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AT&T has just revealed what sort of data plans it will offer to owners of Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Vita 3G handheld console, who want to have a permanent data connection no matter their location. The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its debut this February in the form of a simple, Wi-Fi edition, or a p... |
10 January 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Toshiba's NB510 netbook may not be set to officially debut before CES 2012, but that doesn't mean some photos of it can't show up in the meantime.It so happens that Notebook Italia just uncovered a few press shots.There seem to be black, red and blue versions of the mobile PC, all powered by the Intel ... |
6 January 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Rovio, the Norwegian developer of the hit Angry Birds game and its various spinoffs, has revealed that its different versions were downloaded more than 6.5 million times on Christmas Day alone.
Angry Birds has become somewhat of a phenomenon in the last couple of years, with the mobile game being experienced by hund... |
5 January 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Dedicated mobile gaming platforms like the already launched Nintendo 3DS or the upcoming PlayStation Vita might achieve impressive sales throughout the year, but M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon believes they’ll still be affected by other mobile devices like phones or tablets.
Many years ago, the only way to ... |
4 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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BioWare, the studio responsible for huge games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, or the more recent Star Wars: The Old Republic, has said that it’s still exploring the mobile gaming industry, with one member of its team being tasked with spotting “logical extensions” of its franchises into this area.
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3 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Sony doesn’t want to talk about the rather disappointing sales of its PlayStation Vita in Japan, as the company declined to comment after the performance of the new handheld platform recorded took a dive in its second week of availability. The PlayStation Vita was released in Japan last month and, while its... |
3 January 2012
05:32 GMT |
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The Ideapad S110 laptops that Lenovo has just revealed has some major implications that may not be apparent at first glance.
As we already covered here, the item is a netbook in all but name.
Lenovo chose to dub it a mini-notebook instead, even though the screen size (10.1 inches) and the rest of the specs clearl... |
30 December 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Even though the Medfield itself hasn't actually launched, the web is already looking into what will come afterwards.
Medfield is the codename that Intel has chosen for the processors which, it hopes, will finally allow it to actually compete on the smartphone and tablet sectors.
The first such devices will mak... |
30 December 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Sony has shared some more details about the creation of the PlayStation Vita, its all-new handheld console, highlighting that the company’s internal game studios helped its hardware development team with vital feedback in order to make the mobile device easy to develop games for.
The PlayStation Vita is, at le... |
29 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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When it comes to news, the web is an important source, but it's not the biggest one, at least not in the UK. TV still takes the crown, but the gap is getting smaller. In fact, given the current trends, the web will become the primary source of news for most people within a couple of years.
The Oliver & Ohlbaum ... |
29 December 2011
08:51 GMT |
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The web is going mobile and there's no better proof of it than that less and less people use the web, as in websites and pages, but use apps to content to web content and services.
According to Facebook's own data, there are now 300 million people each month using the Facebook mobile app, on the phone or m... |
29 December 2011
07:31 GMT |
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HP's failure to sell the webOS division makes a lot of sense now that the amount of money it wanted in exchange for it has come to light.
The IT industry is a place where various demands, ranging from pertinent to outrageous, are made every year.
One could have easily thought they had heard everything back w... |
29 December 2011
05:13 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita has just been released in Japan and Sony has now revealed just how the features of the new device are being showcased to new customers, thanks to a group of minigames that are part of a ‘Welcome Park’ collection.
The PlayStation Vita is, at least according to Sony, the most advanced ... |
28 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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There have been rumors that Acer is thinking about drastically changing its business outlook and abandoning some of its most recent ventures.
More precisely, the web has been murmuring that the company is going to back out of the tablet and smartphone business.
Digitimes now says that Acer Founder Stan Shih himse... |
27 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Mouse Computer has just launched a product, a mobile personal computer, that could leave prospective buyers around the world wanting.
This is not through some price tag that is humongous beyond all reason, or due to underwhelming performance.
What may leave people jaded is how the Mouse Computer i950PA5-SP has on... |
27 December 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Dutch startup Off-Grid Solutions combine eco-friendly technologies with a charitable goal, in a new project aiming to take 1.5 billion financially-challenged people out of the dark.
The main objective is to lighten the African continent in a sustainable manner, annihilating the harmful kerosene dependency.
