Thursday, April 28, 2016

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 28/04/2016





iPhone sales decline year-on-year in Apple's fiscal Q2
Apple has released its financial results for its fiscal second quarter, and the champagne is staying in the bottle today. The company made $10.5 billion in net income on $50.6 billion in revenue. Those numbers are down from the $13.6 billion in net income and $58 billion in revenue the company took in during the same quarter a year ago. Gross margin fell a bit to 39.4%, down from 40.8% a year ago.
They say all good things must come to an end, and Apple's long record of skyrocketing iPhone sales appears to have reached its peak. ...
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Fallout 4 gets official mod support and in-game Creation Kit
Rejoice, Fallout 4 fans! Bethesda has an announcement for you today, and it's a doozy. The game is finally getting official support for mods, which players can create themselves using the in-game Creation Kit.
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Falcon Northwest creates a pair of Oculus Ready PCs
TR readers jumping into VR are likely consulting our System Guide already, but some folks just want the convenience of a prebuilt, VR-ready PC. Oculus is catering to those buyers with its Oculus Ready program. That program already features PCs from Asus, Alienware, and Dell. Now, Falcon Northwest is joining the party. The company is introducing two PCs to the Oculus Ready lineup today: the diminutive Tiki mini-tower and the beefier Talon mid-tower.
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Less than 24 hours remain in our Macrium Data Disasters contest
If you hadn't already heard, our friends at Macrium are now offering deeper discounts for TR subscribers. Silver subscribers are now eligible for a 20% discount on purchases made from the Macrium online store, and Gold subscribers get a whopping 40% off. To celebrate, the company has handed us five Reflect v6 Workstation license keys to give away for home use. Less than 24 hours remain for you to enter.
For a chance at one of those licenses, we want to hear your best data-loss or disaster recovery story. Tell us all about your experience with that dead hard drive, corrupted SD card, bankrupt cloud storage provider, or even the crazed storage reviewer in your life ...
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Acer's Predator Z1 curved monitors are aggressively priced
Acer's Predator gaming monitor series has been growing rapidly since its inception last year. While the brand has been used primarily for ultra-high-end, does-it-all gaming displays, now Acer is showing off three new monitors in what it is calling the Predator Z1 series. These monitors bear the now-familiar Predator branding: blacked-out frames with red accents.
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Raven Z RVZ-01E case makes room for ATX PSUs in a slim profile
We're fans of building small form-factor systems at TR, as evidenced by our Breadbox system from earlier this year. As part of that process, builders need to do their homework to make sure that everything in a Mini-ITX system will fit together comfortably. With the Raven Z RVZ01-E, Silverstone has updated its slim small-form-factor case to accommodate standard ATX power supplies. That change will give builders a bit more flexibility when selecting parts for their new rig.
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Zotac Mobile VR could keep VR junkies from tripping on cords
Man, these first world problems sure are rough. You've just shelled out $800 for your new HTC Vive, but you keep tripping over that darn cable connecting your headset to your PC. What's a poor gerbil to do? Zotac thinks it has the solution to your problem. The company's upcoming Mobile VR system puts a VR-ready gaming rig into a backpack so that you can play in VR without the cable breaking your immersion.
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Dropbox Project Infinite is like a TARDIS for your files
The rise of SSDs has brought about a small revolution in the speed and responsiveness of PCs, but those drives' capacities can be an obstacle for folks with huge collections of files. That's especially true on entry-level laptops or tablets, where 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB of storage is fairly common. Dropbox and other cloud services offer a way around those capacity limits by offering tons of cloud storage, but syncing files to a local folder from those cloud services still eats up disk space.
Today, Dropbox is previewing a way around this problem. Its "Project Infinite" feature puts shortcuts to remote files in the user's local Dropbox folder, allowing the user to see those files ...
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AMD Radeon Pro Duo bridges the professional-consumer divide
AMD first showed off its Radeon Pro Duo graphics card back at GDC, but the company's Capsaicin event left a number of unanswered questions about the newest in AMD's long line of single-card, dual-GPU solutions. The Radeon Pro Duo officially launches today, and we now know all of its secrets. One thing we unfortunately won't be discussing is detailed performance results. As you may have already read elsewhere, AMD didn't send Pro Duos to many of the usual suspects in the PC hardware press for review, ourselves included.
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