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Nexus Q Revival Unlikely On Google I/O Anniversary

May 14, 2013 at 5:55 am

The fate of the Nexus Q still remains in limbo as sources say there are no plans at the time to bring the music streaming device out of dormancy at this year's Google I/O conference.

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New Intel Integrated Graphics Could Lead To Retina MacBook Air

May 2, 2013 at 8:27 am

Next generation Intel integrated graphics wil lead to better laptop gaming and possibly en eventual MacBook Air with Retina Display.

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Introducing Morphees: Shape shifting Smartphones

May 1, 2013 at 11:00 am

Research may be able enable applications and hardware manufacturers to create Morphees, form factors that adjust their shape based on the apps use case.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Mass Production Kicks Off in May

April 26, 2013 at 7:37 am

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 will enter mass production in late May, and should ship in smartphones and tablets later this year.

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Toshiba KIRAbook Ultrabook Takes Aim at MacBook Pro with Retina

April 18, 2013 at 8:33 am

Due to ship May 3rd, Toshiba's new like of KIRAbook notebooks combine the design and chassis of an ultrabook with the raw power of a high-end laptop.

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NVIDIA Shows Off Next Generation Tablet Graphics, Compares to iPads

April 12, 2013 at 10:04 am

A new video shows off the incredible graphics of next generation NVIDIA Tegra chips with Kepler technology (code-named Logan), compared to iPad graphics.

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NVIDIA Announces New Mobile GPUs That Could Come To Future MacBooks

April 2, 2013 at 9:42 am

The new NVIDIA GeForce 700M graphics cards will likely come to the next generation MacBook Pro with Retina Display and iMac.

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Nvidia Updates Tegra RoadMap: More Performance, Better Battery Life

March 19, 2013 at 12:11 pm

NVIDIA gives some details about Tegra 4 follow-ups Logan and Parker that will bring PC graphics technology to smartphones and tablets.

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Google’s ‘New Baby’ Nexus 10 Brings the Emotions, But Do Consumers Understand the Features?

March 19, 2013 at 5:02 am

Google had debuted a new minute-long video advertisement titled 'New Baby' for its Nexus 10 tablet that brings inspiration and emotional excitement as users follow a couple through their pregnancy.

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ThinkPad T431s: Lenovo’s Refined $949 Ultrabook

March 18, 2013 at 6:11 am

Lenovo introduced the ThinkPad T431s, a slim 14" business Ultrabook. The ThinkPad T431s is the cleanest T-Series ThinkPad we've seen to date thanks to a healthy dose of user-friendly design touches. Lenovo put a lot of effort into evaluating how people actually use ...

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5 Exciting Phones from MWC 2013

March 1, 2013 at 11:10 am

With the splashy announcements of Mobile World Congress slowly dying down, here are five of the most exciting phones from MWC 2013.

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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Benchmarks Show Incredible Speed

February 26, 2013 at 8:50 am

Benchmarks shows the NVIDIA Tegra 4 is faster at web browsing than the fourth generation iPad, and has much faster graphics than the Tegra 3.

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Transport Company Saves Big Money, Improves Safety with Rugged Tablet PCs

February 21, 2013 at 12:38 pm

Heniff Transportation shuffles 300 trucks, 550 trailers and hundreds of drivers. The company employs rugged Tablet PCs to save money and improve safety.

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Battery Tech Breakthrough Could Offer 3X Battery Life, Rapid Charging

February 15, 2013 at 6:40 am

A breakthrough in battery technology from staff and students at USC could create devices triple the battery life and ten minute charge times.

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Altius Rumored to Be Samsung Galaxy Watch

February 15, 2013 at 5:00 am

A new set of screenshots has emerged showing the Samsung Galaxy Altius branding along with a curious 500 X 500-pixel square resolution leading some to speculate that the device in question may be a Samsung Galaxy Watch.

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More Accurate GPS System Paves the Way to Commercial Driverless Cars

February 14, 2013 at 6:29 am

A new car navigation system developed by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain may soon pave the way to driverless cars with GPS that's up to 90 percent more accurate than systems used today.

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Transparent Smartphones Coming in 2013, 5 Ways It Will Impact You

February 12, 2013 at 7:13 am

Polytron Technologies says that transparent and translucent smartphones are coming this year in 2013. These phones, according to the transparent glass-makers, would be largely transparent except that it will still reveal some internal phone circuitry, batteries, and com...

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Will Apple’s iWatch Replace Your iPhone? Rumors Say Yes.

February 11, 2013 at 7:11 am

Apple's wearable wristwatch rumors are heating up again, and this time both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are chiming in with their own un-named sources saying that Apple is working on an iWatch concept of some kind in a top secret lab in Cuper...

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LTE-Advanced: Faster Data Speeds, But Will Require Even Larger Phones

February 8, 2013 at 6:48 am

LTE-Advanced will be the next generation of mobile broadband technology that promises even faster data speeds than today's 4G LTE technologies used by U.S. carriers AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless among others.

