Gadget and Gizmo Review: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

Single nanomaterial yields many laser colors

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 12:22 PM PDT

Engineers have created nanoscale single crystals that can produce the red, green, or blue laser light needed in digital displays. The size determines color, but all the pyramid-shaped quantum dots are made the same way of the same elements. In experiments, light amplification required much less power than previous attempts at the technology. The team's prototypes are the first lasers of their kind.

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

HP Pavilion G6, G7 Budget Laptops to Come with Quad-Core Intel CPUs
Hardware Keyboard Was “Seriously Considered” For Original iPhone
Boston Getting The First Smartphone Rail Ticket Service In The US
Apple Kills Chomp For Android
Android Updates Leaked Via Verizon Document

HP Pavilion G6, G7 Budget Laptops to Come with Quad-Core Intel CPUs

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT

HP fans will be happy to know that HP's Pavilion G6 and G7 series notebooks will be available with the 3rd generation quad-core Intel "Ivy Bridge" processors.
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Hardware Keyboard Was “Seriously Considered” For Original iPhone

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 09:19 AM PDT

It is hard to imagine, but a former Apple engineer is saying that the original iPhone almost had a physical keyboard. Previously we had heard that there were prototypes which included physical keyboards, but that Steve Jobs quickly vetoed that idea in favor of a higher tech solution.
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Boston Getting The First Smartphone Rail Ticket Service In The US

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:44 AM PDT

It’s funny how many businesses are starting to realize that our gadgets can be used for much more. They can be used to make our daily activities much easier and more efficient. That’s why the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is going to start a program this fall that will allow commuter rail riders to buy tickets on their smartphones.
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Apple Kills Chomp For Android

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:34 AM PDT

After apple acquired Chomp, we knew it was just a matter of time before the app would be removed from Android and now it has happened. The app search service had been on Android for a while and was pretty useful, but not anymore.
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Android Updates Leaked Via Verizon Document

Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:10 AM PDT

A Reddit user named DroidTosser claims to know Verizon's Android update schedule and has posted the images to prove it. The photos show that the HTC Rezound is scheduled to receive an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on May 9th, followed by the DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX on May 21st.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Nintendo To Release Games Digitally On 3DS And Wii U Starting In August
T-Mobile HTC One S Getting A Patch To Address Wifi Battery Drain
HP Slate 8 Tablet Image Leaked
Miniature N64 Controller
Acer Aspire V3 coming to Japan for $1,100

Nintendo To Release Games Digitally On 3DS And Wii U Starting In August

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 09:11 AM PDT

Nintendo has never been a big fan of digital content for its platforms, though they have improved over the lifetime of the Wii and with the introduction of the 3DS. However they still have a long way to go. For instance, with the launch of the PS Vita, Sony promised to release every game in digital form day-and-date with the retail version.
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T-Mobile HTC One S Getting A Patch To Address Wifi Battery Drain

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 08:57 AM PDT

Users of the HTC One S have been experiencing problems with the battery during Wi-Fi calling. Users of the device have complained that the battery drains more quickly when using the Wi-Fi calling feature. One user said, "After 5 hours and 32 minutes on battery, screen on 66%, Internet 7%, cell standby 7%, and Wi-Fi running 3 hours and 43 minutes, I'm at a low 35% battery left,"
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HP Slate 8 Tablet Image Leaked

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 08:36 AM PDT

According to a “trusted source” from Neowin.net, the image above is a mockup of an upcoming business tablet from HP called the Slate 8. That would be a Windows 8 tablet focused on business use.
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Miniature N64 Controller

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 08:26 AM PDT

This miniature N64 controller is pretty cute and it sure beats that bulky N64 stock controller. It’s not a straight up mod, but an original construction built around a PIC microcontroller. Playing games on the system is likely to be a whole new experience with this one.
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Acer Aspire V3 coming to Japan for $1,100

