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RIM acquires online services company NewBay
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Research In Motion has announced that it has acquired NewBay, a company that provides messaging, social networking, and cloud storage products to handset manufacturers and carriers. RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog says "NewBay's LifeCache platform helps enable operators and device makers to deliver content across multiple, connected devices such as mobile phones, PCs and tablets." The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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Android Gingerbread available for Verizon's Motorola DROID 2 Global and DROID Pro
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Verizon Wireless has informed us that it has begun pushing out Android 2.3 Gingerbread firmware updates for two of its Motorola smartphones. The DROID Pro and the global version of the DROID 2 are the lucky recipients. Users can download the update by going into the Settings section of their phones and heading to About Phone and then System Updates.
Among the improvements that users of both devices can expect are improved battery monitoring and power management, multi-touch keyboard support, the Gingerbread download manager, and a new user interface and color scheme.
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Android said to have overtaken Apple in global mobile app downloads
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Applications downloaded to Android devices in the second quarter surpassed the number apps downloaded from Apple’s iOS App Store. New data from market research and intelligence firm ABI Research shows that Android overtook iOS by a substantial margin in the June quarter, having been responsible for 44% of mobile app downloads around the world compared to iOS at 31%. ”Android’s open source strategy is the main factor for its success,” said ABI researcher Lim Shiyang in a statement. “Being a free platform has expanded the Android device install base, which in turn has driven growth in the number of third party multi-platform and mobile operator app stores. These conditions alone explain why An...
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Thought Cisco Was Out of Home Networking? Think Again
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Cisco seems to be in a very different place now than it was about six months ago. The networking and telecommunications giant recently hired a new general manager of its Home Networking Business Unit. That's the same division of Cisco that many predicted would be shuttered after CEO John Chambers announced the company would re-focus on its "core competencies," including enterprise networking, collaboration and video.
The announcement was made in wake of economic losses, perception Cisco had "disappointed" investors, and inevitably resulted in job losses, the killing of the Flip consumer video portion of its business, as well as endless speculation, much of it negative.
That was almost six mo...
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Sapphire Celebrates Battlefield 3 Launch with Special Edition HD 6970 Graphics Card
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Celebrating the launch of the much anticipated Battlefield 3 game, SAPPHIRE Technology is introducing the SAPPHIRE HD 6970 BF3 Special Edition - featuring two SAPPHIRE exclusive technologies, SAPPHIRE FleX and Vapor-X cooling as well as performance enhancing options for the enthusiast and access to a FREE copy of the full game!
The SAPPHIRE HD 6970 BF3 Special Edition is based on AMD’s award winning second generation DX 11 graphics engine with the powerful configuration of 1536 stream processors and 96 texture processing units delivering smooth and detailed graphics to the latest generation of games and applications. SAPPHIRE FleX technology allows the direct connection of three DVI monitor...
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KFA2 GTX 570 MDT Photo's Leak
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KFA2 are working on a new revision of the GeForce GTX 570 to spice up the Christmas season a little I guess. This is their MDT card which will launch next month. MDT stands for Multi Display Technology meaning you can game on multiple monitors with just one card.
The card will support quad 1080p displays with surround gaming up to three displays up-to 1920x1080p.
As you can see the card has DVI-D x3, Dual-link DVI x1, Mini-HDMI. We do know that the card will come overclocked straight out of the box.
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LeadTek WinFast GTX 560 Ti Hurricane Graphics Card
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Leadtek Research Inc., known globally for its extreme visual graphics technology, added the new WinFast GTX 560 Ti Hurricane graphics card to the Fermi II generation family for enthusiasts. It features dual 90 mm fans, two 8 mm cooper heat-pipes, a large copper base and many fan fins equipped behind the GeForce Fermi 114 chipset, which can reduce temperature more effectively than the standard version containing only two 6 mm cooper heat-pipes from the chipset manufacture. This not only means improvements in the thermal solution but also in noise emission. Only 21 dB is measured during idle time, and even during peak time, it is just 43 dB. Leadtek will release more dual fan design graphics c...
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Favi Entertainment Releases A3-WiFi Projector
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Favi Entertainment announced recently the release of a brand new pico projector, the A3-WiFi. This tiny device weighs about a half pound and features a 1000:1 contrast ratio and SVGA (800 x 600) resolution. The company did not state how bright the projector is, but they did say that the device can display up to a 100” display. The main feature is its Wi-Fi capabilities, which enables it to access the internet. The projector uses an Android OS and can support Microsoft Office documents, PDFs and uses the Internet Explorer web browser. The A3-WiFi is available now through the company’s website or through certified retailers. It is priced at just under $400.
