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iPhone 5 Front Panel Leaked Photos
Apple’s new iPhone 5 is just weeks away unveiling, and while we wait to see how the handset will shape up in its final assembled form, bits and pieces continue to leak. We’ve seen the housing, we’ve seen the internals, we’ve seen the screen, and now UBREAKIFIX.com has leaked images of what it claims to be the next iPhone’s final front assembly.
Apple’s next iPhone is expected [...]
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Apple’s TV Vision- Social iOS Cloud-based DVR
Apple plans to monopolize TV viewing with a cloud-based DVR service, social sharing features and an icon-based user interface. Apple has plans for the live TV service it is currently pitching alongside its vision of the next-generation Apple TV set-top box. Some key features include global cloud-based DVR service, which would allow users to watch any show on-demand at any time once [...]
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Apple stock all-time high at $648.19
Yesterday, Apple stock hit a record high as analyst anticipateseveral upcoming Apple products. Apple shares climbed as high as $648.19 on Friday and closed up 1.85% at $648.11, pushing Apple’s market capitalization back above $600 billion.
Anticipation of the next-generation iPhone, which is expected by nearly every Apple analyst to be the company’s biggest launch ever, along with speculation [...]
Instagram 3.0 (video)
The 80-million subscriber, Photo-sharing app, Instagram, is detailing its latest user interface today, Instagram 3.0, and it’s geo-location is the prime theme here. The newest edition of the app introduces a Photo Maps view, which overlays photos with a map underneath, giving people a far more visual look at what they were seeing at a given point on Earth.
3.0 also includes multi-line [...]
Verizon Acquires Advanced Wireless Spectrum License
Verizon is boosting up their spectrum for their LTE services with the recent signing off from the Justice Department on Verizon’s $3.9 billion Advanced Wireless Spectrum (AWS) license acquisition from cable companies Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Bright House and Cox cable companies. Verizon and the cable companies will need to limit the scope of their joint marketing agreements [...]
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HP forming new webOS Company, ‘Gram’
Reports have surfaced that HP is forming a new company called Gram that is dedicated to leveraging the core strengths of webOS, Enyo and our cloud offerings. Apparently, the founding of Gram means that HP will not be using webOS for consumer electronics anymore and will instead use it for its enterprise products including software, user experience, the cloud, engineering, and partnering. [...]
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RIM will license BlackBerry 10
Bloomberg just reported that Research In Motion will be licensing BlackBerry 10. Thorsten Heins told Bloomberg earlier today:
“QNX is already licensed across the automotive sector — we could do that with BB10 if we chose to,” Heins, who has begun to carry a BB10 phone for his own use, said in an interview at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York. “The platform can be licensed.”
Assuming [...]
RIM Cutting 3000 Jobs
The rumored next round of layoffs that Research In Motion (RIM) has been planning will indeed happen next week. RIM will cut its employee pool by 3,000 over the next couple of weeks, and it’s unknown who will be affected. Employees have been told that aside from employees working on BlackBerry 10, no department is safe from RIM’s latest employee cuts. RIM says that any [...]
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New iMac and Mac Pro Coming
Unconfirmed sources indicate that Apple may be readying a redesign for its iMac and Mac Pro line of computers. Internal files from the company contain information that lets the software know what Mac models can install a second operating system from a USB flash drive. While the list includes the existing MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers, it also includes two new Mac models [...]
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Motorola RAZR Owners Getting Android 4.0 Upgrade
Motorola has already loaded some of its earliest Android 4.0 updates to the Verizon Droid RAZRs, but the company hasn’t forgotten those who call the international, HSPA-based RAZR (the XT910). The phone’s first wave of over-the-air upgrades to the new OS should be rolling out now, according to reports. We don’t know exactly who’s getting the upgrade, although [...]
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SlingPlayer to Expand to Game Consoles
SlingMedia is preparing to offer their SlingPlayer service gaming consoles. That word comes from a new Sling survey recently administered, which attempts to gauge customers’ interest in a SlingPlayer app for game consoles. Not much more news from this story, however, such an app would let you watch video from your SlingBox in full HD, and that you’d naturally be able to control [...]
HTC One X gets Android 4.0.4
HTC is issuing an update to version 4.0.4, launching today, which will allow users to map menu functionality to the lower right ‘recent app’ key, while it will also give camera enhancement like white balance and continuous autofocus improvements. Expect a handful of stability improvements as well as a dedicated tab switcher for the built-in browser, particularly if you haven’t [...]
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iPad Mini in Production (video)
We all know that the iPhone 5 is on its way in a couple of months. Now, rumors suggest that the latest addition of the iPhone will be accompanied by the unveiling of the iPad Mini as well.
Recent rumors suggest that an iPad Mini screen is already in production, leading some people to believe that this follows the speculation of a fall release.
Check out the video courtesy of CNET…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 7.0 with Ice Cream Sandwich (video)
Samsung has upgraded its newest 10.1-inch and 7-inch tablets with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The problem is that the upgrade has only been made available to users in the United Kingdom so far It’s been reported that the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and 10.1 owners in the United States might possibly have a little bit more of a wait on their hands, and expect ICS upgrades for [...]
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Netgear’s NeoTV Pro Now Includes WiDi Technology
Netgear’s NeoTV Pro features a significant enhancement over last year’s NeoTV 200: Wireless Display (WiDi) connectivity. The Intel-developed technology allows WiDi-capable computers to interact with adapters on television, letting users display all their content at 1080p resolution on the larger screens. As such, WiDi claims to bring benefits to media streaming, gaming, and presentations.
The [...]