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 08:11 AM PDT

It looks like the sexy Acer Aspire V3 is headed for Japan. And it has almost everything you want. A 2.1GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 is nice, but the screen is just 1366 x 768. Though it does have a Blu-ray player and Dolby Theater v4. That might be a deal-breaker for some, but there’s still a lot to like here.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

Nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem emerging
DNA fingerprinting enters 21st century
Wearable electronics:Transparent, lightweight, flexible conductor could revolutionize electronics industry
Hubble images searchlight beams from a preplanetary nebula
Cassini finds Saturn moon has planet-like qualities
Golden potential for gold thin films
Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity
Contributing to the nuclear fusion project
Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations
Atomic clock comparison via data highways
Anti-reflective coatings: Beauty is in the moth's eyes
New particle discovered at CERN
Mathematics: First-ever image of a flat torus in 3-D
What is the best way of stacking apples?

Nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem emerging

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 09:02 PM PDT

A scientist provides an example of a nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem that is unfolding right now.

DNA fingerprinting enters 21st century

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Researchers have created a three-step algorithm, lobSTR, that in one day accurately and simultaneously profiles more than 100,000 short tandem repeats in one human genome sequence -- a feat that previous systems could never complete.

Wearable electronics:Transparent, lightweight, flexible conductor could revolutionize electronics industry

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:34 PM PDT

The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has just been invented. Called GraphExeter, the material could revolutionize the creation of wearable electronic devices, such as clothing containing computers, phones and MP3 players.

Hubble images searchlight beams from a preplanetary nebula

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:26 AM PDT

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into what happens to stars like our sun at the ends of their lives. One stage that stars pass through as they run out of nuclear fuel is called the preplanetary or protoplanetary nebula stage. A new Hubble image of the Egg Nebula shows one of the best views to date of this brief but dramatic phase in a star's life.

Cassini finds Saturn moon has planet-like qualities

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring the Saturn system in 2004. Using data from multiple spacecraft instruments and a computer model of the moon's chemistry, geophysics and geology, scientists found Phoebe was a so-called planetesimal, or remnant planetary building block.

Golden potential for gold thin films

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Researchers have directed the first self-assembly of nanoparticles into multi-layered thin films of gold that are device-ready for potential applications in computer memory storage, energy harvesting, energy storage, remote-sensing, catalysis, light management and plasmonics.

Researchers combat global disease with a cell phone, Google Maps and a lot of ingenuity

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Researchers have developed a compact and cost-effective RDT reader platform to combine digital reading of all existing rapid-diagnostic-tests. The team's new reader is installed on a cell phone that can work with various lateral flow immuno-chromatographic assays and similar tests to sense the presence of a target analyte in samples.

Contributing to the nuclear fusion project

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Many regard nuclear fusion as the main energy source of the future. Among others, the ITER project is seeking to turn this venture into reality and is making use of the Tokamak reactor for this purpose. Reactors of this type have a number of control problems, and to solve them the electronics engineers have come up with some tools.

Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Engineers have found a novel method for "decorating" nanowires with chains of tiny particles to increase their electrical and catalytic performance. The new technique is simpler, faster and more effective than earlier methods and could lead to better batteries, solar cells and catalysts.

Atomic clock comparison via data highways

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:59 AM PDT

In the future, optical fibers could connect all optical atomic clocks within Europe -- a milestone for various users of optical frequencies in research and industry.

Anti-reflective coatings: Beauty is in the moth's eyes

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:56 AM PDT

If you wear glasses, you are probably reading this article by looking through a tiny, transparent layer of nanomaterial. Anti-reflective coatings (ARCs), based on nanomaterials that reduce the amount of reflected light, are used in most optical devices, including glasses, photo lenses, TV screens, solar cells, LED lights and many others.

New particle discovered at CERN

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:56 AM PDT

Physicists have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC. The baryon known as Xi_b^* confirms fundamental assumptions of physics regarding the binding of quarks.

Mathematics: First-ever image of a flat torus in 3-D

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:43 AM PDT

Just as a terrestrial globe cannot be flattened without distorting the distances, it seemed impossible to visualize abstract mathematical objects called flat tori in ordinary three-dimensional space. However, a team of mathematicians and computer scientists has succeeded in constructing and visually representing an image of a flat torus in three-dimensional space. This is a smooth fractal, halfway between fractals and ordinary surfaces.

