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Latest News - March 2012
- AT&T Begins To Urge 2G Holdout Customers To Upgrade
- Pentax Launches K-5 Silver Edition DSLR For $1600
- Report: Google’s Answer to Siri May Be Coming by Q4 2012
- Valve May Be Working on a Secret "Steam Box" Console
- Analyst Predicts 55 Million iPad Device Sales in 2012
- PlayStation Network Down for 14 Hours Starting Today
- More American Adults Now Own Smartphones Than Other Cell Phones, and Other Stats
- Samsung And Microsoft Collaborate On Green Memory / Cloud Servers
- Apple App Store Makes History with 25 Billion Downloads
- Intel's Ivy Bridge Lineup Leaked to the Web
- Novero Introduces 10" Laptop/Tablet Hybrid Device: Solana
- Option Reveals 4G LTE Module With Windows 8 Support
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin now in Beta, Available for Download
- Pro Overclocker Christian Ney Sets Memory Overclocking World Record with G.Skill RAM
- Canon Adds EOS 5D Mark III DSLR To Lineup
- Sharkoon Targets Gamers With New Keyboards And Mice
- Windows 8 May End Up with Nine Different Editions
- Unofficial VLC Player Build Lands on Android in Beta Form
- AMD Releases New Catalyst Drivers for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- OnLive Brings Microsoft Office Support To Android Tablets
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All News for March 2012
4G LTE may be the big thing today, but in the backrooms of wireless carriers, 2G is a seriously important talking point, too. Why? Because it's old, and it needs to die. Remember the days of "analog phones" being forced to digital? We're staring at the next major leap, with AT&T reportedly urging customers to upgrade from 2G-only networks....
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Last year, you may have thought that Micro Four Thirds and mirrorless mini-cams were bound to steal the thunder of major DSLRs. Not so. This year, the D800, D800E and D4 were unveiled by Nikon, and Canon has launched the 5D Mark III. In order to get in on the action, Pentax has just launched the K-5 Silver Special Edition. Available only as...
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Anytime the tech world eagerly awaits some new exciting technology, rumors swirl about the what, where, and when of it. For that matter, the rumor mill churns up conjecture about everything from the color of the impending thing to the price tag. Accordingly, speculation about Google’s inevitable answer to Apple’s Siri artificial...
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The world needs another game console like it needs, well, another game console. They say 'three's a crowd' and there's already the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii, so is there really room for another player to make a stand in the living room? Valve apparently thinks so and is reportedly working on a "Steam Box" console that just might have...
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Overall iPad sales will shoot up to 55 million units by the end of 2012, according to an analyst with a crystal ball. The spike in sales will be driven by "significant" hardware upgrades that will find their way into the iPad 3, including a Retina display, 4G LTE radio, and Siri voice recognition, plus whatever other surprises Apple may have...
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If you own a PlayStation 3 and are addicted to online gaming, it's time to fall in love with the PC all over again. Or read a book or do whatever it is you do when you're not tapping into the PlayStation Network (PSN). Sony is planning to perform some heavy duty maintenance on the PlayStation Network later today that will take the service...
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Not even a year ago, in May 2011, Pew found that 35% of Americans had smartphones; in February, after conducting the same study again, that number is up to 46%. Thus, almost half of all cell phone-owning American adults now have a smartphone. What is perhaps more significant is that for the first time, there are more...
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Microsoft and Samsung may be rivals in a lot of ways, but in the tech universe, even competitors can put their differences aside and come together at times. These two have recently announced their intentions to cooperate of more efficient cloud implementations, testing our servers that utilize the world's first 20nm...
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Go ahead and pat yourself on the back if you've ever downloaded an application from Apple's App Store. If you have, then you've contributed to Apple's crazy achievement of serving up 25 billion App Store downloads (and to Cupertino's ongoing cash cow). Apple doled out its 25 billionth App Store download sometime today and hasn't had time to...