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Tactus’ Dynamic Touchscreen to Change Mobile Experience
Tactus revealed a revolutionary new approach to touchscreens at the Display Week of the Society for Information Display in Boston: a layer of the screen that physically bulges out to acts as tactile keys. The technology utilizes microfludics in order to create screens that move on their own depending on the situation.
Demos of Tactus’ new development showed small nubs rise directly from the screen [...]
Virgin Mobile to Offer Prepaid iPhones
Virgin Mobile announced last Thursday that starting June 29, 2012, the Sprint subsidiary will be offering the Apple iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S as available models on their prepaid services. With the development, Virgin will become the second prepaid carrier in the United States to offer iPhones as part of their stock.
8GB iPhone 4’s will be available off-contract for $549, while 16GB iPhone 4S’s [...]
ASUS Debuts World’s First 802.11ac WiFi Laptop
ASUS demoed its G75VW gaming laptop at Computex last Thursday, the very first notebook in the world to sport 802.11ac WiFi capabilities. The 5G-ready laptop is able to support speeds as high as 900Mbps, a few shades short of the gigabyte range. While hands-on reviewers weren’t able to test its full capabilities due to logistical limitations, the laptop did occasionally break the 400Mbps barrier [...]
Google Maps Delivers 3D Mapping, Other New Features
Google unveiled exciting new features for Google Maps at last Wednesday’s press conference, the highlight of which is a 3D view for the service. Using airplanes equipped with 3D cameras similar to the ones Google uses for Street View, the service will soon be able to capture 45-degree images and build accurate models of buildings, large structures, and even trees. Users will then be [...]
Google Buys QuickOffice
This week Google announced that it is acquiring Quickoffice.
“Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device,” the company wrote on its blog. “Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file formats, and we’ll be working on bringing their powerful technology to [...]
LG G2 with Google TV Features OnLive Cloud-Based Gaming
During the E3 conference in Los Angeles this June, OnLive, Inc. displayed its cloud-based gaming service on the new LG G2 with Google TV. The company first announced bringing OnLive Viewer to Google TV at CES last January, and teased about console-quality gaming features in the future.
On Tuesday, OnLive founder and CEO Steve Perlman unveiled the development, saying, “It’s always been our [...]
MSI outs Windows 8 Slider S20 Hybrid Tablet (video)
MSI has just introduced the Slider S20, a hybrid tablet that features an 11.6-inch multi-touch screen and is based on Intel’s Chief River platform. It also sports a bunch of I/O ports including USB 3.0 and HDMI, as well as built-in WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.
The MSI Windows 8-toting S20 hybrid has a fairly slick tilting mechanism that locks the 11.6-inch touchscreen at an angle, turning [...]
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Samsung Galaxy S III hits U.S. beginning this month (video)
Last night, Samsung announced that its new Galaxy S III Android smartphone will launch on five major wireless carriers in the United States beginning in June. For the first time, Samsung’s flagship smartphone will launch on Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile using the same Galaxy S III moniker, rather than launching with a unique name at each carrier. The move by [...]
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Powers Energy’s “Trash-to-Energy” Technology
Alternative energy sources have been, to say the least, a red-hot electoral topic over the last decade. As countries become more dependent on oil, the need to find something else to power our lives is becoming increasingly crucial. Enter Municipal solid waste (MSW). It’s one of three major waste-to-energy technologies, (other than biomass and anaerobic digestion). With this [...]
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Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360 (video)
Amazon just announced that its Prime Instant Video service and access to “Your Video Library” is now available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. The streaming service, which is available as a part of Amazon Prime for $79 a year and offers customers free two-day shipping, features more than 17,000 movies and TV episodes, including hundreds of Paramount films.
“Working with Amazon.com marks [...]
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 beta Next Day or So
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook product manager, Michael Clewley, has confirmed through his Twitter page that the company is planning to release a beta version of its 2.1 Playbook OS by the end of May. After taking a role as a BlackBerry developer, the update will be pushed to eligible devices once it is released. RIM’s prior update brought native contacts, calendar and email to the [...]
Canadian Samsung Galaxy S III Nixes Quad-Core
The Canadian version of the Samsung Galaxy S III will do without the quad-core Exynos processor found in the European version and instead feature a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor. The Canadian handset, like the Japanese model, will also receive a RAM boost from 1GB to 2GB. It has already been confirmed that the Galaxy S III would be equipped with a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor on U.S. [...]
Cricket Communications Takes iPhone “PrePaid”
Beginning on June 22nd, U.S. users will be able to purchase a new iPhone to be used alongside prepaid wireless service. Regional carrier Cricket, owned by Leap Wireless, will offer Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 off contract alongside its $55 unlimited talk, text and data plan. Though labeled as unlimited, the plan includes 2.3GB of full-speed data, and speeds will be throttled once that [...]
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Samsung Chromebook and Google Chromebox Unveiled
Google and Samsung just announced a new Chromebook and Chromebox computer. Both devices are powered by Google’s cloud-based Chrome OS and are built for speedy performance. Samsung’s newest Chromebook, the Series 5 550, features a 12.1-inch display, an Intel Core processor, 4GB of RAM, an HD Camera, two USB 2.0 ports and six hours of continuous battery life. The Chromebox resembles [...]
Sonos Announces SUB
The latest addition to the Sonos family, the SUB, promises a huge amount of additional base to any existing Sonos setup. The Sonos SUB wireless subwoofer has been designed to complement the already impressive sonic capabilities of Sonos amplified products like the CONNECT:AMP, the PLAY:3 and the PLAY:5 by adding a generous amount of throbbing bass to the mix. The SUB’s system settings [...]
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