What is the best way of stacking apples?

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:43 AM PDT

When stacking apples on a market stall, fruit sellers "naturally" adopt a particular arrangement: a regular pyramid with a triangular base. Scientists have now demonstrated that this arrangement is favored for reasons of mechanical stability. This work could contribute to the design of organized porous materials.

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Best Buy Discontinues Connect 4G Service
PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale in the Works
California Law Stopped Steve Jobs From Playing Willy Wonka
Sony LT29i Hayabusa Coming In June With 13MP “Stacked” Camera Sensor
Entry Level Sony Xperia ST21i Android 4.0 Smartphone Leaked
Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Headed To GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus First?
Nokia Earned More From iPhone Than Its Nokia Lumia Windows Phones?
Another Samsung Galaxy S III Photo Leaked?
Wii U Coming With Android App Support?
Samsung Stages Fake Protest Outside Apple Store (Video)
Google Launches New Google Maps Photo Tour Feature (video)
Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR HD And New 5 Inch HTC Smartphone Headed To Verizon
Dropbox Enables Automatic Photo Uploading For PC And Mac Systems
Apple’s New iPad Launched In Nine More Countries
BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Shots Revealed
Portal 2 Puzzle Editor DLC Arriving May 8th On PC and Mac
Panasonic And NHK Working On New 145 Inch Plasma TV With 8K Resolution
Google Translate Processes The Equivalent Of 1 Million Books Per Day
Sony Launches First Waterproof Handycam (video)
Opera 12 Beta Now Available With 64-bit Support for Windows and Mac
Half Of US Android Tablets In US May Be The Amazon Kindle Fire
Google Sells SketchUp 3D Modelling Software To Trimble Navigation
US Samsung Galaxy S III May Come With Dual Core Snapdragon Processor (Rumor)
Skype For Android Gets Updated
Adafruit Unveils Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate Kit
HTC Droid Incredible 4G Lands On Verizon May 10th?
LG Optimus True HD LTE Headed To Germany, Portugal, Sweden And More
LG Announces New IPS4 LED Monitors
Samsung Reports Massive Quarter One Profits
Sony NEX-F3 Camera Leaked, Features 16 Megapixel Sensor
Samsung Overtakes Nokia As Worlds Largest Phone Maker
iOS Developers Launch IndieDevLab, Alternative To WWDC 2012
Twitter Release New Versions Of Their Android And iPhone Apps
Wolfram Alpha PC App Launches For $2.99

Best Buy Discontinues Connect 4G Service

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:56 AM PDT

Best Buy has announced that it is discontinuing its branded 4G wireless Internet service. The service operated under the Best Buy Connect name. The service has stopped taking new registrations.

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PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale in the Works

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:50 AM PDT

Sony has announced it is working on a new title for the PlayStation 3 called All-stars Battle Royale. The game will feature characters from multiple PlayStation 3 games including some third-party games in addition to Sony developed first party titles. This game will be a fighting game apparently only for the PS3.

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California Law Stopped Steve Jobs From Playing Willy Wonka

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:05 AM PDT

Steve Jobs accomplished quite a bit in his life and now that he is no longer with us, some new tales are coming to light. The latest story sheds some light on the fact that Jobs wanted to package an iMac with a golden ticket inside.
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Sony LT29i Hayabusa Coming In June With 13MP “Stacked” Camera Sensor

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:45 AM PDT

The Sony LT29i, aka "Hayabusa" is said to come with the new 13-megapixel "stacked" camera sensor from Sony. This will deliver an improved low-light performance as well as opening up the doors to the "HDR Video" function. But wait, there’s more.
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Entry Level Sony Xperia ST21i Android 4.0 Smartphone Leaked

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:44 AM PDT

It looks like Sony has a new budget Android smartphone in the works, the Sony ST21i which is expected to come with the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The guys over at Techblog.gr managed to get their hands on some photos of the new Sony ST21i, which you can see below and the device is rumored to be powered by a single core Snapdragon processor clocked at 800MHz.

