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Latest News - August 2011
- Toshiba Stuffs 1TB Into 9mm 2.5" Hard Drive For Laptops
- Nissan's Leaf Could Power Your Home
- Vonage's Time To Call iPhone App Takes On Skype
- Select Starbucks Blocking Ports To Prevent Wi-Fi Camping
- Malware For Android Users Increases In Frequency And Sophistication
- Asus Reinvents Netbook with Eee PC X101
- Android and Apple Gobble Up More Mobile Marketshare
- Gigabyte Unloads With G1.Sniper 2 Gaming Motherboard
- MSI's Propeller Blade Technology Blows (in a Good Way)
- Asus Updates Eee Pad Transformer with Android 3.2, HH Fires It Up
- Sony Reports Vita To Miss Holidays, Nintendo Apologizes For 3DS Price Cuts
- Hardware Roundup
- Sprint Touts Torch 9850 And Bold 9930 Smartphones
- T-Mobile USA To Intro Direct Carrier Billing For Content
- Seagate Crafts Android App For GoFlex Media Satellite
- Clearwire Announces Plans To Roll Out LTE
- Sapphire Claims Its New HD 6950 Toxic Edition Card is Tops
- iBUYPOWER Introduces Gamer Power BTS11 For Student Gamers
- Google+ Invite-Only Social Networking Club Swells to 25 Million Members
- Samsung Galaxy S II Smartphone Review
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All News for August 2011
One terabyte hard drives aren't nearly as novel as they once were, but that doesn't mean that you still won't want one if it's plopped in front of you. On the mobile front, however, they're a bit more rare and special compared to the desktop side, where we're up to 3TB these days. While 1TB...
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What if your car could power your home? Wait, what? It's true -- Nissan is reportedly saying that their Leaf electric card can actually feed power from its battery pack back into a home, with plenty of juice to run appliances. The new project is called Leaf to Home, and it uses Li-ion batteries as emergency backup for homes. According to Nissan,...
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Did someone crown this week the week of VoIP? There's been quite a few things flying around -- namely, Google's decision to lower VoIP calling rates from within Gmail, and now, Vonage's decision to battle on the iOS front. Oh, and Viber came out with an Android app. See what we mean? Vonage...
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Have you visited a Starbucks in a major city recently? Not for the coffee, but for the wall outlet and the free Wi-Fi? Shame on you! But in honesty, Starbucks had to know 'campers' would come once they removed the cover from their Internet and offered it to all. But Internet's only as good as...
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The folks at Lookout Mobile Security released the 2011 Mobile Threat Report, which offers a sobering look at the current state of mobile threats. According to the report, mobile users are more likely than ever to experience a malware...
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Conventional wisdom dictates that you don't go around trying to reinvent the wheel. It's already perfectly shaped for transportation, and while Ned the know-it-all thinks he might have a better solution, his hybrid square/triangle thingamawhatever is doomed to fail. With that in mind, is Asus off its rocker in trying something new in the netbook...
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According to the latest numbers released by comScore, both Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS mobile operating systems gained marketshare in Q2 at the expense of rivals RIM, Microsoft, and Symbian. In the report, comScore claims 78.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones...
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Gaming motherboard? Oh, yeah. Gigabyte's got you covered, and if this promo picture is any indication of what this silicon packs... well, let's just say you should probably suit up before ordering. The G1.Sniper 2 is all set for Intel Z68-based war, ready to handle the latest Intel i7 Sandy...
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Are there any fan aficionados in the crowd? Anyone? That's okay, because even if you don't fancy yourself a fanatical fan of, uh, fans, MSI makes some mighty interesting claims about its exclusive Propeller Blade technology that all cooling aficionados should read, which we suspect represents...
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If there's one thing a manufacturer like Asus understands, it's how to service their existing customer base with timely updates for things like firmware and drivers. With their lineage in motherboards, where BIOS updates can...
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Sony announced today that its upcoming PlayStation Vita, the updated handheld slated to replace the PSP, won't launch in the US or Europe until early 2012. That's a bit surprising considering that electronics sales seasonally slump in the...
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Video: [Tech ARP] Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 23.1 PowerColor Radeon HD 6870X2 Graphics Card Review @ XBitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: Roundup: Eight Mini-ITX Mainboards for LGA1155 Processors @ XbitLabs Processors: AMD A6-3650 Llano APU Review @ Hardware Canucks Memory and Storage: Patriot Wildfire 120GB SATA III SandForce...
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RIM has quite the unveiling this week, and a few of the company's latest are headed to Sprint. RIM and Sprint obviously have a long relationship of partnering with one another, and that's continuing with the release of America's first BlackBerry 7 OS phones. The Bold 9930 and the the Torch...
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With the proposed T-Mobile/AT&T merger likely to conclude within a year, it's tough to predict which of AT&T's policies will stick, and which of T-Mobile's will hang around. Will Wi-Fi calling exist post-merger? Will direct carrier billing carry over? That's the latest initiative...
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Seagate's GoFlex Satellite is one of the more interesting inventions to pop up in the consumer electronics space. It's a portable hard drive that includes a Wi-Fi module so content can be easily streamed to a nearby portable device, and it can easily allow an 8GB iPod touch a multi-hundred...
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With Verizon Wireless and AT&T committed to rolling out 4G LTE networks, some have wondered what Sprint and Clearwire will do with their WiMAX technology. It's no secret that Clearwire has been testing LTE technology for a year. Sprint, which is Clearwire's partner and biggest customer...
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Sapphire today announced its HD 6950 Toxic Edition graphics card, calling it "the fastest production card in its class." To back up that claim, Sapphire set the graphics engine at 880MHz and the 2GB of onboard memory at 1330MHz for an effecitive 5.2Gb/s of bandwidth. According to Sapphire, it...
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iBUYPOWER added the Gamer Power BTS11 to its back-to-school lineup. This PC comes with a liquid cooled Intel Core i5 2500K processor. The Gamer Power BTS11 is designed with student gamers in mind. It is housed in the gloss white NZXT Phantom case. Other key features include an...
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Do you hear that noise? It sounds like pacing, which we imagine is what Mark Zuckerberg spends a fair amount of time doing these days as he contemplates how to fend off Google+ from one day becoming the world's largest social networking...
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Samsung's Galaxy S II was first introduced to the world at Mobile World Congress 2011, and despite the fact that quite a few smartphones have shipped in the months between then and now, Samsung's top-tier smartphone remains a favorite across the globe. In fact, it hasn't even shipped to America yet. With a potent dual-core 1.2GHz processor,...
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Users might recall that the June 27, 2011 "Free App of the Day" at Amazon's Appstore was Pocket Casts. On the day it was free, 101,491 copies were "sold." Amazon said when it launched the Appstore that on the day an app was offered for free, the developers would still get 20 percent of the...
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In mid-July it was announced that the Pentagon considers cyberspace an operational theater. Now, experts at security firm McAfee have detailed a five-year-long series of cyber attacks they have dubbed "Operation Shady RAT," in a paper...
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