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Westinghouse is bringing new LED HDTVs to CES, acronym lovers reportedly 'delighted'
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In January, Westinghouse Digital likes to drive on down to Nevada and show off its wares for the next 12 months at CES. Everything in Las Vegas is super-sized, which is great inspiration for Westy's new 70-inch LED HDTV that'll pump out 1080p episodes of "proper" CSI at 120Hz, with an 8ms response time. If your inner-city apartment doesn't have a 70-inch wall, then perhaps you'd prefer the new 46-inch ultra-slim LED HDTV that's so slender, it probably disappears if you look at it side-on, or something. The company's also gonna be showing off its first ever Bluetooth Soundbar that comes packing two 12 watt speakers, a class D amplifier and enhanced bass so you can really enjoy those opening b...
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Verizon planning streaming video service, gets ready to take on Netflix
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We can't say we're entirely shocked by the move but, according to Reuters, Verizon is getting ready to enter the streaming media market. Reports are that the company is in talks with programming partners to provide content for a Netflix-like video service that it could offer to customers not currently covered by its high-speed FiOS network. Obviously, details are scant, and there's no telling when it might actually launch, but you can bet its competitors will be watching closely... and we don't just mean Netflix. Cable and satellite TV providers are already wary of the public embracing cord-cutting -- when one of their own seems to be encouraging the behavior it sets off a lot of alarms.
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BenQ W7000 Projector Released
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BenQ is proud to announce today the release of their first home theater projector that comes with 3D technology and full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution. The W7000 also comes with 2000 ANSI lumens and a 50000:1 contrast ratio. BenQ is also stating that the W7000 is also the world’s first to receive the TUV Rheinland 3D full HD Certification. The projector has been given dual HDMI ports as well as a component, s-video, and a composite port for good measure. The device is compact and features a glossy black finish that will help hide it when watching movies. BenQ will not include 3D glasses with the W7000 but they can be purchased separately. The retail price for this device has not been announced...
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Runco Announces Four New Ultra Projectors
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Today, the company announced four new projectors that will be releasing soon. The models are the “Ultra” versions of existing projectors and include the D-73d Ultra, LS-HB Ultra, Q-750d Ultra, and the Q-1500d Ultra. The Ultra versions allow integrators the flexibility desired for installing projectors in homes and offices. The D-73d features 1400 ANSI lumens, a 10000:1 contrast ratio, and full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution. It is also 3D capable. The LS-HB Ultra comes with the same HD resolution, but also comes with 2700 ANSI lumens and an 1164:1 contrast ratio. The Q-750d and Q-1500d also share the HD resolution and they both have a 20000:1 contrast ratio. The Q-750d comes with only 700 ANSI ...
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Christie Will Display Projectors at Cine Asia 2011
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Today, they announced that they will be bringing a wide array of digital projectors to display this year at Cine Asia. Among the products that will be on display are the CP4220, CP4230, and the CP2220, just to name a few. Christie will be highlighting their new High Frame Rate conversion technology that can convert 48 FPS content to 60 FPS. “The exhibition scene is gaining a lot of momentum in terms of technological breakthroughs and this has provided exhibitors with many opportunities to adopt these new changes and adapt them to suit their needs. At Cine Asia this year, Christie will demonstrate that we are at the forefront of the technological breakthroughs currently happening in this indu...
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EVGA X79 FTW LGA 2011 is now available
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Announced in in mid-November was the EVGA X79 FTW motherboard (Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E processors using the LGA 2011 socket) and is has now become available in retail with pricing being set at $399.99
The X79 FTW is one of EVGA’s more advanced motherboards based on the Intel X79 chipset, is only surpassed by the XL-ATX Classified, and uses the EATX form factor in order to provide users with 3-way SLI support.
Graphics cards can be installed in the five PCI Express x16 slots available, which are accompanied by an additional PCIe x1 slot for less pretentious add-on cards.
The rest of the expansion options include support for two SATA 6Gbps and four SATA 3Gbps drives, while on the rear I/O pa...
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Intel to Retire Several Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 CPUs in 2012
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Intel sends word that they plans to retire five Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 CPUs released earlier this year from its product lineup, including three Pentium processors and two second generation Core models built using the 32nm fabrication node.
The processors affected are the Core i5-2300 and Core i3-2100T, both tray and boxed, as well as the Pentium G840, G620 and G620T.
