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Ivy Bridge Shipments Delayed

Paul Merak — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:44:39 +0000

Intel has notified OEMs that volume shipments of the next generation Ivy Bridge processor will be delayed until June. It seems the delay is a result of Intel and notebook vendors suffering from a...

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ZTE Ice Cream Sandwich Handsets – Preview

Paul Merak — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:06:27 +0000

ZTE has jumped the gun at MWC 2012 by unveiling two major new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones a week in advance of the Barcelona phone-fest. The ZTE PF200 sports LTE connectivity a 1.5GHz processor...

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AppStore to celebrate its 25 billionth download

Paul Merak — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:58:13 +0000

AppStore will soon celebrate its 25 billionth download. If you are the lucky one to download 25 billionth app you will receive a 10,000 gift card. I would know what to do with it… Just a year...

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Archos 8B G2 – Preview

Paul Merak — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:55:18 +0000

Archos, who recently announced a doubling of profits for the 2011 financial year, has released another low-cost Arnova Android tablet. The new slate goes by the name of the Arnova 8B G2, and is a...

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Sony PlayStation Vita – Review

Paul Merak — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:29:22 +0000

The Playstation Vita has launched in North America and Europe. The front surface of the Vita features a roomy 5-inch OLED touchscreen, delivering inky blacks, vibrant colours and sharp detail. The...

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Asus N56 and N76 – Preview

Paul Merak — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:42:13 +0000

Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asus is preparing to launch the powerful N56 and N76 notebooks previewed at the CES 2012 In January. The pair of laptops are targeted at multimedia buffs and casual gamers...

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LG Optimus Vu – Preview

Paul Merak — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:31:21 +0000

Well it looks like there will be a whole raft of early-starters who won’t wait for even the unofficial opening of MWC next week. Now LG has announced the new Optimus Vu smartphone. With a 4:3...

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HP Pavilion G6 – Review

Otto — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:11:36 +0000

The HP G6-1300 series is available as an Intel-based version featuring a Pentium 2.2GHz B960 or Core i5-2450M, or as an AMD model – less expensive, the AMD version of the G6 sports a dual-core...

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HTC Line-up For MWC 2012

Paul Merak — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:30:42 +0000

Branding details of HTC’s smartphone arsenal for the Mobile World Congress have leaked, and suggest that the quadcore handset provisionally referred to as the Edge/Endeavor will make its...

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New LG Flagship Details Leaked

Paul Merak — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:16:43 +0000

Someone at LG has leaked details of a future flagship smartphones, generously supporting the spec list with a few photos. The new LG flagship will boast a 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 pixel display and will...

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E-spending Reaches New Levels

Paul Merak — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:00:22 +0000

Spending on e-commerce reached a record high of $161.5 billion in 2011, translating to a 13% increase on 2010 figures. Almost one-third of the entire year’s total was spent in Q4, according to...

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Motorola Issues Bunch Of Updates

Paul Merak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:12:24 +0000

Motorola has been issuing a few updates recently. The original Xoom LTE received a minor update, and now the Droid Xyboard, Droid Razr, and Droid Razer Maxx are all to be update. The Droid Xyboard...

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Baidu Earnings Up 83% In One Year

Otto — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:48:30 +0000

Chinese search giant Baidu has posted Q4 2011 earnings figures – $710 million, an increase of 83% on the Q4 2010. Net income for Q4 was $326 million, 77% up on 2010. The figures beat Wall...

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Clevo P270WM – World’s Best Notebook?

Paul Merak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:16:16 +0000

AVADirect is another manufacturer who has taken a new super-charged Sandy Bridge – E desktop processor and levered it into a notebook chassis – the new Clevo P270WM gaming laptop packs a...

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Toshiba Satellite U840 Launches In Oz

Paul Merak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:56:40 +0000

The Toshiba Satellite U840 14-inch ultrabook has arrived down under, selling around the $1700-mark (AU$ 1499), although notebooks are quite expensive in Australia. Should a US launch be planned, the...

