Archive for July, 2010 - Page 6

Droid 2 Cases On Sale At Best Buy, But No Phones [Accessories For An Unannounced Phone Show Up At Best Buy, No Sign Of The Phone]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

I’m really starting to think Best Buy Mobile doesn’t care about street dates for products. I mean, they reportedly put the Samsung Intensity II out before it was officially announced by Verizon and one of our readers reported even buying [...]

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On Schedule, Sprint Confirms Android 2.2 Update For HTC EVO 4G [As Foretold By Leaked Memo, Sprint Announces EVO 4G Owners Getting Some Froyo]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

Yesterday, a leaked internal Sprint document showed that “for competitive” reasons, Sprint and HTC were rushing through the Android 2.2 update for the HTC EVO 4G handsets. Today in a press release, Sprint confirmed that the EVO is getting the [...]

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ATI Passes NVIDIA In GPU Chip Shipments [Big Green Falls By The Wayside As ATI Takes 51% Of The Graphics Card Market]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

To computer hardware enthusiasts, the debate over ATI-NVIDIA is almost as contentious as arguing about your religion or your political party. For the longest time, NVIDIA dominated this market, and this time last year, they had a solid lead at [...]

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Redbox Begins Blu-Ray Rentals At $1.50 Per Night [Redbox Opens 13,300 Kiosks For Blu-Ray Rental At $1.50 Per Night, More Kiosks Soon To Follow]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

The content consuming world has steadily been making a move towards streaming as it is obviously an easier alternative to actually leaving your house and grabbing a physical copy at the local video rental store. This shift in content delivery [...]

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Samsung SCH-R900 Gets Official at FCC [Samsung SCH-R900 Becomes First Confirmed US LTE-Enabled Device Thanks To FCC Spotting]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

Just about every handset that is being announced as of late has deeply integrated network connected features. This is largely thanks to the addition of touch screen displays that let users manipulate a handheld’s user interface with ease. Thanks to [...]

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Goldman Sachs Bans Profanity In E-Mails [After Financial Firm's Dirty Laundry Is Read Aloud In Front Of US Congress, They Ban Swear Words]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

You should be careful of anything you transmit over this thing call the Internet. Case in point, some Goldman Sachs bankers had their internal e-mails read aloud at some US Senate hearings regarding the economic recession. Some of the language [...]

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Samsung Intensity II Gets Official, Free From Best Buy [A Few Days After Leaked Pictures Hit Web, Samsung And Verizon Make Texting Featurephone Official]

By on Friday, 30. July 2010

A few days back, some leaked pictures of the upcoming Samsung Intensity II hit the web. It looked like a Best Buy Mobile employee had taken the pictures and apparently there wasn’t a tight street date on the phone as [...]

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Toshiba Releasing Four New Blu-Ray Recorders and 3D Upgrade Kit [Toshiba Set to Release New Blu-Ray Recorders and 3D Upgrade Kit for More 3D Entertainment Options]

By on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Toshiba seems to be far from finished as far as providing 3D devices for consumer electronic entertainment. After showing off their new line of 3DTV sets, the company now follows that up with the release of new Blu-ray players and [...]

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Russian Court Bans YouTube for Extremist Content [A Regional Ban Was Ordered to Block YouTube Over Controversial Ultra-Nationalist Videos]

By on Thursday, 29. July 2010

For hosting “extremist” content, YouTube has been banned by the Russian government. Local Internet provider Rosnet has been ordered to block YouTube together with three online libraries and website which archives deleted web pages.

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100 Million Facebook Account Details Available for Download; Most Giant Companies Got the Torrent [Apple, AT&T, Disney, Goldman Sacks, HP, Intel, Motorola, Pepsi, Time Warner, USPS Got the 2.8GB File; They’ll be Your Best Facebook Friends Now]

By on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Yesterday evening I heard that 100 million Facebook profile pages have been leaked to Torrent sites. What was intriguing at first turned out to be somewhat boring. It looks like hacker Ron Bowes from Skull Security manage to get everything [...]

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