Television at four times the resolution of today's high-def images is turning out to be one of the most popular bets among consumer electronics makers in Las Vegas at this year's CES. Most of the major TV set makers announced plans for ...
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IDG News Service - Raising the bar for image quality on television sets, Panasonic unveiled a 56-inch OLED TV that shows images at 4K resolution, four times the overall resolution of current 1080p high-definition TVs. The new TV was shown ...
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Asustek is aiming for the TV market with the introduction of an Internet streaming box called Qube, which will run on Google TV software. The box will enable streaming of movies and TV shows from Google Play, Netflix, Amazon and HBO, Asus ...
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IDG News Service - Sharp has announced two new 4K LCD monitors, which will display images at close to four times the overall resolution of traditional 1080p high-definition monitors available today. The new 32-inch LCD monitor series will ...
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Royal fabric supplier Hainsworth, one of Britain’s most historic textile mills, will unveil its 2013 Scarlet & Argent collection at Home, London, January 13-15 (stand K10). Scarlet & Argent by Hainsworth, a stunning collection of ...
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Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff - as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make ...
With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
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An adults-only rating category for computer games has come into effect across the nation. The new R18+ category will make it illegal for people under 18 to buy, hire or view any games given the rating, while it will be illegal for ...
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In 2007 writer Jeff Giles closed shop on his Jefitoblog site. The website had amassed a loyal following and several cohorts across the Internet including his partner-in-Mellowmas-torture Jason Hare. Giles' big plan was to gather up such ...
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Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform. Netflix users were unable to stream movies and TV shows from some devices on Monday, with many posting ...
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IDG News Service-Qualcomm Atheros is rolling out StreamBoost,a technology that will be used in Wi-Fi routers and gateways to improve the performance of movies and games streamed over wireless home networks. While the new 802.11ac standard ...
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Computerworld-The Kindle Fire has been snuffed out--in a good way. Amazon said Thursday that the$199 Kindle Fire tablet sold out after less than a full year on the market. Amazon claims that since its launch,the Kindle captured 22%of ...
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Computerworld - Tablets seem to be heading in two directions: There are those primarily designed for consumption of books, movies and other content, and those intended for content creation as well as consumption. That distinction is ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday launched new FirePro processors that include CPUs and graphics processors, a change from previous FirePro chips that only had graphics processors. The new FirePro A300 series processors combines CPUs and ...
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