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Amiga-based desktop to be released for Christmas
Like UnlikeRetro computer enthusiast Amigakit has announced that its AmigaOne X1000 desktop will be with us for Christmas - with a whopping price tag of £2,000.
A labour of love for its creators, Trevor Dickinson, Anthony Moorley and Ben Hermans, it packs a custom-built motherboard running a semi-dual core processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a Radeon HD4650 graphics card.
Those specs aren't all that alluring, especially given the whopping price tag, but it's still worth bearing in mind that the AmigaOne has been built from the ground up to run AmigaOS4. Which itself is an optional extra.
First-come only-served
The desktop will be built and sold on a first-come first-served basis, but we'...
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Zune Music Pass Coming To Australia At $11.99 Per Month
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At a press event in Australia, Microsoft Australia announced that its Zune Music Pass service is coming to Australia on Nov-16th. With Zune Music pass, subscribers can stream music from the library of about 11 million songs on Zune desktop software, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone devices. The Zune Music pass service will cost $11.99 per month and however there will be no free songs available for download every month as we had in US earlier. Also, still there is no option for users to buy individual songs/albums from the service. Anyway, good to see Zune services expanding outside US.
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Google to be monitored by Feds for privacy for 20 years
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Google has accepted a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over various privacy issues, agreeing to be audited for its privacy practices for the next 20 years in a landmark case the agency says is the first time it has had to require any company to formally implement a comprehensive privacy program to protect users' personal information, TalkingPointsMemo reports. The case was prompted over issues related to the now-defunct Google Buzz service.
The FTC initially charged Google with engaging in unfair and deceptive practices in 2010 by claiming users could easily opt-out of Buzz when in fact the tools that limited sharing of information were difficult to find, confusing and ultim...
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Nvidia releases WHQL driver update for Battlefield 3
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Nvidia has released a new set of WHQL-certified drivers for its graphics cards just in time for tomorrow's launch of Battlefield 3 on the PC. The GeForce 285.58 for Windows XP and 285.62 for Windows 7/Vista users promise to increase Battlefield 3 performance on a single GTX 560 by "up to 11%" since the release of the GeForce 285.38 beta drivers.
Nvidia also mentions several compatibility enhancements, as well as a new and improved SLI profile and a 3D Vision profile.
Batman: Arkham City and Rage are also getting compatibility and performance improvements, along a bunch of older titles including Metro 2033, STALKER: Call of Pripyat, Civilization V, StarCraft II, Crysis 2, and others. As far a...
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Netflix US subscriber count drops by 800k in Q3, 21.45 million still streaming
Like UnlikeAfter a tumultuous third quarter the numbers are finally in for Netflix, and as expected its price hike and Qwikster madness have cost it a few customers in the US. Currently the company is reporting a total of 23.79 million customers in the US, down from 24.59 million last quarter -- fewer than even it projected a few weeks ago. According to the report, it lost more "long term" customers than expected, which it attributes, again, to its poor explanation of the reasoning behind the change. To address those decisions and its inability to reach a new deal with Starz it has a few more numbers to show, as apparently only 7 percent of new customers are opting for the $15.98 hybrid package, while ...
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Linux kernel hits 3.1, adds support for NFC and Wiimotes
Like UnlikeIn May Linux finally saw the release of kernel version 3.0, an evolutionary update to the popular open-source platform that was nearly 15 years in the making. Today, version 3.1 is making its debut, once again primarily offering small tweaks like better support for Intel's Ivy Bridge and Cedar Trail chips and improved power management. But there are some new features getting baked in, including support for NFC and drivers for Wiimotes. The brave amongst you can download the sources from Git now (it hasn't been posted to Kernel.org just yet), but we suggest you hold out until your distro of choice releases an official update.
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Lenovo C325 all-in-one packs AMD Fusion, touch for $699
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Lenovo hoped to bring a rare level of features to lower cost all-in-one desktops through the C325. The 20-inch PC manages to fit an optional touchscreen and native apps but keeps the price down by using AMD's 1.65GHz E-450 processor. The chip gives it graphics fast enough for modern 3D and 1080p video, including over HDMI.
The easel-shaped design still finds room for some extras, such as the options of a TV tuner or USB 3.0. An uncommon always-ready speaker system lets users plug in an outside audio source like an iPod and play it without having to turn the computer on.
Lenovo hasn't outlined what users get in the standard version other than the E-450 and a DVD burner, but prices will start ...
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