Wednesday, July 1, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 7/2/2015

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Rumor claims Microsoft may switch to Android, could drop Windows Phone
Microsoft
Could Microsoft be giving up on its own Windows Phone platform? Well, that’s exactly what a new rumor is suggesting. A tweet by leakster MSNerd today claimed that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other members of the senior leadership team (SLT) are reportedly discussing the possibility of dropping Windows Phone from its smartphones and small...

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NVIDIA might be working on a GeForce GTX 950 Ti card
GTX
To take on the recently announced AMD R7 300 series lineup, NVIDIA is reportedly working on a new GeForce GTX 950 Ti card, based on a new Maxwell GPU. According to the information posted by Videocardz, NVIDIA will be replacing the first generation Maxwell cards with ‘something new’. The new Maxwell GM206-250 GPU will reportedly...

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Oukitel K10000 spied, packs a 10,000mAh battery and worldwide LTE support
oukitel_k10000
Little known brand Oukitel is working on an impressive new smartphone dubbed the K10000. The main reason why you should be excited about the device is that it will reportedly come equipped with a giant 10,000mAh capacity battery. That is way more than what even the most impressive high-end smartphones offer today. The smartphone will...

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Toshiba adds 6TB MC04 series enterprise HDD to its lineup
Toshiba
Toshiba is now shipping the 6TB variant of the MC04 series enterprise HDDs that have been designed for servers supporting cloud-based applications and analytic workloads. The new MC04ACA600E comes in the 3.5-inch form factor and offers 6TB storage with a high performance thanks to 7,200 rotations per minute (rpm), making it a suitable drive for...

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DeepCool launches new Wave Micro-ATX case
DeepCool
DeepCool has added a new Micro-ATX case to its lineup, dubbed the ‘Wave’. The mini-tower case is designed for micro-ATX and mini-ITX builds. As the name signifies, the case features a wavy design all along its front façade. The PSU bay sits at the top of the case, while drive cages are at the top...

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Origin PC introduces EON15-X & EON17X gaming laptops with NVIDIA G-SYNC
EON17-X
ORIGIN PC has announced not one but two new custom gaming notebooks – EON17-X and the EON15-X. Both these laptops come with NVIDIA G-Sync technology. The EON17-X is claimed to be thinnest and lightest 17” laptop with an overclocked Intel Core i7 desktop processor and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M GPU. It also gets a...

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ADATA releases SP600NS32 M.2 SATA SSD for Ultrabooks and desktop PCs
ADATA
ADATA has launched the new Premier SP600NS34 M.2 SATA 6Gb/s SSD aimed at Ultrabooks and desktop PCs. The new M.2 SSD includes a number of high-efficiency technologies such as DEVSLP, BCH ECC, and Intel Smart Response technology. ADATA Premier SP600NS34 will be available in 128GB and 256GB capacities, claimed to provide the best cost-performance ratio....

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Philips BDM3275UP is a stylish new 32-inch 4K Ultra HD Monitor
Philips
Philips today released the new Brilliance BDM3275UO 4K Ultra HD LCD monitor. The 32-inch 4K monitor uses an IPS-AHVA panel with 10-bit color depth and 12-bit internal processing. Philips claims the monitor can display 1.07 billion colors and has a typical contrast ratio of 1000:1. Maximum brightness is rated at 350 cd/m². SmartResponse time has...

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Compact GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 WF2X graphics cards announced
GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE today announced the addition of yet another GeForce GTX 960 graphics card to its lineup. The company has now launched two GeForce GTX 960 cards with a compact dual-fan WindForce 2x VGA cooling solution. Thanks to the compact cooling solution, both cards are extremely compact with a length of 18.1cm. This allows both the...

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HTC to begin manufacturing smartphones in India next month
HTC
Looks like HTC will be the next major Android OEM to begin manufacturing its smartphones in India. The only other major OEM to have a manufacturing facility for smartphones in the country is Samsung. According to a report published by the Economic Times, HTC has decided to tie up with Global Devices Network to start...

