Tuesday, April 8, 2014

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 09/04/2014

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Internal Apple documents reveal concern over iPhone growth stall
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Documents made public during the second Apple vs. Samsung trial reveal that Cupertino clearly knows customers want what it does not have. Apple’s iPhone is facing a crisis of innovation in the smartphone world as the company that defined the form factor can no longer lead the market amidst tough competition from the Android world, according [...]
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Antec releases GX500 entry-level gaming chassis
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Antec’s GX500 comes in at $50 and is ideal for budget-conscious system builders. Antec’s GX500 has been available for a while now, but is now seeing global availability. The budget-focused chassis features a lot of room for cable management and comes with the ability to accommodate large video cards. The mid-tower enclosure can fit in [...]
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SK Hynix develops 128GB DDR4 module
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SK Hynix’s high-capacity DDR4 modules are based on Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology. DDR4 capable motherboards and CPUs aren’t yet on the market, but that hasn’t stopped SK Hynix from putting some serious work into making high capacity DDR4 modules. On Tuesday the South Korean semiconductor supplier unveiled the first 128GB DDR4 memory module, which [...]
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Seagate joins the 6TB club with ‘world’s fastest’ hard drive
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Enterprise-class 7,200 RPM drive will retail for approximately $600. Not satisfied with Western Digital having a monopoly in the 6TB space, Seagate has released its own 6TB drive: the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4. Unlike Western Digital’s 6TB drive, Seagate’s enterprise-geared drive uses its perpendicular magnetic recording technology that’s similar to its other drives [...]
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Samsung’s SM-T800 is a Wi-Fi-only 10.5-inch AMOLED tablet with high-end hardware
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It’s likely that Samsung is working on a new line of AMOLED tablets that feature high-end hardware. Even after launching the Galaxy Tab Pro series, the Galaxy Note Pro, the Galaxy Tab 4 series and Galaxy Tab 3 Lite this year, it looks like Samsung isn’t done.  Exclusive information obtained by SamMobile suggests that the [...]
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Amazon Fire TV teardown reveals a Snapdragon 600, large heatsink
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Amazon’s Fire TV features great hardware for its price. The folks over at iFixit have managed to get their hands on an Amazon Fire TV, which they dismantled. For a device that retails for $99, the Fire TV features serious hardware. The hardware powering the device is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, the same SoC that [...]
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Nvidia’s GeForce 337.50 driver delivers up to 64 percent performance improvements in DirectX 11 titles
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NVIDIA claims up to 64 percent faster performance in configurations with one active GPU and up to 71 percent faster in SLI with the latest GeForce driver. Nvidia claims that the 337.50 GeForce driver sports the massive performance improvements because of the optimization done with DirectX, which means any DirectX 11 title should theoretically benefit [...]
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Android TV is Google’s latest plan for the living room
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Google is working on a tailored version of Android in a bid to take on Amazon’s Fire TV. Looks like Google isn’t content with building a customized version of Android for wearable devices. According to leaked documents obtained by TheVerge, Google is working on a bare-bones Android interface for the living room. The interface features [...]
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Qualcomm unveils 64-bit Snapdragon 810 and Snapdragon 808
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Qualcomm finally unveils its high-end 64-bit enabled SoCs, but they won’t be available until the first half of 2015. Qualcomm has launched its first batch of ARM v8-based SoCs last month, but this time around it is detailing its plans for the high-end segment. The Snapdragon 810 and Snapdragon 808 will be commercially available at the [...]
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Apple reportedly testing 65-inch display panels for iTV
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Rumors about Apple’s elusive full-fledged HDTV set have begun once again, with the company reportedly testing 65-inch display panels for it. For quite a few years it has been endlessly rumored that Apple wants to break into the TV market. The company itself hasn’t dropped any hints about such plans, but the rumor mill seems [...]
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Don’t get mad: ‘Get Even’
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We sit down with The Farm 51's own Wojciech Pazdur and discuss the team's spectacular new next-gen shooter, Get Even.
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Here’s a first look at AMD’s Radeon Vesuvius
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The Radeon R9 295X2 press images get leaked along with specs. This spring AMD has been hyping a dual-core Radeon card with a “#2betterthan1” hashtag campaign ran out of its Edelman PR office. Now the card’s press images and specs have been leaked via Turkey’s Donanim Haber. According to the leak, Asus will be shipping [...]
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iPhone 5S demand in China ‘disappointing’
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An analyst claims vendors and carriers are seeing weak demand for the iPhone 5S, and that customers can simply opting for other devices. Last last year two new iPhones were unveiled: the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. For the time time ever Apple launched both smartphones in China on the very day that they went [...]
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