despite Additional Cores
- Lenovo Slips Out Sleek, Sexy IdeaCentre Q180 Desktop
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All News for November 2011
Cameras these days... so hard to keep up with. You've got cameraphones, point-and-shoots, mirrorless cams, DSLRs, and evidently, "bridge cameras." These are generally spoken of as "superzoom" or "megazoom" cameras, and the Fujifilm X-S1 is...
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Remember when TiVo decided to offer on-demand Domino's Pizza in 2008? Feels like forever ago, but the famed pizza chain is stepping keeping up with technological changes. While online pizza ordering has been around for years now, this new...
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What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear "TV Intimacy?" On second thought, don't answer that. The good news is that Sony's idea is quite different than most of our minds would guess, as the company has just published...
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A major ruling from the European Court of Justice found that an ISP is not responsible for monitoring Web traffic for illegal downloads. The ruling was in a case between European ISP Scarlet Extended SA and an organization responsible for...
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Although smartphone maker HTC claims almost a quarter of the U.S. smartphone market in numbers of handsets shipped, the company announced that it was revising its Q4 2011 revenue projections--downward--primarily due to a depressed global economy and stiff competition. The news isn’t exactly horrible; HTC now expects its Q4 2011 revenue...
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If your plans for this holiday weekend include watching a movie with loved ones, you may not have to go far to find a hit movie that the whole family can enjoy. Thanks to a new partnership between Disney and YouTube, you can now rent...
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It's Thanksgiving here in the US, a time of year when we all pause to reflect on how fortunate we all are. Thanksgiving is a great tradition when you stop and think about it. This holiday isn't about rushing around and buying gifts. The day after Thanksgiving certainly has become over-commercialized, but not today--11/24/2011--Thanksgiving...
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Amazon is hoping people will once again discover fire -- the Kindle Fire, that is. Perhaps you've heard of it? Of course you have, because the Kindle Fire is Amazon's comparatively low cost ($199) 7-inch slate that, prior to its launch...
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The D-Link Boxee Box just keeps getting better. Shortly after hearing news that USB TV dongle would be en route, here comes more news about even more new features. This time, it's the SlingPlayer app. Unlike any other set-top device, the Boxee Box supports a full web browser, full HD streaming...
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Samsung isn't saying much here, but really, there isn't a lot to say. The Galaxy S II that's already on T-Mobile USA's network will soon be joined by... another Galaxy S II. This time, however, it will be white in color. The white GSII is...
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Here's an interesting one. The Muppets returned to cinemas this week, just in time for Thanksgiving, but it seems as if those responsible for making the movie have more than just set designers and puppeteers to thank. NVIDIA evidently chipped in on the product, with some serious GPU horsepower...
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Buried seven paragraphs deep in a release announcing and outlining its restructuring and refocusing efforts (as companies are wont to do when delivering bad news), Nokia announced that it will cut 17,000 jobs worldwide. That’s about 23% of the company’s total global workforce of...
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If there’s anything Americans like being, it’s the world’s largest of something, which is why today’s news that the U.S. is no longer the world’s largest smartphone market is sure to grind a few people’s gears. According to Strategy Analytics, in Q3 2011...
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HP and Oracle have been slugging it out in court over the future of Intel's Itanium for months now. HP has just widened the front by asking the EU to investigate whether Oracle acted improperly when it terminated support for Intel's Itanium. HP claims that Oracle is improperly leveraging its...
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Intel has long said it envisions its Ultrabook concept manifesting in models the general public can pick up for less $1,000, and so far it's been a hit or miss goal. Count Toshiba's recently introduced Portege Ultrabook as one of those that's able to hit Intel's pricing target. Starting at...
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Apple is planning to get in on the Black Friday shopping frenzy by discounting several of its products on November 25th, 2011. We're not talking about huge savings that would classify anything as a steal, but you could pocket as much as $101 over the normal price, depending on which Apple...
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In March of this year, OCZ announced that they had plans to acquire Indilinx. A few months have passed since the acquisition, but today the combined forces of OCZ and their recently assimilated team members from Indilinx are ready to...
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Today's tablet market is filled with plenty of options from various manufacturers. Screen size is a key differentiating point between models and most of today's tablets offer a screen that ranges in size from 7 inches to about 10-inches. Although tablet users generally prefer these larger...
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In the wake of Bulldozer's weak desktop launch, there was some hope that server benchmarks would redeem the chip and give AMD a fighting chance against Intel in at least one of its three core markets. Recent reviews and a comprehensive roundup of formally published results, however, indicate...
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Like small? Like sleek? Like Lenovo? If so, the company has a machine they'd like to sell you, and it's a newcomer by the name of IdeaCentre Q180. It's a slim and compact rig, with Full HD graphics, 7.1 surround sound, plus an optional Blu-ray Disk drive supporting Blu-ray 3D playback, along...
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Boasting, are we? Corsair has just announced that a new overclocking world record has been set. One that apparently shatters the previous memory frequency world record with a custom-built liquid nitrogen cooled system. The record? They hit a memory frequency of 1733.8MHz (DDR3-3467) using...
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It's a common refrain about these parts, but so what? A new SSD? Sign us up! As flash storage continues to make its way towards the mainstream, RunCore has announced their new InVincible V Series of SSDs, which have passed a series of screening tests in full accordance with MIL requirements...
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