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Alienware M17x Review

Calvin Robinson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:49:19 +0000

Model: Alienware M17x Manufacturer: Dell Price: ~£2,000.00 Available: Out now Alienware have done it again with their most powerful portable gaming machine, the M17x. We recently got our hands on this gargantuan gaming machine and put it through its paces. Hit the jump and check out what we thought of the M17x. AESTHETICS: Now let’s not mince words, this beast is absolutely gorgeous – and it ...

Android coders get high-speed graphics ability

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:17 +0000

Image via CrunchBase All those whining and complaining about lack of good graphics and high quality gaming experience in Android phones will soon become history. Google has paved the way for iPhone-like 3D games on Android handsets running 1.5 or higher, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard through its latest Android Native Development Kit r3. It is offered a companion ...

Video calling not coming to the iPhone… yet

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:50:28 +0000

If you were one of those in UK who got excited and happy when O2 updated their iPhone pricing lists for video calling, your excitement is short lived as a spokesperson for O2 clarified that “the UK video calls that appear in their key features table is actually a regrettable mistake” according to a technology website which was ...

Sky’s 3D Channel Comes to Westfield

Ruk Cooray — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:17:36 +0000

Sky Television kicked off UK's first 3D channel with a live Premier League football match between Arsenal and Manchester United which was broadcasted in nine pubs around the UK few weeks back and was well received and appreciated.

YouTube adds automatic captioning to videos

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:27:17 +0000

Google owned YouTube which pioneered online streaming videos has started providing automatic captions to videos to make the site more accessible to the deaf and people with hearing difficulties. At present the feature is only available for videos recorded in English and Google says that more languages will be added in the coming months. Even though the idea and intentions are honorable, ...

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:22:16 +0000

Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion ...

Microsoft’s dual-screen booklet shows ‘face’ on web

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:19:39 +0000

Microsoft may not have got it all right with some – or most, depending on once perspective – of its product and software launches over the past few years and Apple’s iPod may be way ahead of Microsoft Zune in portable media players, you could bet your iPhone on Microsoft not sitting idle and letting Apple’s much hyped and awaited ...

YouTube ‘under threat’ from Digital Economy Bill changes

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:15:03 +0000

The Digital Economy Bill which was first announced in 2009 and reportedly is designed to curtail copyright infringement by users sharing files and media online has been criticized and condemned severely by many people, as its complicated and extremely stringent laws including the one which allows Internet Service Providers to give customer information to copyright holders who could sue customers ...

Vodafone Planning to Axe 500 Jobs at Newbury Headquarters

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:59:56 +0000

I often hear from industry analysts that the worst global recession is now over and it’s a matter of time before all big companies start hiring people again. However, the story at Vodafone seems to be a little different and it is planning to axe nearly 500 jobs at its Newbury headquarters. The Newbury headquarters currently has 3,000 Vodafone employees. 500 jobs were axed from ...

No iPhone To iPad Tethering, Says Steve Jobs

S King — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:51:41 +0000

Steve Jobs has ruled out any possibilities of iPhone-to-iPad tethering which would allow the iPad users to access the internet using iPhone’s 3G capabilities. In fact, the reply from Apple’s top boss was a point blank ‘No’ in an email reply to a query from a Swedish tech blog Slashat.se. While there are speculations if the email reply was indeed from ...