IDG News Service - A new television format that has 16 times the resolution of current High Definition TV has been approved by an international standards body, Japanese sources said Thursday. UHDTV, or Ultra High Definition Television, ...
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Verizon Wireless announced that the BlackBerry Curve 9310 smartphone will be available online on Thursday,and in stores in"coming weeks,"at a price of$49.99 after rebate with a two-year service plan. The announcement came just minutes ...
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IDG News Service - Asustek's innovative laptop-tablet hybrid called Taichi is now on sale in the U.S. starting at $1,299. At first glance, the Taichi looks like a standard ultrabook with an 11.6-inch touch screen when in laptop mode. ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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Verizon Wireless, like AT&T, will start shipping the Samsung Galaxy Note II in November, but its subscribers will have to wait a bit longer than users on competing networks. The device will start shipping from Verizon on Nov. 27, while ...
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Google's next smartphone, the Nexus 4, will have a 4.7-inch screen and start shipping on Oct. 30, according to U.K. retailer Carphone Warehouse. The follow-up to the Galaxy Nexus, which was announced in October last year, is widely ...
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USA - Skrillex rocked the house as 16 Chauvet Professional Legend 412 moving heads projected powerful beams and striking pixel-mapping effects during the South By Southwest 2012 AM Only Showcase. The AM Only Showcase featured a ...
Samsung Display will terminate its contract to supply LCD panels for Apple due to financial pressures caused by Apple's tight supply chain management, according to a news report published in The Korea Times on Monday. Samsung can't ...
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Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...
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Google's new $199 Nexus 7 tablet takes advantage of Nvidia's Kai reference design, a proprietary technology that allows for a cheaper display and memory components that work in concert with a high-performance quad-core Tegra 3 processor. ...
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The Lumia 510 is Nokia's new entry-level Windows Phone, priced at about $199 excluding taxes and subsidies and due to be released in November, the company said on Tuesday. The smartphone has a 4-inch screen with a 800-by-480 pixel ...
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Asustek is shipping its upcoming Vivo Tab RT tablet starting at US$599, which will cost more than Windows RT tablets from Microsoft and Dell, which have an entry price of $499. Asus is shipping the tablet with a dock accessory. Buyers ...
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Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
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The next version of Microsoft Office, unveiled on Monday, is a dramatic departure from the software that millions of users have come to know, built for the cloud and for touch-based computing and packed with features that make it more ...
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The HP ElitePad 900 tablet, announced earlier Monday, comes with a screen resolution below what's required to run Snap, a unique feature that allows two apps to be viewed simultaneously. The tablet, intended for business users and due to ...
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