Sunday, September 22, 2013

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 9/23/2013

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Twitter account is now live and verified
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Here’s something you wouldn’t have expected from Apple’s former CEO. The current CEO has officially joined the microblogging network. The Tim Cook Twitter account is up and running, and its verified.  A lot of changes have been witnessed at the company since Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs a couple of years ago. The [...]
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Downgrade iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 impossible now as Apple shuts signing window
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It was already known that Apple would shut the signing window once it released iOS 7. Those looking to downgrade iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 are now out of luck as these firmwares are no longer being signed. Anyone who either wanted to downgrade from iOS 7.0 to the aforementioned versions or from iOS 6.1.4 to iOS 6.1.3 [...]
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‘Deep Down’ for the PS4 is going to be free to play
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Capcom’s PS4 exclusive is going to be exceptionally light on your wallet. Deep Down, the procedurally generated dungeon crawling adventure from Capcom, is going to be a free to play title. Producer Yoshinoro Ono took the stage at the Tokyo Game Show today to announce the strange news. The Playstation 4 exclusive is still a [...]
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AirPlay Mirroring on Android coming soon courtesy CyanogenMod
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One of Apple’s marquee features, AirPlay Mirroring, will be available on Android phones running CyanogenMod. If we thought the sudden influx of $7 million would have a detrimental effect on the “hacker spirit” within CyanogenMod then we could not have been more wrong. While the company still works to accomplish its newly founded goals, the [...]
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Cyanogen Inc. teaming up with Oppo ahead of the N1 launch
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Cyanogen, darling of the Android ROM community, recently decided to commercialize to speed up development efforts and have indicated that they would be collaborating with a hardware vendor to showcase their OS. It looks like Oppo will be the first OEM on-board for Cyanogen. Steve Kondik, founder and CFO of Cyanogen, mentioned in a video [...]
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Valve launches teaser site ahead of big hardware announcement
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Valve launched a new teaser site, with a countdown clock that will end Monday 10AM PT. It is likely that the countdown is related to the Steam Box announcement. Gabe Newell mentioned earlier this week at LinuxCon 2013 that Valve will share more details regarding its Steam Box next week. While there has been little [...]
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iOS 7 bug lets intruders make calls from a locked iPhone
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Yet another bug has been discovered in Apple’s latest firmware update. This one lets intruders make calls even if the iPhone is locked with a passcode. The previous iOS 7 lockscreen bug allows intruders to access Mail, Photos or Twitter on any compatible device that’s locked with a passcode. That bug is actually quite similar [...]
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Blackberry is the Canadian government’s to save
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As Blackberry gets closer to its ‘Palm’ moment with close to 10,000 in layoffs and a billion dollar write down it needs to find a foreign buyer fast. But one piece of legislation may get in its way. Rumors of layoffs at Blackberry have held true: the company announced Friday that 4,500 of its staff [...]
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Major software update for Apple TV released, brings AirPlay from iCloud, iTunes Radio and more
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Rumors were circulating last week that perhaps Apple’s set-top box will receive a major software update. It has. Apple has now released Apple TV software update 6.0. At first, it was said that the update will be released with iOS 7 on September, that didn’t happen. But a couple of days after it releases iOS [...]
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Gaikai confirmed to stream PS3 games to PS4 starting in 2014
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Sony's Shuhei Yoshida has officially confirmed that Gaikai will offer streaming of select PS3 titles to the next-gen PlayStation 4 starting next year.
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Leading analyst predicts ‘GTA V’ will come to PS4 & Xbox One in 2014
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A leading industry analyst has made predictions that Rockstar will introduce their AAA mega-hit GTA V onto the next-gen market in 2014.
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‘Grand Theft Auto V’ pulls off $1 billion heist in just three days
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After years of plotting, Grand Theft Auto V’s developer and distributor have managed to pull off one of the most successful heists in the history of video games by netting $1 billion after just three days of being in retail. Say what you want about GTA V, Rockstar’s latest creation is a smashing success. One [...]
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New leaked info suggests ‘GTA V’ is coming to PC this holiday season
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GTA V has invaded the gaming world, spreading explosive glee across the globe. Now PC gamers will be able to jump into the fray as new evidence appears to have pinpointed a early Nov./late Dec. release window for the PC port.
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Here’s a close-up shot of Nokia’s gigantic Lumia 1520
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The Lumia 1520 is going to be considerably larger than any smartphone Nokia has ever manufactured, and a newly leaked photo shows how the large display is put to great use on Windows Phone’s Start screen. It’s immediately noticeable just how much information can be displayed on WP8′s homescreen when you have the advantage of [...]
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Dual SIM Nokia Asha 500 in red breaks cover, formal intro due soon
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Despite increasing rumors of Microsoft pressuring Nokia to cancel production on a number of products, including the Sirius tab and a big chunk of the Asha family, there’s really no substantial evidence that’ll happen anytime soon. As far as we know, Nokia’s first ever Windows RT slate is still coming, probably on October 22, whereas [...]
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Ivy Bridge-EP: Xeon E5 gets its 2013 refresh
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As widely expected, Intel finally officially announced the Ivy Bridge 22 nm refresh of its Xeon E5 family, the dual socket Xeon E5-26xx v2, this past week at the San Francisco IDF. While it took them longer than expected to get the new doritos out, Intel’s engineers used the extra time pretty well. First, this [...]
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Apple reportedly asks suppliers to boost gold iPhone 5S production
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It was rumored prior to the smartphone’s release that perhaps gold iPhone 5S would see a lot of interest in certain markets. Apple has now reportedly asked suppliers to boost production of the gold iPhone 5S. This is the first time that Apple has offered a gold color option for an iPhone. The color is [...]
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iOS 7.0.1 for iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C released, brings bug fixes
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The day Apple released its two new iPhones, it also rolled out a firmware update developed just for them. iOS 7.0.1 is now available for the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C. On September 18, Apple finally released iOS 7 to the public. Millions of users around the world have, by now, updated their compatible [...]
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HTC One Max camera features leaked, fingerprint recognition rate said to be ‘very high’
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Well, what do we have here? The HTC One Max is making yet another appearance in the wild, and this time a few of its camera features have been detailed as well. The same tester that has leaked the HTC One Max so many times in the past few weeks is the one behind today’s [...]
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The Playstation 4′s delay in Japan explained
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Masayasu Ito, Sony’s vice president of hardware, chalks up the delay to the success of the Vita and wanting to ensure a good enough game library. Sony’s Playstation 4 launches in mid-November in North America, a few weeks later in South America as well as Europe, and in December in most of Asia. Curiously, Japan, [...]
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