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Apple rumored testing iTunes 11 with iCloud control
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New rumors mixed with more concrete details has pointed to Apple actively testing iTunes 11. Test build screenshots slipped to 9to5 purportedly have a central iCloud panel that would control all iTunes-related iCloud features, such as iTunes Match or device backups. The build would also have iOS 6 compatibility, although it might not be necessary and could be preceded by a 10.x update instead.
Apple's iTunes Store revamp was also supposedly being timed for a launch in the second half of the year. The company's acquisition of Chomp had led to a specific iTunes content discovery task force, according to the rumor.
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LG Optimus 4X HD benchmarks impressive, on par with the HTC One X
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The LG Optimus 4X HD is no joke when it comes to specs - it’s the successor of the first dual-core phone ever, last year’s Optimus 2X, and it packs all four plus one cores of the latest Nvidia Tegra 3. And it’s got the benchmarks to prove it.
The 4X HD scored an impressive 4512 in Quadrant, and while that’s slightly short of the 4,909 scored by the HTC One X which also sports the Tegra 3 in its international version, the LG phone managed to beat the One X in AnTuTu. Below are the scores from both handsets in three different benchmarks. To put things in wider perspective, the HTC One S scored around 5,000 in Quadrant in our tests.
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Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard's work
Like UnlikeLiterary geeks rejoice! Wolfram Alpha has given you the tools to examine the works of William Shakespeare in ways you've never cared to imagined. Ever wondered how many words are in the second act of Othello? Or what the longest word is in A Midsummer Night's Dream? The answers to such (largely unasked) queries are now mere keystrokes away, and not just for the Bard's writings, either. That's right, folks, computational analysis of the works from such luminaries as Melville, Dickens, and Twain are on tap, too. The folks at Wolfram Alpha are also looking to increase the number of supported titles, so head on down to the source link and let them know which ones you want to see.
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Nokia Lumia 900 available for UK pre-order
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Nokia has finally put its flagship Lumia 900 handset up for pre-order in the UK, with Phones4U announcing it has exclusively nabbed the white version of the phone.
A pre-order site for the Nokia Lumia 900 has gone up on Phones4U's UK page showing the handset in both black and white, and with a note explaining that anyone who pre-orders the handset today will receive a Nokia Play 360-degree speaker worth £120.
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Google is the most popular tech brand, according to new poll
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Apparently the recent kerfuffles over user privacy haven’t damaged Google’s brand significantly in the eyes of U.S. consumers. According to a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, Google beats out Apple for the crown of “most popular tech company. 82% of those surveyed has a positive view of Google, with 53% expressing a “strongly favorable” view of the search and mobile tech giant. Just 9% had a negative view (presumably many of them tech writers…), and 10% had not formed an opinion.
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Tiny quantum computer built in a diamond
Like UnlikeThe experimental field of quantum computing has become fertile ground for abstract but fascinating technology, and a recent paper from Nature is no exception. As part of research on reducing decoherence, or outside interference that affects quantum bits or qubits, a group of scientists has built a quantum computer housed within a diamond. Specifically, a pair of qubits were housed in the diamond's imperfections, and a prototype "nuclear spin" system periodically reset and recoupled them in order to reduce interference.
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Sony sees massive $6.4 billion annual net loss, its worst ever
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Sony has revised its full-year earnings projections for the fiscal year ended March 31st to include a tax hit that will see the company report a record $6.4 billion loss. The net loss will be twice what the consumer electronics giant projected, and it marks Sony’s fourth consecutive annual loss. ”There have been several reasons for our poor results,” Sony CFO Masaru Kato told reporters at a briefing Tuesday morning. “We are aiming for a rebound and for this we have made management changes.” Kato cites poor demand and a strong yen among the causes for Sony’s poor results. Reports surfaced earlier this week stating that Sony plans to cut as many as 10,000 jobs in the coming years, or roughly 6...
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Security Hole Spotted In Facebook Android SDK, Long Tail Apps May Still Be Unpatched
Like UnlikeMobile app platform provider Parse is reporting having discovered a major security hole in the Facebook Android SDK. The problem was quickly patched after being reported to Facebook, but that alone may not be enough to secure affected mobile applications, the company says.