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AMD Shows New A-Series Notebook APUs
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Yesterday AMD quietly introduced seven new accelerated A-Series notebook APU's, featuring quad and dual-core designs.
Four out of the seven CPUs introduced by AMD are from the A8 and A6 series which means that they include four processing cores, while the remaining three are A4 chips with dual computing cores.
The fastest of these quad-core models is the A8-3550MX which compared to its predecessor got 100MHz higher base and Turbo Core speeds, making it the first Llano mobile processors to reach the 2GHz frequency (2.7GHz in Turbo mode).
However, the specs of the graphics core were left unaltered and the chip sports the same Radeon HD 6620G integrated GPU which operated at 444MHz.
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NVIDIA sees ARM supercomputer be more efficient than x86
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It'll be very interesting to see ARM development and implementation in the years to come.
EE Times reports NVIDIA is betting on ARM to be more efficient for supercomputers than x86: In a recent interview, Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta, director of Tesla marketing, said the only real advantage to x86 systems was that they could run operating systems like Microsoft Windows faster, but that when it came to needing maximum performance on minimum power, ARM was the future, and therefore a better option for supercomputing.
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Nokia seeking buyer for Vertu, says Financial Times
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FT is citing an unnamed source today as saying that Nokia has retained Goldman Sachs as an advisor in a bid to sell its Vertu subsidiary, the UK-based purveyor of handmade ultra-luxury phones. Though you might think that the market for $10,000 handsets running Symbian is an extraordinarily small one, various reports over the past couple years have claimed that the division — which doesn't report its own revenue figures — is highly profitable, so it stands to reason that Nokia could end up fetching a strong price for it. Current rumors have a number of private equity firms looking at striking a deal, but the speculation is that luxury brands (some of which, like Prada and Armani, have taken t...
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LG G2x for T-Mobile gets a second shot at OTA Gingerbread update
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LG's G2x launched in April to reports of random reboots, overheating, and low battery life, but a July upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread aimed to resolve most of the issues. In a somewhat odd move, T-Mobile has now started another rollout of the OTA updates, seemingly to catch any stragglers left behind. Along with the aforementioned fixes and enhancements of Gingerbread itself, the upgrade also improves the performance of the front-facing camera when using the video sharing app Qik.
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New CMOS technology cuts power use by more than half
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SuVolta's PowerShrink was first revealed earlier ths year, as we review later in this story. But this week, SuVolta and initial licensee Fujitsu used the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington, D.C., to announce that the technology has been successfully demonstrated -- and also to shed a little more light on how it works.
According to the companies, the power consumption of SRAM has steadily ramped downwards as chips get smaller in size. For example, power supply voltages have fallen to around 1.0V for devices produced using 130nm fabrication.
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US Justice Department also investigating Apple and others for ebook price fixing
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We heard just yesterday that the European Commission was investigating possible ebook price fixing by Apple and five major book publishers, and now the US Department of Justice has confirmed that it's investigating the situation. (To be clear, the news is the confirmation, not the investigation — that's been rumored since last year.) Like the European investigation, the DOJ is interested in the "agency model" of selling books, whereby the publishers set the final prices and Apple takes a cut; that's in contrast to the wholesale model used by Amazon in which the publishers sell the books to the retailer and Amazon decides the final prices at will. By agreeing to the agency model, Apple gave t...
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New LG Optimus Pad photos leak, LTE on board
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New pictures have surfaced of the alleged successor to LG's pricey G-Slate that confirm it will be an LTE device. Images of the new Optimus Pad first appeared around Thanksgiving, but its 4G status was unclear at the time; one of the new photos, published by Korean site Cetizen, clearly shows off an LTE startup screen. The tablet is reported to include a 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor, an 8.9-inch, 1280 x 768 TFT screen, and 1GB of storage (a microSD slot is also included). Featuring both a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel rear-facing shooter, the tablet will be running Android 3.2.1 Honeycomb at launch — though an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich should be forthcoming. Of cour...
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Some of Verizon's 4G LTE is OUT; Big Red working to resume service
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Verizon engineers are currently hard at work, trying to get the carrier's 4G LTE network up and running after complaints from customers that those with 4G handsets are not sending or receiving data. Verizon says that 3G voice and data are not affected by the outage. Some 4G customers have had their phone shift down to 3G coverage while others have had no service at all. According to Big Red, voice calls and texts are still going through (which brings a sigh of relief to those who voted for their favorite X Factor contestant on Wednesday night, using a Verizon LTE phone to text their selection).
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