Wednesday, November 27, 2013

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 28/11/2013

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Acer announces touchscreen version of the C720 Chromebook for $299
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Acer’s touchscreen Chromebook is available for $1000 less than what a Chromebook Pixel sells for. If you ever wanted to try out a touchscreen Chromebook, the Acer C720P may be the best choice. The manufacturer will start offering the Chromebook starting December for $299. While it may not have the same design flair as well [...]
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‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ comes to iOS, Android and WP in December
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is coming to Android and iOS this December. It’s easy to get caught up in Rockstar’s recent release of Grand Theft Auto V, but before this recent blockbuster there were several other hack-em and car-jacking hits.  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was among one of the best-selling titles for the [...]
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Bye-bye Gallardo, sexy will never be the same again
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The Lamborghini Gallardo took its final bow recently as the last of its kind was driven off the factory floor. The final Lamborghini Gallardo drove off the production line recently, marking an end to one of the Italian car maker’s most successful run. Initially, the Italian automaker was churning out just 250 of these 5.0-liter [...]
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Xbox One costs $90 more to build than the PlayStation 4
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The numbers suggest that Microsoft is not making much money off the Xbox One either. Last week, a teardown conducted by research firm IHS revealed that the PlayStation 4 cost $381 to manufacture, with Sony making only $18 in profit off a single unit. Today, the firm has published its Xbox One findings, and the [...]
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The press keeps falling for Qualcomm’s Toq-reality distortion field
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The Toq is a limited run device designed to get customers confident in Mirasol and wireless recharging, not a sustainable ecosystem. It seems like not a day goes by without another Qualcomm Toq-hype headline. Today’s victims of Qualcomm’s reality distortion field are too numerous to list. Across the blogosphere, from PC Mag to Engadget, Qualcomm’s [...]
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Gionee announces Elife E7 with 16-megapixel camera
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Gionee’s latest flagship handset boasts high-end features and will be available in select countries from January 2014. Gionee has its sights sights set on the burgeoning mobile market in India, which it looks to tackle with its latest handset, the Elife E7. The Elife E7 is a 5.5-inch full-HD device that comes with a pixel [...]
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Motorola starts selling Moto G stateside and in UK for as little as $180
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As if pricing the Moto G like no other smartphone close to its caliber wasn’t enough to prove Motorola means business, the Google-owned company has revised the 4.5-incher’s initially announced US release timeline, putting it up for grabs already. Remember, the G was only said to land stateside in January, following rollouts all over Europe, [...]
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Black Friday deals on Newegg and Fry’s Electronics arrive, inexpensive gadgets galore
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Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Verizon, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple are no longer the only retailers with their Black Friday 2013 cards on the table, as Newegg and Fry’s Electronics have also spilled the holiday celebratory beans. Unintentionally, that is, or so it may appear to the untrained eye. Meanwhile, those of us that have been [...]
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Denmark’s GN ReSound to release its ‘Made for iPhone’ hearing aids next year
Employee of GN, the world's fourth largest maker of hearing aids, demonstrates the use of ReSound LiNX in Vienna
GN ReSound, a company based in Denmark, has announced that its “Made for iPhone” hearing aids will be available in the market early next year. Apple has actually worked quite closely with this company, which has made the world’s first “Made for iPhone” hearing aid. Called LiNX, the hearing aids don’t require a “streamer” that [...]
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Judge denies Samsung’s motion to stay damages payable to Apple
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Samsung just can’t see to catch a break in its legal battles with Apple. The company’s motion to stay payment of damages to Apple has been denied. Last week at a retrial of a verdict that was first handed down last year, the jury ruled that several Samsung did copy features and design elements from [...]
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Mystery Sony handheld surfaces online, could be rehashed Xperia Z1 or upgraded Z2
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Despite numerous reports floating around in regards to upcoming Xperia devices, Sony continues to keep a tight rein on its future mobile plans, which is why the latest unofficial pic starring the Z1 next to a mystery handheld leaves us all scratching our heads. What is the ever so slightly larger phone clinging to the [...]
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Delisted: Futuremark cracks down on Samsung and HTC’s benchmark cheating
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A total of six devices have been removed from Futuremark’s device database for rigging benchmark tests. The makers behind the 3DMark benchmark tool have delisted four Samsung devices and two HTC mobile devices after having found that they were rigging benchmark scores. It was discovered that these devices had a line of code that automatically [...]
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Kim Dotcom believes €20,000 Wikileaks donation caused MegaUpload raid
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Cyberlocker executive alleges in new book that his support for Wikileaks was why his New Zealand mansion was raided nearly two years ago. Kim Dotcom is back in the limelight with new allegations about the reason why his site MegaUpload was taken offline by authorities. It’s been nearly two years since a SWAT team swooped [...]
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Purported HTC M8 hardware details include S800 CPU, Android 4.4 and 4 UltraPixel cam
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HTC’s next-gen flagship device, supposedly codenamed M8, has been fully detailed following its first benchmarking visit at AnTuTu and seems to carry a bittersweet spec sheet. There are essentially equal doses of bitterness and sweetness in the list of revealed features, but beware, nothing is official and set in stone yet. Aside from the phone’s [...]
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Tweets expose two unannounced Nokia Asha devices, one highly resembling Lumias
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Riding the wave of enthusiasm around recent low-end, low-cost Asha products, Nokia is reportedly working on two new additions to the series, one unnamed and the other carrying an intriguing Normandy alias. No idea if the handheld pictured above in red is to spark a high-stakes battle similar to the one that went down in [...]
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Apple Black Friday 2013 deals confirmed
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With Black Friday just around the corner, Cupertino too has confirmed its Apple Black Friday 2013 deals which will be offered at both the online and brick and mortar retail stores. Throughout the holiday weekend, customers will be looking out for the best bargains and deals. It has become a tradition for massive discounts to [...]
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iPhone robber in China sends handwritten contact list back to the victim
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A person was robbed of his iPhone in China and after a few days he received a handwritten list of all his contacts, over 1000, sent by the thief. It is certainly not unusual for people to get their phones stolen. It happens in every part of the world and one can only chalk it [...]
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Apple’s 12.9 inch iPad rumored to release in second half of 2014
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Rumors now peg the launch of Apple’s 12.9 inch iPad in second half of 2014 as opposed to early next year. If rumors are to be believed, then 2014 is going to be the year of big tablets. Apple is reportedly working on a 12.9 inch iPad while its major rival Samsung is said to [...]
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NSA tapped fiber backbone to spy on Google and Yahoo according to report
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Sources that have spoken to the New York Times say electronic eavesdropping may have occurred on pipes that carry data between company servers. Two of America’s leading Internet companies, both master’s of innovation and security, have been beaten by a classic hack attack: when the front door is secured go through the back. Google and [...]
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