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There's been a lot of talk about Intel's Ivy Bridge platform lately, and specifically whether or not the Santa Clara chip maker's new CPUs are being delayed until summer. Conflicting reports abound, but one thing we do know is that Ivy Bridge is right around the corner. Thanks to a leaked slide that's made its way to the Web, we're also privy...
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Is it a laptop? A tablet? Both? Neither? According to Novero, the new Solana is a "lightweight, laptop/tablet hybrid," which falls into the growing category of slates that are destined to act more like workhorses than ones that came before. It's a 10" device with a flip-rotating design, and it can even switch between Windows 7 and Windows...
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Look who else is getting into the LTE game, and with Windows 8 support in tow. Option, a company that already knows a thing or two about wireless tech, has just announced a new 4G LTE module, the GTM801 which is footprint compatible with the 3G LGA module, the GTM601. Option's embedded solutions provide flexible alternatives: manufacturers...
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If you’re looking for a weekend project, having a go at the latest Ubuntu (beta) release would be a fun one. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, a long-term support (LTS) release, is now in beta and available for download from Canonical. Being an LTS release, there aren’t a lot of earth-shattering changes, but...
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According to HWBot, the world record for memory overclocking has fallen again. Christian Ney, a Swiss overclocker, hit DDR3-3736MHz with a 4GB G.Skill RipjawZ DIMM. He used liquid nitrogen to keep the processor and memory cool, down to -197 degree C both at idle and under load. The screenshots of CPU-Z tell the tale...
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Canon is marking the 25th anniversary of its EOS System with the introduction of the company's latest DSLR, the EOS 5D Mark III. Canon intends for this camera to sit between the EOS 5D Mark II and Canon’s top-of-the-line professional EOS-1D X in its lineup. The new EOS 5D Mark III features a new 22.3-megapixel full-frame Canon CMOS sensor,...
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Just in time for CeBIT, Sharkoon is introducing its new lineup of gaming accessories. First up is the Sharkoon DarkGlider Mouse which features an Avago ADNS-9500 laser sensor which operates at up to 6,000 DPI resolution and 11,750 FPS frame rate. The Sharkoon Drakonia Mouse also uses the Avago ADNS-9500 sensor but features a flashier design...
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When Windows 8 goes gold and ships to the masses, there may be as many as nine different editions, and that's not including OEM vs Retail boxed copies and/or 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. So much for simplification. It was reported earlier in the week that Windows 8 may be reduced to just three main editions based on information found in a pair...
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You can't very well call yourself a power user if you don't have VLC installed on your desktop system, the popular media player that will play anything nearly anything and everything you throw at it. Wouldn't it be rad if VLC was available on Android? The answer is 'yes' and, to an extend, VLC for Android has arrived. It's an unofficial build,...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview has attracted over 1 million downloads since it was made available to the public yesterday, and there's no reason to believe that number won't continue to grow. It isn't the only piece of Windows 8 software out there, however. To ensure smooth sailing with your Radeon graphics...
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OnLive seems to be the only online gaming persona still out there with a cloud focus that's keeping on track, with many other cloud-based gaming outfits folding as demand faltered. But OnLive is branching out into all sorts of new things, including a new Desktop App for Android tablets, which brings full Microsoft Office apps, Adobe Reader...
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How exactly do you measure success? And how do you do so when you're a company as large as Microsoft? With a monumental market share lead in the desktop OS market, it's not like a major competitor will be jumping up and stealing their crown tomorrow, but there's no doubt that Windows 8 has a lot riding on it. Windows...
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Designed for everything from industrial automation to in-vehicle infotainment to the financial industry, Habey USA’s EMB-4670 is a tiny (4.5 inches) embedded board that features the Intel EG20T chipset; support for Intel Atom E620, E640, and E660 processors; 1GB of onboard DDR2 memory; support for 3G and 4G; and dual gigabit Ethernet...
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