May 21, 2013

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Sprint offers Sanyo Zio Android Phone for Free on 2 Year Contract

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Mobile phone carrier Sprint adjusted the price tag for one of the latest handsets released on its airwaves, the Sanyo Zio, making it available for purchase for free for those customers interested in the signing of a new contract agreement. The Zio is an impressive mid-range Android phone with a 3.5-inch WVGA screen, 600 MHz [...]

Meet the Creative ZiiO Tablets

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We had reported the release of Creative’s 7-inch Ziio Tablet, now it’s going to review the both 10 and 7 inch tablets, The display – although our time with the tablet showed that it was fine, it’s not going to win too many awards, principally because this is a resistive 1024×600 display – or 480×800 [...]

Clicker Gets Facebook’s Social Data for Video Recommendation

Clicker Gets Facebook Social Data for Video Recommendation

Clicker, video search and recommendation service on Wednesday announced that it was integrated with Facebook, and now it can take advantage of Facebook’s social graph, user and friends according to interests, to provide users personalized recommendation service. Use of Facebook’s social data, Clicker.com redesigned the site and launched “Clicker forecast” service, recommend them to the [...]

T-Mobile 4G Enabled Tablets Coming in 2011

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T-Mobile is following in Sprint’s footsteps and will also be producing a 4G tablet to hit shelves in 2011. Sadly, neither an additional information about the T-Mobile 4G tablets was released, nor a timescale when to expect them in 2011. A press release on Friday reads that: T-Mobile is working closely with the majority of [...]

Sprint 4G Enabled Tablets Coming in 2011

Sprint Plans to Release 4G Enabled Tablets in 2011

Since Tablets and “4G speeds” are the two latest crazes in the high-tech world, Sprint will be launching a   4G enabled tablet at some point next year.  It seems Sprint is aiming to take the leadership in the 4G tablet business with a new tab not powered by Android. The news comes from the carrier’s [...]

Dell “Venue Pro” expected to be launched on Dec 14

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The last missing part to the Windows Phone 7 launch devices is the Dell Venue Pro, the nifty bottom-sliding WP7 phone that rocks a huge 4.1″ display, 5MP camera and 8GB of memory and a spacious hardware keyboard below the screen. However, December 14th should be the date that marks the wide availability of the [...]

Apple’s iPad 2 expected to have 2 Cameras and USB Port

Rumors continue to swirl over Apple’s next generation iPad, and one reliable Taiwanese newspaper says the new device will be out in the first quarter of 2011, complete with video calling, two cameras, new display and touch technology, and a USB port to connect easily to other devices. First off, the original source of this [...]

Motorola Defy to be updated to Android 2.2 in Q2 2011

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The German subsidiary of O2 has leaked via Twitter that the rugged Motorola Defy will be updated to Android 2.2 in Q1 of 2011. As Google is (presumably) getting ready to finally release Android 2.3 Gingerbread into the wild, news comes about Motorola’s plans for the Motorola Defy. This interesting, rugged smartphone has been running [...]

World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

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Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]

Firefox 4 Beta 7 launched:Let’s check it out

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The news for which all the fans of Firefox are waiting that Mozilla has released the 7th Beta version of the upcoming Firefox 4b browser and the incredibly interesting thing is that this latest Beta release comes with a new, faster JavaScript engine. Instead of the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, Firefox 4 Beta 7 uses the [...]

Mass Effect 2 : Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC Review

BioWare recently released the Lair of the Shadowbroker DLC for Mass Effect 2, now reviews are coming in thick and fast, and by the looks of things it is well worth the 800 Microsoft/BioWare points. Metacritic’s unique scoring system has given the DLC a metascore of 90/100 along with an impressive user score of 9.8, [...]

OECD and World Economic Forum Warns Slow Global Economic Recovery Process

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Global economic recovery is slowing faster than expected and extra stimulus from governments may be needed, the OECD(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and World Economic Forum warned on Thursday. Recent data suggest the economy of the Group of Seven nations could grow at an annualized rate of about 1.5 percent in the second half, [...]