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Latest News - March 2012
- G-Shot HD575T Optical Camcorder by Genius is Brilliantly Slim
- Apple's New iPad Ships To Even More Countries
- Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace: Now Home To 70,000 Apps
- Facebook Frowns Upon Giving Login Credentials to Employers
- Mobile Gaming Occurs Mostly at Home and Frequently in Bed, Says Survey
- HTC Vivid From AT&T Gets Android 4.0 Update, Additional ICS Updates Coming
- Need Tech Support? Call Sprint
- Commodore Amiga Mini PC Surfaces: Mighty Powerful SFF Box
- Angry Birds Space Launches Across Multiple Platforms
- Kepler-Based Product News Roundup
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is U.S. Cellular’s First 4G LTE Device
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Review: Kepler Debuts
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M: Kepler Goes Mobile with Acer
- Super Talent's Latest Solid State Drive Hitches a Ride with PCI Express
- Should the iPhone 5 Sport a Bigger Touchscreen?
- Maingear Ready to Rock with GeForce GTX 680 Graphics Card, You Down to Roll?
- Acer Reveals Iconia Tab A510 With Quad-core Tegra 3 Processor
- Nokia Refreshes Drive, Maps And Transport Apps For Lumia Handsets
- Broadcom Acquiring BroadLight Fiber Access Provider
- First Windows Phone Launches in China, HTC First Handset Maker to the Party
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All News for March 2012
The smart folks at Genius recently kicked off their foray into the camcorder business with the launch of the G-Shot HD575T. The G-Shot is a hybrid high-definition touchscreen optical camcorder with "one of the slimmest" profiles around, the company claims, but despite its comparatively thin stature, it's capable of...
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Apple managed to sell three million iPad units in the opening weekend, and that was only in a handful of countries. Now, the flood gates are really opening up. The new iPad will hit stores starting on the 23rd in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,...
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70,000. On one hand, it's a nice round number, but on the other, it's not the nicest of round numbers. No matter; Windows Phone can now lay claim to a whopping 70,000 apps. While Google Play (formerly known as the Android Market) and the App Store both have many, many more than that, this is still a notable milestone...
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A disturbing stream of reports have been circulating concerning employers demanding the Facebook passwords of potential employees before hiring them. Aside from the fact that such a demand is a gross breach of privacy and frankly opens those employers up to legal liability for all sorts of reasons, it’s just a crappy thing to do. The...
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Telling your friends that you’ve “been having a lot of fun in the bedroom” no longer carries that special connotation; according to a recent survey by MocoSpace, 53% of mobile gamers opt to play in bed more often than any other room in the house. Even more notable (though slightly less entertaining...
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AT&T is the first US carrier to bring the latest version of Android to one of its smartphones via an update. An update to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is now available for the HTC Vivid smartphone. In addition to all of the new features you'll get with Ice Cream Sandwich, the update also comes with Beats by...
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Sprint announced a new tech support service that is designed to bring 24/7 IT support to small businesses so they can have the same "quality IT help as their big business brethren." Sprint's IT Helpdesk can help troubleshoot and resolve issues with small businesses’ computers, PDAs and peripherals on both Sprint and non-Sprint devices....
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Commodore. Remember that name? It's a big one in the world of retro gaming, but perhaps not as big as the Amiga brand. Both are coming back into the limelight this week with the introduction of the Commodore Amiga Mini PC, a Core i7-powered small-form-factor box that is sure to tickle the fancy of gamers who remember what it was like to rely...
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It's hard to overstate just how huge Angry Birds is as a franchise. Everything from games to clothes to toys -- the brand is enormous, and it's getting bigger. In fact, when the world has been dominated, there's really only one place to head: space. This week, Angry Birds Space has been released, representing the first integrated product launch...
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Happy Kepler Day, Internet! If you haven’t read our reviews on the new Kepler-based GeForce GTX 680 and the Acer Timeline Ultra M3 running the GeForce GT 640M (yeah, desktop and mobile versions released at the same time), go ahead and do that now. We’ll wait. Ok, welcome back. Now that you know what the new Kepler architecture...
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Bully for U.S. Cellular; the mobile service provider announced today that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now available in its stores. The tablet is the first of U.S. Cellular’s 4G LTE offerings and will run you $499 (after a $100 mail-in rebate). If you’re in one of U.S. Cellular’s 4G markets and...
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We’ve been hearing about NVIDIA’s Kepler architecture since about September 2010. It was back at that years’ NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, that company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang first publically disclosed that Kepler would offer massive performance per watt improvements over Fermi and previous-gen architectures and that GPUs...
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Typically mobile graphics launches trail their desktop counterparts by a few months, as major GPU players like NVIDIA and AMD wring out power consumption and performance from their architectures in order to accommodate the tighter thermal and power budgets of notebook form factors. However, NVIDIA has obviously been refining their new Kepler...
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Super Talent this week unveiled a new extreme solid state drive (SSD) solution that skips SATA III in favor of PCI Express. It's the new RAIDDrive upStream, a new type of SSD designed to take advantage of the greater bandwidth PCIe affords with up to 1GB/s of read performance and up to 900MB/s of write performance...
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When it comes to the iPhone, Apple doesn't prescribe to the philosophy that bigger is better, unlike Android devices, which keep growing and growing (Galaxy Note, anyone?). Instead of launching the iPhone 5 that everyone was expecting, Apple came out with the iPhone 4S and it shipped with the exact same measurements as the iPhone 4 (2.3 inches...
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There's no question Maingear knows how to put together a high-octane gaming system, and if you need proof, check out our recent review of the company's fully loaded SHIFT Super Stock X79. Technology moves fast though, and luckily so does Maingear, which has already begun incorporating NVIDIA's brand spanking new...
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Acer took the wraps off of its first Tegra 3 Quad core processor-based tablet. The all new Acer Iconia Tab A510 promises a battery life of up to 12 hours of video playback with its 9800mAh battery. This 10.1-inch tablet features Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and has a WXGA (1280 x 800 resolution) HD display. Other...
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Nokia's Lumia line has already proven to be a spearhead for Windows Phone, and it's clear that Microsoft is seriously winning from the partnership. Lumia users only have a few handsets to choose from at the moment, but Nokia is making that handful look even more attractive with three powerful (and exclusive) app...
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The world could certainly use all the fiber we can get, and it looks like Broadcom is lining up to be yet another company that sets the stage for the next major push in broadband expansion. It just announced intentions to acquire BroadLight, a Delaware-based company that provides highly integrated networking and fiber access PON (Passive Optical...
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On the Windows Phone blog, Michael Stroh announced that devices running Windows Phone have officially landed in China, a landmark moment for the platform that has thus far lagged far behind stateside juggernauts iOS and Android. The first device bearing the mobile platform will be the HTC Eternity, which may just be a...
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GridIron Systems announced that it has hit a performance milestone with MLC flash technology: 1 million IOPS (inputs/outputs per second). The company is touting the breakthrough as a way for data centers to dramatically reduce hardware footprints and improve performance, as MLC flash is relatively inexpensive but...
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Sprint and HTC are sending out invites to an April 4 event where attendees will experience the "latest collaboration" between the companies. Both Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and HTC President Jason Mackenzie will be there, so you can assume it's going to be a big deal. Previously, we heard Sprint was getting the HTC One X...
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