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Apple Patents Hidden Fingerprint Reader Ahead of iPhone 5S

February 8, 2013 at 5:52 am

We had previously reported that the 'S' in the name of the Apple iPhone 5S could stand for security as it had been used to represent 'S'peed in the 3GS and 'S'iri in the iPhone 4S.

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Surface Pro Demo Units Popping Up at Retail Stores

February 4, 2013 at 6:32 am

Microsoft is preparing to launch its Surface Pro tablet, which runs Windows 8 Professional and Intel's core processors, and demo units of the Windows slate has been seen at various retail locations.

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Intel Looking to Break Into Windows Phone Market With Atom CPU

February 4, 2013 at 5:27 am

After having worked with several Android manufacturers to release a number of Android phones with Intel's x86 Atom architecture, the chip giant is looking to gain further footing inside the competitive mobile space with hopes of tackling the Windows Phone market next.

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Samsung: S-Pen Isn’t Going Anywhere

February 1, 2013 at 8:15 am

If it wasn't already apparent that Samsung is committed to the S-Pen, the company is showing that its serious about the digital stylus with a 5 percent investment in Wacom giving it minority voting rights.

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Intel Rumored to Debut New Dual-Core Atom Smartphones at MWC

February 1, 2013 at 5:56 am

Chip-maker Intel will be leveraging the Mobile World Congress show at the end of the month to establish more ground in the mobile smartphone market by showcasing additional smartphones running new Atom processors.

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Nokia Sends Invite to MWC Event, 41-Megapixel Lumia Inbound?

January 30, 2013 at 5:22 am

Nokia had sent us a text-based save-the-date invitation to a Mobile World Congress press conference that the Finnish Lumia phone-maker will be hosting on the first day of the conference.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Spotted Ahead of MWC Launch

January 29, 2013 at 6:34 am

It looks like Samsung is gearing up to launch the Galaxy Tab 3 series, which comprises of rumored 10.1- and 7-inch slates, as the tablet has been spotted in photos along with the packaging before the device's announcement at the end of February at MWC.

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Surface Pro: Why You Should Avoid the 64 GB Model

January 29, 2013 at 5:58 am

Microsoft had announced earlier this month that the Surface Pro tablet--the Windows 8 Professional loaded version of the Intel-powered slate--will be available in 64 GB or 128 GB flavors starting on February 9th with the price differential between the two models being $...

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Lenovo Backtracks on RIM Acquisition

January 29, 2013 at 5:47 am

After Lenovo's CFO had expressly stated that the company is interested in acquiring RIM or its hardware business, the Chinese computer-maker and owner of the ThinkPad brand is now playing it cool.

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Kyocera Torque Becomes First Rugged LTE Smartphone, Headed for Sprint

January 29, 2013 at 5:08 am

The Kyocera Torque is a rare breed as it's both a ruggedized Android smartphone and one that packs 4G LTE network connectivity on Sprint's U.S. network.

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Huawei’s Shocking Third Place Finish in Q4 2012

January 28, 2013 at 6:02 am

Huawei made a surprise ascend to the top of the smartphone list with its Ascend range of smartphones in the last quarter of 2012 propelling the Chinese smartphone-maker into a third-place finish in smartphone volume, beating out familiar names like LG, Motorola, Nokia, ...

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Trendsetting Asians Suffering from iPhone Fatigue

January 28, 2013 at 5:41 am

What used to be a status symbol, Apple's attempts to bring the iPhone to the mass is turning off some of its wealthy and fashion-forward audience in urban Asian cities like Singapore and Hong Kong.

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128 GB iPhone 5S, iPad Inbound This Year?

January 28, 2013 at 5:03 am

Rumors of what the next generation iPhone and iPad models may look like have already been swirling and the latest one may suggest that Apple is ready to upgrade the storage capacity of its highest end models with a 128 GB edition of either the iPhone 5S and/or the iPad.

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Move Over Retina Display, Full HD Huawei P2 to Pack Whopping 489ppi

January 25, 2013 at 5:35 am

Apple has fueled our obsession with high pixel density display thanks to its clever marketing of Retina Display, and since then Android manufacturers have been striving to out-Retina Apple in the display department.

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Samsung Plans New 7-Inch Galaxy Tab to Battle Google’s Nexus 7

January 24, 2013 at 5:56 am

A new report suggests that Samsung may be prepping its own Nexus 7 competitor in the form of a new 7-inch Galaxy Tab slate that will be priced competitive.

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As iPhone, iPad Sales Begin to Cool, Will Apple Warm Up to Apple TV?

January 24, 2013 at 5:11 am

As the growth momentum for the iPhone starts to slow and Apple's iPad market share is predicted by some analysts to dip for the first time below 50 percent this year, will Apple turn to its hobby, Apple TV, for a revival?

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