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Asus Zenbook Prime Ultrabooks With 1080p Display Revealed
ultrabooks, and according to the guys from Engadget, the new models with come with full HD 1080p displays. The guys from Engadget managed to get an early look at the two new ultrabooks, and it would appear that both the 11.6 inch version and the 13.3 inch version will feature 1920 x 1080p IPS displays. [...]
Mizzu Movies,Honeycomb tablets
you the one to own a Honeycomb tablet, looking for a enhanced movie and video management system? If yes, then Mizzu, earlier known as Mizzu Movies is the perfect Android application for you which helps you to manage your favorite movies and television shows. The application recognizes movies automatically with title, cover art and plot [...]
Wireless Gadgets, Data Centers Drive Brighter IT Spending Outlook
Wireless Gadgets, Data Centers Drive Brighter IT Spending Outlook, Gartner Says Don’t let a stronger dollar fool you. The worldwide information technology spending is brightening in 2012, tech-tracker Gartner said Thursday, even as it cut its 2012 information technology spending forecast as the U.S. currency rose in value. When measured in constant U.S. dollars, Gartner [...]
IPHONE NEWS APPS COMPARED
We’re all being told that mobile is the next big thing for news, but what does it mean to have a good mobile news application? Just as an online news site is a lot more than a newspaper online, a mobile news application is a lot more than news stories on a small screen. The [...]
E-brokerages tap social media
When Tom LaScola received an unsolicited message on Twitter from TD Ameritrade about the problems he was having setting up an online brokerage account, he was pleasantly surprised. LaScola, 23, a marketing consultant and avid social media user, sent a tweet out to his more than 5,000 Twitter followers about the headache he was getting [...]
South Africa takes TB battle to mine shafts
South Africa is shifting its lines in the battle against tuberculosis to mines, where lung-attacking dust, crowded working conditions and a pan-African workforce make the industry a focal point for spreading the disease. Drug resistant TB strains, associated with cramped urban conditions, are spreading among miners, who have infection rates about three times higher than [...]
Was Einstein wrong – or was the cable loose?
The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein’s fundamental theories was wrong – but now the lab behind it says the result could have been caused by a loose cable. Physicists at the CERN research institute near Geneva appeared to contradict Albert Einstein’s 1905 Special Theory [...]
app store, Microsoft wields its checkbook
Nowadays, cellphones are all about apps. And Microsoft is so determined to have lots of brand-name apps for its Windows Phone app store that it’s willing to pay for them. All an app developer has to do is sign on the dotted line. After years of struggling in the phone market, Microsoft teamed up with [...]
Next Issue for Android is Netflix for Magazines
Next Issue for Android is aiming to take on Apple’s Newstand. The app and accompanying service will be a subscription service for magazines, but in a different way than what has been done on Apple’s a la carte service. What Next Issue does is bring a $9 subscription fee per month to users, giving them [...]
Lesser Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs Pushed to Q4,
Before there’s any chance for people to have a panic attack, let us just say that Intel hasn’t delayed the Ivy Bridge CPU line again and that there is nothing “broken” in the architecture itself. What we mean by “broken CPUs” is that percentage of chips that don’t come out quite right from the assembly [...]