A fresh type of die will make its toy retail debut in a matter of months. Dice+ will launch in August priced at £29.99, and will feature a point of sale-activated card system that also enables retailers to sell online games with it. ...
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Shares in US book retailer Barnes & Noble closed more than 24 per cent higher in New York yesterday following a report that Microsoft is to buy the digital assets of Nook Media, its ebook and tablet business, for $1bn (£650m). ...
Apple supplier Pegatron has said it will increase its workforce in China by up to 40 per cent in the second half of 2013, suggesting that it could be working on assembling a new cheaper model of the iPhone. Pegatron, which is based in ...
Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by users. Normally, applications would have to poll for changes, which can be a resource ...
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Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to?ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers couldn't be happier. Citing various PC industry executives in Asia, the?Wall Street Journal reports?that Microsoft is being more ...
Nokia will launch one medium price mobile phone Asha, priced 99 dollars. Nokia attempted to prevent consumers especially those fromthe emerging markets from chosing Google phone with Android system. Asha has some smartphone's basic ...
Lighting systems that are designed for halogen lamps now will have to be retrofitted with LEDs further down the line. It’s high time we started designing for LEDs from the ground up blogs Iain Ruxton Last week, I stayed in a very ...
Taiwan and Hong Kong may be only the beginning of Xiaomi's expansion outside China. The popular Chinese vendor of low-priced handsets is aiming at getting into five more markets next year. "This year, we will only do Hong Kong and ...
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Google has pushed out an update to Glass, its upcoming glasseslike wearable computer. A few thousand developers are working with an early version of Glass. When they fire up the devices today, they'll find about a dozen tweaks and ...
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Gameloft and Fox Digital Entertainment, a division of 20th Century Fox Filmed Entertainment, have today announced an exclusive partnership to launch a new game for the upcoming animated adventure EPIC. From Blue Sky Studios, the creators of ...
LAST night's midnight premiere of Star Trek into Darkness confirms the cult of the USS Enterprise thrives 47 years after the first TV episodes aired. Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew have indeed managed to "live long and prosper" - ...
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A standards organization has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT. The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum on Wednesday announced that its boot firmware ...
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A new dart gun brand Tek Recon has launched on funding website Kickstarter. The goal of the Kickstarter campaign is designed to "further enhance the development of the Tek Recon blaster and free app, and to get the product into the hands ...
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ME System, a product innovation company, today announces the start of its first-ever crowd funding campaign in anticipation of the release of its first product to market – the ME Clock. With an Indiegogo campaign that will run ...
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Hewlett-Packard is barely holding on to the top spot in the laptop and desktop market, but hopes a renewed vigor regarding product design will help reverse the fortunes of its PC business. The company is standardizing the design and ...
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