Monday, August 12, 2013

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 8/13/2013

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“Non-final” HTC One Max press shot leaked
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A “non-final” press render of the HTC One Max has been leaked, once again confirming HTC’s plans to launch a gigantic One to go up against Samsung’s Galaxy Note III and Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra.  That a giant HTC One will be unleashed on the not-so-unsuspecting public before this eventful year ends is not a [...]
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Rumor: Nokia to unveil Windows 8 tablet in September, phablet in November
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An anonymous tipster suggests that Nokia will be announcing its first Windows 8 tablet sometime in September, followed by an unveiling of its Lumia phablet in November. Nokia has been rumored to be working on both a tablet and phablet-class device, with benchmarks for the former and a leaked photo of the display assembly for [...]
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Ivy Bridge-E HEDT Core i7 is actual six-core Xeon die
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The six-core HEDT Sandy Bridge-E Core i7 was in fact a large eight-core Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon E5 with two cores and outside QPI turned off. What about its upcoming Ivy Bridge-E follow on? Guess what, the Ivy Bridge-EP Xeon E5 v2 series has three different dies in its spread: one of them is actually a [...]
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Asus abandons Windows RT, more bad news for Microsoft
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Asus, a major Microsoft OEM partner, will hold off on producing more hardware to run Windows RT in the foreseeable future, a move which falls in line with consumer sentiments about the ARM-powered alternative OS in the media consumption sector. “It’s not only our opinion, the industry sentiment is also that Windows RT has not [...]
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Microsoft officially debunks Xbox One’s rumored 12GB RAM upgrade
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One of the more prominent rumors surrounding the Xbox One has just been officially denied by Microsoft, laying the rest any speculation on a possible 12GB RAM upgrade for the next-gen console.
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Microsoft highlights refined Xbox One sharing features in new ‘Home Gold’ policy
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Microsoft's Marc Whitten has today revealed the new re-vamped sharing policies for the Xbox One in a structure called 'Home Gold', which gives users many options including the ability to share digital games with online multiplayer as well as access to entertainment apps.
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Windows Phone 8 GDR3 update features reportedly revealed
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The feature list of the upcoming GDR3 update for Windows Phone 8 has been leaked, and similar to the previous update, the list is quite small yet adds some useful functionality that users have been requesting since a long time. While the Windows Phone GDR2 (General Distribution 2) update is yet to show up on [...]
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Saints Row IV Super Dangerorous Wad Wad Edition is priced at $1 million, comes with a flight to space, plastic surgery, Lamborghini Gallardo, and more!
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Remember the $189,000 Mono Edition of GRID 2? If you thought that was insane, wait till you hear about the Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition of upcoming open-world game Saints Row IV. Details after the jump! Priced at a whopping $1,000,000 – that’s $1 million – the Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition (I love the name!) comes with the following niceties: Saints Row [...]
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Asus has PadFone mini, MeMoFone HD 5 and MeMoPad HD 8 in the pipeline
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Big day today for Asus as far as media attention goes, with a large chunk of the company’s near future plans revealed courtesy of two subsequent leaks. The Taiwanese are reportedly working on a follow-up to Samsung’s Nexus 10, plus an array of 100% self-branded phones and tabs. What’s odd is that second part may [...]
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Google partnering with Asus for second-gen Nexus 10? Rumors say yes
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So the Nexus 5 is to be co-manufactured by Motorola (or shall we say manufactured by Google alone?), the next-gen N7… is a long way down the road and the follow-up to the first ever Nexus 10 will be built by Asus. Wait, what? Asus is making the N10-2?!? But I reckoned Samsung was bound [...]
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Google brings local ads back to Maps for Android and iOS
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Google has announced that local search-relevant ads will be making their way back to the Maps app for Android and iOS, in a new way that is “more attractive for users and more effective for advertisers.” While the Google Maps overhaul for iOS and Android recently was lamented for cutting out a few older features, [...]
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Nokia Lumia 925 and 625 launching in India by the end of August
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Nokia is reportedly planning on launching the Lumia 925 and Lumia 625, its newest Windows Phone smartphones not counting the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, in India by the end of August. Nokia is planning on launching two of its newest Windows Phone smartphones, the Lumia 925 and Lumia 625, in India by the end of August, [...]
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Here we go again: new ads pit Surface RT and Iconia W3 against iPads [video]
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It’s the same old story with just a slightly tweaked script. Windows-based tablets are better than Apple’s iPads, despite what sales numbers say, and the best Microsoft can come up with to prove that is through deceitful commercials that only tell one side of the story. The latest two video ads pit the Surface RT [...]
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How low can you go? LG’s new Optimus L1 II will cost just $95
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It’s not unusual to see sub-$200 or even sub-$100 smartphones being released by obscure manufacturers from China and India that would be willing to do anything to be noticed. Not unusual, but still pretty impressive. And then there’s the Optimus L1 II, LG’s newest entry-level handheld, which we’re hearing will be launched soon in select [...]
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Rumor: Motorola to make next Nexus
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A new rumor has surfaced suggesting the next Nexus smartphone will be made by Motorola and launched in Q4 this year, and that it will not be based on the Moto X.  It’s that time of the year when speculation begins on who could be making the next Nexus smartphone. People have been under the [...]
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Nvidia CEO says Shield is a hit
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Nvidia says Shield is a sell-out success, now scrambling to make more units. Jen-Hsun Huang says his company’s portable gaming console has been a sell-out success and Nvidia is now scrambling to make more units. “Sales have been great. Everything that we shipped so far has sold out and – but we’re just starting to [...]
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The future of Tegra in tablets is in the Surface 2 and Nvidia Tab
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Tegra has been hard pressed for design wins in tablets, but Nvidia promises the SoC has a future with the Surface 2 and Nvidia Tab. Rewind for a moment to mid-2012. Back in May of that year Nvidia was at the height of its promotion of Project Kai, its push to bring the market mid-priced [...]
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Nvidia posts solid earnings, but Tegra proves to be a blight
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Revenue for Tegra unit down 71 percent year-over-year while the company’s overall revenue declined by 19 percent during the same period. Nvidia is not immune to the slowdown in the PC sector. The GPU maker announced that for its fiscal year that wrapped up on July 28, it brought in a profit of $96.4 million [...]
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Tests show 2013 Nexus 7 is much more durable than iPad mini
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When Google launched the updated Nexus 7 (some add ‘2013’ after, and others simply calling it the Nexus 7-2), people were quick to begin comparing the new Nexus specs to Apple’s iPad mini.  While processor cores and display quality matters, there’s also the durability thing.  So which one is more durable, the new Nexus or [...]
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Diablo III (Xbox 360) achievement list revealed
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The full achievement list for Diablo III's Xbox 360 port has been released, detailing the requirements for each unlockable challenge and their respective gamerscore awards.
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