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Toshiba Portege Z830 – Review

Paul Merak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:59:14 +0000

When we reviewed the Toshiba Portege Z835 ultrabook a while back, we said that Toshiba were planning a more price-conscious entry-level model which would be the first Core-i3 Toshiba ultrabook; here...

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Nightline Special – Apple and Foxconn

Otto — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:27:33 +0000

ABC News has reported that Apple gave Nightline anchorman Bill Weir exclusive access to Chinese suppliers’ factories. ABC announced, ‘For years, Apple and Foxconn were synonymous with...

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Mozilla To Reveal OS Partner At MWC

Paul Merak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:29:52 +0000

Mozilla announced plans last summer for a full-featured mobile OS known as Boot to Gecko. Mozilla’s CTO Brenden Eich has now tweeted that a partnership announcement will be made at MWC in...

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NVidia Profits – Much More To Come

Paul Merak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:12:52 +0000

Nvidia has posted Q4 profits of $116 million from revenues of $953 million, outstripping analysts’ expectations, though the company warned of slightly lowered revenues for the current Q1 2012...

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Peanut Labs Updates Survey Software

Paul Merak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:00:20 +0000

Peanut Labs has established a successful market research business on Facebook and the wider web, and now launches a revamped version of CrowdVi, its crowd-sampling software. The software aims to...

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Oracle MySQL Cluster – Now 8X Faster

Paul Merak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:31:03 +0000

Oracle has released it MySQL Cluster 7.2 software for download, which boasts benchmark scores of 1 billion queries or 100 million updates in a single minute. Those figures are for an eight-server...

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Sony Vaio YB35 – Review

Paul Merak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:14:09 +0000

The Sony Vaio YB35 offers solid performance and good battery life, all in an 11-inch shell for first-rate portability. Last-gen Atom netbooks are all but gone from the shelves, but the...

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HP Pavilion G7 – Review

Otto — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:39:49 +0000

The HP Pavilion G7-1353 is a 17-inch notebook measuring 412 x 268 x 37mm and tips the scales at 2.8kg. That’s about normal weight for a 17-inch notebook. HP Pavilion G7 is featuring a quad-core...

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Sony Vaio Z2 – Review

Otto — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:18:36 +0000

Sony has launched the new Vaio Z2 notebook, a 13.1-inch ultrabook with a breath-takingly sharp 1080p display and a second battery pack which can double mains-free runtime. There’s also an...

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Facebook App update on Windows Phone

Paul Merak — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:18:06 +0000

With this newest update FaceBook app ironed out few glitches and bugs. New 2.3 version brings new profile look, enhanced navigation, increased posting privacy and support for new feed filters. Also...

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eFun Releases Budget ICS Tablets

Paul Merak — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:06:11 +0000

eFun has released details of its new line of budget Nextbook tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Prices start from just $149, for which you can lay your hands on the Nextbook Premium 7, a...

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Haptic Feedback – What’s The Buzz?

Paul Merak — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:01:42 +0000

Haptic feedback – those micro-vibrations which tell you when a button was clicked or a link tapped, contribute a great deal to the usability of touchscreens; that tactile feedback is crucial in...

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Samsung Galaxy Mini 2

Paul Merak — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:03:21 +0000

One of key low-end versions of Samsung Galaxy series, the Galaxy Mini will likely get an upgrade, called the Galaxy Mini 2 at the upcoming MWC 2012. The Galaxy Mini 2 S6500, codenamed Jena, is set to...

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Toshiba N301 Cedar Trail Netbook

Paul Merak — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:53:09 +0000

Toshiba has launched the first of its intel Cedar Trail netbooks in Japan – the Dynabook N301 packs the new premium Intel Atom N2800 1.86GHz CPU, with vastly improved graphical processing,...

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Solar-powered Kindle eReader Case

Otto — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:20:07 +0000

The SolarKindle is a case for the Amazon Kindle eReader featuring a built-in solar panel, reading light and battery. And you don’t necessarily need to have the SolarKindle attached to your...

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