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ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 9:20 pm
If the trio of slabs ZTE announced earlier this week weren’t enough for you, sit tight, the outfit just announced it’s bringing a total of eight new phones to Barcelona next week. The new handsets will reportedly flaunt multi-core processors, LTE radios and the latest versions of the Aneroid and Windows Phone platforms. This announcement [...]
Read More >>LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 8:20 pm
If LG failed to impress so far with the slew of Android 2.3 phones it’s shown off in the run up to MWC 2012, perhaps the Optimus 4X HD can make up for it. This 4.7-inch beast is its first to feature a 1.5GHz quad core Tegra 3 as its CPU, a 4.7-inch True HD [...]
Read More >>Facebook PS Vita app hits US PlayStation Store
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 8:00 pm
Although the PlayStation Vita’s official US launch brought with it the pleasures of LiveTweeting, WiFi-only Netflix access and Flickr’s photo-based networking, its Facebook and Foursquare apps were curiously absent. Today that’s partially changed, however, as Sony’s announced that the service that Zuckerberg built is now available as a free 12MB download from the PlayStation Store [...]
Read More >>Netflix locks up Academy Award nominated exclusives from The Weinstein Company
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 7:40 pm
If you’re looking for more content to watch on Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming service — especially since all those Starz movies are exiting stage left at month’s end — we have good news, as it just announced a multi-year exclusive deal with The Weinstein Company. The agreement covers foreign language, documentary and “certain other movies” [...]
Read More >>FCC Chair Calls On ISPs To Adopt New Security Measures
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 7:20 pm
alphadogg writes “U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyber attacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the FCC said Wednesday. Julius Genachowski called on ISPs to notify subscribers whose computers are infected with malware and tied to a botnet and to develop a code [...]
Read More >>Google Street View now sending snapshots from Russia, with love
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 7:00 pm
We’ve lived vicariously through Google Maps a few times in the past, including an excursion down the Amazon River. Today, those plans for a trip to Russia can get a lot more detailed as Street View is now virtually pacing the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Points of interest that you’ll be able to [...]
Read More >>Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 5:40 pm
An anonymous reader writes “Biologists have previously predicted that that the male sex-determining Y chromosome, which once carried around 800 genes, like the X, has lost hundreds of them over the past 300 million years, will mutate itself out of existence, leading to the eventual extinction of men. However, researchers of a study published in [...]
Read More >>M3 Android NFC Communicator mixes something old, something new for prepaid subs
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 5:20 pm
Malaysia may not be on the tip of anyone’s tongue when wireless comes to mind, but that’s not stopping local outfit DMD Mobile from attempting to make its mark. Set for an official unveiling at next week’s Mobile World Congress, the M3 Android NFC Communicator is the outfit’s clumsily titled stab at the prepaid market [...]
Read More >>NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 5:00 pm
mdsolar writes “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today released transcripts and audio recordings made at the NRC Operations Center during last year’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The release of these audio recordings comes at the request of the public radio program ‘BURN: An Energy Journal,’ and its host Alex Chadwick. [...]
Read More >>SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon off
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 4:40 pm
SanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership in the exclusive 128-gigabit club. Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather than 20-nanometer cells in the production process. Shrinking the size is one thing, but SanDisk’s new chips also use [...]
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