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More mainstream LCD monitors expected to adopt IPS panels
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With an expected decline in LCD monitor sales growth in the coming year, manufacturers are reacting to the trend by offering better differentiated models in the mainstream 21" to 25" range. A couple of weeks ago Dell quietly pushed out a new 24-inch UltraSharp monitor that uses an IPS panel and that with a few trade-offs shaves off over $200 in respect to the U2410, which is aimed at professional users.
Dell also offers a budget 23-inch IPS monitor that for a short timespan could be bought for a mere $250 (currently ~$305). Other taiwanese manufacturers are joining the party as well. Mitsubishi, AOC and Viewsonic are already offering or expected to offer 23-inch IPS monitors this year. Accor...
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Chromium's experimental touch UI demoed on video, made for meaty fingers
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Google was pretty adamant at I/O that Chrome OS would not be coming tablets, but that hasn't stopped its open-source cousin from adding some touch friendly features. Chromium (the browser, not the OS) got its first tablet tweaks back in June, but this is the first time we're seeing them on video. While the larger icons, widgets, and virtual keyboard, may eventually make their way onto the rumored Seaboard, there's no guarantee these (obviously still early) experiments will ever debut as part of Chrome OS or even the browser. Check out the video after the break for a brief glimpse of this work in progress and, if you're feeling adventurous, hit up the more coverage link to download the latest...
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Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, asserts its dominance over Snow Leopard
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Distributing your OS digitally certainly makes for an easy upgrade, but what happens when your hard disk spontaneously combusts -- taking Lion's recovery partition with it? Unless you planned ahead and rolled your own install image, you were stuck taking an arduous and painful detour back to Snow Leopard before being given the chance to re-up with Cupertino's latest. That changes today, with the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that duplicates the OS's recovery partition onto an external drive of your choosing -- allowing you to boot directly into an installer which'll re-download the latest jungle cat, sans sojourn to 10.6. To do so, you'll need an external drive larger than 1GB, a m...
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Akamai DNS Problem Takes Down Apple.com, Slows Major Sites
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A problem with Akamai's DNS service slowed or took down major Web sites Monday afternoon, including Apple.com.
Sites including Best Buy, Apple's Web site and Web store, and PCMag.com, among others, were affected. Visitors to the affected sites were met with errors, although reloading the page tended to eventually bring up the desired content.
"Akamai is aware of a brief DNS issue that occurred at 3:30pm ET resulting in intermittent DNS lookup failures. The issue has been resolved," the company said via its Twitter feed.
An Akamai spokesman confirmed the outage, which he said lasted about 30 minutes from the first impact to the return of service. He declined to comment on what customers were ...
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Windows Phone 7 Marketplace being blocked by the Great Firewall of China?
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WPSauce reports that for the past 3 days Chinese users on many of the big ISPs there are having trouble accessing the Windows Phone 7 marketplace.
He was however able to access Marketplace fine when using a WIFI hotspot connected via VPN to USA, suggesting that Marketplace was being blocked by Chinese ISPs.
The Android Market apparently had the same issues in the past, forcing Motorola to ship their own custom market for Chinese phones.
It is not known as yet if this blockage is by accident or on purpose or how long it will last, but such a geographic fracturing can certainly not be good for Marketplace.
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HTC Ruby shows its T-Mobile skin, Android aspirations
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Well folks, now we know. It looks like the HTC Ruby that was leaked via a series of hyper-sensitive office photos is headed to T-Mobile. You know the one -- a couple weeks back, when someone underestimated the glare of the HTC Flyer and dropped their seemingly harmless photos on Flickr? Yeah, that's the handset in question. Not much dirt on the specs, besides the familiar key layout cluing us into Google's obvious underpinnings.. and just maybe, we'll get some fresh baked Gingerbread goodness. Either way, more info should be on the way soon, but until then, careful to check your reflections, friends.
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LG Thrill 4G shows up in Best Buy's buyer's guide
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AT&T's LG Thrill 4G might have been delayed until August 21st, but meanwhile it also showed up in Best Buy's product catalog for August under the LG Thrill 3D moniker. The 3D-enabled handset was put up for pre-order at RadioShack, but the initial release date of August 7th was pushed and pre-orders were extended to August 15th.
A tipster of ours now confirmed that Best Buy is expected to launch the phone for pre-order soon, but had no further details about the device. Well, we already know plenty about the phone, which was launched as the LG Optimus 3D outside of the States. The 4.3-inch display on this powerhouse supports glasses-free 3D using a parallax barrier, which acts as a slit plate ...
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I’m Android Watch Now Available For Pre-Order
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While I found the I’m Watch ridiculous and feel that wearable tech isn’t nearly as close to being viable as we’ve been led to expect, the watch is actually shipping and will cost $350 when Blue Sky begins selling their pre-orders.