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Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Headed To GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus First?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:42 AM PDT

The next version of Google’s Android OS, which will be Android 5.0 is rumored to be codenamed Android Jelly Bean, and it is rumored to launch some time in quarter three of 2012.

It looks like the GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus may be the first handset to get the Android 5.0 Jelly Bean update, the information regarding the update comes from a crash log that refers to a mysterious software profile called ‘takju’ which was discovered by the guys from Android Police.

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Nokia Earned More From iPhone Than Its Nokia Lumia Windows Phones?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:13 AM PDT

According to a recent report Nokia is making more from Apple’s iPhone than it is currently making from its own Nokia Lumia Windows Phone devices, the company recently announced that its mobile phone division made a loss.

According to the guys over at Apple Insider, Nokia made around 600 million from patents that it licensed to Apple relating to Apple’s iPhone range which include the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.

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Another Samsung Galaxy S III Photo Leaked?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT

We have already seen a couple of photos of the new Samsung Galaxy S III, although the photos we saw were of the device in dummy boxes, and now another photo has appeared online, which is reported to be the next Galaxy smartphone.

Unfortunately the photo isn’t the best quality, have a look at it below, we don’t know if this is the final design or just another dummy case, what do you guys think?

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Wii U Coming With Android App Support?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:33 AM PDT

Its been rumoured that the new Nintendo Wii U expected to make an appearance later this year, will come with ability to run Android applications directly out of the box.

But rather than just trying to make the system accommodate the Android apps, Nintendo is apparently building Android into their system, for real, working alongside the Wii U’s own user interface and software.

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Samsung Stages Fake Protest Outside Apple Store (Video)

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT

Samsung latest adverts and marketing campaigns have been having a dig at Apple, their latest one is somewhat strange as Samsung decided to stage a fake protest outside an Apple Store in Australia.

Samsung sent a bus load of protesters to an Apple Store in Australia, and then had the protesters chant ‘Wake Up’ outside the store while brandishing some ‘Wake Up signs’.

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Google Launches New Google Maps Photo Tour Feature (video)

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:19 AM PDT

Google has this week launched a new features on its Google Maps service that allows users to now view photo tours of specific places worldwide.Google photo tours are now available for more than 15,000 popular sites around the world, from famous landmarks such as St. Mark's Basilica in Italy to scenic treasures like Half Dome in Yosemite.

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Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR HD And New 5 Inch HTC Smartphone Headed To Verizon

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:06 AM PDT

According to a recent report from the BGR, there are a number of new devices headed to Verizon Wireless this summer, which will include the new Samsung Galaxy S III.

Other devices reported to be landing on version include a Droid RAZR HD, which we presume will feature a HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, plus a yet to be announced device from HTC that will feature a 5 inch touchscreen display.

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Dropbox Enables Automatic Photo Uploading For PC And Mac Systems

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:52 AM PDT

Dropbox has this week enabled a new feature on its service which follows on from the roll out of their Android app back in February, that automatically uploaded images directly to your Dropbox account.

Now Dropbox has enabled the automatic service to work with just about any camera, tablet, SD card or smartphone. Making storing your images and memories to your Cloud storage even easier. Dropbox explains the implementation of the new service:

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Apple’s New iPad Launched In Nine More Countries

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:42 AM PDT

Apple’s new iPad has already become very popular for the company, and now Apple has launched their new iPad in nine more countries around the world, making the device available in a total of 57 different countries.

From today the new iPad is available Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand, which are bound to add to Apple’s massive sales of the new device.

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BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Shots Revealed

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:31 AM PDT

The guys over at the Verge have got their hands on some press shots of RIM’s latest BlackBerry smartphone, the BlackBerry Curve 9320, the device is designed for the budget and emerging markets.

