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An Even Bigger (!) Galaxy Note Is Coming
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Remember yesterday, when you thought the 5.4-inch screen-having Samsung Galaxy Note was gigantic? It's tiny. TINY, I say! Why? Because rumor has it that Samsung is preparing to unleash the Galaxy Note 10.1 at MWC. Yes, that's almost twice as big.
SlashGear spotted this little oopsie on Samsung's official blog. In the company's Guide to Samsung Developer Day, developers are invited to experience the Wave 3, the Wave Y, the Galaxy Note, and the Galaxy Note 10.1. The last of which, of course, doesn't officially exist—yet. While Samsung realized its error and has removed the page, this image still exists for posterity.
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HIS Unveils HIS 7770 Fan 1GB GHz Edition
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Hightech Information System (HIS) launched the HIS 7770 1GB GHz Edition. The card is targeted at the mass market with competitive graphics performances at good value. The card is the first card in the world tuned at 1GHz clock speed, offering significantly higher speed than the previous generation.
If you are looking for the most advanced performance card that flawlessly runs games and delivers outstanding overall performances for playing movies, photo editing as well as daily tasks, the HIS 7770 1GB GHz Edition is the perfect choice.
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GrooveShark’s HTML5 site now works on Windows Phone
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We have all been told the future of cross-platform apps are HTML5, but a few weeks ago GrooveShark discovered IE9 Mobile was just not ready, and while their HTML5-based streaming music website worked fine in other mobile browsers it did not work at all on Windows Phone 7.
Thankfully Microsoft did not leave it at that, and approached the Grooveshark developer to explore work-arounds. He writes:
Yes, you read that correctly. After my previous post discussing how Grooveshark’s new HTML5 site would not work on Windows Phone 7 devices, Ben Riga, Technical Evangelist on the Windows Phone team, contacted me and offered to help. He discussed the issues with Eric Lawrence, Program Manager at Microso...
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Origin PC EON17-X touts 3.3GHz Core i7, dual GTX 580M
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Origin PC has debuted its latest desktop replacement gaming notebook, the EON17-X. The notebook is designed for serious gamers who are looking for a mobile gaming solution that can match or better many desktop gaming solutions. The device is fitted with Intel desktop Core i7 chips, with the fastest of three processor options an Intel Core i7-3960X six-core chip with a 15MB Cache clocked at 3.3 GHz that Turbo Boosts to 3.9GHz and also supports up to 32GB of RAM.
Graphics processing is provided by NVIDIA with three options available including a dual 2GB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 580M in SLi mode, with Origin PC also supplying an overclocking service if a very specific set of specifications is required...
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Acer revenues recover reluctantly
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Acer has returned to profit after two quarters of back-to-back losses, posting a net income of NT$75 million ($2.5 million) in Q4 2011. Although Acer has avoided a loss this quarter, weak sales have led to a sixth straight quarterly revenue decline. Dwindling interest in netbooks, hard drive shortages, and the continued growth of the tablet market have all been cited as reasons for the company's troubles. 2011 has been a difficult year for the Taiwanese manufacturer, with disappointing profits in Q1 making way for losses in Q2 and Q3, and the company's preliminary results indicate an total annual loss of $212 million. In contrast, the company posted a $601 million profit last year.
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Google Open DNS Now Out of Experimental Phase with 70 Billion Daily Requests
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Most users are content to use the default DNS servers run by their ISP, but it turns out that quite a few folks have made the jump to a third-part solution. Google announced today that its public DNS system is no longer “experimental” and has become the largest in existence with upwards of 70 billion requests every single day. To top it off, 70% of that traffic comes from outside the U.S..
DNS servers are used to turn the URL you type into the address bar into the IP address your computer actually connects to. Since Google Public DNS launched in December 2009, Google has been hard at work making the system faster for users in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Google also added access points in...
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AMD Launches the Radeon HD 7700 Series
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AMD has just launched the new Radeon HD 7700 series, in a bid to cement its competitiveness in the sub-$200 market-segment. The Radeon HD 7700 series, according to AMD, is designed to offer "the world's most advanced graphics for everyone." The series is based around a new ASIC built on the 28 nm fab process, codenamed "Cape Verde". The new chip takes advantage of the Graphics CoreNext architecture, and features 10 GCN compute units, amounting to 640 stream processors; 40 TMUs, and 16 ROPs; and a 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface.
The Radeon HD 7770 has all components on the chip enabled, and features clock speeds of 1000 MHz core, and 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5 effective) memory, yielding ...