The security vulnerability affected all apps using the Facebook Android SDK, including major apps like Foursquare, and there’s no way for end users to know which app developers, outside the big ones, have implemented the fixes needed to secure users’ data. (Except for Foursquare, which we know to be patched – whew!)
Parse, for those unfamiliar, offers a mobile platform that enables developers to add scalable backend servic...
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Android makes up nearly 70% of mobile market in China
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If you've been wondering where Android's huge growth has been coming from, well look no further, because we've got the answer: China. The big green machine has more than doubled its share of the smartphone market in China in less than a year, and since we recently found out that China has almost 1 billion mobile users, that means some big numbers from Android. Of course, that 1 billion number is the total number of cell phone users in the country, whereas the recent numbers for Android is specific to smartphones, so we don't know exactly how many Android devices are in the wild in China.
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Google Chrome OS update hits developers
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You may have heard a lot about it, but when it comes to actual physical products, Google’s fully functional computer operating system hasn’t exactly made its splash yet. That doesn’t mean the search giant doesn’t still have wide-eyed passion and seismic-sized plans for Chrome OS, though. In fact, in some respects, Google is just getting started. It just rolled out its newest edition of the operating system for developers.
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Acer's C120 pico projector goes on sale, ready to be powered by your PC
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Unless you had a particularly keen eye for tiny projectors, you may well have missed the announcement of Acer's C120, back at CES. The palm-sized pico projector has now hit the market, weighing in at an ultraportable 6.34 ounces. The peripheral features a USB connection, which can be used to power the device when it's plugged into a PC. The C120's also got a quick-starting LED lamp, which can display presentations in WVGA or WXGA. Business people, teachers and lovers of tiny projectors alike can pick this guy up now for $259. Not sold? Watch a projection-worthy video presentation from CES, after the break.
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Is Anonymous a threat to national security, or just trolling?
Like UnlikeWith mounting concerns over computer security after a rash of high-profile hacks last year, governments around the world have been increasingly quick to condemn and punish the actions of the nebulous "hacktivist" collective Anonymous and its associated groups. The United States has been particularly bullish in the affair; in January, NSA Director General Keith Alexander attempted to frame Anonymous as a national security threat, warning that they might soon have the will and the ability to shut down national power grids. But Wealth of Networks author and Harvard Law professor Yochai Benkler says that the current attitude toward Anonymous stands only to incriminate relatively innocuous and in...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) priced at $309 online
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Well, what do you know: only a day after the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) price was revealed by accident, we now have an idea as to how much the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) will cost. The 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 tablet is currently listed on the QVC web store and is priced at $309.96. The model in question is the most basic one with 8 gigabytes of storage and no cellular connectivity.
Interestingly, this does not seem to be a pre-order page. It appears that the device can be purchased and should be shipped to your doorstep within several days. Of course, this listing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) might have been posted by mistake. But then again, it might be legit. After all, we have seen tab...
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Apple's A5X processor for the next iPhone in testing, new iPod touch to get a major overhaul
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Apple is reportedly using an iPhone 4/4S housing to test the performance of its new A5X processor, which is destined for its upcoming iPhone. The chip is said to be a scaled down version of the graphics-intense unit in the new iPad, as the iPhone doesn't of course need to have such a pixel-cruncher in it, as its display will be smaller.
That's in line with the reporting from last month that the A5X won't come to this year's iPhone as it is. The amount of RAM will get increased to 1GB in the new iPhone as well, though. The internal codename for the prototype phone with the new iPhone A5X chip is N96, but it is too early to tell if it will stick around like that.
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Some Nokia Lumia 900 units are having network connection issues
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So, the Nokia Lumia 900 has landed to much fanfare, and many of the AT&T customers who ordered the smartphone in advance should have already received it. However, a percentage of these pre-ordered units appear to be plagued by a glitch that prevents them from connecting to a data network, be it 2G, 3G, or 4G LTE.
The issue is already being discussed on multiple online communities, including the Nokia Support Discussions and XDA-Developers, and a tipster of ours, who claims to be an AT&T employee, has confirmed that the problem is real indeed. "These devices were mass produced in a plant in mexico and there is a defect with the imei's registering to the data network on 2g, 3g and 4g data", sa...
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