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Google Adds Call Screening Controls to Google Voice
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Google today added new calling and contact management controls to its Google Voice product. The new tools give Google Voice users greater control over who can reach their Google Voice number. The controls come in the form of new address book groupings. Moving forward, numbers that appear in a user's address book can be given individual settings, such as dedicated greetings for specific people. The tool can also be used as a white-label service to screen people who aren't in the contact book. Google Voice users can now lump together anonymous/unknown callers and specify select actions for all such calls as a group. The controls are available via the Google Voice web interface, but impact beha...
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Google Nexus tablet spotted on benchmark site - Tegra 3 in tow
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We’re less than 30 days away until Google I/O 2012, where we can expect the search giant to announce the highly anticipated Nexus tablet. We know it’s real, so we can’t say we’re terribly surprised to see that the tablet made its way to Rightware’s Power Board benchmark site.
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Nokia Pureview 808 available for pre-order on Amazon UK
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The Nokia Pureview 808 is an average smartphone with a plethora of ordinary features except for one: it has a 41MP Carl Zeiss lens. Photography enthusiasts can rejoice because it’s now available for pre-order on Amazon UK.
Now hold on just a second. Is this thing really capable of snapping photos with a 41 megapixel resolution? If you look closely at Nokia’s advertising, it says that the Pureview 808 has astounding 41MP “image quality.” This means that the photos it does take have quality comparable to a 41MP photo, but in a nutshell, no it does not take 41MP photos.
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Apple - purchases Redmatica Italian music startup
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Apple has reportedly purchased Redmatica, an Italian startup that specializes in digital music editing apps, according to Fanpage. The Italian blog cites a weekly bulletin from Italy’s antitrust regulatory agency, AGCM, who has approved the purchase. Redmatica is the creator of four Mac-specific music editing applications, including Keymap Pro, AutoSampler, ProManager, and GBSampler Manager. The company’s revenue last year was less than €100,000, with an income of €26,000, meaning an Apple buyout would not be costly. The Cupertino-based company is likely interested in an “acqui-hire” and looking to integrate Redmatica’s employees into Apple’s own Logic Pro and Garageband teams.
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HTC One S for T-Mobile set to receive software update next Monday
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Owners of the HTC One S for T-Mobile should be on the lookout for a software update soon, as the carrier says that an update will be available starting on June 4. The update addresses a number of software bugs on the phone, and improves stability in the camera app and with Wi-Fi calling. T-Mobile also says that a signal fluctuation bug has also been addressed. Users should begin to receive notifications for the update on their handsets starting on June 4, and T-Mobile plans to offer the update through July 7.
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Sony Playstation 4: includes optical drive, not download-only
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Sony considered removing the optical drive from its next-generation Playstation gaming console, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Japanese electronics maker decided against a download-only model, however, because “Internet connectivity is too inconsistent around the world.” Removing the optical drive would have also hurt the adoption of Blu-ray, which Sony heavily pushed with its Playstation 3. The next-generation PlayStation, codename Orbis, is rumored to launch during the holiday season of 2013. It has been reported that the system will feature an AMD x64 CPU and AMD Southern Islands GPU capable of running games at a resolution of 4,096 x 2,160 pixels.
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Xbox 360, Kinect sales over 80 million
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Yusuf Mehdi, the CMO of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Division, announced on Tuesday that more than 67 million Xbox 360s have been sold since the console launched in 2005, and it has generated more than $56 billion in sales. The motion sensing input accessory, Kinect, has sold more than 19 million units and the company’s Xbox Live service now boast 40 million members. Xbox users are spending more time on the system and are averaging 84 hours of usage each month. Mehdi also revealed that Microsoft holds a 47% market share of the current-generation console market, however he did note that sales, while continuing to increase year-over-year, are slowing down.
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 beta coming soon, RIM confirms
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Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook product manager, Michael Clewley, has confirmed through his Twitter page that the company is planning to release a beta version of its 2.1 Playbook OS by the “end of May.” After signing up as a BlackBerry developer, the update will be pushed to eligible devices once it is released. The company’s previous update brought native contacts, calendar and email to the tablet. Details surrounding the PlayBook OS 2.1 beta are not yet available.
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Canadian Samsung Galaxy S III announced: 2GB of RAM, 1.5GHz dual-core processor
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The Canadian variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III will scrap the quad-core Exynos processor found in the European version and instead feature a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor. The Canadian handset, like the Japanese model, will also receive a RAM boost from 1GB to 2GB. It has already been confirmed that the Galaxy S III would be equipped with a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor on U.S. carriers with 4G LTE networks. It is unclear, however, if U.S. devices will also receive the RAM increase, although it does seem more likely now. The Samsung Galaxy S III will be available in Canada beginning June 20th.
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Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 tablet brings 9.7-inches of ICS
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This week the folks at Lenovo have announced a lovely new sleek ta blet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on a 9.7-inch display. This tablet weighs in at an amazing 1.27 pounds light, is 1/3-inch thin, and has what Lenovo says is 10 hours of battery life packed inside. This device works with SRS surround sound speakers built-in as a feature we’ve seen on no other tablet yet released – could be fantastic!
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EU cutting roaming charges over next 2 years from July
Like UnlikeThe European Commission has agreed on a new set of mobile roaming rules in an effort to lower phone bills. The new regulations, effective from July, will lower the maximum roaming charges to €0.29 ($0.36) per minute for outgoing calls, or €0.08 ($0.10) per minute to receive calls. The changes are part of a continued battle between the European Union and phone networks over high roaming rates for the continent, with further reductions lined up in the future.
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Google Project Glass has an Integrated Touchpad
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Google's Sergey Brin has been wearing and showing off early prototype versions of the Project Glass glasses for a while. These glasses have a little screen that gives you augmented reality information over the top of your normal vision. Brin was on TV show recently called The Gavin Newsom Show and we learned a new fact during the show.
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Photosynth app finally hits Windows Phones
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Microsoft’s popular Photosynth panorama stitching tech has finally reached the company’s own Windows Phone platform. The photo app was released over a year ago on iOS but was oddly missing from WP7. Microsoft admitted that the app required some deeper access to the phones hardware, which was not available at the time.
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Intel Ultrabooks Will Get Free Wi-Fi Almost Everywhere and Auto-Update from Your Bag
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The "ultrabook" designation doesn't mean too too much, since manufacturers constantly look for ways to skirt around Intel's sorta-arbitrary specs. But just being on Team Intel's gonna get a few new perks, with its new deal to get all ultrabooks free, automatic, no-login access to 5.6 million Wi-Fi hotspots.
The deal with Devicescape will use a custom DNS query to let ultrabooks log in without going through the whole process. That'll allow Intel's autoupdating Smart Connect tech to, say, refresh your email or RSS or Twitter feed while you're at a coffee shop, without ever taking your laptop out of your bag. Pretty cool!
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Asus Google Nexus 7 outed - the first Jelly Bean tablet?
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Rumours of a Google Nexus tablet have gathered pace and it's almost certainly going to be a 7-incher from Asus.
A benchmark test run using Basemark has revealed some interesting facts. Going by the codename “Grouper” - Google has a history of codenaming its Nexus devices after fish - the tablet is said to have the model number “Nexus 7” which hints heavily at two important details.
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