Intel is using the yearly Computex Taipei exhibition in Taiwan as a platform to pitch a new category of laptops. Dubbed Ultrabooks, these devices are supposed to have three distinct features: they are thinner (less than 20mm/0.8 inches) and lighter than most existing laptops, and they should be priced below $1,000 in order to become [...]
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If you have a 3D gaming rig, the biggest problem you have is showing it off. You can either run the game wear the glasses and then say “I swear, it’s 3D!” or you give your friend the glasses and show him or her what to do and then you can’t share in the joy. [...]
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It is a good time to be Tutima. The recent announcement of their new movement manufacture launched with the Hommage Minute Repeater watch signals a bright future for the German brand. A brand that already has a reputation for making quality timepieces and finely regulating the movements contained within them, Tutima watches tend to fall [...]
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As Samsung’s Galaxy Tabs 8.9 and 10.1 wait to launch onto the market, Samsung mobile boss J.K. Shin is already filling us in on forthcoming tablets from the South-Korea based company. In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Shin spilled that the company plans to release a 4G LTE-capable version of the Galaxy Tab later [...]
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Sigh. Today is Memorial Day in the US and along with marking the start of summer here, it’s a national holiday in which citizens are supposed to remember U.S. Serviceman who died while serving our country. Often those celebrations involve picnics, family time, and, here in the great state of Michigan, “going up north.” While [...]
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Do you miss the feeling of pressing physical buttons when you touch icons or letters on a smartphone touchscreen? Japan’s second largest mobile carrier KDDI is working on a display that recreates exactly that “clicking sensation” by combining vibration with a pressure sensor.
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Apple will unveil its next generation iOS – iOS 5 at next week’s WorldWide Developer Conference 2011. As we’re getting closer to the event, rumors about the new features in iOS 5 have started trickling in and some folks have even created cool concept videos and presentations to show us how Apple should implement the features. [...]
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Japanese blog – Macotakara reports that according to their sources, Apple’s next generation iPhone will have the same factor as iPhone 4, come with an ARM Cortex-A9 processor though they’re not sure if it will be single or dual core and an improved 8-megapixel camera. According to Macotakara, the fifth generation iPhone will be called [...]
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We’ve seen quite a few iOS 5 concepts that have demonstrated how Apple should revamp or implement features such as Speech Recognition, faster App Switching, widgets and Push Notification system. Folks at iSpazio, point to iWork.com keynote presentation uploaded by Federico Bianco, which predicts the new features and improvements in iOS 5 along with screenshots. [...]
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Folders was one of the major features in iOS 4. With over 500,000 iPhone apps approved by Apple and the subsequent increase in the number of apps users purchase and install on their iDevices, a better app management feature like Folders was very much needed. At that time, we felt that Apple had pretty much [...]