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Latest News - August 2012
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Ready to Boogie with Quad Core Processor This Month
- Siri, Meet Your Virtual Assisant Sister, Nina
- Google Cleans House, Shuts Down Apps and Consolidates Content
- AOC Launches Thin New 27-inch e2752Vh Monitor
- AT&T Mobile Share Data Plans Launch August 23rd, But Are They The Best Deal?
- Samsung's Paying New Galaxy Customers Up to $300 for Old Phones
- ARM's Second-Gen Mali GPUs Pack Up To Eight Cores, Blinding Speed
- Maingear's Quickship Line Goes Mobile with Vybe 15 Notebook
- NASA's Curiosity Rover Survives 7 Minutes of Terror, Lands Safely on Mars
- eBay Now Rivals Amazon's Same-Day Shipping, Keeps Major Retailers Looped In
- Verizon's HopeLine App Provides Support To Victims Of Domestic Violence
- Corsair AX1200i Digital ATX Power Supply Preview
- Carmack: Valve Support Is Great, But Linux Still Not A Viable Gaming Platform
- Apple Considers Embedding Second Touchscreen in iPad Smart Cover
- AT&T To Shutter 2G Wireless Network By 2017: Start Planning That Upgrade
- Adafruit Announces its Own Raspberry Pi Linux Distro Geared for Better Hackability
- E Ink Buying Large Chunk Of SiPix, Becomes Huge E-Paper Player
- Leaked 7" iPad Parts Detail Mini-Sized Apple Tablet
- Broadcast TV on Your Phone? It's a Real Thing
- Electronic Arts Sues Zynga for Allegedly Ripping Off 'Sims Social' Game
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All News for August 2012
After months of waiting, Samsung today announced that it's Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet will be available globally starting this month. The first batch of shipments will include Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G HSPA+ models, with a Wi-Fi + 4G LTE...
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There was plenty of speculation and suspicion when Apple’s Siri launched that it was using Nuance technology; many assumed that Nuance was involved with Siri, at least on the back end, but both Apple and Nuance were strangely vague and evasive about it. All of that seems irrelevant now...
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In an effort to give you an even better Google experience, the company is cleaning house and reorganizing a few of its products. In addition to the changes Google has already made to about 50 products over the past year, the company...
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AOC's new 52 Series monitor is now available. To kick off the launch of this monitor, the company is offering a $50 discount from August 11 through August 17. With the discount, the monitor will cost $249.99 from select retailers such as TigerDirect, BestBuy.com, Newegg.com and Amazon.com. The...
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AT&T had finally confessed earlier in the year that shared data plans were en route, but now we know exactly when to look for them: August 23rd. Following in the wake of Verizon's own decision to split data across devices for a hefty...
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While Apple tries to sue Samsung out of existence for various patent infringement claims, Samsung is busy trying to steal some of its rival's competitors away. Not just Apple, but anyone who's willing to switch to a Galaxy device (Galaxy S...
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Remember the graphical wars in the early days of consoles? 8-bit, then 16-bit, then 32-bit, then 64-bit, then 128-bit. The race to the top never stopped, and even today, the longing for more pronounced technology keeps the dream alive. The...
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One advantage brick-and-mortar stores have over ordering online is the ability to serve up instant gratification. You walk into a store, grab what you need, plunk down your credit card, and the item is yours to take home. Online sellers haven't found a way to trump brick-and-mortar outfits in...
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How do you land a car-sized rover on the planet Mars? NASA answered that question with eight years of careful planning and around nine months of space travel culminating in the most advanced rover ever touching down on the Red Planet last...
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Remember when eBay was an auction site? Those were the days. Nowadays, eBay is a full-on storefront, keeping that auction setting at the core but building a vast network of other opportunities around it. There's Buy-It-Now, for starters...
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In many ways, we look at technology as a way to make our lives easier. Faster, stronger, better. But in the march towards quicker processors and more powerful GPUs, it's easy to miss the details. Take a look at the latest Android app from...
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Corsair’s attention to detail and understanding of the enthusiast community has allowed the company to evolve from a memory manufacturer into a well-regarded supplier of cases, cooling hardware, input devices, PC audio, power supplies, gaming accessories and storage devices. Their latest...
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If you've got 3.5 hours to kill, John Carmack's Quakecon keynotes are always fascinating. id games may not be the greatest titles around, but Carmack's knowledge and skills continue to shape the future of gaming across multiple platforms...
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In a matter of months, Microsoft's Surface tablet with integrated keyboard will be available, and who knows what other innovations the company's hardware partners will bring to the table. Perhaps in an attempt to stay ahead of the curve...
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Still relying on AT&T's aging 2G network? Better hurry and make those final calls / texts. As the world collectively moves on to 4G, and even 3G in some places, 2G technology is becoming more expensive to maintain and less frequently...
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The initial fervor over the Raspberry Pi Linux PC has perhaps faded a bit, but that’s fine because the thing has been available long enough for master tinkerers such as Adafruit Technologies to do terrific things with it. Adafruit...
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The e-paper universe has largely been dominated by once giant force: E Ink. But there was another player, too. That would be SiPix Technology, and its wholly owned subsidiary SiPix Imaging. The company was founded in 1999, but soon, it...
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Before every major Apple release, it seems that a case, or a shell, gets leaked. They aren't always accurate, but in the case of the presumed 7" iPad, it's beginning to look as if the leaks may be onto something. Recent evidence in the Samsung / Apple patent lawsuit trial proved that Apple was...
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Watching broadcast TV on a mobile device has been a consumer’s dream for years, starting way back when you could buy a handheld TV with long antennae like the Sony Watchman. Yet as our phones have evolved into small computing powerhouses, the concept of watching TV on one has become less...
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Game developer Zynga has made a fortune in part by altering existing game concepts into their own creations, such as Words With Friends (an obvious take on Scrabble, with a social twist and other elements that are Zynga's own). As far as...
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When he was alive, Steve Jobs was very outspoken about his disdain for smaller sized tablets. He referred to 7-inch tablets as "tweeners" noting that they're "too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad."...
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Smartphones. They're everywhere. And they're being made by companies you didn't even know existed. The proliferation is Android is in part helped by the ability for outfits that are coming out of nowhere to use the OS. And now, BLU...
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