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Latest News - August 2011
- Lenovo Targets Small Businesses With New Monitor Series
- Garmin Intros StreetPilot Navigatior For iPhone, Won't Require Data
- Google Lowers VoIP Calling Rates, Puts The Pinch On Skype
- Patriot Pyro SATA III Solid State Drive Review
- Britain To Legalize Burning Private Copies of Music, Video
- Humble Indie Bundle Sells Lots, Windows Users Still Cheap
- Iomega Releases New Mac External Drive
- Samsung Demos Galaxy Tab 10.1 User Interface Updates, New Features and Accessories
- Google+ Ends Private Profiles
- Corsair's Arctic White Vengeance LP DDR3 Now Available
- AT&T Reveals Upcoming BlackBerry Smartphones
- MSI's GT683DX Laptop Sizzles with Style, High End Hardware
- Android at 48% Market Share in Q2
- Xcom Global Intros Euro SIM For Europe-Wide Data Access
- Researcher Uncovers Android Trojan That Records Phone Calls
- Wireless Power Consortium Reveals Qi Testing Lab In Taiwan
- Hardware Roundup
- Adobe Unveils Next-Gen HTML5 Tech, Calls It "Edge"
- Best Buy Offering Nexus S For Free On Contract, Today Only
- Windows XP Market Drops Below 50% Worldwide
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All News for August 2011
Lenovo is hoping to attract small businesses with its new LS Series of monitors. These monitors offer a 10 million to one dynamic contrast ratio and are very energy efficient. The series includes the 21.5-inch LS2221 wide and 23.6-inch LS2421p wide HD monitors. The LS2221 wide comes with VGA and DVI connections while the LS2421p wide offers...
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The mapping/navigation situation on iOS isn't exactly in the best of shape. The Maps app on iPhone doesn't provide turn by turn navigation, so users have to turn to a third-party service to do so, whic is hardly elegant. Now, Garmin -- one of the first companies to announce turn by turn supoprt on iOS -- has just...
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Think Skype has the VoIP calling business on lock? Think again. Google is quietly moving in on Skype's turf, and while users have long been able to call others from within Gmail, Google's making it even more attractive this week: the company has announced that the service is now being offered in 38 new languages, and users can buy...
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Just a few short weeks after the release of its high-end WildFire-branded solid state drives, Patriot is at the ready with a new family of drives, dubbed Pyro. Like the WildFire, the similarly fire lovin’ Pyro is built around SandForce’s sought after SF-2200 series solid state storage processor. But with this newer series of drives,...
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Britain's business secretary, Vince Cable, announced today that the government plans to pass legislation allowing citizens to make legal copies of CDs and DVDs they own. The new law will also allow UK citizens to engage in "form shifting;" the term refers to the right to burn legally downloaded materials to physical media. (This last right...
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Avid Steam users and otherwise enthusiastic indie game players are well-acquainted with the Humble Indie Bundle, a semi-annual drive offering collections of independently released computer games for direct download, free of digital rights management (DRM). Two of these bundle drives have been completed thus far, raising over $1.25 million...
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Iomega is getting back into the Mac game with the release of its new Mac-exclusive hard drive today, the creatively-named Mac Companion Hard Drive. The 3.5-inch drive, which is designed to match the current iMac model, comes in 2 or 3TB options and runs at 7,200 RPM. it connects via Firewire 800, Firewire 400-800, and USB 2,0 cables. The outside...
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We have just returned from an event in New York City at which Samsung showed off a major software update, that’s coming to the popular Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. The update incorporates a new, fully customizable TouchWiz UX interface, with some new features like LivePanel and Mini Apps. The update also incorporates...
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Many users of social networking sites (primarily Facebook) have opted to take the privacy thing to the extreme and basically hide from everyone they don’t want to be friends with. No search will discover their name, and even those able to somehow find their profile through more direct methods are barred from seeing a stitch of information...
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Corsair just sent us word that its recently announced Special Edition Arctic White Vengeance Low Profile memory is now shipping and ready for purchase. This low profile kit operates at 1.35V and is aimed at ultra-quiet systems and other low-voltage applications that don't require obnoxiously loud cooling solutions. Each dual-channel 8GB DDR3-1600...
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AT&T recently revealed its upcoming BlackBerry lineup. In August, the carrier will get the 4G BlackBerry Torch 9810. Later this year, the carrier will also add the 4G BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the 4G BlackBerry Torch 9860. All of these new models will be capable of operating on AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul network. The...
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MSI just announced its new GT683DX laptop, a "top-of-the-line" gaming notebook that, based on the spec sheet, is a dandy. This 15.6-inch powerhouse brings a quad-core Intel Core i7 2630QM processor to the mobile fight, along with up to 16GB of DDR3 memory and a GeForce GTX 570M graphics card with 1.5GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory. It's a solid...
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Good news for Google: the Canalys research firm has found that Google's Android OS dominated the worldwide smart device market in the second quarter. Canalys, which analyzes shipments in 56 countries around the world, found that Android was the leader in 35 of them, leading to the operating system's secure hold on 48 percent market share during...
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For Americans, traveling to Europe can be expensive. The plane ticket usually isn't the killer, but rather the international data roaming: at around $5 per MB, just checking email a few times could leave a traveler with quite a shocking bill. While travelers can purchase European SIM cards, the endeavor can be a hassle. That's where Xcom Global...
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A newly discovered Android Trojan can record not just the times and numbers for incoming and outgoing calls like its predecessors did, but the actual calls themselves. The malware, which was uncovered by a CA Technologies researcher, records calls in AMR format, and then stores the recorded call in a directory listed as shangzhou/callrecord...
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Wireless power, as has been said many times over, is pretty much the Holy Grail of consumer electronics. There now exists wireless Internet, wireless content streaming, wireless audio and wireless calling, but wireless power remains a pipe dream in all but a few, small cases.Regardless of how many wires get cut, devices such as HDTVs...
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Video: AC Ryan Playon!HD Mini 2 Review @ Techgage Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte X58A-OC Overclocking Motherboard Review @ Ninjalane ASRock Core HT @ PureOverclock ECS A75F-A (AMD A75) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Processors: Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6GHz CPU Review @ Legit Reviews Memory and Storage: Seagate Momentus 7200.4...
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With HTML5 grabbing a massive amount of support right out of the gate (and Flash still not being supported on the world's hottest selling tablet), there was speculation that Adobe would jump onto something new in time. Now, the company is unveiling an early preview of a new HTML5 web motion and interaction design tool. It's called Adobe Edge,...
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Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile have announced that stores are now offering the high-end Android 2.3 Nexus S for absolutely nothing on three different U.S. carriers, so long as customers sign a new two-year agreement. It's available on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, and will be offered free as a new phone or upgrade two-year activation at all...
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10 years in tech time is equivalent to about 100 years in real time, in that the technology that was relevant a decade ago is usually as useful today as a Model T Ford. Yet somehow the venerable Windows XP operating system, which was introduced a tech-century ago in 2001, has held on. True, XP enjoyed a brief stay of execution thanks to the...
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We just got off a conference call hosted by OCZ Technology’s CEO Ryan Petersen on which he discussed the rapidly evolving market for PCIe-based solid state storage solutions and unveiled the company's next generation enterprise-class PCIe storage product, the Z-Drive R4. The Z-Drive R4 will feature...
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Asus is apparently looking to make a big splash in the mini-ITX market with the launch of its F1A75-I Deluxe motherboard. This is the same board Asus showed off at the Computex trade show earlier this year, only now it's official. Despite its diminutive size, Asus managed jam a whole bunch of features into this tiny slice of silicon, starting...
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