RIM has yet to officially announce the new BlackBerry Curve 9320, so we don’t have the full specifications, what we do know is that it will comer with a physical QWERTY keyboard and will run BlackBerry OS 7.1.

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Portal 2 Puzzle Editor DLC Arriving May 8th On PC and Mac

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:26 AM PDT

Valve has today announced their new Portal 2 Puzzle Editor DLC will be arriving on May 8th for both PC and Mac gamers. The free Portal 2 DLC titled “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will enable players to easily create, share and play Portal 2 puzzles, they have created.

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Panasonic And NHK Working On New 145 Inch Plasma TV With 8K Resolution

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:24 AM PDT

Panasonic has announced that it will be working with NHK to produce a new plasma TV which will measure a massive 145 inches, and will come with a whopping 8K resolution.

The hew Panasonic 145 inch plasma TV will feature a resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels, which is known as Super Hi-Vision in Japan, and it will be the worlds first 8K display that doesn’t need a backlight.

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Google Translate Processes The Equivalent Of 1 Million Books Per Day

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:14 AM PDT

Most of us will probably have used Google’s Translate service at some point, and now Google has shared some details on how popular their language translate service has become.

According to Google, the service is used by more that 200 million people per month, and the service translates the equivalent text that can be found in more than 1 million books every day.

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Sony Launches First Waterproof Handycam (video)

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:13 AM PDT

Sony has this week added a new waterproof Handycam to their range of video recorders in the form of the Sony HDR-GW77V. Which has been designed to go under water in depths of up to 16 ft for up to 60 minutes.

The Sony HDR-GW77V Handycam is equipped with a 20.4-megapixel resolution, full 1080p video capture @ 60fps, and 10x optical zoom. With 16GB of internal storage that can be expanded using SDHC or Memory Stick Micro cards to suit your needs.

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Opera 12 Beta Now Available With 64-bit Support for Windows and Mac

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Yesterday Opera rolled out their latest Opera browser release, allowing the public to take a look at and use their new Opera 12 beta version. Opera 12 brings with it a wealth of new features for users include more performance and stability. One of the major new features is the 64-bit support for Windows and Mac which now comes with Opera 12 beta.

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Half Of US Android Tablets In US May Be The Amazon Kindle Fire

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:59 AM PDT

The Amazon Kindle Fire, with its $199 price tag has been an incredibly popular Android tablet, and whilst Amazon has yet to release any recent details on how many of the tablet they have sold, according to one research firm the Kindle fire could make up almost half of the Android tablets in the US.

The news comes from comScore, which collects data on which devices access websites, and the company has done some analysis on Android tablets, and Amazon’s Kindle Fire came out as the most used.

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Google Sells SketchUp 3D Modelling Software To Trimble Navigation

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:52 AM PDT

Google SketchUp the popular 3D modelling program created by Google as an easy way to create 3D objects and allows placement of users created 3D architectural models within Google Earth. has now left the ranks of Google services been sold to Trimble Navigation.

SketchUp was originally developed by startup company @Last Software and was released to the public on August 2000 as a general purpose 3D content creation tool, marketed using the tagline “3D for Everyone”.

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US Samsung Galaxy S III May Come With Dual Core Snapdragon Processor (Rumor)

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:49 AM PDT

Yesterday Samsung announced that the new Samsung Galaxy S III would feature their new Exynos 4 Quad processor, which is a quad core processor with a clock speed of 1.4GHz.

Now according to a recent report, the US version of the Samsung Galaxy S III may not feature the Exynos 4 Quad processor, instead it may come with a dual core Snapdragon S4 processor.

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Skype For Android Gets Updated

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:42 AM PDT

Skype has released a new version of their mobile app for Google’s Android platform, and the latest version comes with a range of new features and improvements, plus some bug fixes.

The latest version of Skype for Android comes with some battery life improvements, plus improved video quality for video chat, and you can now send photos and videos to your contacts.

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Adafruit Unveils Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate Kit

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:38 AM PDT

If you are one of the lucky ones who already has received your new $35 Raspberry Pi computer. You might be interested in this new Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate Kit which has been built by Adafruit.