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Cisco sees mobile data usage increasing 8-fold by 2016
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Cisco Systems, the company that wants to build “the human network” released their annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast today, and they foresee mobile users consuming data in 2016 at a rate 8x higher than they project for this year.
How much data is that? Cisco expects mobile data usage in 2012 to average 1.3 exabytes a month (an exabyte is a thousand petabytes, or if you prefer, a million terabytes of data). In four short years that number will balloon to an astonishing 10.8 exabytes of mobile data per month. Around that time Cisco also expects the number of mobile devices to eclipse 10 billion, at which point there will be more than one mobile device for every man, woman, and child e...
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Motorola DROID 4 vs DROID RAZR MAXX vs entire Verizon Android lineup
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If you head to a Verizon Wireless store today looking to purchase an Android smartphone, you’re very likely going to be inundated by offers to purchase Verizon’s own unique DROID line. I’m here to tell you that the current top choices for these Motorola-made smartphones aren’t necessarily your best choice for Android or 4G-laden devices – in fact they’re not even really your best choice for Motorola-made devices on Verizon. Instead, have a quick glance at some comparisons to some lesser-advertised devices sitting right next to these hero phones to gain a better understanding of what Verizon really has to offer.
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Twitter Saves Your Address Book's Contents for 18 Months
Like UnlikeTwitter, did you learn nothing from Path's recent kerfuffle? Customers do not like it when you remotely store their personal information, especially without telling them.
The company has acknowledged that it collects and stores contact information gleaned from a user's address book—including names, emails, and phone numbers—through its mobile apps. Every time you activate the "Find My Friends" feature, the app will apparently transmit the entirety of your address book to Twitter's servers where the data is maintained for 18 months. This affects both iOS and Android users.
Twitter's current privacy policy only seems to refer to this activity in that some portions of "log data" can be stored f...
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 to be released on February 21st
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When Research In Motion released its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, the device had its fair share of problems. RIM promised an operating system update that would address these problems but the launch was delayed by several months. A new report from N4BB claims the official release of the PlayBook 2.0 update is set for February 21st, just over a week later than the company initially planned. The PlayBook OS 2.0 update will include native email, calendar and contacts apps, but unfortunately native BBM will remain absent from the tablet and can only be accessed through BlackBerry Bridge.
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Angry Birds for Facebook takes flight
Like UnlikeAngry Birds for Facebook has launched one day ahead of schedule according to NewsCore. The wildly popular game has been in development for more than a year and was supposed to make its debut Tuesday. Instead, the hotly anticipated title launched late on Monday. The Facebook variant features the same game play as the original mobile app along with added social components, new power-ups and exclusive new levels. The game itself is free to play, with a 20-use power up costing $1. Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 500 million times and is reportedly played by 130 million individuals on a daily basis.
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Verizon Tempts Employees With Limited Edition Droid RAZRs
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A life spent caught up in the drudgery of retail is usually pretty free of frills, but Verizon Wireless employees may soon be getting a shot at some swanky hardware if some newly-leaked images hold true. According to Android And Me, Verizon has reached out to their employees with an offer they may not be able to refuse: limited edition Droid RAZRs and Droid RAZR MAXXs.
And what’s so limited about these edition then? The employee-only Droid RAZR sports a red and black finish on its backside rather than the monochrome stylings of its more mundane brethren, along with the device’s number within the production run.
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Facebook gets a complete redesign for Windows Phone
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Facebook version 2.3 has just gone live in the Windows Phone Marketplace and it's just as big an update as we were expecting. The app has gotten a complete overhaul of the UI which fits in beautifully with WP's Metro UI.
The update not only gives a complete UI redesign, but adds tons of functionality to the app. The app now gives users access to Facebook Pages, Groups, privacy info and banner images. There are new filters to allow you to see specific types of posts in your feed. Additionally, users can now "like" posts in their feed.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook comments on Amazon Kindle Fire and pre-paid Apple iPhone
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Apple CEO Tim Cook made some comments today at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, on a few subjects ranging from pre-paid versions of the Apple iPhone to the Amazon Kindle Fire. Speaking about the latter, Cook says that there is no doubt that Amazon has and will "sell a ton of units," and pointed out that the low priced tablet has carved out a niche for itself. The executive said that the low $199 price of the tablet is not the only factor behind its success, although he did say that some Kindle Fire buyers "soured" on the device after buying it and taking it home. "People feel great when they pay from their wallet, but when they get home and use [the tablet], the joy is ...
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