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Verizon officially welcomes tiered data plans
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You might have heard that Verizon is moving from unlimited to tiered data plans and today the plans went live on Big Red. The new monthly caps and prices apply for all phones, but some 4G LTE devices won't be able to make use of the cheapest one:
The overage rates stand at $10 for 1GB of exceeded data on any plan. Those of you on an unlimited data plan remain unaffected by the changes, but new users will have to pick one of the tiered plans. To check data usage, users can just dial #data to get a free text message with information about used data.
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Acer Iconia Tab A500 receiving its portion of Android 3.1 Honeycomb
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The Acer Iconia Tab A500 has started receiving its portion of the Android 3.1 Honeycomb OTA update July 5th, judging from an Acer Germany Facebook page posting. We heard about this update back in May, although the promise was for the first weeks of June; still, beginning of July is not too shabby either.
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a 10" Honeycomb slate with nice aluminum back cover and all the bells and whistles one would expect from a self-respecting Android tablet.
At last check it also comes cheaper than most Android tablet offerings, selling for around $450 at places like Best Buy or Amazon, so whoever is the lucky owner of the Iconia Tab A500, the thought that the Android 3.1 Honeycom...
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iPhone 6 rumored to support an alternative charging method
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Apple's 5th generation of the iPhone has yet to hit the market, but rumors about its successor are already circulating the web. However, the speculations that we are dealing with today have nothing to do with the device's display size, camera type, storage capacity, or anything else that is on the list of iPhone 5 rumors that we have come across so far.
Some of you have probably heard about inductive charging – a cool way to bring your handset's battery back to life wirelessly. The technology may still have a few obstacles to tackle before it is ready to hit the mainstream, but there is a chance that the iPhone 6, or whatever it will be named, will be able to take advantage of it. We have to...
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Nokia N9 might be supported, after all, with several MeeGo updates heading its way
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Klas Ström, Nokia's Head of Portfolio Management, tweeted that the Nokia N9 will be supported in the next years, with several software updates for MeeGo in the pipeline.
Not that we were expecting anything else, despite CEO Stephen Elop's claims to the contrary. We just couldn't envision Espoo not maintaining what could turn out a pretty popular niche handset like the Nokia N9, considering all the hopes and efforts Nokia has poured into MeeGo.
Granted, Mr Elop is trying to turn the focus of attention away from Symbian and MeeGo, and towards the upcoming Nokia Windows Phones, so he largely talks about that, but other people at Nokia seem committed to maintain MeeGo, as well as work on the upc...
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Motorola DROID 3 hits Verizon's website, you can get it now for $200
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Update: The official dedicated DROID 3 page went live confirming a price of $200 for the handset with a 2-year contract, or $460 off contract.
You can get the handset online now, or wait until July 14th when it hits retail stores.
We already know pretty much everything about the handset though - it comes with a 4” qHD display and claims to have a 30% faster graphics chip than its predecessor, but it also sports a larger 5-row keyboard supporting Swype. Actually, it's the thinnest full QWERTY smartphone, according to Verizon. In addition, the new handset brags with 27% faster multitasking performance over the DROID 2 Global thanks to its 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP chip. The DROID 3 is a global de...
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Panasonic Points Fingers on Who Ruined 3D
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One of the biggest fads in the theater industry has been the wave of 3D movies. Unfortunately though, it looks like the technology will never be anything more than a fad. Movie viewers are starting to turn their back on 3D films and that causes a drop in sales. Panasonic is one of the biggest supporters of 3D technology and are starting to point fingers at the movie studios as the blame for the downfall. The company claims that because studios rushed movies to receive a 3D conversion, the movies looked rather poor and actually contributed to customers’ distaste for 3D. The only saving grace for 3D is the few jewels like Avatar that have truly shown what 3D movies should look like. But with A...
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Hackers Target NATO In The Name Of #AntiSec
Like UnlikeAnother day, another hacking story. If you thought the recent disbanding of LulzSec meant an end to the daily exploit updates, you thought wrong; plenty of other groups are wrangling for Lulzsec's crown as king of the headache-causing chuckleheads. Today's facepalm-inducing report involves a group called Inj3ct0r Team, who claim to have sneaked into a backup NATO server while waving the flag of Operation AntiSec, an anti-security movement popularized by LulzSec and Anonymous.
Inj3ct0r Team backed up its boast by posting a 50 MB backup of 2646 files from "NATO Tomcat 5.5 Servlet Backup" on the MediaFile file hosting website, ComputerWorld reports. IT News Australia says that the group claims ...
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Second hacker indicted in AT&T iPad hacking
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The second of two hackers arrested over stealing iPad data this year has been formally charged in a Newark court. Andrew Auernheimer was accused of identity theft and conspiracy to get unauthorized access to a computer. Along with Daniel Spitler, who recently pleaded guilty, Auenhimer is alleged to have obtained the personal e-mail addresses and other info for about 120,000 iPad 3G users on AT&T in June of last year.