Their s... |
27 December 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Last year I was pretty sure that, given a little bit of time and enough energy, I could definitely turn my extended family interested in the joys of modern gaming, social, lightweight and on the move, between eating copious amounts of pork and drinking some of the best wine this country has to offer.My relatives were... |
24 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Sony has once again praised its upcoming PlayStation Vita, which has just been released in Japan, saying that it’s the best handheld gaming device ever made by the Japanese company, being designed to trump the experiences delivered by other dedicated portable game consoles as well as tablets or smartphones.The ... |
21 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that it’s planning to target with the upcoming release of the PlayStation Vita lots of audiences, from the regular core gamers, to even the female demographic which, in the mind of the PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan, is the “untapped holy grail” of gaming.The PlayStation Vita is... |
20 December 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Going with its agenda to prove resourceful on every market segment it tackles, Lenovo has been aggressively placing tablet orders. As some may or may not know, Lenovo wants to be big on the tablet like it wants preeminence on the PC field. Whether or not it is going to achieve this goal is something that remains ... |
19 December 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Google has been skirting the issue for a while, but it finally came out and said beyond any doubt that it intends to launch a tablet device of its own. In fact, it doesn't just want to make and sell a tablet, it wants to do it fast, reasonably anyway. When asked by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sea, chair... |
19 December 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Looks like Foxconn and NVIDIA have decided to join hands and work together on something.
According to Digitimes, the two want to set up a joint R&D (research and development) venture for mobile terminal devices and applications based on cloud computing.
Market watchers, or some of them, speculated that the duo aim ... |
16 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
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A lot of great games have already been confirmed for the PlayStation Vita by Sony, but Uncharted: Golden Abyss is definitely one of the largest titles that will be available for handheld device from day one, proving that Sony is serious about its new platform.The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its release, arr... |
16 December 2011
04:29 GMT |
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Dell might be doing what Acer plans to do, only faster, as its online store has been quietly removing some products, like the Dell Mini line of netbooks.
Yesterday, we heard it mentioned that Acer will reduce its number of product lines by two thirds starting in next year (2012).
Now, it looks like Dell is doing ... |
16 December 2011
04:28 GMT |
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HP is painting a pretty bleak picture for its webOS division, beginning serious staff reductions right around the winter holidays, but there is little stopping it now.
In fact, none other than webOS Developer Relations Community Manager Chuq von Rospach has announced that he, too, is leaving.
In this case, at lea... |
14 December 2011
08:49 GMT |
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The HP TouchPad continues to live on as the strangest of 2011's paradoxes, its latest feat being that it managed to sell out completely so fast that the online shopping site eBay could have crashed from the traffic.
At least, this much was discerned during the short-lived event on Sunday, December 11, 2011.
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12 December 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is not going to do what Intel did when it invested in the MeeGo, choosing, instead, to stick to what works: Windows, Linux and Android. There have been many rumors, loud and hushed, about what Advanced Micro Devices may or may not do next. Some time ago, it decided to not actually compete w... |
12 December 2011
03:17 GMT |
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OnLive has really broadened its scope in recent months, expanding into the UK and releasing its client for mobile devices like tablets, but the company that administers the game streaming service would still love it if it could bring OnLive to consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.While lots of rumors already s... |
12 December 2011
03:13 GMT |
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A former Blizzard developer who has left the company in order to work on mobile titles has said that the design principles of the World of Warcraft creator are a good base to create the popular social games that will determine the future of gaming.Paul Della Bitta, who has worked at Blizzard for more than seven years... |
12 December 2011
02:53 GMT |
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We spoke about how Sharp had invented the world's thinnest CMOS camera module and how it has been used in the SH–01D handset on NTT DoCoMo.
Now, the special functionality of that module has been shown on video.
In addition to all the capabilities that come naturally with being a 12.1 megapixel, 1080p m... |
9 December 2011
17:31 GMT |
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So far, tablets have mostly hanged on to the 7-inch and 10.1-inch form factors, but 2012 may finally see some more options cropping up.
Reports have been coming in about the tablet market and what may or may not happen to it next year.
The general consensus is that it will keep growing and amassing customers, eve... |
9 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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If anyone thought Barnes and Noble would actually see a great level of success with the Nook Tablet, they would be right.
Based on what Digitimes found, B&N's tablet device has been selling better than anticipated, Microsoft patent trolling or no.
Originally, it was predicted that about 800,000 Nook Tablet P... |
9 December 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that there will be 336 million phones sold this year with HTML5 support. That number, it says, will surge to one billion phones by 2013.That may sound impressive, but is not really surprising, or, at least, it shouldn't be. The reason is simple, the iPhone, the top sell... |
8 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Anyone wondering when a certain Toshiba device would launch needn't scratch their heads too much, not with leaks coming in about when Canada would receive it.
The Toshiba Regza AT700 tablet will be released in February, 2012, in Canada.