The new Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate allows you to use your Raspberry Pi computer to make embedded computer projects. It consist of plate that snaps onto the Pi PCB (can be removed at a later date if you wish) and opens up all sorts of prototyping possibilities.

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HTC Droid Incredible 4G Lands On Verizon May 10th?

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Earlier in the week Verizon listed the new HTC Droid Incredible on their Droid Does website for a short time,the device was then removed, but we got to find out some details about Verizon’s latest Droid smartphone.

Now according to the guys over at Phone Dog, the HTC Incredible 4G will land on Verizon on the 10th of May, we already know that the device will cost $299.99 when you sign up to a two year contract with the carrier, but Verizon has yet to officially announce the device and confirm the launch date.

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LG Optimus True HD LTE Headed To Germany, Portugal, Sweden And More

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:18 AM PDT

Yesterday LG announced the new LG Optimus True HD LTE smartphone for Germany, and now they have announced that the device will also be made available in other European countries.

LG have said that as well as Germany, the LG Optimus True HD LTE will be available in Portugal and Sweden, and on top of that it will also launch in some other countries in Asia, which include Singapore and Hong Kong.

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LG Announces New IPS4 LED Monitors

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:10 AM PDT

LG has announced a range of monitors, the LG IPS4 series, which feature In-Plane Switching instead of conventional Twisted Nematic panels, although they didn’t release any details on specific models and specifications.

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Samsung Reports Massive Quarter One Profits

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Earlier we heard that Samsung has overtaken Nokia to become the worlds largest handset vendor in quarter one of 2012, and Samsung has recently released its financial details for the same quarter.

Samsung posted record profits for quarter one of 2012, almost double that for the same period last year, with an operating profit of 8.85 trillion won, about $5.16 billion, which is a 98 percent gain over the same period on 2011.

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Sony NEX-F3 Camera Leaked, Features 16 Megapixel Sensor

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:45 PM PDT

It looks like Sony has another camera in the works for its NEX mirrorless camera series, the NEX-F3, and as you can see from the photo below, the NEX-F3 will feature a 16.1 megapixel camera sensor.

The new Sony NEX-F3 features the same 16 megapixel sensor that can be found in the NEX-C3, although it comes with improved image quality due to a new BIONZ processor.

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Samsung Overtakes Nokia As Worlds Largest Phone Maker

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:29 PM PDT

Nokia has been the worlds largest mobile phone maker for quite some time, and whilst the company hasn’t done well in recent years with smartphones, it has with normal mobile phones.

For the last 14 years Nokia has shipped more mobile phones than any other company, but according to research firm Strategy Analytics, that changed in quarter one of 2012, with Samsung shipping more mobile phones than Nokia.

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iOS Developers Launch IndieDevLab, Alternative To WWDC 2012

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:17 PM PDT

Apple started selling tickets for its WWDC 2012 earlier this week, the tickets were sold out in under two hours, and many developers missed out on them because Apple started selling them at 5.30 AM Pacific time.

This meant that many developers who lived in the West Coast, missed out on WWDC, and considering there is a large developer community there, they have decided to hold their own alternative to WWDC, called Indie Dev Lab.

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Twitter Release New Versions Of Their Android And iPhone Apps

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:53 PM PDT

It’s been a long time coming but today Twitter have finally rolled out a new updated version of their iOS and Android application, which brings enhancements to discover, search and notifications within the app.

Twitter have now made the search facility within the application simpler to use, and it will now suggest spellings and related terms. Providing a faster way to find exactly the people or what you are looking for, auto-completing Twitter users you follow.

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Wolfram Alpha PC App Launches For $2.99

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:37 PM PDT

Wolfram Alpha has this week launched a new application for PC following in the footsteps of its previous mobile applications for Android and iOS devices.

The latest instant expert knowledge and computation app will now be heading to PCs soon, and thanks to a partnership with Intel the company will also make the new app available to Ultrabooks via Intel’s AppUp center.

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