LOOKING FOR SOMETHING different than an iPhone? Well, if you want something that stands out, then maybe Motorola’s new Charm is the thing you’ve been waiting for. This square, somewhat odd looking QWERTY Android phone is one of the unusual models to make it out of Motorola’s R&D department and we’re not sure it’s going to be a winner.
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NVIDIA JUST HAD one of their most sleazy marketing tactics exposed, that PhysX is faster on a GPU than a CPU. As David Kanter at Real World Tech proves, the only reason that PhysX is faster on a GPU is because Nvidia purposely hobbles it on the CPU. If they didn’t, PhysX would run faster on a modern CPU.
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CYBERLINK IS UNDISPUTABLY the leader in software DVD and Blu-ray playback software for Windows and the company has announced a new version of PowerDVD called PowerDVD 10 Mark II which if you have the Ultra 3D version of it, allows you to watch your movies in 3D. Well, that is if you have the required equipment to do so.
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THERE ARE ALREADY a few dual core netbooks on the market, like the Asus Eee PC 1215N which we wrote about a couple of days ago. However, Acer appears to be one of the first to market with a netbook that uses the first mobile dual core Atom processor, the N550. Sadly it seems like little else is exciting about the new Aspire One D255.
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NOKIA ISN’T DOING well and the company is now looking at offloading is wireless modem business unit to Renesas for roughly $200 million, not exactly what you’d call pocket change. However, Nokia isn’t giving up its wireless modem products, instead Nokia and Renesas has signed a strategic business alliance to develop HSPA+ and LTE products.
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LAST WEEK, INTEL proved they were much smarter than Microsoft and IBM when they put out a widely ignored press release about an administrative motion with the FTC. While the text said next to nothing, the actions behind it had immense ramifications, especially if you are an Intel stockholder.
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THERE ARE STILL a lot of unanswered questions about Nvidia’s upcoming GTX460 which should be based on the GF104, but pricing of what appears to be a real card has appeared in a price search engine in Europe, with several retailers listed as having put the card up for pre-order. Price wise the new card is very close to what AMD’s Radeon HD 5830 sells for in Europe, so it’ll be interesting to see how it performs, once it launches.
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THE SMUG ONES from Cupertino have finally done the right thing for iPhone 4 owners with reception problems, that would basically be everyone who owns one. No, they didn’t fix the design flaw, but they did issue a sickly self-congratulatory press release, publicly blame their customers, then deny that the problem is real. How typical.
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ONE OF THE MOST expensive parts to replace for your notebook besides the battery is the humble power brick. If you’ve ever had to buy a replacement power adapter for your notebook, you’ll know that replacement units from the manufacturers can cost in excess of $100 if you’re unlucky, especially if your notebook isn’t a current model. However, it looks like the notebook manufacturers – well at least the ones in Taiwan – are looking at making a standard for power adapters.
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TWO THINGS THAT rarely go hand in hand when it comes to notebooks is battery life and performance – well, weight also plays in somewhere here – but it seems like Toshiba has gotten one step closer to solving this with its latest 13.3-inch dynabook RX3W that was announced in Japan today. Toshiba has combined a standard 35W Core i processor with a light weight chassis and up to 16h of unplugged usage, that’s what we’d call a good compromise.
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IF YOU’VE EVER had problems figuring out which way you’re supposed to put batteries in your gadgets, then this is what you’ve been waiting for. Microsoft has gone and solved a problem that most of us have come upon at one time or another, which way do you put the batteries in. Well, with a bit of luck (and low royalty fees) we might just see Microsoft’s InstaLoad technology solve this little problem for once and for all.
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HOW TIMES HAVE changed, Finland has just entered a new era in history where reasonably priced broadband access with a minimum downstream speed of 1Mbit/s has become a legal right for its citizens and businesses. This is an issue that’s been discussed by many other European countries, but most of them came up with the view that internet access isn’t a right, it’s a privilege and then went on to implement various regulations based on that.
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It seems that Verizon’s rabid pet wolf was able to sink its teeth into Microsoft’s ‘Kin’ phone not even two months after Arlis traded in his prized horny toad, $49.99 and a home-cooked meal for the privilege of owning one. This unfortunate turn of events prompted Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer to don his executioner’s mask and place a 12-gauge slug between the eyes of the hydrophobic phone series. When asked to comment on the sudden death sentence, we couldn’t quite make out his reply due to all the laughter and bad music coming from the Apple camp across the street, but it sounded something like, “developers, developers, developers, developers…”
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IN THIS DAY in age it seems like companies are relying a little bit too much on social media to get their message out and Asus has announced its Eee PC 1215N on facebook, yet there’s no mention of it on Asus’ website. The latest addition to the Eee PC family features a dual core Atom D525 processor an Nvidia ION 2 graphics which makes this 12-inch “netbook” a rather interesting offering.
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, but Cisco has announced a tablet of its own that’s powered by an unspecified 1.6GHz Atom processor, 32GB of flash memory and a claimed 8h battery life. Considering that Cisco has managed to squeeze this into a 1.5lb (520g) package is pretty impressive, but is this really the business tool we’ve all been waiting for that’ll make us more productive?
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