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Samsung Galaxy A8 shows off skinny figure in hands-on video, full specs confirmed
Galaxy A8
At only 5.9 mm in depth, the upper mid-range Android manages to retain A7’s robust metal frame and somehow hike battery capacity to 3,050 mAh. History has taught us you can’t have both supermodel looks and prolonged smartphone endurance. It’s either one or the other, with a sub-7 or even sub-8 mm profile practically guaranteeing...

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iOS 8.4 arrives with Apple Music in tow
apple-music
Apple is now in the music streaming business. If you own an iPhone or iPad that’s compatible with iOS 8 then you’re going to receive a new software update shortly. It’s iOS 8.4, the update that many have been waiting for since it finally brings Apple Music, the company’s new music streaming service that was formally unveiled...

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Apple has better customer retention than Samsung
iPhone
Or just better fans? A report from RBC Capital Markets states that Apple has better customer retention than Samsung, it might be due to the fact that Apple’s fans tend to be more forgiving towards the company and more accepting towards new devices coming out of Cupertino. The Apple Watch is the perfect example, it’s the...

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Next generation iPhones rumored to get more storage
iPhone 6
Something to look forward to. Apple currently offers the iPhone in 16GB, 64GB and 128GB storage options, even since it released the original iPhone in 2007 the company has never allowed for external expansion via microSD card. You get what you pay for and the only real way to expand storage is to use cloud...

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HP’s rehashed Windows convertibles and Chromebook 11 target students and teachers
HP Spectre Pro x360 G1
The timing may be a little off, with school out for the summer, but tech progression never sleeps, and it’s wisest to cover your bases early in order to reap what you sow in the fall. Why wait until September for the now traditional classroom-ready laptop series renewal when you know your options are limited...

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Meizu MX5 goes official with all-metal body, slim profile, low price
Meizu-MX5
The performance improvements over the “archaic” MX4 and MX4 Pro are marginal at best, but visually, the new flagship is certainly a standout. How could up-and-coming Chinese device manufacturer Meizu revise its late 2014 high-end Android contenders to better keep up with Xiaomi, Huawei or ZTE’s remarkable strides? A gimmicky screen resolution bump was probably...

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Huawei Honor 7 goes official with a 20MP rear camera, metal design
Huawei-Honor-7
The Honor 7 is the newest Android smartphone to feature a fingerprint sensor.  Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer that has been growing at a blistering fast pace in recent months, has officially launched the Honor 7 today. The Honor 7 touts a metallic design that comes with three important features – a fingerprint scanner, a 20.7-megapixel with...

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Acer combines AMD FreeSync and curves to come up with $1,100 monitor
Acer FreeSync monitor
The 34-inch XR341CK is in a nutshell a slightly more affordable take on the Nvidia G-Sync-capable XR341CKA unveiled back in April. Acer hustled to score the honor of technically introducing the world’s first curved monitor with G-Sync support, but ultimately, the FreeSync version will debut in stores earlier, behind LG, Samsung and AOC-made direct rivals....

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HTC has 7-inch Desire tablet in the works, according to Zauba
HTC Flyer back
The Indian import/export tracker strikes again, outing a low-cost Android slate that might be an entirely different kettle of fish from the previously exposed H7. Tired of doing the same things over and over again, which certainly contributed to the company’s dire financial status, HTC’s powers that be reportedly green-lighted a series of outside-the-box projects...

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Check out the third-generation Moto G in press-friendly quality
moto-g-2015
Given all that we know about the Lenovo-coordinated 2015 affordability champ, its commercial release seems a matter of weeks rather than months. The ultra-high-end third-gen Moto X got a lot of media attention recently, and understandably so, with a pair of Verizon-bound flagships also very much in the spotlight. Not to forget Moto 360’s hopefully...

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