The watch runs a Freescale IMX233 CPU and connects to a cellphone via Bluetooth. It lets you check messages and other wee bits of information and little else.
You can check out the exciting video render at the Blue Sky website, below, and place your order now so you can, eventually, forget about the watch after it runs out of power and you decide it’s too much trouble to recharge.
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$700 HP TouchPad 4G now available for pre-order from Amazon
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The HP TouchPad 4G with HSPA+ support is now available for pre-order from Amazon. The online retailer doesn’t give a specific launch date and instead says “this item has not yet been released,” and that customers “may pre-order it now and [Amazon] will deliver it to you when it arrives.” The TouchPad made its debut on July 1st as a Wi-Fi only device with a 1.2GHz processor. In our review we said the device was “just good” and that its software needed a “shot of adrenaline.” However, AT&T’s upcoming version will sport a faster 1.5GHz processor, the aforementioned HSPA+ support and HP’s latest webOS 3.0.2 software. Amazon is currently listing the TouchPad 4G for $699.99, which means you’ll be ...
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Apple iPad expected to hold 60 percent of tablet market through 2020
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You might be able to chalk this up to another bold prediction from an analyst, but according to Charlie Wolf, analyst at Needham, Apple's ubiquitous iPad tablet will still be dominating the market 9 years from now. Wolf makes these claims based on the analysis that other tablets have yet to capture the public's attention the way the iPad has.
Wolf predicts that the iPad will end this year with 85 percent of the market, and will still hold on to 72.5 percent of the market in 2015 with shipments of 101 million units. By 2020, Apple will ship 140 million iPads and will still have 60 percent of the tablet market.
Wolf explains his reasoning: "Future tablets are more likely to steal share from on...
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T-Mobile's HTC Ruby caught in the wild
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Remember the HTC Ruby, the unannounced Android smartphone which we caught at Flickr? Well we now have a more revealing photo to show you, clearly suggesting this baby is slated to hit T-Mobile. And while we have no other information at the moment — like the release date and price — we think of the Ruby as a mashup between the HTC Sensation and some myTouch model. In that sense, we assume (speculate) it will come with HSPA+ (4G) and Wi-Fi connectivity on board, 5-megapixel camera, 3.7-inch or bigger WVGA touchscreen, along with all other “standard for an Android smartphone” goodies like sensors, Bluetooth and so on. Moreover, Android 2.3 Gingerbread will run the show right from the start.
And...
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US Cellular Q2 results bring higher revenue, despite small customer loss
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With the upcoming introduction of its LTE network and vast fall smartphone lineup, US Cellular's a regional carrier with a lot to look forward to. But its efforts over the second quarter, paired with the hopes of a bright future ahead, weren't enough to keep a few thousand customers from parting ways. While most of the reported figures were quite pleasant year-over-year -- service revenues bumped up three percent to $1 billion, percentage of smartphones sold skyrocketed to nearly 40 percent, ARPU increased to $51.84, and total operating income shot up a whole 61 percent -- the company also experienced a loss of 58,000 customers over the course of three months. The carrier doesn't seem too wo...
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iOS, Android security flaw shown by 10-year-old girl at Defcon
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A 10-year-old girl has figured out a way to outsmart game developers and cheat at games designed for iOS and Android by exploiting a security vulnerability within the clock system. The cheat works by modifying the clock settings on the device to accelerate time within the game's environment.
Apparently, CyFi, as the hacker calls herself, was bored playing Farmville-type games and wanted to speed up time in the virtual world to make crops grow faster. Her fiddling with the clock on the mobile device revealed a "zero day" exploit that tricked the game into thinking much more time had passed than was actually the case. Circumventing the game's built-in clock advancement cheat blocks involved m...
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Apple sued over OS X fast boot feature
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Florida-based Operating Systems Solutions has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. OSS is alleging that the Cupertino-based firm’s Mac OS X fast-boot feature infringes on one of its patents relating to a “method for quick booting an OS.” More specifically, the lawsuit says Apple infringes on:
A method for fast booting a computer system, comprising the steps of: A. performing a power on self test (POST) of basic input output system (BIOS) when the system is powered on or reset is requested; B. checking whether a boot configuration information including a system booting state which was created while executing a previous normal booting process exists or not; C. storing the boot c...
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Huawei Vision hits the FCC, assaults the senses with a promo video
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Huawei this morning offered the world a video sneak peak of the Vision, its "most stylish smartphone yet," and like clockwork, the thing has popped up -- albeit less flashily -- on the FCC's site. The admittedly slick-looking handset packs Gingerbread, a 1GHz processor, and a 3.7 inch capacitive touchscreen into a unibody frame that's 9.9 millimeters at its thinnest. As for that "3D interface" the company's been talking up, you can see that in action after the break.
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