Michael Santo
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Only a few months late, Verizon is now offering its promised 4G LTE upgrades to Motorola Xoom users. The Xoom, the first Honeycomb (Android 3.x) tablet, shipped in March, while promising an LTE upgrade, which kept getting pushed out, and out, and out. eanwhile, Verizon has shipped other tablets that came with 4G LTE support built-in, such...
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And, it's confirmed. The October 4 iPhone event date that we reported earlier has been confirmed by Apple, as has the rumored location of Apple's Cupertino campus. There's no question what the star of the event will be: the event is called, "Let's Talk iPhone." Although it's expected that Apple will launch other products on October 4, in particular,...
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Reports point to an October 4 event to unveil the next-generation iPhone, although it's still not confirmed by Apple itself. One problem with the rumor has already been pointed out: Moscone Center, where Apple usually holds these things, is booked by Oracle that day. What to do, what to do? AllThingsD, which earlier broke the Oct. 4 date,...
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The Motorola Xoom was the first Honeycomb (Android 3.x) tablet, but it never really took off. To be truthful, although some reports are that Android tablets have broken the one-third mark in terms of tablet shipments (compared to the iPad 2), Android tablets still have a ways to go. The Motorola Xoom 2 might be a step in that direction. The...
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As if you need any reason to wonder why Apple is so keen on keeping Samsung's devices, including the Android-based Galaxy S II from being sold in parts of Europe, here's a stat: Samsung on Sunday issued a press release indicating that the Galaxy S II has sold 10 million devices. That's sold, not shipped, but, they also added the two key words...
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The release date of the highly anticipated MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic has been made public. Bioware and LucasArts have confirmed the official release date for video game to be December 20 in North America and December 22 in Europe. The release date was revealed at the Eurogamer Expo in London. BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and...
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Video: Legend Upgrade: PowerColor PCS+ HD6770 1GB GDDR5 Vortex II (DiRT 3 Edition) Review @ XbitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: AMD Lynx Platform (Llano A6-3650 CPU, ECS A75F-A Motherboard) Review @ Madshrimps Memory and Storage: WD My Passport Essential 500GB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive @ Legit Reviews GeIL Evo Corsa DDR3 2133MHz 8GB Memory...
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Faster than the speed of light? Normally we think of The Flash, Superman, or perhaps a Federation starship using warp drive. In other words, we think science fiction or comic books. After all, surpassing that speed would overturn one of the fundamental laws of physics, Einstein's theory of relativity, often simply known by the equation E =...
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Tangible, physical evidence seems to have emerged of the iPhone 4S, which has been rumored for months.It looks A series of images posted on Twitter show Otterbox Commuter cases that have arrived at AT&T stores. The boxes on these cases clearly have iPhone 4S on them. Otterbox is a major case manufacturer, as most smartphone owners probably...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Dirt 3 Edition OC Video Card Review @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: Funky Kit Review: Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi Motherboard ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 AMD Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org Memory and Storage: TechREACTION Review: Silverstone TS07B Patriot Pyro 120GB SSD Review, RAID0 Performance Tested @ TechSpot...
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The Diablo III closed public beta has begun. Earlier, Blizzard had opened the "Friends and Family" beta, but now, it is selecting players from those who opted in to the Diablo III beta via their Battle.net accounts. Note, that won't mean everyone will get a beta key. Some will, but many will not. In addition, Blizzard will be providing keys...
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Video: The Most Comprehensive AMD Radeon Linux Graphics Comparison @ Phoronix Samsung SyncMaster T27A950D Review @ TechReviewSource.com EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD Classified Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: MSI Z68A-GD65(G3) Motherboard Review @Hi Tech Legion Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 @ PureOverclock Processors: [Tech...
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Video: MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition Review @ t-break Motherboards and Chipsets: EVGA Z68 SLI Motherboard Review @ Hi Tech Legion Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 @ Phoronix ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 (Intel Z68) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Memory and Storage: Zalman ZM-MH200 U3 USB 3.0 Dual HDD Docking Station Review @ Real World Labs Power:...
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Carol Bartz is out as the CEO at Yahoo!, and she was fired over the phone to boot. According to reports, she sent the following email to Yahoo! employees: "To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only...
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Video: X 580 Liquid Cooler GPU and CPU @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: Foxconn AHD1S-k Motherboard Review - XSReviews MSI Z68A-GD65 G3 Motherboard Reviewed @ TechREACTION Memory and Storage: HornetTek Slipper USB 3.0 Hard Drive Dock @ TechwareLabs Synology DS411 NAS Review @ Vortez [Tech ARP] Samsung EcoGreen F4 (HD204UI) 2 TB Hard...
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It hasn't even been announced yet, but the German carrier Deutsche Telekom is offering pre-orders for the iPhone 5 to customers. The carrier is reportedly concerned about supply shortfalls at the launch of the next-generation iPhone, which are often typical when Apple releases a new version of its smartphone. The...
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Apple's iTunes Match service, recently opened to developers, either streams or doesn't stream, depending upon how you interpret things. Confused? It's all a matter of semantics. An Apple spokesperson, speaking to AllThingsD, denied the service provides actual streaming of music. "An Apple spokesperson confirms that any music you want to access...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Ultimate 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.7 ineASUS GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 & AMD A8-3800 @ LanOC Reviews MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) PCI-Express 3.0 @ techPowerUp ASUS...
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The CyanogenMod team claims to have gotten Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) running on the HP TouchPad. As was noted earlier, developers had appeared to be nearing a first port of Android on HP's now dead webOS tablet. A post and video on the RootzWiki website show an Alpha build of the CyanogenMod 7 firmware running on the TouchPad. CyanogenMod...
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Developers now have access to the iTunes Match beta. iTunes Match is how Apple will provide cloud-based music services; rather than requiring a user to upload his music library like Amazon Cloud Drive and Music Beta by Google do, Apple will scan your drive for "matches" against a library of music on its servers. A user can receive a benefit...
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The highly anticipated Amazon.com tablet will emulate something from the HP TouchPad, according to a recent report. No, it won't use HP's webOS platform, instead opting for Google's Android, but it will sell for hundreds less than Apple's $499 entry-level iPad, according to a source, speaking to the New York Post. It...
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Video: Surround Vision Examined with ASUS MARS II 3GB Dual GTX 580 @ Tweaktown Samsung UN55D7000 55 Inch Smart LED 3D TV Review @ Tweaknews Geforce GTX460 SLI configuration @ t-break Four Graphics Cards: Inno3D iChill GTX 560 Ti, Leadtek WinFast GTX 560 OC and XFX Radeon HD 6970/HD 6950 Standard Edition @ XBitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets:...
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