The indictment for Auernheimer has e-mail evidence of himself and Spitler aiming to get shock value out of the attack, which the two launched under the group name Goatse Security. Spitler told Auernheimer that he hoped to get at least one reporter's e-mail address to guarantee m...
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NTT shows off 1Gbps 802.11ac Wi-Fi
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Japanese technology company NTT has shown off a prototype version of 802.11ac Wi-Fi at the Wireless Technology Park show in the country. The demo sent data simultaneously to three users with an effective throughput of 120Mbps. NTT plans to commercialize the system with a few years for homes and offices.
The setup used a space division multiplex connection method based on multi-user MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology developed by NTT and on the same 5GHz frequency band as 802.11n Wi-Fi uses today. Six antennas were used for transmission and three for reception. The transmission side used a multi-user MIMO signal processing circuit thanks to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip...
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Orange Monte Carlo officially announced
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The ZTE Skate we told you about last week? It’s just become official, which is great news for anyone looking for a fantastic Android phone on a budget. It’s pretty much an HTC Desire for a fraction of the price.
If you’ve been following it you’ll be aware this is one of most hotly anticipated handsets of the year, so read on for more.
It’s a strange name for a bargain phone, considering the city’s lush casinos and playboys. But with a 4.3-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera and 800MHz processor, the Orange Monte Carlo (aka ZTE Skate) is a serious contender for blower of the year. We spotted it as listed on Orange’s website last week, now it’s been officially announced.
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Wii U Will Not Have Its Own Social Online Platform
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While Nintendo has said the next version of the Wii home console will have a better online experience, it sounds like it still won't be up to par with the PS3 or the Xbox 360.
And according to Nintendo, that is its own decision. It believes in letting third-party companies create their own, individualized online platforms, rather than creating a centralized network like the PSN or Xbox Live.
In an interview with Forbes, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said the company's next home console will have a more robust online experience, commenting, "What we’re doing is creating a much more flexible system that will allow the best approaches by independent publishers to come to bear."
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Microsoft CES 2012 keynote to include public Windows 8 beta
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Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote has not only been narrowed down but may give the first publicly available copy of Windows 8, both official and unofficial sources said Wednesday. CEO Steve Ballmer was confirmed to be taking the stage on the evening of January 9, unusually at Las Vegas' The Venetian hotel and not the usual Hilton Center venue. The executive has traditionally given the CES keynote.
Tips to WinRumors, however, suggest that the focus will be almost exclusively on Windows 8. The company is expected to show the first and possibly only test version of Windows 8 available to the general public. Ballmer is also expected to focus heavily on rivalling the iPad and to demo prototypes of ARM...
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Spotify confirms US launch 'soon'
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Spotify after years of promises confirmed through a sign-up page on Wednesday that its service would be coming to the US "soon." While still shy on details, the music service is now taking e-mail addresses for invitations. The company claims "any track, any time, anywhere" for "free," although it's presumed it will have the same recently limited free service as in Europe.
Most expect Spotify to take its service live in the US sometime this month. It may cost $10 per month for full Premium access with unlimited streaming and access to the Android, iOS, and eventually Windows Phone apps. A launch may come hand-in-hand with Facebook integration.
The service is one of the most popular music prov...
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HP Pre 3 set for August 31 release: bad news for webOS
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The big brother to the HP Veer, the Pre 3, is now slated for an August 31 release date according to Play.com. While this still falls into the “summer season” promised by HP, previous reports suggested we’d see the webOS flagship by mid-July. Without the Pre 3, touch to share with the HP TouchPad remains a pipe dream unless you own the Veer. Will a late August release of the HP Pre 3 spell disaster for webOS?
Yesterday HP’s webOS boss Jon Rubinstein sent out an internal letter of support to both the TouchPad engineers and the webOS 3.0 development team. In the letter he reminds that, “it’s a marathon, not a sprint” when it comes to refining webOS and the TouchPad. Unfortunately history has p...
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Apple iPad 2 Plus coming this Fall with Retina Display?
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The rumors of the iPad 3 coming out this Fall have been bouncing around for a while now but an analyst is lending a bit more credence to the fact that we may see a followup to the Apple tablet soon and it may have a boosted screen.
“We hear Apple could migrate the iPad’s display resolution from a current pixel density of 132 (pixels per inch) to 250-300 ppi for the ‘iPad 2 Plus’ (note that the iPhone 4‘s screen is 326 ppi),” analyst Craig Berger wrote, according to AppleInsider.
According to this analyst, the iPad 2 Plus would have the major screen improvement, may include a storage bump but will have similar innards to the existing iPad 2. This way, Apple could bill this as an expansion of ...
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