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Google adds Esperanto as its 64th machine translatable language

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:00:03 +0000

Esperanto is not only something Microsoft uses to tease Google for abandoning video codecs, it is a legitimate, manufactured language. Created within the late 1800′s by Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, Esperanto was designed to be a straightforward to profit language that will help folks from world wide understand one another. Seeing as how Google Translate [...]

Shanghai court rejects Proview injunction, okays the sale of Apple iPads

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:30:07 +0000

The legal tussle between Apple and Proview over the iPad has swung in Cupertino’s direction. In step with Ximin News, a Shanghai court has rebuffed Proview’s demand for an injunction halting the sale of the Apple tablet as a result of licensing issues. The Pudong New Area People’s Court made the choice yesterday, stating that [...]

Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 12-65 hits North America in March for $11,350

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:30:07 +0000

Have you ever been shoring up funds because you first heard concerning the Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 12-65 last month ? We sure hope so. The corporate has announced that its 65-inch full HD and 3D compatible plasma TV will hit showrooms within the Canada, Mexico and the usa in an issue of days. Featuring [...]

Samsung may cough up millions over kaput TVs

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:00:03 +0000

A class action lawsuit filed by owners of faulty Sammy TVs has finally reached a settlement. The manufacturer has promised to foot the bill for brand new repairs, reimburse for previous repairs and hand out as much as $300 to customers who now not possess their broken TVs but can prove they once did. The [...]

Sony outs 350Mbps TransferJet chip for smartphones, tries to not stare at Toshiba

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:30:02 +0000

With Toshiba’s toes having already crossed the 560Mbps wireless transfer speed barrier, Sony is instead forced to emphasise that its new TransferJet chip has “industry-leading short-range sensitivity.” Crucially though, the miniaturised 6mm x 6mm device also boasts lower consumption in comparison with Sony’s previous offerings, making it suitable for smartphones and tablets in preference to [...]

Panasonic: Eluga means ‘Elegant, user-orientated gateway,’ not a cry of distress

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:00:03 +0000

No, it is not the noise people make when they’ve eaten an excessive amount of caviar. Panasonic’s revealed the reasoning behind calling its long-heralded smartphone Eluga — apparently it stands for “ELegant, User-orientated GatewAy.” The company’s also revealed a couple of more specs and tidbits following on from yesterday’s rather sketchy announcement. One can find [...]

Star Wars 3D getting the Blu-ray treatment for spring?

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:30:03 +0000

Just finished your deliciously digital Blu-ray collection of the Star Wars saga? Thought that was the top of it? C’mon. Following the 3-dimensional release of Episode 1 in theaters, Pocket-lint’s heard from sources at a contemporary Panasonic event that the “start” of the saga can be arriving on 3D Blu-ray faster than you would think [...]

Harris new rugged tablet brings Honeycomb on your local combat-zone

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:30:03 +0000

Harris makes the cruel tech you’d expect to look census takers (leave it), NFL stadiums and public buses toting around. It’s introducing a brand new 7-inch Android tablet that’s so hard-as-nails it’s going to make a Galaxy Tab go home and make contact with its mother. The Harris RF-3590 packs a 1024 x 600 multitouch [...]

Qualcomm Atheros flaunts 802.11ac WiFi module for Snapdragon S4

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:30:03 +0000

The 802.11ac WiFi standard may sound like an alphabetical step backwards, but for prime-bandwidth tasks like 1080p streaming it promises to wipe the face off 802.11n. Qualcomm Atheros wants its share of the billion unit pie and has just launched a sequence of goods to flesh out its 802.11ac ecosystem. Top billing goes to the [...]

Apache outs version 2.4 of its HTTP server six years after last full release

Dan A. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:30:04 +0000

It has been half a dozen years since Apache last released a brand new version of its venerable HTTP server, however the day has finally come for version 2.4 to be unveiled to the arena. Granted, the old Apache was doing fine — it has been essentially the most prolific web server on this planet [...]

T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with AWS spectrum from AT&T

Dan A. — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:30:03 +0000

In T-Mobile USA’s first earnings report because the proposed merger with AT&T fell through in December , it noted a lack of 802,000 customers in Q4, but there’s some excellent news. Because of the AWS spectrum it’s receiving as a result of termination of said deal, it plans to launch LTE services in 2013. Additionally, [...]

NVIDIA officially brands Tegra 3′s five-core quad-core architecture as 4-PLUS-1

Dan A. — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:30:02 +0000

NVIDIA’s cooked up a number of the way to describe the Tegra 3′s quad-core-with-a-spare architecture, usually by giving the additional Cortex A9 a cute nickname like ” ninja ,” or ” companion .” Earlier, the right description was “Variable Symmetrical Multiprocessing,” or, vSMP for brief. Despite how much fun (and technically accurate) most of these [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy S II celebrates 20 million sold, just in time for MWC

Dan A. — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:30:02 +0000

After crossing the ten million units moved threshold back in September , Samsung has joyously announced sooner than MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones has sold 20 million since launching in April. Consistent with Samsung, taking just ten months to hit the mark puts it sooner than the original Galaxy S [...]

ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place

Dan A. — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:30:02 +0000

If the trio of slabs ZTE announced earlier this week weren’t enough for you, sit tight, the outfit just announced it’s bringing a complete of eight new phones to Barcelona next week. The hot handsets will reportedly flaunt multi-core processors, LTE radios and the most recent versions of the Aneroid and Windows Phone platforms. This [...]

LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display

Dan A. — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:30:03 +0000

If LG did not impress to date with the slew of Android 2.3 phones it’s shown off inside the run as much as MWC 2012 , perhaps the Optimus 4X HD could make up for it. This 4.7-inch beast is its first to add a 1.5GHz quad core Tegra 3 as its CPU, a 4.7-inch [...]