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Latest News - March 2011
- New Photo Sharing App Called Color Launches
- MSI Launches GX680 Gaming Laptop
- SCEA Claims geohot Has Fled to South America
- Samsung App Store Passes 100 Million Downloads
- Latest Kinect Hack Creates All-Seeing 'Eye of Sauron'
- CyberPower Launches New Gaming Desktops with GeForce GTX 590
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Review: Dual GF110s, One PCB
- Publishers Invest In iPad e-Textbooks Despite Uncertain Future
- Verizon Wireless CEO Shows No Interest In Buying Sprint
- Qik Video Apps Come To iPhone And iPod Touch
- Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 RC For Android And Maemo
- Senators Ask Google, Apple, RIM to Remove DUI-Checkpoint Avoidance Apps
- Samsung Reveals Galaxy Tab 8.9 And New Tab 10.1
- Site Outages Still a Thorn in Netflix's Streaming Side
- Intel Core i5-2520M and Asus' K53E 15-Inch Notebook - The HH Review
- Nokia Astound Brings More Symbian To T-Mobile USA
- Firefox 4 Leapfrogs Internet Explorer 9 in Downloads, Usage
- Hardware Roundup
- NZXT Reveals H2 Classic Silent Chassis: Super Quiet, Super Sleek
- A Hands-On Look At Amazon's New Appstore
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All News for March 2011
Color, a new free app for iPhones and Android devices, launched today. This new app lets people in close proximity capture and have real-time access to photos, videos, and text simultaneously from multiple smartphones. Color uses a patent-pending technology that identifies nearby smartphones...
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MSI announced its new generation GX680 notebook with an Intel second generation Core i7 quad core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M discrete graphics, four DDR3 memory slots, accelerated dual hard disk architecture, and more. According to MSI, the notebook also features "the best wrap around sound available" thanks to Dynaudio and THX TruStudio...
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Renowned jailbreaker George Hotz, AKA geohot, has fled to South America, according to court documents filed by SCEA in the matter. Hotz is well known for jailbreaking the iPhone, but his issues with Sony Computer Entertainment America stem from jailbreaking the PS3. Not only is Hotz in South...
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Samsung has reason to celebrate today. The company announced that its app store, called Samsung Apps, has logged more than 100 million downloads. What's even more impressive is that it took Samsung less than a year to reach the 100 million milestone, with Samsung Apps launching in June 2010...
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The latest snarky Kinect hack is this one, by The Technology Studio. The company took a Kinect unit and the Puffersphere, a spherical display by Pufferfish. Basically, they were able to create the Eye of Sauron, from Lord of the Rings. The eye even follows you around the room as you move...
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It didn't take long for the system builders over at CyberPower PC to pounce on Nvidia's brand new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590. This is the card gaming enthusiasts have been waiting for, the one Nvidia touts as the "fastest graphics card on...
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Over the years, we have consistently been impressed by cutting-edge dual-GPU powered graphics cards, not only for their relatively high performance, but because of the engineering involved to design, build, and bring the cards to market, in form factors not much bigger than their high-end...
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Two major textbook publishers, Pearson and McGraw-Hill, announced today that they've invested substantially in a company that creates iPad-specific interactive texts. The company, Inkling, believes that it delivers a better comprehensive...
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The mobile bombshell that was dropped this past Sunday is still having aftershocks throughout the industry. Even as CTIA Wireless 2011 chugs along, there's an overriding notion that the top mobile story of the week involves AT&T and T-Mobile USA. What's really interesting is just how quick...
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If you've heard of video calling, you've probably heard of Qik. It's a rapidly expanding startup, looking to catch up with Skype and take advantage of the sudden urge to video chat now that 4G services are becoming more available. But to dominate the world, you need to be available on the...
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It's a big, bit week for Mozilla. Despite the fact that Microsoft also introduced Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4 has also launched this week, but the war of the desktop browsers is just the start. There's also a growing battle on the mobile side, and with more and more browsers creating new...
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U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Tom Udall (D-NM) are co-signers on a letter to Apple, Google, and RIM, in which they ask the companies to remove any apps from their respective...
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CTIA Wireless 2011 is underway in sunny Florida, but this year's show is a good bit different than shows of the past. Why? Because mobility is expanding. Rather than just focusing solely on cellphones and smartphones, this year, we're seeing a lot of tablets debuting as well. Many of today's...
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If you were unable to access your Netflix streaming service last night, don't feel bad, you weren't being singled out by a higher power. Instead, Netflix suffered yet another service outage on Tuesday night, this latest one lasting roughly four hours, according to reports. "Netflix is up and...
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With their Sandy Bridge wrinkles firmly tucked away, Intel is continuing to flesh out their mobile offering with a new, more moderately priced dual-core CPU that brings all of their latest technologies to bear in a 2.53GHz chip called the...
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It's a very interesting time for Nokia. They brought in a Microsoft exec to be their CEO, and then they switched operating systems to Windows Phone 7. But there's still a few Nokia phones that were already in the pipeline, and you can't just cancel all of those as you wait for the WP7...
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The world still loves Firefox. That's what we learned from the launch of Firefox 4, which in a single day managed to grab hold of nearly 2 percent of the worldwide Internet browser market, according to StatCounter's statistics. That's more than both Opera 11 and IE9, the latter of which was...
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Video: AMD HD 6990 Review @ t-break ASUS GTX 550 Ti DirectCU TOP @ TechREACTION [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.2 Motherboards and Chipsets: Futurelooks News Flash - GIGABYTE G1-Killer Assassin X58 LGA1366 Gaming Motherboard Review Memory and Storage: Intel's 510 Series solid-state drive @ The Tech Report Seagate Barracuda Green...
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One of the more serious issues with most full-size gaming towers is noise. Not really heat -- there's plenty of room for fans -- but those fans end up making a ton of noise. NZXT has just released their H2 Classic Silent chassis, which is...
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Amazon rolled out a new Appstore that is designed to compete with the Android Marketplace for Android smartphones. Through the store, Amazon promises you will find, discover, and have the ability to test new applications using a similar experience to what you're already accustomed to using on Amazon.com. It's certainly interesting to see a...
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A new tablet, at a cellphone show? That's the truth! Sprint and HTC not only launched the EVO 3D today, they also launched the EVO View 4G, one of the first WiMAX tablets. It's a 7" 1024x600 display, with a powerful 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the latest version of HTC Sense, dual cameras (5MP HD camera + 1.3MP camera) and an aluminum...
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CTIA 2011 is in full swing in Florida, and lots of new phones and tablets are being announced. Sprint has introduced one of the wildest at the show, with the HTC EVO 3D to become America's first 4G "glasses-free" device with a QHD 3D display. The phone's set to debut this summer, bringing with...
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