LG Electronics has taken the fight to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2, having revealed its new Optimus G Pro on Monday, which, LG says, is a direct competitor to the hugely successful phablet. The new device will have a 5.5-inch screen, ...
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USA - Even at the supreme event of the biggest celebration in a city known for its huge excesses, the Ponchartrain Beach float takes bigness to new heights - or lengths. At 330'long, this tribute to the Big Easy's legendary Ponchartrain ...
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Microsoft's new touchy-feely Windows 8 works well on a tablet or touchscreen notebook, but what about a traditional desktop machine? With no touch, desktop punters wrangling Windows 8 are reliant on the old keyboard and mouse combo for ...
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Budget phones can be miserable affairs. Poor screen and camera resolution, terrible keyboards and hand-me-down technology can make a user feel like the character in Barbra Streisand's 60s hit Second Hand Rose. This isn't so with Nokia's ...
Microsoft's highly anticipated Surface Pro with Windows 8 will be on sale Saturday starting at $899 and will test the company's viability in the tablet market after the failure of the Surface RT. The Surface Pro tablet has an Intel Core ...
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Several tech blogs recently reported rumors that a smart phone HTC is expected to unveil next week will include a new kind of imaging sensor, called an "Ultrapixel" sensor: Instead of the usual type of sensor with one layer of pixel sites, ...
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Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates recently took part in a question-and-answer session on popular message board site Reddit. Gates’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) session garnering more than 18,000 comments shortly after it ended. ...
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BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world started shipments today on the new BLU Studio 5.3 II and BLU Tank 4.5. Each device featuring a Dual Core 1GHz Cortex -A9 processor, with PowerVR SGX Series 5 ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
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IDG News Service - Sony has started shipping two new Vaio ultrabooks with large screens starting at US$699 as the company expands its lineup of thin and light laptops. The Vaio T Series 14 and 15 ultrabooks have Intel's Core processors ...
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Lenovo showcased its ThinkPad Tablet 2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, and within days had it on sale globally, including through its online store. At 10mm thick and weighing from 565g, it is a stylish, ...
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USA - Passion Conferences, founded by Louie Giglio in 1997 as a means of reaching the 20+ million university students in the world for the glory of God, has become one of the world's largest gatherings of Christian young adults. Held in ...
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UK - As part of on-going expansion in LED equipment and systems at ELP, the company are now supplying the latest ARRI L7c fresnels. No sooner had the first batch of units arrived, LDs Dave Evans and Stuart Gain nabbed them for The One ...
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Professor Martin Dawson of the University of Strathclyde leads LED research Tiny LEDs are being developed by academics to deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications As well as lighting buildings and outdoor spaces, LEDs are being used ...
With the target of drawing academic and industrial expertise together to address the solid-state lighting/electronics interface and its implications for custom-controlled lighting systems, Scotland’s University of Strathclyde is ...
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