At least, this is what Mobile Syrup claims to have discovered, since �... |
8 December 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Facebook has made good on its promise and is expanding the recently debuted mobile app platform beyond iOS to Android, with the launch of the latest version of its Android app.
Android and web developers now get the same features and capabilities that they do on the iPhone and iPad with the added benefit that they c... |
8 December 2011
04:50 GMT |
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The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has been breaking the sales figures ever since it was launched, back on November 15, but it didn't get to all regions of the world, though the UK may get it at last. The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has not yet reached the United Kingdom, and Amazon didn't actually say when, if ... |
7 December 2011
11:27 GMT |
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Just like Google would tell you, any chance it gets, everyone is going mobile. Wikipedia, a top 10 website globally, is finally starting to focus more on the mobile version of its site and is even building an Android app.It's been working on a revamp of its site for smartphones and it's adding more features... |
5 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Google likes to talk a lot about mobile. Perhaps it's because it genuinely believes that mobile is the next big thing for the web and wants everyone to get in as soon as possible.
Or, perhaps it believes that if it gets everyone using a mobile device, it's going to create a huge new market for its ad netwo... |
5 December 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Nissan Leaf manufacturers want to make sure a large segment of clients will have new reasons to think about purchasing an eco-friendly electric vehicle. Their smart strategy includes a lower price and a wireless charging option.
Before the Tokyo Motor Show, the company has started bragging about its new green techn... |
5 December 2011
02:25 GMT |
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Memo just announced a device that, in a way, is a throwback to the times when tablets were only heard of in specific fields, like medicine, only it used media slate looks. Memo Touch, LLC just launched a special-purpose tablet that bears its name. Basically, the Memo Touch tablet is intended for elderly citizens ... |
2 December 2011
20:51 GMT |
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Amazon still refuses to officially come out and say how many Kindle Fire tablets it sold so far, but there are other ways for the world to find out the numbers.
Digitimes got to find out how many of those things Amazon itself received from Quanto Computer, the one who actually makes them.
Granted, this doesn'... |
2 December 2011
18:21 GMT |
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A piece of news for all those Asus fans out there looking for the latest video drivers: the Nvidia display drivers version 295.18, created for mobile devices. The biggest difference from the 290.36 version consists in a new antialiasing method called FXAA. The new method has obtained better overall scores than the 4x... |
2 December 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Sony has admitted that it wants to provide multiple price points for developers that are bringing their experiences to the PlayStation Vita, in order to better rival the existing mobile gaming market on smartphones and tablets.While dedicated handheld games consoles like the PSP or Nintendo 3DS have had fixed prices ... |
2 December 2011
04:28 GMT |
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It's almost unbelievable what sustainable fashion can offer when it counts on renewables. A talented designer has created an amazing line of eco-conscious clothes, made of 100% organic, animal-friendly fabrics that can now charge our cell phones. Sandra Garratt is the proud design director of Silvr Lining, a c... |
2 December 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Sony believes that its upcoming PlayStation Vita portable console will win the hearts of core gamers, largely because it’s now focusing primarily on this feature, and its power will differentiate it from other mobile gaming devices.The PlayStation Vita is getting ready to debut in Japan this month and will appe... |
1 December 2011
04:25 GMT |
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HP's new CEO Meg Whitman revealed a few things recently, one of which pertained to the status of the webOS operating system and its probable fate. Whatever will happen to webOS is something that people have been wondering about ever since Meg Whitman assumed leadership of HP. Her answers to the questions of ... |
30 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Although some are reluctant to admitting that there is malware specifically written for Android devices, this does not change the fact that some security experts deal with such threats on a daily basis.
Considering this, BitDefender just launched the stable version of their antivirus for Android devices. The app rel... |
30 November 2011
10:11 GMT |
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XDA developer, SamHaLeKe, is kind enough to share SAMSUNG USB Drivers for Mobile Phones package with the rest of us, to eliminate the hustle of installing Kies to connect devices to PC. The included drivers target Galaxy S and S2 phones, but can be used for other Samsung Android devices as well. After installation, ... |
30 November 2011
03:07 GMT |
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In a move that could very well be interpreted as exchanging one problem for another, Advanced Micro Devices has decided to stop focusing so much on the PC business and get its act closer together on the mobile front. The Bulldozer disaster, as it is known in some circles, must have persuaded AMD's leadership t... |
29 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Sony may or may not have succeeded in giving the Tablet P an aura of awesome, we'll let buyers decide that on their own, but it did manage to make it stand apart from all other tablets out there.
Simply, it isn't actually a tablet, but two tablets that can fold together like a clamshell.
There was no sho... |
28 November 2011
04:00 GMT |
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